Blog 55

Well, today I got to watch one of my favorite movies ever, Remember the Titans. It is the story of the 1971 T.C. Williams High School football team in Alexandria, Virginia and the overcoming of racial tension on their way to a state championship. Coach Herman Boone takes over for Coach Bill Yost after the school integrates, but keeps Coach Yost on his staff as a sign of respect. Coach Boone does an excellent job of bringing the team together at a camp in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He unites two leaders of the opposite race in Gary Bertier and Julius Campbell at camp who assist in bringing a team of half black and half white players into one. Although the team unites at camp, they struggle to keep their momentum when they are thrust back into the real world with all the real world racial problems at the time. Julius and Gary make even more of an effort to unite the team as one and this time do so successfully. The Titans reel off win after win and finish the regular season with a perfect record. Their successes as a team on and off the field continue in the playoffs and clinch a spot in the State Championship. While celebrating the clinch, Gary is severely injured and paralyzed in a car wreck. This traumatic experience hurts the team altogether, but they unite for one more night and win the state championship.