Living in Huntington and seeing this filmed sent chills up my spine...

Rating: 10/10 (24 December 2006)

This film captures our feelings about the "Thundering Herd" and not just towards the sport of football. I must say though that both Matthew's made a tremendous showing, I believe that the actor portraying Nate Ruffin did an outstanding job.
I do understand that the stadium scenes were filmed somewhere in Alabama (only because Fairfield Stadium no longer exists) it was close enough to pass.
The day that followed the crash sent shock-waves through our little city. I remember walking up to the newspaper dispenser in front of Billy's Market in Guyandotte and seeing the pictures of all those players who lost their lives in the crash through the glass window. I felt grief rushing through my body, even though I didn't know any of them. I remember just standing there for a long time just looking at the little red box that held such bad news. This film does an awesome job showing how hard it was for Marshall to even continue having a football program, much less get a team together. My understanding is that Coach Lengel's effort to get the NCAA to let Freshmen play was later adopted by the whole league.
"When people were leaving the Keith Albee Theatre just to see fire trucks rushing by, NOTE: The fire trucks were actually going the wrong way...the crash site was actually the other way."
Please don't pass on this because you think it's just another sports/football movie, go see it first and then make up your own mind on how you feel. WE ARE MARSHALL...Go Herd!