Click here to watch a short preview ( 13 Mb. zipped MPEG) of the We Are Marshall behind-the-scenes special that airs on Wednesday on Collage Sports TV.
A true story of rising from the ashes of mass grief and choosing to rebuild a destroyed team rather than run from the reminders. When in 1970 a plane crash claims the lives of all aboard, the the Marshall University football team is virtually wiped out — the pride and joy of Huntington, West Virginia. Three team members survived because for different reasons they weren’t on the plane. Despite school president Dr. Donald Dedmon’s (David Strathairn) personal emotions he and others come to the painful view that the football program must be suspended. He holds a private meeting to make it official. But team captain Nate Ruffin (Anthony Mackie), one of the survivors, sees it differently and marshalls (no pun intended) the student body to convince the ruling body. Ruffin is passionate about the school and the community facing their grief by immediately rebuilding a team. A mass display of student body emotions dramatizes that feeling and heads off the notion of quitting. Facing Dedmon, Ruffin answers his question about how to begin. “Get a coach,” he counsels. Read the rest of this entry → Thanks to the wondeful Oscar Watch for a scan of a Warner Brother’s For Your Consideration WAM Oscar ad. Includes BEST SUPPOSTING ACTOR: Matthew Fox.
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