Maybe the results were intercepted

Found: one segment of American society immune to the hypnotic, obsessive, compulsive, zombie-like allure of watching a game of football played out on a screen.

These strange beings spend most of their working hours in the dark, much like Oakland Raiders management, and tend to prefer exotic vintages from faraway lands over the usual popcorn-and-peanuts fare, much like tailgating fans in San Francisco.

They call themselves “Movie Critics.”

The movie-review website RottenTomatoes.com has compiled its list of Best Reviewed Sports Movies, ranking the top 53 according to the percentage of positive reviews each film has received.

Only one football-themed movie cracked the top 30 -- and it is a documentary about Massillon (Ohio) High School’s football team, “Go Tigers!,” at No. 29.

Take away high-school football -- “Friday Night Lights” and “Remember The Titans” rank Nos. 38 and 52, respectively -- and America’s most popular sport makes only four appearances on the list. “North Dallas Forty” tops that group at No. 33, followed by No. 36 “Jerry Maguire,” No. 41 “The Longest Yard” (the original) and No. 45 “Rudy.”

Why does football get the straight-arm from the nation’s top movie critics?

Very, very few of them participate in fantasy leagues.

Trivia time

Where did popular favorites “Hoosiers,” “Slap Shot” and “Caddyshack” rank on the Rotten Tomatoes list?

Unimpressed by stock car footage

Baseball led the Rotten Tomatoes rankings with 10 selections overall, including three in the top 10 -- No. 1 “Bull Durham,” the only movie on this list receiving 100% positive reviews, followed by No. 9 “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg” and No. 10 “The Bad News Bears” (again, the original, of course).

Boxing was next with seven, led by the 1-2 combination of No. 3 “Raging Bull” and No. 4 “When We Were Kings.”

Basketball made six appearances, with No. 5 “Hoop Dreams” leading the way. Soccer had three, topped by the recent film about Iranian girls trying to see a live match despite the law, “Offside.”

Rounding out the top 10 were cricket (No. 8 “Lagaan”), pool (No. 7 “The Hustler”) and wheelchair rugby (No. 2 “Murderball,” the 2005 movie that received 98% positive reviews).

The biggest gap between popular and critical consensus?

NASCAR, which barely made the cut at No. 53 with “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.”

Not blind luck

Charles Adams, second in the world in blind golf’s B-3 division and competing this week at the California Blind Golf Championship in Lompoc, is a country boy who worked in the oil fields in West Texas.

“I play with the news writer from Midland,” Adams said Tuesday. “When I beat him, it tears him up. Nobody wants to get beat by a blind man.”

Hearing is believing

Adams recorded a hole in one at last October’s U.S. Blind Golf championships in Portland, Ore., the first hole in one in the tournament’s 61-year history.

“It was 110 yards. I hit my 52-degree wedge and it landed on the green,” he recalled. “My caddie was telling me, ‘It’s on the green. It’s rolling toward the hole.’ Then it got real quiet. I said, ‘What?’ ‘It went in the hole!’

“Then everybody started yelling. After I did it I was shaking so bad I couldn’t pull the club back.”

Trivia answer

“Hoosiers” was No. 17 (92% positive reviews), just ahead of “Dogtown and Z-Boys.” “Slap Shot” (86%) was No. 26, two notches behind “The Karate Kid.” And “Caddyshack” (74%) was No. 49, two slots behind “Rocky Balboa” and two slots ahead of “Ultimate X.”

And finally

Sammy Sosa had just hit his first home run at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, the 589th of his career coming in his 43rd ballpark. Those 43 ballparks equal the all-time record held by Ken Griffey Jr. and Fred McGriff.

Afterward, when Sosa was asked about the accomplishment, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that he shrugged it off with, “I’m not the type of player who worries about little details and stuff like that.” Later, another reporter began a question by saying, “You need 12 home runs to reach 600 . . .”

Sosa quickly cut him off to correct: “Eleven.”

mike.penner@latimes.com