Very Impressive

Rating: 9/10 (15 December 2007)

After a plane crash kills all of the 1970 Marshall Football team and coaches, Marshall University tries to put its football program back in order to help heal the town and to honor those who died.
This was well done, not as sappy as I imagined it would be. Maybe we are too far removed from that time in 1970 when the plane carrying the Marshall Football Team crashed and left no survivors. Maybe this movie should have been made earlier to have had more of an impact. Maybe.
Still, I believe that as Marshall University put its program back to help heal the town and to honor those who died, this movie accomplishes the same. This is well told, and well acted. I was never a fan of college football, but I am now and intend to follow the Marshall football team's play. Yes, I know that the struggle was difficult in those early years and it took some time for them to be good and win some National titles and the town sort of healed, And, every year at the moment of the crash, the whole town stops everything for a few moments to remember.
That next year after the crash Marshall University lobbied the NCAA to use Freshman to play at Varsity level and that was approved eventually. I believe they won 2-games that year and considering they were made up of mostly Freshmen, that is huge and a credit to them and to the coaches, and to the town that supported them. There were also a few seniors who were injured who didn't go on that flight.
Have I given away too much here? Probably, but it all becomes new to you when you see the movie. It is that good, but you knew that by the fact that the movie was made in the first place, that things would turn out all right. But the town still mourns every year so all isn't 100 per cent right and never will be.
Violence:Yes, football violence, Sex: No, Nudity:No, Language: No