"we are marshall"

I'm watching it again now. The guy who played Nate Ruffin - the one with the injured shoulder - did an incredible job. Never seen him before.

 

I saw it for the first time on HBO as well. Absolute dreck. I couldn't get over how bad it was.

 

Sounds like it could've benefitted from McShane dropping a certain 10-letter expletive.

 

I thought the same thing watching the movie. It was a very good movie, but I kept expecting him to drop a few choice words.

 

Call me crazy (or chazp), but I saw the movie yesterday for the first time and I liked it. Although I thought McConnaughey was horribly miscast. I never thought I was watching Jack Lengyel, I thought I was watching MM trying to pull off playing a FB coach.

I loved the drumlines on both scenes where the game was on the line and each coach asked Red to send in the play.

Young Bobby B was pretty good, too.

But did the prez of the university really have to accost an NCAA guy at the door of Kansas City HQ to allow Marshall to play freshmen? (BTW, the freshman rule went out a year later, if I'm not mistaken.)

 

There's plenty of fabrication in that movie, beginning with the fact that the title/eponymous chant wasn't used at Marshall until some time in the 80s after they stole it from Penn State.

 

And I heard the plane crash wasn't that bad. Some players lost their luggage, that's all.