Friday the film "We are Marshall" hits the theaters and I definately plan to see it. I encourage everyone to see the link on Rival.com football. There are several stories about the tragedy and the film. I stayed up last night until 1:00am reading them. Interesting information on Bobby Bowden and his role in the tragedy.
Was Marshall a pro football team...? Anyway, it looks like a really good movie. I will have to read up on what actually happened before watching it because all I really know is that there was a plane crash.
Here's a link that has some good info. http://www.marshall.edu/library/speccoll/virtual_museum/memorial/default.asp Today they are a Div 1A school in Conf USA. Back when the crash occurred I think they were a Div 1AA school.
the marshall movie looks awful to me, a cheap tearjerker, where they announce all kinds of nonsense to each other, trying to sound poignant.
the previews. the movie appears very overwrought, and it seems incredibly unlikely the events happened the way the portrayed them. also movies that portray actual events are almost always completely pointless, unless they are a documentary, because they are sort of pretending to be a true story in order to be interesting. the events almost never transpired the same way the movie presents. and of course, the main goal of this movie appears to be to make women cry.
