We are Marshall

[Andrew Longman]

Finally got around to seeing the film

Very well done. Sure to be a classic sports movie, but also offers lessons many could use about grief and healing.

I do have to offer a public apology to Bobby Bowden. I've always considered him a total scum bag, but if it is true he helped Marshall install the veer offense and put tribute to them on UWV helmetes then :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Randy Moss and other transgressions don't make them pure as snow but I understand the importance of the university to the area at the time.

Good stuff, movie wise.

[dando]

Caught it a few weeks ago....I agree. :thumbup: :thumbup: And yes, the Bowden history lesson was interesting, but he's still a scumbag...albeit a senile scumbag now. :irked: ;)

-Kevin

[Ed_Severson]

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q289/msarmbrester/teamphoto-520.jpg

I grew up in Ashland, KY right across the river from Huntington. That plane crash is still a huge part of what shapes that community. I haven't lived there for almost 10 years, and haven't even been there for 3 or 4 years. I saw the movie on opening day and just bawled through the whole thing. The first scene, flying over the hill and across the city, looking out at the river, was really cool. And the fountain at the end ... I've sat at that fountain so many days in my life, I've always known why it was there, and it still choked me up to see it.

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q289/msarmbrester/fountain.jpg

They shall live on in the hearts of their families and friends forever, and this memorial records their loss to the university and to the community.

The WVU helmet tribute is partially true. I don't think the team ever wore either the "MU" decal or the green cross on their helmets during a game, but they did wear the green cross decal from spring practice all the way up to the last practice before their first game in 1971.

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q289/msarmbrester/Marshall-Helmet.jpg

The team also wore green armbands all week long on campus after the accident. Marshall had a game scheduled against Ohio University the weekend following the crash, and WVU had the week off. Bowden attempted to organize a WVU-Ohio game on that date, with the intention of sending 100% of the proceeds to Marshall, but it is thought that the NCAA squashed the idea because it never materialized.