Dawson was going to drive home all along. They were going to drive back to Huntington until Brackett asked Parker, who’d flown to the game, to give up his seat going home. They had been on a recruiting trip in Virginia late that week and drove themselves to the game in Greenville. Brackett and Dawson hadn’t even flown to Greenville, N.C., with the team for the game. That was simply not true! Actually, the truth would be that the person who gave up the seat to assistant Deke Brackett was a graduate assistant named Gale Parker. One of my biggest problems with this movie while researching it was the fact that Red Dawson did not give up his seat on the plane. Yes, Dawson was a tragic figure because he looked at the young men he coached as sons, and the loss of these players took a huge personal toll which led him to no longer coach football. From most of the information that I found it started in the early 80s. Coach Lengyel actually took all his Marshall teams to Spring Hill cemetery every year before the first game to explain to them what exactly happened.įrom the Ashes, We Rose – Marshall University Football Hype Did the crowd really chant “We Are…Marshall?” It wasn’t said exactly the way it was in the movie but it is probably about 80-90 per cent accurate. Did coach Lengyel actually say the line, “The funerals end today”? Jack Hardin, who was a veteran newspaper reporter, actually found a wallet that belonged to one of the players and that’s how the passengers on the plane were initially identified. The plane was down for around 30 minutes before the media was ever notified. How did people discover the plane crash victims were the football team? So no, it was nowhere near the truth, the Marshall football program was never in jeopardy. The Marshall players had worked behind the scenes shortly after the crash to make sure that the football team was never in jeopardy of not returning. Did this really happen?No, and it is so far from reality that it shouldn’t have made the script either. One of the most dramatic scenes in the movie happened when a player Nate Ruffin interrupts a meeting, then makes President Donald Dedmon look out a window to the thousands of Marshall students showing their support for the football team. Remembering the Marshall Football tragedy What about THAT dramatic scene? I understand that movies go over the top on dramatizations but this one was so far from the truth that it shouldn’t be allowed. The characterization of Lengyel is so off-base it really doesn’t belong in this movie. ![]() He was the perfect guy for the job because he had had a knack for connecting with people immediately. Jack had a deep voice that he very seldom raised, but when he did, you knew to listen. He was a low-key man in his approach to everything. Give Matthew McConaughey credit for trying, but his overly exuberant and slightly flaky character is completely unbelievable as a head coach. Jack Lengyel wasn’t at all like he was portrayed. What was true, and what was made up? Was Lengyel as strange a guy as he was portrayed? What brought tears to my eyes was the fact that this tragedy really did happen and the tragedy was about real people with real emotions I know people signed off on this movie, but I feel this movie could have been so much more than it turned out to be. ![]() ![]() I must admit the first time I saw the movie it did bring a tear to my eye, but looking back at it, the movie is not what brought tears to my eyes. With the football season fast approach you may be keen to get back into the sport. The story of the Marshall football team’s plane crash is one of the most tragic stories in sports history, and over a decade later I can’t help but think the filmmakers missed a chance for this film to leave a lasting impression. And people don’t make phone calls to handle important business, they drive 200 miles and show up unannounced - and soaking wet because they forgot to bring an umbrella in a rainstorm. People don’t walk, they stride forcefully. People don’t talk to each other in “ We Are Marshall,” they make inspirational speeches. ![]() The film version of the story of the tragic Marshall Plane crash explores issues in only the most elementary manner, with overwrought dialogue that rarely seems believable. We are Marshall, the Truth would have been better!
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