I hate football, but I loved this movie! I went to see it because Nate Ruffin was my Supervisor for several years and was the most supportive, understanding human being I've ever known. He often told anyone who would listen how his life took a downward spiral after the crash because he felt so guilty for surviving. But he got his life together and decided the best way he could honor his former teammates was to be an inspiration to others, and he was more than that! Anthony Mackie portrayed Nate wonderfully and caught his spirit of leadership and caring! Nate knew from experience what hardship could do to a person's life and used his story to help many of us through major upheavals in our lives.

The movie matched much of what Nate told us throughout the years, and I think he would be ecstatic that the story was finally told and told this well!

It's a great movie really. I am suprised the overall rating is below 8. But I see the movie has many 10/10 reviews. Watch this movie, guaranteed it'll be 2 hrs well spent

Based on a true story of a very tragic event, I felt the emphasis was poorly placed on the new coach hiring and not enough on the school,coach,players and family of those who died. For me the best way to have ended this film was shown like 20 minutes into it, when the school was chanting outside that school president and board of directors meeting. After that it lost focus and emotion.

Thoughts and prayers are still there though for those who were effected by that day..