New movie shows WVU fans in false, ugly light

[CoolBreeze]

A movie about the first African-American to win college football's Heisman Trophy includes a dramatic scene from Morgantown, where fans hurl garbage and racial epithets at the player and his Syracuse teammates.
Opening Friday in theaters across the nation, "The Express" is a film about Ernie Davis, who won college football's most coveted award in 1961 and died of leukemia two years later. It stars Rob Brown as Davis and Dennis Quaid as Syracuse Coach Ben Schwartzwalder.

A review in the show business publication "Variety" says the movie's "most electrifying sequences portray Schwartzwalder's unbeaten 1959 Syracuse U. team playing West Virginia and Texas -- not exactly two bastions of racial tolerance -- with a level of racist vitriol pouring out of the stands that is a topical reminder of America's racial heart of darkness."

However, the ugly incident did not happen, according to players on both sides. West Virginia and Syracuse did not play in Morgantown in 1959.

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http://www.dailymail.com/Sports/WVUSports/200810080283

[The People's DJ]

What do you expect from Liber...err...Hollywood right now.

[Dr. Whiplash]

Damn, you guys are touchy. It's not a documentary.

[Hoosier Daddy]

I'm not touchy. Hell, burn a couch.

[Bar Rat]

I'm not touchy. Hell, burn a couch.

Turn over an ambulance

Throw garbage cans and lids

Throw iceballs at the opposition (okay, that was in Giants Stadium, but it's still something to expect from Morgantown)

[Cameron]

A movie about the first African-American to win college football's Heisman Trophy includes a dramatic scene from Morgantown, where fans hurl garbage and racial epithets at the player and his Syracuse teammates.

Really? Because I saw that first-hand @ WVU games. Replace garbage with batteries - but the "N" word was ever-present from the student section.

[Dave Allen]

Its Hollywood. How many things were wrong in the Marshall movie?

[Ace Purple]

How many things were wrong in the Marshall movie?

It amazed me in We Are Marshall how they pretended that no one smoked cigarettes in the early 1970s. There weren't even any ash trays in the diner scenes! Yet they went to the trouble of getting authentic mic flags from the era for press conference shots.

[Bob Campbell]

I don't know about the movie but that Sarah Palin flow chart is funny as hell.

[Jet Black]

I wonder how the Biden flow chart would go? Only three choices after ask a question - 1. Quote someone as if you said it yourself, 2. Blame a Republican for Something, 3. Give a "Fractured Fairytale" story from history.

[Hoosier Daddy]

I wonder how the Biden flow chart would go? Only three choices after ask a question - 1. Quote someone as if you said it yourself, 2. Blame a Republican for Something, 3. Give a "Fractured Fairytale" story from history.

Change Republican to Democrat in Number Two, and that would be the John McCain flow chart.

[Jet Black]

John McCain knows when they started broadcasting television.

[Hoosier Daddy]

John McCain was there when the telegraph was invented.

[Jet Black]

Al Gore invented it. He could prove it, but the Clintons shreaded the documents.

[Lester]

I wonder what a Biden's would look like... considering he doesn't even know what article of the Constitution governs his authority. Might be one short flowchart.

[Jet Black]

Biden may well turn out to be the Yogi Bera of politics. (Would that make Obama Boo Boo?)

[Cameron]

I wonder what a Biden's would look like... considering he doesn't even know what article of the Constitution governs his authority. Might be one short flowchart.

...I'd have to get back to ya' on that one...

Youuuu bettcha'

[Arp2]

I wonder how the Biden flow chart would go? Only three choices after ask a question - 1. Quote someone as if you said it yourself, 2. Blame a Republican for Something, 3. Give a "Fractured Fairytale" story from history.

That needs to go "2-3-1" for it to match.

[Jet Black]

By the way, Arp, that's a good pic of you, with the gas nozzle.

[Arp2]

By the way, Arp, that's a good pic of you, with the gas nozzle.

Thanks...gotta make the money somehow!

You should see me in my all-black smock....quite the intimidating bad boy, I am! And popular with the laaaaaaadies!


(Probably only Lester will get that one....I know his wife will! )