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We can remember it like it was yesterday: sitting on the bench of our park league basketball team in a recycled jersey watching our star point guard run down the clock. In the meantime, we were downing our third bottle of yellow Gatorade fantasizing about getting the chance to score the game-winning shot, just like the cool kids we watched in our favorite sports movies.
From the Mighty Ducks to the Toon Squad, those were the dream teams that us feel less like a loser and more hopeful about the idea of one day making those stupid big kids eat shit.
So if like us you're feeling less than awesome about your boring nine-to-five job on this dreary Hump Day, get pumped up by re-imagining yourself on one of these 10 fictional sports teams you wanted to play on as a kid. It'll inspire you to stick it to the man.
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Little Giants
Movie: Little Giants (1994)
Coordinate The Annexation of Puerto Rico with your wedding party and it'll never end.
Timberwolves
Movie: Air Bud (1997)
Don't front like you wouldn't trade your mother to play basketball with a dog.
Toon Squad
Movie: Space Jam (1996)
Because to this day, "I Believe I Can Fly" makes you weep in a truer way than anything else.
South Central Roller Hockey Team
Movie: D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
Let's be frank: It is not right how Team USA snatches Russ Tyler from the streets of South Central on some uplift shit.
Bad News Bears
Movie: The Bad News Bears (1976)
Pushing a yellow Caddie, Morris Buttermaker is, to this day, the alcoholic coach of your dreams. You could save him.
Team Pup N Suds
Movie: Brink! (1998)
True, Team X-Bladz did have the finer gear, but it's like, do you want to be a associated with the asshole that sabotages Gabriella's race? That's just not what a Soul-Skater would do, you know?
The Sandlot
Movie: The Sandlot (1993)
When the Jet stole home like these basemen won't hold me back—that was your childhood right there.
Miami Sharks
Movie: Any Given Sunday (1999)
You snuck into see it, your first R-rated movie. And after you processed the nudity, you figured it'd be sweet to play alongside Willie Beamen (Jamie Foxx) and get barked on by Coach Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino).
The Big Green
Movie: The Big Green (1995)
You'd have to drop LSD to have the visions visited upon Larry Musgrove as he tends goal, but it'd be super easy to get birds to eat snack foods off of your body. Which was the point of this movie, right?
Mighty Ducks
Movie: The Mighty Ducks (1992)
The original. The best. Ducks fly together writ large on your headstone.
Like it could be any other way.