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The movie has Matthew Fox playing the part of Red Dawson, who was one of the coaches and one of the only survivors. He stayed behind to do some recruiting, if I recall correctly. It saved his life. By the way, he might have been named Ed, but he had red hair, thus the nickname.
Let me tell you a true story which will age me, but what the heck.
Red played college ball at Florida State, my alma mater. He came back a few years later as a coach. His younger brother was on the FSU team and was a senior in the fall of 1970, when the plane crashed. His roommate (and teammate) at the time later became my husband.
It was late, after a game. We came back to his dorm room and there was a note taped to the door. It said "RHETT - Red was NOT on the plane". What a freaky thing that was. The scary part was that a few weeks earlier, the plane carrying the Wichita State football team also went down and almost all the players died. WS dropped football after that. Amazing that all these years later there is a movie being made with Fox and McConnaughey in it. Movie is being shot in and around Atlanta, I believe. I will definitely buy a ticket.
Last edited by AnchorAlum; 05-19-2006 at 07:55 PM.
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