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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1973239, member: 289"] The West Virginia thing was originally going to be a North Carolina thing. The writer had heard some kind of incident took place there so he was going to have SU play UNC. Somebody pointed out that we never played UNC until 1995. So he changed it to West Virginia, the southernmost team we played that year before Texas. I've always felt that the Ernie Davis story required no embellishment, certainly not one that libeled an entire state. The film also focused on racism much more than his brave battle against cancer. Both were equal parts of his story. I would also have like to seen more about Ernie's relationship with Jim Brown and his recruitment of Floyd Little, which is an interesting story in itself. [/QUOTE]