Screening of HBO Special (including Levias and Fry)

[Stallion]

Does anyone know details-hello Bueller? anyone?

http://sportsmediablog.dallasnews.com/a ... as-ok.html

[SMU21TCU10]

(SMU?)

[Stallion]

just saw the preview on HBO with SMU Highlites and an interview with LeVias. This ought to be good. I think it airs December 16

[MrMustang1965]

Airs Tuesday, Dec. 16 from 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. on HBO (DirecTV Ch. 501)

Additional airtimes:

Tues., Dec. 16 at 9 p.m. on Ch. 511 (DirecTV)
Wed., Dec. 17 at 12 a.m. on Ch. 504 (DirecTV)
Wed., Dec. 17 at 4 p.m. on Ch. 502 (DirecTV)
Wed., Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. on Ch. 505 (DirecTV)
Thurs., Dec. 18 at 11:15 p.m. on Ch. 501 (DirecTV)
Fri., Dec. 19 at 2:15 a.m. on Ch. 504 (DirecTV)
Sat., Dec. 20 at 10 a.m. on Ch. 501 (DirecTV)
Sat., Dec. 20 at 10 a.m. on Ch. 511 (DirecTV)
Sat., Dec. 20 at 1 p.m. on Ch. 504 (DirecTV)

[50's PONY]

Heritage Hall furnished all of the SMU footage.

[smupony94]

Heritage Hall furnished all of the SMU footage.

Did MM65 put it on Ebay?


Sorry 65, had to

[Buddha]

Talked to someone who was at the screening yesterday. aid it was pretty powerful stuff and strongly recommended watching it when the chance arises.

[HB Pony Dad]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/200 ... n-for-hbo/

HBO presents assorted historians, journalists and former players in the one-hour program. Jerry LeVias, who integrated the Southwest Conference at SMU, describes how he returned to the bench crying after a white opponent taunted him and spit in his face.

"Are you going to let a guy like that help defeat us?" SMU coach Hayden Fry asked LeVias. The player replied, "Coach, I'm going to run this [subsequent] punt back all the way." And so he did, with an 89-yard sprint for the winning touchdown.

Yet LeVias took no joy in that dramatic accomplishment because "I did it out of hate, not for the love of the game. ... That's the first time I ever really hated white people. I think it crippled me. I'm still healing 40 years later."

[Rayburn]

Well, good for SMU perhaps but these kinds of HBO "sports and race" documentaries are notoriously bad. I refer to Fields of Fire which they produced some years ago.

[Cheesesteak]

Also in today's (12/16/2008) Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... id=artslot

[Stallion]

Reminder-Its about to start on HBO.

[papawasamustang]

Thanks for the heads up re: the show.

[Mountain Mustang]

Just stumbled into this program. Great stuff very interesting. Great interviews with Levias and Fry. It was a very well done piece about Levias being the first black scholarship football player in the SWC, and Hayden Fry's desire to for racial integration in football.

[HB Pony Dad]

cool movie, great piece on Jerry and SMU, all SMU fans should be proud

John Wesley must be proud to see both schools with Methodist heritage, SMU and USC, play such important roles in this social justice issue that had implications far beyond the gridiron.

Methodists, under Wesley's direction, became leaders in many social justice issues of the day including prison reform and abolitionism movements. Wesley's contribution as a theologian was to propose a system of opposing theological stances. His greatest theological achievement was his promotion of what he termed "Christian Perfection," or holiness of heart and life. Wesley insisted that in this life, the Christian could come to a state where the love of God, or perfect love, reigned supreme in one's heart. His evangelical theology, especially his understanding of Christian perfection, was firmly grounded in his sacramental theology. He continually insisted on the general use of the means of grace (prayer, Scripture, meditation, Holy Communion, etc.) as the means by which God transformed the believer.

A nice Christmas story that was well done.

Kudos to HBO.

[Stallion]

Jerry LeVias was my first Hero and he still is. We've had 60 years of Doak Walker worship around here. I think there is some way to honor the Man and his accomplishments in a more appropriate and deserved way. It took too long for him even to be recognized as an All-Time great at SMU. But as Jerry said to close his segment- as he has gone on in life he has had a greater appreciation of the importance of the burden that was placed on him- when he talks to young people who come up to him and thank him for his sacrifice. I could go on for hours about Jerry LeVias but instead I'll just say THANKS JERRY.