Watching “The Express”
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It has an inaccuracy I cannot understand. Ernie's girlfriend, who suffered through his illness with him, was my friend and classmate Helen Gott. For some reason, the movie features a "girlfriend" named "Sarah."
Sports Illustrated got it right.
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Sports Illustrated got it right.
A Life Cut Short
Ernie Davis has been dead more years than he lived, and here you are calling me about him now. It's incredible. People still remember him and talk about him.
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I say this every time this film is discussed, but I will again. Davis’ family in Elmira is watching the Cotton Bowl on their porch. There must have been a heat wave that January.It has an inaccuracy I cannot understand. Ernie's girlfriend, who suffered through his illness with him, was my friend and classmate Helen Gott. For some reason, the movie features a "girlfriend" named "Sarah."
Sports Illustrated got it right.
A Life Cut Short
Ernie Davis has been dead more years than he lived, and here you are calling me about him now. It's incredible. People still remember him and talk about him.
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Roger N
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Thank you Joyce for posting the article I had never read it before. I remember in 1962 I had a summer job in a medical building in Syracuse. A drug rep was in the office and told me that Ernie was going to die of leukemia. I cried, just as my eyes watered when I read the Sports Illustrated piece. Ernie was an outstanding personIt has an inaccuracy I cannot understand. Ernie's girlfriend, who suffered through his illness with him, was my friend and classmate Helen Gott. For some reason, the movie features a "girlfriend" named "Sarah."
Sports Illustrated got it right.
A Life Cut Short
Ernie Davis has been dead more years than he lived, and here you are calling me about him now. It's incredible. People still remember him and talk about him.
