We Are Marshall... the movie

[PerunaPunch]

You guys know about this??

The terrible event portrayed in this movie happened before I was born, so it's the first I've heard of it. Saw the trailer on a movie my wife and I rented last night.

My wife said, "This almost makes me feel sorry for kicking their asses on Saturday... almost."

[ThadFilms]

You guys know about this??

The terrible event portrayed in this movie happened before I was born, so it's the first I've heard of it. Saw the trailer on a movie my wife and I rented last night.

My wife said, "This almost makes me feel sorry for kicking their asses on Saturday... almost."

ROFL.

And, yeah, I am looking forward to that movie.

[KnuckleStang]

All I know is, Matthew McConaughey makes me want to vomit lately. I'll probably still go see the movie, though.

[SMU_is_bowling]

no idea . . . what is it?

[jtstang]

All I know is, Matthew McConaughey makes me want to vomit lately. I'll probably still go see the movie, though.

Is there any way Tommy can make Matthew McConaughey cry too?

[KnuckleStang]

All I know is, Matthew McConaughey makes me want to vomit lately. I'll probably still go see the movie, though.

Is there any way Tommy can make Matthew McConaughey cry too?

Sorry, but Tommy wishes to avoid the "hate crime" stigma. He doesn't rough up gays.

[whogottaherdon]

Hey guys, nice site here. Speaking of the movie, here is a link to the website:

http://wearemarshall-themovie.warnerbros.com/


It tells the story of the 1970 crash moving forward into the early 1971 season. Even if you care nothing about Marshall or football this looks like this is going to be a really moving movie.

McG, the director, showed a 4 minute clip of the movie at the UCF game last Wed and it looked awesome. The breif moment in the trailer where you see the basketball player talking to Coach Lengyel, the player is Mark Patton. He was 3rd team CUSA last season. You guys may remember him.

I was born 4 years after the crash, but grew up hearing about it. It is just is part of the Huntington community. Thanks for allowing me on your board and give the site a shot.
Go Herd!

[EastStang]

As much as we complain about receiving the "death penalty", they had to deal with the real thing when their entire football team died in a plane crash. A pretty emotional story. I hope if Matthew McC shows up this weekend, he'll at least wear green instead of burnt orange.

[jtstang]

All I know is, Matthew McConaughey makes me want to vomit lately. I'll probably still go see the movie, though.

Is there any way Tommy can make Matthew McConaughey cry too?

Sorry, but Tommy wishes to avoid the "hate crime" stigma. He doesn't rough up gays.

That's okay, I still kinda like McConaughy, in a manly, hetero, sort of way, from his Wooderson days.

Not that there's anything wrong with any other kinda like.

[SMU_is_bowling]

"not that there is anything wrong with . . .no . . a pesons personal preferences are their own business. . . "

Wooderson rules, I am not so sure about Mconaughey

[ALEX LIFESON]

I just hope the Marshall team doesn't get an early preview before Saturday. You know how SMU's luck is.

[RGV Pony]

Didn't a team coached by Grant Teaff at McMurry go through something similar?

[mrydel]

Wichita State lost most if not all of their team around the same time I believe.

I looked it up and found in October of 1970 plane crash killed 31 people including 14 Wichita State football players. Their team never fully recovered and they discontinued football in 1986 due to financial burden.

[J.T.supporta]

When does this movie hit theaters...I really want to see it.

[RGV Pony]

okay, so I found the one about McMurry. The plane crash-landed. DMN's Sherrington wrote about Teaff's experience...interesting read:

Maybe you know the story of the 1963 McMurry football team's crash landing in Shreveport, La.

The DC-3 was hardly off the ground in Monroe, La., before it clipped some trees. All aboard knew there was trouble. The pilots circled town and doubled back for a landing. A McMurry assistant later said they came in so low over the trees he could see Marshall Dillon on a local TV.

The plane hit the runway, bounced and turned sideways. Teaff imagined it cartwheeling. He was thinking of the '60 Cal Poly team and 18 team members who died in a crash when the DC-3 suddenly righted itself, and up it went.

On a second attempt, the plane once again hit the runway hard. And it was then they realized the first try had wrecked the landing gear.

Up the plane went again. Next idea: a belly-landing at the Strategic Air Command base in Shreveport.

Teaff, then McMurry's 26-year-old head coach before gaining fame at Baylor, tells the story in his book, I Believe.

"We sat there in total darkness, not knowing if we were flying at 10 feet or 10,000 ... I sat there in the silent darkness thinking how very few times in our lives that we face death – and know it."

On the runway in Shreveport, the plane bounced three times, metal screeching, sparks engulfing the fuselage as it slid to a long, slow, terrifying stop.


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American Football Coaches Association executive director Grant Teaff (right, with Penn State coach Joe Paterno) isn't thrilled about the NCAA's limits on Native American nicknames. But the plane never caught fire. A rear door opened and all 34 aboard – 28 players, three coaches, two pilots and a flight attendant – exited in less than 30 seconds.

Teaff offered a prayer of thanks on the tarmac, an addendum to the one that went up while they were still in the air. And it was only the start of their spiritual journey together.

A couple of days later, players asked their head coach if they could somehow commemorate their experience. Over the years since, they've enjoyed several reunions of the Brotherhood of Indian Belly-Landing Experts.

Or as they came to know it by its initials: the B.I.B.L.E. club. At least for now.

"Guess we're gonna have to change the name of that, too," Teaff grumbled.