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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2832536, member: 40"]
Quick question -- have you watched the 1959 championship game?  I did, after first seeing the Express back when it came out, because I was curious about all of the stuff in there about Texas, the fighting, etc.

I was surprised by how unlike the movie the championship game was.  First of all, we scored on that wheel route pass to Ernie Davis on our first possesion, not to cement the win.  Then we jumped out to a two score lead.  Then, the teams had a flurry of turnovers / odd plays, which made the 2nd and 3rd quarters kind of strange.  And we hung on for a fairly anti-climactic win.

I didn't see any evidence of the racial stuff -- not saying that there wasn't some of that, just that it wasn't apparent on the game video, and certainly not where Texas players were overtly trying to hurt our players while on the ground, etc.

I actually liked the movie, just because I like seeing things about SU sports, and because I've been an Ernie Davis fan for a long time -- but some of the dramatization was over the top.  I get why Hollywood wants to switch things around to build the story toward an exciting outcome, so creative liberties are to be expected.  But I certainly understand why someone like CTO can't abide by those liberties being taken with people she knew, depicting events that never happened and people who aren't real.
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