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ESPN 30 for 30: Ghosts of Ole Miss
Posted on 10/30/12 at 6:54 pm
Posted on 10/30/12 at 6:54 pm
Who is watching?
Wright Thompson's article on this a few years ago was incredible. Gave me a new way of looking at Ole Miss and their history and what they're fighting to separate from.
Should be good.
Wright Thompson's article on this a few years ago was incredible. Gave me a new way of looking at Ole Miss and their history and what they're fighting to separate from.
Should be good.
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Posted on 10/30/12 at 6:55 pm to ProjectP2294
I spent a couple of semesters in Oxford, so I'll definitely be tuning in.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 6:56 pm to ProjectP2294
i'll check it out.
Looks very interesting.
Looks very interesting.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 6:56 pm to ProjectP2294
Me.
Don't frick us ESPN.
Don't frick us ESPN.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 6:57 pm to ProjectP2294
Kinda nervous about how they're going to make us look now. I hope they don't make it look like nothing has changed.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 6:58 pm to RebelExpress38
Wright Thompson is the main force behind it. I don't think he's going to do a hatchet job on Ole Miss.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 6:59 pm to ProjectP2294
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ESPN 30 for 30: Ghosts of Ole Miss
Billy Cannon? Halloween?
If not, why did they release it this week?
Because the only time Ole Miss gets any airtime is when the Weird Science lab reincarnates another Manning or somebody wants to talk about the "Old South" or its time to show Billy Cannon's run for the 8 millionth time.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 6:59 pm to RebelExpress38
quote:I almost read this wrong.
Kinda nervous about how they're going to make us look now. I hope they don't make it look like nothing has changed.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:00 pm to BrerTiger
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If not, why did they release it this week?
I don't know why this week specifically. But it is a significant anniversary of the events.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:00 pm to RebelExpress38
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I hope they don't make it look like nothing has changed.
They'll do a montage of Blind Side dude, Freezus and the Black Bear mascot and it will be clear that all has changed.
Like night and day.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:01 pm to ProjectP2294
OM is a Southern school. ESPN doesn't want to piss off the sports world of the South. I hope.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:01 pm to ProjectP2294
Merlins produced this so you know it's good.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:02 pm to ProjectP2294
Motherfricker! They HAD to start with the damn Klan.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:02 pm to NIH
Get the frick out of here.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:02 pm to ProjectP2294
Bunch of racists here
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:02 pm to NIH
didn't expect this to open up with a cross burning.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:02 pm to ProjectP2294
Here we go...
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:03 pm to ProjectP2294
Here's a good writeup about the ESPN story from a paper in NE Mississippi:
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A native Mississippian’s take on the 1962 Ole Miss championship football team will air tonight on ESPN.
As part of the network’s “30 for 30” series “Ghosts of Ole Miss” details the role the Rebels played in the riots and uncertainty that accompanied the forced enrollment of James Meredith, the school’s first black student.
“Ghosts of Ole Miss” airs tonight at 7 on ESPN.
Wright Thompson, a native of Clarksdale, lives in Oxford and writes for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine.
Three years ago he wrote a feature on the 1962 team. The movie is based from that work.
“The amazing thing to me is that everybody knows the story of the riots, though I would argue that nobody really knows,” Thompson said. “We’ve all heard it described as a riot, and a riot doesn’t seem like a very big deal. I’ve seen the footage. There are things there that as a Mississippian who did not live through that time are very hard to watch.”
Ultimately, amid the chaos, Meredith was enrolled.
Through it all, a football team destined for a special season stayed sequestered in a campus dorm not knowing what the next days held, much less the end of the football season.
one perfect season
That Ole Miss football team, however, finished the fall unbeaten and untied, the school’s only perfect season, and won the SEC and national championships.
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:03 pm to Rebelgator
make me
Posted on 10/30/12 at 7:03 pm to ProjectP2294
Recording...I'm sure we will get hammered...we are the scapegoat for racism in the USA
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