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Message: [QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 3360630, member: 225"] The relationship with Ben? Sure, I will agree that they incorrectly morphed some of Jim's experience onto Ernie. But otherwise I think it was Ernie's story It was very important for the film maker to use Jim Brown's story as a backdrop in order for the audience to understand exactly what the first Black Heisman Trophy winner was up against and why winning it was so historically significant. If they had wanted to they could have really driven it home by outlining the travesty of Jim Brown's own loss to the extraordinarily mediocre (as a college player) Paul Horning. I have no doubt that Ernie faced a ton of the same things that Jim Brown faced in his life and in his college career. A ton. To a degree, the Ernie Davis experience and the Jim Brown experience in the 1950's were probably a lot closer than I, being a white person, can ever know. [/QUOTE]