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Message: [QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 3358855, member: 225"] I've always liked the movie a lot, although as O79 points out there were many inaccuracies plus a lot of it wasn't even filmed in Syracuse. The thing that grinds my gears the most is that the Cotton Bowl was never close. We led something like 15-0 at the half and 23-6 after three quarters. Texas scored in the 4th to bring them within 9 but never threatened thereafter. The Longhorns, playing a de-facto home game, were never in it unlike the way the movie portrayed. As a kid I can recall some of the Black players saying that the Texas players spit in their faces and I seem to recall that the refs wouldn't explain calls to our captains. So screw Texas; I wish the movie had better reflected how we stomped their butts. It ushered in a lifetime of rooting against Texas. I have Dick in MI Alzheimers; I forget everything except the grudges and there are few grudges like sports grudges (with Exhibit A being SU-Notre Dame 1961) Anyway Ernie was the closest thing you could get to a sports "god" in our house. My Mom was from Elmira and I think they both went to the same high school, albeit many decades apart. I can remember her crying when he passed. Many years ago a poster on...I want to say the AOL board...read a post of mine lamenting losing my childhood copy of Boys Life with Ernie on the cover. He was kind enough to send me his copy and I still have it. Although I have been retired for 8 years, on my desk at home is the slip of paper that Ernie autographed for me when I was young. It appears in my avatar. As an aside, also on that slip of paper are the autographs of John Brown, Al Bemiller, John Nichols, and Art Baker. Pretty good haul for young me. The part in the movie where he is talking to Floyd always sort of chokes me up because Floyd was also a hero of mine too. I don't believe that they got the personality right, as in the movie Ernie was portrayed as very serious and my memory is that he always seemed to be smiling. Finally, I'll never forget the first time I passed Ben on the quad when I was a freshman. I was shocked at how little he was. [/QUOTE]

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