re: Herman Boone, legendary T.C. Williams football coach in 'Remember the Titans' dies at 84

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Water is for cowards. Water makes you weak. Water is for washing blood off that uniform and you don't get no blood on my uniform, boy you must be outside yo mind! We are going to up-downs, until Blue is no longer tired, and thirsty.

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This did not age well

The rewatwchables pod cast did one on Titans. In addition to Boone being a dick the get they won in spite of him and he wasn’t a great coach.

I mean...they were the largest school in that particular classification after the merger.

Also...a few other inaccuracies from the movie:

- The high schools that formed to make T.C. Williams in 1971 had been integrated since 1964.

- Every team T.C. Williams played that year was also integrated, despite what the movie makes you believe.

- There was no murder of a black teenager at a store that summer.

- There was no racial tension on the team whatsoever

- The player that got kicked off the team for purposefully missing a block, as well as the racist coach who turns on Yoast and quits the team, were both fictional. Neither of them ever existed.

- Boone was never under threat of being fired if he lost just one game.

- That whole thing with the refs trying to blow the game in the semi-finals never happened. The opposing coach who said, "I'm not gonna do anything to help that monkey!" was also completely fictional.

- Yoast didn't lose the Hall of Fame for refusing to play ball with the school administration because the Hall of Fame didn't exist in Virginia at that point in time.

- Gary Bertere and Julius Campbell were nowhere near as close in real life as they were in the movie. They were definitely friends but not best friends.

- Gary Bertere wasn't paralyzed until after the football season was. over. He actually played in the championship game.

- Speaking of the championship game, the Titans won that game 27-0 and not 9-7 on a miracle last play as portrayed in the film.

- Just about all of those games were blow outs. No one came close to beating T.C. Williams that season. There's a reason why they were voted the second best high school team in the country that season.

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I mean...they were the largest school in that particular classification after the merger.

Also...a few other inaccuracies from the movie:

- The high schools that formed to make T.C. Williams in 1971 had been integrated since 1964.

- Every team T.C. Williams played that year was also integrated, despite what the movie makes you believe.

- There was no murder of a black teenager at a store that summer.

- There was no racial tension on the team whatsoever

- The player that got kicked off the team for purposefully missing a block, as well as the racist coach who turns on Yoast and quits the team, were both fictional. Neither of them ever existed.

- Boone was never under threat of being fired if he lost just one game.

- That whole thing with the refs trying to blow the game in the semi-finals never happened. The opposing coach who said, "I'm not gonna do anything to help that monkey!" was also completely fictional.

- Yoast didn't lose the Hall of Fame for refusing to play ball with the school administration because the Hall of Fame didn't exist in Virginia at that point in time.

- Gary Bertere and Julius Campbell were nowhere near as close in real life as they were in the movie. They were definitely friends but not best friends.

- Gary Bertere wasn't paralyzed until after the football season was. over. He actually played in the championship game.

- Speaking of the championship game, the Titans won that game 27-0 and not 9-7 on a miracle last play as portrayed in the film.

- Just about all of those games were blow outs. No one came close to beating T.C. Williams that season. There's a reason why they were voted the second best high school team in the country that season.

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You seem a little angry. It is a movie. The part that made me laugh most was the opening monologue where the little girl says "nothing is bigger in Virginia than high school football" Which is hilarious to think of as someone who is from that very area that the film is based on.

The whole movie was fake news

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You seem a little angry. It is a movie. The part that made me laugh most was the opening monologue where the little girl says "nothing is bigger in Virginia than high school football" Which is hilarious to think of as someone who is from that very area that the film is based on.

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It's a terrible fairy tale "based on a true story".

In other words, Fake News.

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You seem a little angry. It is a movie.

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A movie passed off as a true story that didn't really happen. There was a team called the T.C. Williams Titans that won the Virginia AAA state championship in 1971. Beyond that...just about everything else in the movie is made up.

You damn right I'm angry. As a lover of history, I don't like being sold a lie.

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My favorite part is how they made TC Williams High School, a school in Alexandria VA that is 7 miles from the White House, look like some small town redneck place.

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You'd have thought it was in SWVA based on the movie. Also, every school in their conference was integrated that year. Remember the Titans is a good story but Disney used a lot of creative liberties to make it fit the big screen.

The movie undersold how good that team (and particularly Gerry Bertier) really was.

Loved it as a kid, hasn’t aged well at all. The ending is terrible

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A movie passed off as a true story that didn't really happen. There was a team called the T.C. Williams Titans that won the Virginia AAA state championship in 1971. Beyond that...just about everything else in the movie is made up.

You damn right I'm angry. As a lover of history, I don't like being sold a lie.

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Did you go to Marshall?