INDIANAPOLIS -- What is the greatest sports movie ever? If you ask Vice President Mike Pence, it's not close. It's "Hoosiers."
He apparently believes so strongly about the movie, that he had the reporters covering his travels on Air Force Two watch it on the way to Australia.
According to a pool report, about an hour into the nine-hour flight to Australia from Jakarta, Indonesia Pence's press secretary Marc Lotter said the reporters would be required to watch the "greatest sports movie ever made."
Aboard Pence's AF2 to Australia tonight, watching "Hoosiers," at the request of the VP, was pretty unavoidable with the screens overhead. pic.twitter.com/i4i46uyGXE
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) April 21, 2017
The story of the flight gets better. The copy of "Hoosiers" was the former Indiana governor's own personal DVD copy, according to the pool reporter.
It's understandable Pence would love the movie. The name of the movie is "Hoosiers," for crying out loud.
HOOSIERS, THE PEOPLE |It's official: Residents of Indiana are officially known as Hoosiers
It was also filmed in Indiana. "Hoosiers" received two Oscar nominations in 1987.
HOOSIERS, THE MOVIE | Filming of "Hoosiers" fondly remembered decades later by those who were there
Still, that didn't stop the jokes from coming online, many at Pence's expense.
I concur with @VP (and fellow IU grad) Pence. To me, Hoosiers is the best sports movie. Fun debate sparked this morning. Leave politics out. pic.twitter.com/W0j54ny3wB
— Steve Fullhart (@stevefullhart) April 21, 2017
Pence said HOOSIERS was the #1 sports movie? STICK TO POLITICS, BRO.
— Mark Potts (@mrmarkpotts) April 21, 2017
in light of Pence saying Hoosiers is #1 sports movie, here's real top 5
1 Bull Durham
2 Hoop Dreams
3 Hoosiers
4 Rudy
5 Field of Dreams— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) April 21, 2017
Mike Pence loving "Hoosiers" is all you need to know about "Hoosiers"
— Curtis Harris (@curtismharris) April 21, 2017
Mike Pence said Hoosiers is the # 1 sports movie, heres the actual list
1. Space Jam
2. Space Jam
3. Space Jam
4. Space Jam
5. Space Jam— Michael (@Almostatimelord) April 21, 2017
