Swing, badda, badda: John Hughes and sport

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Writer and director John Hughes died of a heart attack in New York yesterday. If you were to pick your favourite sports moment from one of his many films – movies that defined the 80s and 90s – you’d have quite a job.

Scenes that stand out are the opening gymnastics footage in Weird Science, Chevy Chases’s Clark W Griswold racing Christie Brinkley in his Wagon Queen Family Truckster or the final shot from The Breakfast Club on the 50-yard line of the school’s football pitch.

For me though, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was the peak of Hollywood’s output and the classic summer scenes in Chicago’s Wrigley Field were some of the film’s most fun.