As I was flipping through the channels on my couch the other night I couldn’t find anything to watch. I flipped one more channel and came across a movie that was just about to start. The name of that movie was Glory Road. This was what I call destiny, I am a huge sports fan, as well as a closet history geek and this movie was perfect for me. It’s a true story about the Texas Western basketball team and there road to become NCAA Division 1 National Champions.
There catch
is that they are a no name team at the beginning of the season. Their head
coach is a first year college basketball coach, his previous coaching job was
the head coach of a girls high school basketball team. As he realized it was
going to be tough to recruit good players to make a competitive team due to the
fact they were not an established basketball program they needed to find a
solution. His solution was to recruit black players, this was in 1966 when that
was socially unacceptable. With the final roster 7 blacks and 5 whites, the
team would have to face adversity against each other, the fans, and eventually
the whole country.
This movie
gives a look at the brutal truth to what discrimination was like in the 60’s,
and really inspired. I’m not going to spoil the movie for you, telling you if
they win or lose. This movie is definitely a must see, and I give it a four out
of five star rating. I promise this is a one of a kind movie, and you haven’t seen
anything like this. It’s like Rudy in the discrimination sense and miracle in
the triumphant, proving people wrong sense. Now stop reading this and go watch
the movie.
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