United as one

Rating: 8/10 (30 September 2015)

This captivating movie follows the integration of a Virginia high school football team as they face challenges neither player nor coach could predict. Being the first integrated football team in the area, T.C. Williams High School was challenged with playing in a still racist, mainly segregated league. As the team underwent a painful training camp, the players and coaches were forced to "come together, right now, on this hollow ground (or) will be destroyed." With his job on the line, Coach Boone must lead his team, the only racially mixed team in the league, through an undefeated season. With the season winding down, unexpected events lead the team to form a family bond in order to overcome challenges the whole state thought would tear the team apart. Only once all the coaches began to "trust the soul of a man rather than the look of him" could the team fulfill their destiny. Coach Bill Yoast played by Will Patton says this quote at the last games half time locker-room speech. Patton's character represents the change that overcomes the whole town. He was totally against the idea of a combined team but at the end of the movie he loved it, and fought to keep it together. He helped team learn how to overcome their differences and play as one. The team's ability to stay undefeated taught themselves and the town that when people come together anything is possible.