Iโm a sucker for a sports movie. So it was a real hardship *insert eye roll* to
watch some of my favorite football movies when it came to prepping for writing
HOT
DARE, my latest novella centering around a sexy football player stuck on a
three-day Miami Thunder fan cruise with his one-time fling. Here are my top five
favorites.
1. Game Plan - Cocky, selfish and self-centered, Joe
Kingman is about as far away from a hero as you can get. But once his secret
daughter brazens her way into his life (and bedazzles his dog and championship
football), well things begin to change. Sure itโs a kidsโ movie, but Game Plan
is one of my all time favorite football movies based on Dwayne Johnsonโs muscles
and charm alone. Add in that he sings and Iโm all in.
2. Jerry McGuire - Okay, okay. I know. Tom Cruise. But
forget the couch jumping and think about Jerry McGuire - super agent, man lost
and finally found. His transformation gets me every time. And while I love โyou
complete me,โ the go-to romantic movie in this movie for me is the kiss at the
door, the first one. It gives me the fizzy happy butterflies every time.
3. Best of Times - An โ80s movie that has held up
remarkably well. The Fab Mr. Flynn and I watched it again for the first time in
years a few weeks ago and I laughed so hard. Also, I was reminded of just how
incredibly hot Kurt Russell is as former high school football great Reno
Hightower. Robin Williams may be the comedian, but Kurt gets some of the
funniest linesโespecially when heโs trying to win back his wife.
4. The Replacements - I canโt help it Iโm a Keanu
Reeves fan for life. I just love him. The Replacements is not a good movie. Do
not be fooled by it making this list, but if thereโs a football movie and Keanu
is in it, then itโs making my top five.
5. Wildcats - A Goldie Hawn classic - and no that is
NOT an oxymoron. The story of a woman raised on football who finally gets her
chance to coach high school football. I loved this movie as a kid and while it
hasnโt held up as well as Iโd hoped, I still love Goldieโs character Molly
McGrath. And as far as sexy football heroes โฆ Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes
may be playing high school students but I promise they are not and are at prime
hottie.
How about you? What are your favorite football movies and who are your favorite
sports romance football heroes?
Looking for a little sports romance fix? Check out HOT DARE.
Itโs a part of Carly Phillipsโ Dare to Love world and is set in Miami
with cameos from some of her beloved characters. Do you dare?
About HOT DARE
He shows some of his best moves off the field.
Hell is a Miami Thunder fan cruise to the Bahamasโat least, thatโs how Colt โ45โ
Butler sees it. But with his job as the teamโs starting linebacker in question,
heโs willing to do whatever it takes to prove heโs a team player. Plus, the
prospect of having his one-night Vegas fling, Angie Diaz, as his VIP liaison for
the cruise just might make the whole ordeal tolerable. All he needs it to get
her back in his bed for some Vegas-rules fun on the high seas.
Cheap wine and expensive ice cream, thatโs how anyone fool enough to get
involved with a Thunder football player always drowns their sorrows after
getting dumped. Angie Diaz isnโt about to become one of the manyโno matter how
close she got to the look-but-donโt-touch line with the hot linebacker. Mixing
business and pleasure with Colt is one dare her heart canโt afford to takeโฆbut
being with him day and night is making is a dare she canโt resist.
"HOT DARE is a well-crafted, fast-paced story that flows
seamlessly..." Fresh Fiction Reviewer Monique
Daoust. Read our full review here.
About Avery Flynn
Avery
Flynn has three slightly-wild children, loves a hockey-addicted husband and
is desperately hoping someone invents the coffee IV drip.
She fell in love with romance while reading Johanna Lindsey's
Mallory
books. It wasn't long before Avery had read through all the romance offerings at
her local library. Needing a romance fix, she turned to Harlequin's four books a
month home delivery service to ease the withdrawal symptoms. That worked for a
short time, but it wasn't long before the local book stores' staffs knew her by
name.
Avery was a reader before she was a writer and hopes to always be both. She
loves to write about smartass alpha heroes who are as good with a quip as they
are with their *ahem* other God-given talents. Her heroines are feisty, fierce
and fantastic. Brainy and brave, these ladies know how to stand on their own two
feet and knock the bad guys off theirs.
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