re: Remember the Titans

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The reason I looked it up was because I really liked the movie. It was only inspirational because it was supposed to be true. Not sure what it is now.

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If it helps you any, the movie does represent what going to a public high school, and playing football, was like in the some towns in The South during the 70's. Even the part about the long haired kid, Ronnie Bass, being looked at a strange, when he moved into town was spot on. I never kissed another guy, but I was different. I had lived in a town in Mississippi where there was no "hair" code. I wore big bell bottom Levis and lots of cool tee shirts. The other white guys in the town where I graduated wore Wranglers, and what ever shirts their mom's bought, and ironed, for them. After I was grown some of my friends told me their parents didn't want them hanging around me at first.

There were fights between blacks, and whites. Most were started because black guys talked to white girls. One like that led to a kid getting thrown through our principal's plate glass window, after the fight was thought to be over. The cops came, but nobody was arrested. None of the guys got suspended. There were black, and white athletes involved. None missed a game.

Their were discussions about coaches treating black and white players differently. A lot of the things in the movie registered with me. I do truly believe that sports teams were one of the first places where guys were forced to have to get along. We had to learn to trust each other. In elementary school, the black teachers, principals, and coaches at my schools were really the only black adults I knew. I'm glad most of them were really good people.