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Gameday would be outside as opposed to the RNC, right? Much smaller in scale, too.Considering the Democrat Governor in NC just told the RNC they would have to have a scaled back convention in Charlotte In August, I don't see a big event in Greenville happening.
I am talking about the game and having lots of fans. I am sure Roy Cooper did it in the name of safety.Gameday would be outside as opposed to the RNC, right? Much smaller in scale, too.
I don't hate the idea, in its entirety. Being the 50th "anniversary", and if something was done for remembrance and in a somber manner, I would be good with it. Maybe have the set, but no one around besides the TV personalities and some interviews with Marshall folks. Have Chad, Byron, Randy, Pruett, Dawson, or maybe some others talk about the importance of remembering what happened.And for the record: I’m not in favor of Gameday for anything anniversary/crash related. Hate the idea, actually.
I feel like 2020 is God's way of telling Marshall to let this shit go already.
And for the record: I’m not in favor of Gameday for anything anniversary/crash related. Hate the idea, actually.
Let’s let 9/11 go. Let’s let July 4th go. Hell let Easter and Christmas go tooI feel like 2020 is God's way of telling Marshall to let this shit go already.
How so? Let what go?
Perfect illustration of my point - the plane crash has almost religious significance among some Marshall fans, even those who have no personal connection to the tragedy. For a surprising number of folks I've met over the years, without the plane crash, there is no Marshall football, which is irony at its absolute worst.Let’s let 9/11 go. Let’s let July 4th go. Hell let Easter and Christmas go too
In the crudest possible terms: a 50-year-old aviation disaster. I have to explain, this comes from the perspective where when I was in school (turn of the century), all MU did was the fountain ceremonies; there was hardly any push to market the plane crash. Then in 2006, Warner Brothers released "We Are Marshall," and what's followed since has been a mixed bag of what felt like tasteful remembrances of lives lost and sometimes not-so-tasteful commercialization of a now-distant tragedy.
It's been my hope that the 50th anniversary would mark the point where we kind of put this thing back to bed. "We Are Marshall" is a 14-year-old movie at this point, we've had a good run, now let's show the dead some respect and keep the tributes internal from here on out. Keep doing the fountain ceremony, but stop trying to have a "plane crash game" every year.
Amen, brother.Perfect illustration of my point - the plane crash has almost religious significance among some Marshall fans, even those who have no personal connection to the tragedy. For a surprising number of folks I've met over the years, without the plane crash, there is no Marshall football, which is irony at its absolute worst.
sometimes not-so-tasteful commercialization of a now-distant tragedy.
stop trying to have a "plane crash game" every year.
religious significance among some Marshall fans,
So changing the Jersey is commercialization? It’s a huge part of the Marshall story. There is nothing wrong with celebrating/memorializing that event. It’s done tastefully and with the utmost respect.This is just my opinion, but using the plane crash as a context for Marshall to have an alternate uniform has always been uncomfortable for me. Lots of schools have introduced alternate black uniforms as a promotional element, typically for the aesthetic; Marshall is the only school I know of to do it under the auspices that it was connected to an airline tragedy, and that the black in the uniform represents death, loss and mourning.
To Mr. Hammond's point, its the first and last thing people want to talk about when it comes to Marshall, I believe owed in large part to the dissolution of having any other context for Marshall football. Realignment has relegated us back to I-AA, we have lost all of our regional rivalries, and the series with WVU went as badly as could have been imagined, culminating in them refusing to play us in sports anymore. It's hard to find a rallying point, something to give the intense fandom context and purpose, so I suppose this has sufficed.
During the filming of "We Are Marshall," anonymous family members left notes at the Radisson for the crew asking them to stop, saying that the film was re-opening a wound they didn't want to revisit, much less see dramatized. That's always stuck with me.I would think if the families of the victims indicated to MU that they felt the memory of the crash and players was getting too commercialized or distorted in any way, MU would drop all functions/mentions (except fountain ceremonies) related to the crash in a heartbeat. jmho
Again, we were probably ten years behind the trend that swept ubiquitously through college football to have a "sweet black alternate uni," and the only one to tie it to a tragic event or say the black symbolized grief, and not "cool" or "bad guy."So changing the Jersey is commercialization? It’s a huge part of the Marshall story. There is nothing wrong with celebrating/memorializing that event. It’s done tastefully and with the utmost respect.
Every year since 2016, Marshall has worn black jerseys and "75" helmets once a season, on whatever home date is closest to November 14th, in a game promoted as commemorating the plane crash. This game does not always fall on the 14th, come against an opponent who has anything to do with the 1970 tragedy, and has commemorated the 47th, 48th and 49th years since the tragedy, respectively.I don't think we do. Do we? I have never seen a MU game on Facebook,TV, CBS, or otherwise and the announcers say: "
This is the plane crash game".
During the filming of "We Are Marshall," anonymous family members left notes at the Radisson for the crew asking them to stop, saying that the film was re-opening a wound they didn't want to revisit, much less see dramatized. That's always stuck with me.
And there were countless others that were happy the story was being told. Red Dawson comes to mind as a person the movie helped.During the filming of "We Are Marshall," anonymous family members left notes at the Radisson for the crew asking them to stop, saying that the film was re-opening a wound they didn't want to revisit, much less see dramatized. That's always stuck with me.
And there were countless others that were happy the story was being told. Red Dawson comes to mind as a person the movie helped.
True he just let millions of dollars walk out or the state coffers when he let the RNC walk....I question whether this game will even be played. The NC governor is not opening things up anytime soon. ECU might not be able to play.
I have my doubts.I question whether this game will even be played. The NC governor is not opening things up anytime soon. ECU might not be able to play.
Obviously he is going to stick to his agenda...True he just let millions of dollars walk out or the state coffers when he let the RNC walk....
"all about safety"Obviously he is going to stick to his agenda...
In the crudest possible terms: a 50-year-old aviation disaster. I have to explain, this comes from the perspective where when I was in school (turn of the century), all MU did was the fountain ceremonies; there was hardly any push to market the plane crash. Then in 2006, Warner Brothers released "We Are Marshall," and what's followed since has been a mixed bag of what felt like tasteful remembrances of lives lost and sometimes not-so-tasteful commercialization of a now-distant tragedy.
It's been my hope that the 50th anniversary would mark the point where we kind of put this thing back to bed. "We Are Marshall" is a 14-year-old movie at this point, we've had a good run, now let's show the dead some respect and keep the tributes internal from here on out. Keep doing the fountain ceremony, but stop trying to have a "plane crash game" every year.
If you pass that locker is still going to cost somebody 3 grand.Show the dead some respect? The people who died on that plane were either directly involved with the football team or big donors who loved the program. Knowing that, I'm guessing none of them would protest to Marshall recognizing their lives, the disaster, and even using these remembrances to help move the program forward by earning revenue from it.
If I passed, I would have no problem with things that I love being able to prosper somehow from it, and I can't imagine any of them would be against Marshall doing the same.
If you pass that locker is still going to cost somebody 3 grand.
Blah blah blah I talk to the dead like the kid from the Sixth Sense
Every year since 2016, Marshall has worn black jerseys and "75" helmets once a season, on whatever home date is closest to November 14th, in a game promoted as commemorating the plane crash. This game does not always fall on the 14th, come against an opponent who has anything to do with the 1970 tragedy, and has commemorated the 47th, 48th and 49th years since the tragedy, respectively.
When they do it this year, it will be the first time they've done it in a year where it at least sorta made sense.