Make Football Your Whole Personality With 10 Movies and Shows on Tubi
The game ends. Your football brain does not. Keep football season going between kickoffs with movies, shows, and documentaries streaming free on Tubi.
Football season does something to people. Suddenly Sunday has a schedule. Monday has opinions. Fantasy apps are opened with the urgency of important financial documents. Somebody in your group chat has become an offensive coordinator despite having no professional qualifications whatsoever.
And then the game ends.
Fortunately, being done with football for the day is completely optional. Tubi has enough ways to keep the obsession moving between kickoffs, whether your version of fandom involves NFL legends talking shop, creators turning drills into competition, football movies you can quote before the line arrives, or documentaries that make knowing an unreasonable amount about one team feel entirely justified. The Football Season Kickoff collection keeps even more of the playbook open when your Sunday viewing somehow wasn't enough.
Basically, the remote has entered football mode.
Jesser's Epic Football Challenge
Jesser has spent years turning friendly competition into something significantly less friendly once bragging rights enter the equation. Give him an entire football field and, well, everybody should probably stretch first.
NFL Combine-style drills put Jesser and the BucketSquad's speed, strength, and athletic confidence to the test in Jesser’s Epic Football Challenge before things escalate into a 7v7 draft-and-play showdown. NFL linebacker Eric Kendricks even enters the mix, which feels slightly unfair to everyone who does not professionally tackle people for a living.
You don't need to know anybody's passer rating to get invested. Friends turning recreational competition into a deeply personal matter remains one of sports' most universal traditions. We've also gone deeper on Jesser's football takeover for anyone ready to spend a little more time on the BucketSquad sidelines.
The Replacements
The professional players are on strike. The season still needs a team. This seems like a very calm situation.
Keanu Reeves steps onto the field as former quarterback Shane Falco in The Replacements, joining a hastily assembled roster of replacement players recruited to finish the season. Gene Hackman's Coach McGinty has talent to find, personalities to manage, and very little time to turn a collection of outsiders into something resembling a football team.
Half the fun comes from watching that mismatched roster slowly figure itself out. Everybody has something to prove, almost nobody arrived through the traditional route, and eventually you're emotionally invested in whether a bunch of guys who weren't supposed to be here can actually pull this off.
The Gronk & Jules Show
The game ended. Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman still have thoughts.
Former New England teammates Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman reunite in The Gronk & Jules Show to react to the football season with the chemistry of two people who have shared both an NFL locker room and probably several conversations that should've stayed there.
Actual experience is behind the analysis, but the chemistry keeps things from feeling like homework. Gronk and Edelman still sound like friends who might interrupt each other halfway through a point, which makes the show feel closer to joining a very well-qualified football conversation than sitting through another postgame lecture.
Nothing But a Winner: The Alabama Football Story
At Alabama, winning football games eventually became less of an aspiration and more of an expectation.
Decades of Crimson Tide history unfold through the eras of Bear Bryant, Nick Saban, and the players and coaches who helped turn Alabama into one of college football's defining programs in Nothing But a Winner: The Alabama Football Story.
The trophies tell one version of the story. What's more interesting is the culture surrounding them: how does a program reach the point where winning isn't enough because everybody already expects you to do it again? If Saturdays in the fall belong to college football in your household, welcome to the syllabus.
The Longest Yard
A disgraced quarterback. A prison full of potential teammates. Guards on the other side of the ball. Normal football circumstances have officially left the building.
Adam Sandler plays former NFL quarterback Paul Crewe in The Longest Yard, assembling a team of inmates to face the prison guards in a game where the hits are personal long before anybody puts on pads. Chris Rock keeps the operation moving as Caretaker, while Burt Reynolds brings some very appropriate football history of his own as Coach Nate Scarborough.
Actual athletes, pro wrestlers, and comedians fill out the roster, giving player introductions the energy of somebody's extremely chaotic fantasy draft. The game may technically be inmates versus guards, but everybody brings enough personal stakes to make the scoreboard feel like only part of what's being settled.
QB1: Beyond the Lights
Before the draft boards, endorsement deals, and packed stadiums comes one considerably less glamorous assignment: finish high school.
Cameras follow some of the country's most highly regarded young quarterbacks through their final high-school seasons in QB1: Beyond the Lights, when college expectations, recruiting attention, school, family, and the pressure attached to being the guy are all competing for space.
Bryce Young and Anthony Richardson are among the players whose journeys appear across the series, which makes revisiting their teenage seasons especially interesting once you know where football eventually takes them. Future stars are fun to watch. Future stars before anybody knows exactly what the future looks like? Even better. If the road from Friday nights to Saturdays is your favorite part of football, our high school and college football watchlist has even more stories from before Sunday takes over.
Touchback
What if you could replay the biggest football moment of your life? And what if changing it meant giving up everything that came afterward?
Former high-school football star Scott Murphy gets an unexpected chance to revisit the game that changed the course of his life in Touchback. Years after an injury ended the future he imagined for himself, Scott suddenly finds himself back in his teenage body with another shot at the play that once cost him his football dreams.
The football hook gets you onto the field, but the bigger question makes the movie interesting: if you could rewrite your glory days, would you still want the life waiting on the other side? Suddenly Monday-morning quarterbacking your own past has considerably higher stakes.
Undefeated
Friday night lights look a little different when simply reaching the field required a fight of its own.
Academy Award-winning documentary Undefeated follows the Manassas Tigers, an underfunded high-school football team in Memphis trying to turn around a program that has spent years losing. Volunteer coach Bill Courtney pushes the players on the field while academics, family circumstances, and life beyond football make the scoreboard only part of what they're dealing with.
The games give the documentary its pulse, but the players give it the reason to stay. Winning matters. What happens to these young men after the clock reaches zero matters considerably more.
Gridiron Gang
Football as a second chance sounds inspirational. First you have to convince everybody to become a team.
Dwayne Johnson plays juvenile detention counselor Sean Porter in Gridiron Gang, inspired by the true story of a football program created for teenagers whose lives have already given them plenty of reasons not to trust one another. The field becomes somewhere discipline, accountability, anger, and eventually pride all have to coexist.
Johnson brings the motivational-coach energy you'd expect, but the movie works because progress doesn't arrive neatly. Building a team out of teenagers carrying very different histories requires more than matching jerseys and a halftime speech.
85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Some teams win a Super Bowl. The 1985 Chicago Bears turned winning one into an entire personality.
Players, coaches, and famous fans revisit the Bears' legendary season in 85: The Greatest Team in Football History, looking back at the dominant defense, enormous personalities, and moments that turned one championship roster into football mythology. Mike Ditka and members of the team help tell the story from inside a season that somehow also found time for the “Super Bowl Shuffle.”
This is the pick for the fan who doesn't simply want to know who won. You want the stories, personalities, context, and enough football trivia to become mildly unbearable at the next watch party.
Football brain: fully activated.