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09-20-2004, 05:08 PM
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FOFC's Elected Representative
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The stars at night; are big and bright
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Year of the Bull
Has anyone else seen this? I caught it by accident, and was blown away by it. It is the most surreal football documentary I have seen since Hoop Dreams.
http://www.yearofthebull.com/ Try to see it if you can, you will really like it. FROM SITE: YEAR OF THE BULL is a documentary film that covers an entire football season with the Miami Northwestern Bulls and Taurean Charles, their All-American Captain, who is forced to accept the hero's role as team leader. Having lost his father at an early age, Taurean lives with his mother and twin sister and believes football will enable him to provide his family with a better life. Bearing the weight of a city's overwhelming pressure to win, Taurean comes of age on camera. Through his experience, we witness the elements that make high school football unique in Liberty City: the state-wide media hype that invades a star athlete, the school's voracious appetite for a state championship, young men having to play through serious injuries, and the recruiting frenzy from colleges across the nation. As the season progresses and Northwestern continues to win, Taurean has lost interest in preparing for the SAT and his teachers fear the worst. After the annual arch rival game played in front of 30,000 fans, Taurean leads his team to the state finals in Tallahassee, a three year long goal. Northwestern loses the finals and the community is crushed. What is worse, Taurean still does not have his SAT scores to qualify for a scholarship. Despite being voted first team all state and coming in second in the state Player of the Year, Taurean is ignored by many of the top schools that don't believe he will get the required SAT score. Will he beat the odds and make it?
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09-20-2004, 05:52 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: NYC
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Wasn't Hoop Dreams about...um...basketball?  |
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09-20-2004, 05:56 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Miami
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The Herd - Yep he is a regular keg thrower. If you guys only knew the shit Florida gets away with...
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09-20-2004, 06:02 PM
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College Starter
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Fort Lackland, Texas (San Antonio)
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Thanks, thought that was him.
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09-20-2004, 06:56 PM
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FOFC's Elected Representative
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The stars at night; are big and bright
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typo - thanks for the call out.
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"i have seen chris simms play 4-5 times in the pros and he's very clearly got it. he won't make a pro bowl this year, but it'll come. if you don't like me saying that, so be it, but its true. we'll just have to wait until then" imettrentgreen "looking at only ten games, and oddly using a median only, leaves me unmoved generally" - Quiksand |
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