lived there, saw that!

Rating: 10/10 (29 December 2006)

I moved to Huntington in 1972 and had friends in school with no parents or only one, because of the crash, and watched the comeback while I lived with the story. I went to Marshall from 1976-1980, and saw nearly every football game because I helped televise them or I shot photos for various publications. The movie is dead on. It is a tear-jerker, very true to the story, and one of Hollywood's better renditions of a true story. There are scenes that are over acted, and a little dramatization, but the bottom line is that the story of the Marshall Thundering Herd football program from November 14, 1970 until September 1971 was told with tact, talent and everything good about a movie. I highly recommend it.