The Titans movie does not remember the Titans

Rating: 6/10 (27 February 2005)

The film is still a decent movie. As a history buff, I decided to look up the real story of the Titans to see what they changed.
First Denzel Washington's character had already been hired at the black school in the film. He was not a new coach. Three schools were closed and consolidated not two.
Second the Titans did not have any close games except for the Marshall game which they won 21-16 and not 10-7. However that game was the fifth game of the season and not the state championship as in the movie. The Titans crushed their opponents by double digits in every game on the way to the state championship.
The film was strong on getting many of the key racial relationships correct. What would been wrong showing the Titans as a dominant football team. Sports clichés such as winning on the last play of the game need to be eliminated in movies unless it actually happens.
What made Miracle a strong film is that they did not rewrite what happened in the US Soviet hockey game. Of course more people know the events of the US and Soviet Hockey semifinal game than the Titans high school football team in the 1970s. But in a film whose movie title is "Remember the Titans", I want to remember them as the dominant team they were.