@MegaMercer09@bobboblaw123 It was real, dumbasses, do you douches know any shitting history of this countries 1950s-60s. Stupid Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, etc...brainless rednecks!!! Look how that CBtreats Davis while he's getting up, minute 5:47
Syracuse's whole team must have been great that year. Their offensive line is just swamping the Texas defense, and Texas had great defenses back then.
Note that it said BASED on a true story! Some ppl on here just cant get over the fact that the movie didn't truly represent the cotton bowl. It's just a moooovie. A great one at that.
Sometimes, when the game is close and everything is on the line, that's when you forget the crowd and the noise. That's when it's just you against somebody else to see who is the better man. That's what I like about the game. Because at that moment, you are friends, and you are enemies, and you are brothers. (The Express)
I haven't seen the movie, so it may be that Hollywood exaggerated the race war part. However, the Texas players did call Syracuse black players names and pull some cheap shots. I have seen films of this game where a few scuffles broke out. You have to remember this was 1960, and that's the kind of attitude most whites in the South had toward blacks. This film is the official Cotton Bowl highlights film, so it's not going to show anything ugly.
@lildood24 I hadn't really thought about it that way . . . I tend to admire pioneering black athletes (Jackie Robinson, Jack Johnson, etc.) . . . so I guess you can say I'm for him. My comment about white's attitude about blacks in 1960 was not meant as an excuse. I was trying to point out to the doubters that the Texas players did cheap shot and insult Syracuse's black players - that's just a historical fact - and that such things were typical of white Texans in 1960.
@ConfederateHandjob Ohh........ In the beginning of the movie he talks about how we wrote about his life in a book...... " its kinda hard writing about my life " Ernie Davis- but look on this video at 5:44 doesn't that give you a little proof he wasn't lien in his book???
@iruleall15 "The black people." I'm sure you mean SOME black people, just like SOME white people have always acted like wild animals and have always been racist. The difference is that the white racists from the 1950s-60s had the law on their side and it took Federal action to put an end to it..
@ConfederateHandjob Exactly. According to the southern segregationists the "Negroes" were happy, except for a few "rabble-rousers, communists and northern agitators." The official film of the Cotton Bowl wasn't going to show such disharmony in their film, any more than one of the NFL Films Washington Super Bowl films would focus on protests against their racist name. Seeing The Express for the first time today & looking forward to finding the stats of that game.
Hollywood hates the south. But if blacks ever stop voting for the Democratic Party Hollywood might decide segregation was a good idea after all. I don't remember hearing any racist commentary back in 1957 but I'm sure there was a certain amount of it in private. But this Hollywood idea of three lynchings a night is pure libel By the way, is that Keith Jackson's voice on the tape? Good tape by the way - thanks!
And all that in the years 50 and 60 saw the greatest player (I say to everyone), play for the NFL and make a better world something! .. Ernie Davis the first black to win the Heisman trophy award .. and that everyone says he was not in the best season while playing for Syracuse University nor Jim Brown has achieved what our great Ernie did ...
...I tell everyone that I am grown and raised in Brazil Sao Paulo Guarulhos, I am honored to thank the great Ernie everything he has done to football in the U.S. and the world with his amazing and wonderful football. Congratulations Ernie Davis!
my grandpa played with erni, erni was a senior and my grandpa was a freshy, my grandpa was faster then him and was just as good, but he just didnt want the publicity
@iThINkBaCk550 im not kidding my grandpa almost played for the bills but didn't have the money to travel with them pulse he had my grandma and mom back home, so instead he stayed home, erni played for Elmira high school in new york and my grandpa was playing for Ithaca high school in NY, my grandpa told me one time that he saw erni get the ball and when my grandpa went to tackle him he closed his eyes, he said the next thing he new was erni was herdling over him and was gone lol
I went to Syracuse because of those reasons too. And i played football and was an all American for three out of the four years i stared varsity football for Syracuse.
with how wrong the movie "The Express" made this game out to seem so great, i would almost think that they made up racism as well.
I know...i know racism was real and is not joking matter, but i was just poking fun at how poor of a job the makers of this film did of reenacting this game.
It's ridiculous how the movie "The Express" lied about what actually happened in this game. There was no race "brawl" on the field. Ernie didn't get benched with an injury, Texas come back, then Ernie miraculously returns and wins it single handedly.. All of that is just dramatic bunk made up by Hollywood.
I understand how Hollywood feels the need to "embellish" the truth for dramatic purposes. But when claim a movie is a true story, they should also have a responsibity to tell the truth.
@uricehe4 When a movie takes events like that and embellish them, it is trying to fit all of the emotion and importance of days and weeks and years into one event. That's why it is "drama." The very best are able to do it without changing too many facts, but even they have to change some. I grew up a Cleveland Browns fan and heard about Ernie Davis from day one, even though he had died by the time I was old enough to actually be a fan in 1965. Yes, the year after their last NFL Title.
Just think what the Browns would've been had Ernie Davis lived. HBO has a great documentary called Breaking the Huddle about the Blacks intergrating schools in the South.
I watched "The Express" the other day and that movie made this game look like an all-out race war, with punches thrown onto the black players after several plays. The most I saw in this video was Davis getting pushed down after he was tackled, but it was one push and no punches. The movie also said Texas had pulled to within a point (15-14) before Davis came back in, when in fact Syracuse was ahead 23-6 in the third quarter and Davis was playing. Typical Hollywood...
@Pfw51 A lot of the clips in the video stopped right after the play so we don't know what happens after the whistle blew unless you have complete footage of the game.
First off The Express was a great tribute for Mr. Davis. The brawl was'nt nearly as dramatic as depicted. Dont get me wrong there was some business - but no bench clearing brawls. There was also only one confederate flag at 1966 NCAA Basketball championship game. (Alot of UK fans were holding one in the movie Glory Road)
R.I.P Ernie. Not many things can make a man like me come to tears but this story always got to me. The Express was a great movie but no movie can do you enough justice. Wish he could have gotten to play for the Browns.
God Bless Ernie Davis! R.I.P. He was the best. Sad movie but definitely i did like that movie. He was cool guy black guy! No racist against black people! Thumbs up! (: Die at age 23 it's not funny. Why? I feel sad for him. He did deserve to play games in cleveland team but damn... :(
@I8yourcookie5 Yes man i almost cryed when he died. And i almost cryed when i saw that his coach got him to get that kid and get him to attent saracuse. it was just so sad because all this was true.
Ernie Davis is the my hero even though I'm more into b ball I'm willing to try football bcus he is such a great inspiration and those of you that just don't like Davis why are you even watching this seriously don't like don't watch
ernie davis was a beast! but i think jim brown open the doors for african americans ernie just won the heisman award! and can't beliee that nigga died of that thing..but it wasn't cancer
I agree Ernie Davis is a super great player, but I think in that movie, they exagerated a little, they made him seem like he carried the whole team on his back.
true, but they do that with every football documentary. look at Invincible with Mark Whalberg. The touchdown he scored at the end was exaggerated so much!
So was the riot true or was is made up bye hollywood i dont think everyone in texas was racist back then cuz the movie glory road was filmed in my home town of el paso its a good movie u guys should watch it
The riot was true. And they were really really racist back then. in texas they didnt let him sleep in the hotel because he was black. also he wasnt allowed to attend HIS ceremony of MVP of the cotton bowl. i know all this cause im doing a project on him. Anyway the riot was completely true.
Maybe this was edited to high heaven but I didn't see the attack on the Syracuse players when they were down by the Texas players as the movie showed. Also they didn't show the half-time brawl that happened between the two teams.
Also, the movie showed the score was Syracuse 15 to Texas 14 before Ernie came in to save the day.
Guess the movie played-up some parts to add to the climax.
@islezeus See my other comment...that's what movies do. News clips would take hours and hours to tell the same story and people call documentaries boring, even though their job is to stay with the facts.
By the way...poor job of casting for Art Modell. He was a relatively young (45), slick, TV executive from New York, not the older man as portrayed in the movie.
@Dtownjake Look up Jackie Robinson (yes, him!), Marion Motley and Bill Willis. They came long before Ernie. The tragedy is that the racism was still so prevalent by the time Davis came along.
He did open the doors to all further African-Americans to win the Heisman!
I love the movie "The Express" my language arts class had to watch it and the ending was so sad. It's so sad that Ernie Davis died of cancer. R.I.P Ernie Davis!!!
he never played a professional game but they retired his jersey anyway what a impact he had on the sport. to bad god needed him more r.i.p ernie davis
There was a fight before halftime, not as bad as showed in the movie. Syracuse were not treated well in Dallas against the Longhorns.This is a movie reel from the era, they didn't report things like that.Ernie Davis was not a hero in Dallas. He got spat on after each play. How did he respond? "Good play!" Got up and went back to the huddle.Of course education goes a long way. That explains the ignorant comments in this thread.If you think this story is BS, read the real story of Ernie Davis.
@jsd1996475 I just think Hollywood embellished the fights. Oklahoma had a running back at that time named Prentice Gautt who had similar stories--even on his own team.
@wintertwister Same with West Virginia. Syracuse center Patrick Whelan, a Davis teammate, said of the movie's inaccuracies, "Were sitting watching this thing, saying, 'Jeez, where did they get that from?'" Screenwriter Charles Leavitt expressed surprise at the scene in the finished film, whose original script did not involve West Virginia.
I just watched "The Express" which prompted me to do some research on Ernie Davis. Amazing Football player, Amazing man...the kind of person that makes the world a better place. How sad.
Very well said because the movie is about Ernie Davis not about everything else that happened or did not happen people get caught up in everything but what's important.
Legend has it that Kern Tips [1904-67], who narrated this film, was perhaps the greatest college football radio announcer of his day in Texas, and certainly a colorful announcer as well.
I love you Ernie Davis and the 1959 Syracuse Orangemen. You are a huge influence to even young guys like myself. Amazing footage. I went to Syracuse University just because Ernie Davis and Jim Brown went there. In 2003, SU basketball team showed them Texas boys how to play basketball, and they had the play of the year (T.J. Ford) who ran into a brick wall (Craig Forth). Go SU! Long Live Ernie Davis!
wow! Ernie Davis who would have thought we'd still be watching his game even after nearly 50 years! this would have been beyond his wildest dreams....im just sorry he was around long enough to see what a legend he has become.
when i watched a part in the movie where he is helping the linebacker up after he blocked him to the ground . i couldent belive my eyes when he pulled him to the ground when he was offering a hand up. it made me feel sick... im white
Yeah, the movie seems much more violent than the video, but than again who knows...Oh and Ernie Davis died of leukemia at the age of 23, I think it was in august.
thats 2 bad that Ernie died. I think i might no how he died. Ill hav 2 watch teh movie again. And b1rdtman has a point. It wasnt really as violent. There was no punching or kicking. 23-14 Syracuse. Some nice plays by Syracuse too.
Holy crap the texas punt/kick returner was really good.
2:53 Look at those RACIST liberal DIXIECRATS ....soon to become today's Democrats -PILE on the wonderful Ernie Davis! And this was WAY after he was already down.
Despicable!
Big Daddy
PS Today these horrifying vile liberals have gotten worse - BITING OFF the fingers of old men!
Seriously, it was Despicable. I weep when I think about how our country was just 50 years ago.
But, from what I've read the movie DID exaggerate the amt of racial animosity the team received. I mean syr only had THREE black guys. It was hardly 2 Live Crew or anything!
@MegaMercer09 @bobboblaw123 It was real, dumbasses, do you douches know any shitting history of this countries 1950s-60s. Stupid Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, etc...brainless rednecks!!! Look how that CBtreats Davis while he's getting up, minute 5:47
ScrewLSU 1 week ago
He died at 23 (:l
ScrewLSU 1 week ago
#44 and #45 two legendary numbers, one legendary player. Ernie Davis
tyler85ification 1 week ago
Where's the fight from this game?
CaliMeMrAmazing 1 week ago
Syracuse's whole team must have been great that year. Their offensive line is just swamping the Texas defense, and Texas had great defenses back then.
ConfederateHandjob 1 week ago
hollywood fabricates racism
MegaMercer09 1 week ago
@MegaMercer09 i know right!! its so stupid to pretend racism existed in 1960! i hate hollywoodz grrrrrrrr
bobboblaw123 1 week ago
Look at Davis take out 2 guys lol beast 2:28
QuinCCox 1 week ago
@QuinCCox he missed the block horribly lol he didnt take anyone out
MegaMercer09 1 week ago
Please change Cotten to Cotton Bowl. I'm embarrassed to share this link.
glasfurd31 3 weeks ago 3
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flyboiimilo 2 days ago
Note that it said BASED on a true story! Some ppl on here just cant get over the fact that the movie didn't truly represent the cotton bowl. It's just a moooovie. A great one at that.
adamjcripps 1 month ago 2
Texas is still the most racist state
jwh1999 1 month ago
Sometimes, when the game is close and everything is on the line, that's when you forget the crowd and the noise. That's when it's just you against somebody else to see who is the better man. That's what I like about the game. Because at that moment, you are friends, and you are enemies, and you are brothers. (The Express)
R.I.P. Ernie Davis.
Johnny
BeUnotATVrobot 1 month ago 2
Ernie Davis R.I.P :(
smellyfishballs 1 month ago
us blacks had it tough. sad some off us dont follow the ones that set the pave for us in sports, education like ernie, ali, malcom & martin.
YoungTrapztar 3 months ago
I watched the express and it was amazing < go ernie
nessagurl100 3 months ago
where did you find this?
Dray2332 4 months ago
This is my favorite video on youtube!
moriluk 4 months ago
at 5:10 it shows jack collins getting a 69 yard touchdown but in the movie it shows some other guy with the number 24 getting a 69 yard touchdown
steveizcool1 4 months ago
Syracuse REPRESENT
MrESPN360 6 months ago
Ernie Davis. Legend.
glasfurd31 6 months ago 8
5:44 long horns are doing ernie davis wrong...... just like the movie some 1 reply if u agree and i wanna talk about this
lildood24 6 months ago
I haven't seen the movie, so it may be that Hollywood exaggerated the race war part. However, the Texas players did call Syracuse black players names and pull some cheap shots. I have seen films of this game where a few scuffles broke out. You have to remember this was 1960, and that's the kind of attitude most whites in the South had toward blacks. This film is the official Cotton Bowl highlights film, so it's not going to show anything ugly.
ConfederateHandjob 6 months ago
@ConfederateHandjob are u for ernie or not??????just wondering
lildood24 6 months ago
@lildood24 I hadn't really thought about it that way . . . I tend to admire pioneering black athletes (Jackie Robinson, Jack Johnson, etc.) . . . so I guess you can say I'm for him. My comment about white's attitude about blacks in 1960 was not meant as an excuse. I was trying to point out to the doubters that the Texas players did cheap shot and insult Syracuse's black players - that's just a historical fact - and that such things were typical of white Texans in 1960.
ConfederateHandjob 6 months ago
@ConfederateHandjob Ohh........ In the beginning of the movie he talks about how we wrote about his life in a book...... " its kinda hard writing about my life " Ernie Davis- but look on this video at 5:44 doesn't that give you a little proof he wasn't lien in his book???
lildood24 6 months ago
@lildood24 Yeah that shove was part of it . . . I found on video on here that showed a pretty big fight that broke out right before halftime too.
ConfederateHandjob 6 months ago
@ConfederateHandjob Can you please show me the video of halftime I really wanna see it.
lildood24 6 months ago
@ConfederateHandjob What is the excuse now for the black people always acting like wild animals and always being racist now?
iruleall15 6 months ago
@iruleall15 People like you, I guess.
ConfederateHandjob 6 months ago
@iruleall15 Give me the link.
lildood24 6 months ago
@iruleall15 "The black people." I'm sure you mean SOME black people, just like SOME white people have always acted like wild animals and have always been racist. The difference is that the white racists from the 1950s-60s had the law on their side and it took Federal action to put an end to it..
krezzykrezz 1 week ago
@ConfederateHandjob Exactly. According to the southern segregationists the "Negroes" were happy, except for a few "rabble-rousers, communists and northern agitators." The official film of the Cotton Bowl wasn't going to show such disharmony in their film, any more than one of the NFL Films Washington Super Bowl films would focus on protests against their racist name. Seeing The Express for the first time today & looking forward to finding the stats of that game.
krezzykrezz 1 week ago
Hollywood hates the south. But if blacks ever stop voting for the Democratic Party Hollywood might decide segregation was a good idea after all. I don't remember hearing any racist commentary back in 1957 but I'm sure there was a certain amount of it in private. But this Hollywood idea of three lynchings a night is pure libel By the way, is that Keith Jackson's voice on the tape? Good tape by the way - thanks!
dcspaced 7 months ago
And all that in the years 50 and 60 saw the greatest player (I say to everyone), play for the NFL and make a better world something! .. Ernie Davis the first black to win the Heisman trophy award .. and that everyone says he was not in the best season while playing for Syracuse University nor Jim Brown has achieved what our great Ernie did ...
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...I tell everyone that I am grown and raised in Brazil Sao Paulo Guarulhos, I am honored to thank the great Ernie everything he has done to football in the U.S. and the world with his amazing and wonderful football. Congratulations Ernie Davis!
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sobral54 7 months ago
"educated left leg" love it
thatonedood7 8 months ago
I saw The Express in my history class, I never realized what a great inspiration Ernie Davis is until then.
I also screamed "SUCK HIS DICK, TEXAS" in the middle of the last game and got a detention lol
SomeRandomHomosexual 8 months ago
i sitll believe he should have been given one carry in his first game
chicagobear20 9 months ago
thumbs up for 1337 at 1:41
JuggernauticPC 9 months ago
I watched The Express today
Terrific movie!
halo887 9 months ago
Ernie Davis a Legend
LeslyJonez 10 months ago
i love the announcer and the music in the background
theadubya17 11 months ago
Is this real? Or from the express? Probably real tho.
04keyboard 11 months ago
@04keyboard yup real
SLIMSHADY1357 9 months ago
ever since this movie i kno the meaning of football. i love football.
lilCrip312 11 months ago
yeah yeah
ltracey64 1 year ago
my grandpa played with erni, erni was a senior and my grandpa was a freshy, my grandpa was faster then him and was just as good, but he just didnt want the publicity
snookpudge23 1 year ago
@snookpudge23 haha yah sure......
iThINkBaCk550 1 year ago
@iThINkBaCk550 im not kidding my grandpa almost played for the bills but didn't have the money to travel with them pulse he had my grandma and mom back home, so instead he stayed home, erni played for Elmira high school in new york and my grandpa was playing for Ithaca high school in NY, my grandpa told me one time that he saw erni get the ball and when my grandpa went to tackle him he closed his eyes, he said the next thing he new was erni was herdling over him and was gone lol
snookpudge23 1 year ago
@snookpudge23 Why did he need money to play for the Bills? They were and are a professional team. They would have paid his "bills."
krezzykrezz 1 week ago
He is a legend
EH30 1 year ago
im only 16 but i love the old stars the are my heros ^^
coolexaras 1 year ago
errr i mean 1:05
LordOgax 1 year ago
false start at 0:57
LordOgax 1 year ago
Its nice to see the actual reality of this game and not the over glorification of the movie which clearly does not portray the match as it should.
petecabrina 1 year ago
Hahaha! 5:12! "69 yards to glory"
oskarmario123 1 year ago
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svencie 1 year ago
I went to Syracuse because of those reasons too. And i played football and was an all American for three out of the four years i stared varsity football for Syracuse.
russc1120 1 year ago
i dont know about all the extra punches thrown like in the movie but the guy clearly pushes him after he is down at 5:50
Koolkj2018 1 year ago
with how wrong the movie "The Express" made this game out to seem so great, i would almost think that they made up racism as well.
I know...i know racism was real and is not joking matter, but i was just poking fun at how poor of a job the makers of this film did of reenacting this game.
dontoadz 1 year ago
It's ridiculous how the movie "The Express" lied about what actually happened in this game. There was no race "brawl" on the field. Ernie didn't get benched with an injury, Texas come back, then Ernie miraculously returns and wins it single handedly.. All of that is just dramatic bunk made up by Hollywood.
I understand how Hollywood feels the need to "embellish" the truth for dramatic purposes. But when claim a movie is a true story, they should also have a responsibity to tell the truth.
uricehe4 1 year ago
@uricehe4 When a movie takes events like that and embellish them, it is trying to fit all of the emotion and importance of days and weeks and years into one event. That's why it is "drama." The very best are able to do it without changing too many facts, but even they have to change some. I grew up a Cleveland Browns fan and heard about Ernie Davis from day one, even though he had died by the time I was old enough to actually be a fan in 1965. Yes, the year after their last NFL Title.
krezzykrezz 1 week ago
At 5:48, notice how the Texas player pushes Davis back to the ground. Either he was a racist, sore loser, or both.
shaunnol 1 year ago 4
ERNIE MOTHER FUCKING DAVIS! best player ever to bad ... though RIP
xxpooheadxx 1 year ago
"The Express" Ernie Davis!!!!! Say No to Racism
adagio100 1 year ago
Just think what the Browns would've been had Ernie Davis lived. HBO has a great documentary called Breaking the Huddle about the Blacks intergrating schools in the South.
ebf1957 1 year ago 2
YO TEXAS! WHY YOU GOTTA BE SO RACIST?!
BlindJacka 1 year ago
how people spoke decades ago
itspeaks037 1 year ago
such good wholesome commentating. Not that bullshit hate jokes you get from the madden games lol
Kalikoded 1 year ago
I watched "The Express" the other day and that movie made this game look like an all-out race war, with punches thrown onto the black players after several plays. The most I saw in this video was Davis getting pushed down after he was tackled, but it was one push and no punches. The movie also said Texas had pulled to within a point (15-14) before Davis came back in, when in fact Syracuse was ahead 23-6 in the third quarter and Davis was playing. Typical Hollywood...
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@Pfw51 That's true, I watched the movie last night it was nothing close to what really happened.
OneLife1Voice 1 year ago
@Pfw51 A lot of the clips in the video stopped right after the play so we don't know what happens after the whistle blew unless you have complete footage of the game.
cvo223 1 year ago
@Pfw51 "based on" it never says its 100% "typical hollywood" ofcourse. it sells. I get your point but at the end of the day its all about the cash
pouon 7 months ago
@Pfw51 at the begining of the movie it said based on a true story so ofc its hollywood....
VPclubKING 7 months ago
@Pfw51 but this isnt the full game they wouldnt show the highlights of him being beatin
samsquatch123 6 months ago
First off The Express was a great tribute for Mr. Davis. The brawl was'nt nearly as dramatic as depicted. Dont get me wrong there was some business - but no bench clearing brawls. There was also only one confederate flag at 1966 NCAA Basketball championship game. (Alot of UK fans were holding one in the movie Glory Road)
edog5573 1 year ago
Did the brawl that was portrayed in The Express really happen?
forum157sf 1 year ago
R.I.P Ernie. Not many things can make a man like me come to tears but this story always got to me. The Express was a great movie but no movie can do you enough justice. Wish he could have gotten to play for the Browns.
iJustDontGiveAShit 1 year ago
God Bless Ernie Davis! R.I.P. He was the best. Sad movie but definitely i did like that movie. He was cool guy black guy! No racist against black people! Thumbs up! (: Die at age 23 it's not funny. Why? I feel sad for him. He did deserve to play games in cleveland team but damn... :(
deadlymiksu 1 year ago
thumbs up if you just watch The Express
Enrie is my hero
I8yourcookie5 1 year ago 322
@I8yourcookie5 I did great movie.
ZGODOMEGAHALO 1 year ago
@I8yourcookie5 i loved that movie man .. it inspired me and ever since i became a good football player
MMAOverload2 1 year ago
@I8yourcookie5 Yes man i almost cryed when he died. And i almost cryed when i saw that his coach got him to get that kid and get him to attent saracuse. it was just so sad because all this was true.
lildood24 9 months ago
@lildood24 That was HOF runningback Floyd Little.
ILoveAllMusic1977 8 months ago
@lildood24 That was HOF runningback Floyd Little.
ILoveAllMusic1977 8 months ago
Ernie Davis is the my hero even though I'm more into b ball I'm willing to try football bcus he is such a great inspiration and those of you that just don't like Davis why are you even watching this seriously don't like don't watch
freesleepy 1 year ago
It's never good when great people die young. Ernie Davis will never be forgotten. Rob Brown did an awsome job portaging the realism.
beastwatkins 1 year ago
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ALL YOU WHITE UGLY SOB KEEP SAYING NIGGA CAUSE ERNIE & JIM FUCK ALL YOUR WIVES!!!! (SHORT DICK BITCHES)
LIFESLADY 1 year ago
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@LIFESLADY NIGGER!!
Yamaha420Rider 1 year ago
dang, ernie davis died so young... died before his time.
revolution09pac 1 year ago
Ernest Davis lest we forget
w0a0l0s0h0e 1 year ago
oh iight i couldn't think of that long ass L word lol thanks mayne
dougiephresh3 1 year ago
@dougiephresh3 no problem mang!
TJhandford524 1 year ago
ernie davis was a beast! but i think jim brown open the doors for african americans ernie just won the heisman award! and can't beliee that nigga died of that thing..but it wasn't cancer
dougiephresh3 1 year ago
it was leukemia that took ernie davis's life. Leukemia is cancer of the blood. so it was cancer
TJhandford524 1 year ago
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looks fake and gay....
phillipbade 1 year ago
I agree Ernie Davis is a super great player, but I think in that movie, they exagerated a little, they made him seem like he carried the whole team on his back.
zmarty09191995 1 year ago
true, but they do that with every football documentary. look at Invincible with Mark Whalberg. The touchdown he scored at the end was exaggerated so much!
TJhandford524 1 year ago
another great film about football and race differences is "remenber the titans" with Denzel.
you guys should definetly go check that out.
mtavares92 1 year ago
davis should've been the quarterback too :)
oehieze 1 year ago
this guy is way to fast for these people.
xXsniperfiXx123 1 year ago
So was the riot true or was is made up bye hollywood i dont think everyone in texas was racist back then cuz the movie glory road was filmed in my home town of el paso its a good movie u guys should watch it
krychard6 1 year ago
The riot was true. And they were really really racist back then. in texas they didnt let him sleep in the hotel because he was black. also he wasnt allowed to attend HIS ceremony of MVP of the cotton bowl. i know all this cause im doing a project on him. Anyway the riot was completely true.
topherRED11 1 year ago
Maybe this was edited to high heaven but I didn't see the attack on the Syracuse players when they were down by the Texas players as the movie showed. Also they didn't show the half-time brawl that happened between the two teams.
Also, the movie showed the score was Syracuse 15 to Texas 14 before Ernie came in to save the day.
Guess the movie played-up some parts to add to the climax.
islezeus 1 year ago
@islezeus See my other comment...that's what movies do. News clips would take hours and hours to tell the same story and people call documentaries boring, even though their job is to stay with the facts.
By the way...poor job of casting for Art Modell. He was a relatively young (45), slick, TV executive from New York, not the older man as portrayed in the movie.
krezzykrezz 1 week ago
Ernie Davis was a great football player and Syracuse had one of the best teams of all time, but the movie sucked. typical hollywood race bait movie.
lukegreen1956 1 year ago
and I'm sure before the movie came out you were out there talking about how awful racism was.... :)
oehieze 1 year ago
Ernie Davis was great. He opened the door for all African Americans to play football and I respect him so much because of that. R.I.P. Ernie Davis.
Dtownjake 2 years ago
@Dtownjake Look up Jackie Robinson (yes, him!), Marion Motley and Bill Willis. They came long before Ernie. The tragedy is that the racism was still so prevalent by the time Davis came along.
He did open the doors to all further African-Americans to win the Heisman!
krezzykrezz 1 week ago
R.I.P Ernie Davis Best Football Player of Historie!
Netherlands
Br4mmm 2 years ago 4
Just watched the film Express...poor racist Texas bastards....judging by the state of the NFL these days, they were right to feel threatened...
lovejoypain 2 years ago
RIP Ernie Davis
Dev17cmd 2 years ago 2
i was watching the "The Exspress" They copied that wining pass move for move
Xiller619 2 years ago
fuck yall racist bastards though.
critcakes 2 years ago
go longhorns!
critcakes 2 years ago
lets go orange!!!!
xitsturtletimex 2 years ago
I love the movie "The Express" my language arts class had to watch it and the ending was so sad. It's so sad that Ernie Davis died of cancer. R.I.P Ernie Davis!!!
EvanesceneMJ 2 years ago 2
i just watched the express, his story was inspirational, r.i.p ernie davis
jackobendo1 2 years ago 3
he never played a professional game but they retired his jersey anyway what a impact he had on the sport. to bad god needed him more r.i.p ernie davis
d0low0life 2 years ago
Amen Ma dewd i agree he served the purpose God put him on this world for
sickpickwick 2 years ago
you really don't know how to spell cotton? kill yourself, moron
sbt200224 2 years ago
lmao! cant spell cotton
SuperBakeDizzle 2 years ago
Ernie Davis had class.
lastardriver 2 years ago
"1 year removed better than platoon"
.better than me.
improve
GreenMachine037 2 years ago
the express was a huge fucking awesome movie, i love it
RoPs007 2 years ago 2
Yeah what a crap movie. There was a compelling story to be told yet Hollywood has to force their agenda down everyone's throat.
Adino1 2 years ago
@Adino1 They made Texas look real bad. I don't think Darrell Royal would have allowed such things to happen.
wintertwister 2 years ago
There was a fight before halftime, not as bad as showed in the movie. Syracuse were not treated well in Dallas against the Longhorns.This is a movie reel from the era, they didn't report things like that.Ernie Davis was not a hero in Dallas. He got spat on after each play. How did he respond? "Good play!" Got up and went back to the huddle.Of course education goes a long way. That explains the ignorant comments in this thread.If you think this story is BS, read the real story of Ernie Davis.
jsd1996475 2 years ago 3
@jsd1996475 I just think Hollywood embellished the fights. Oklahoma had a running back at that time named Prentice Gautt who had similar stories--even on his own team.
wintertwister 2 years ago
@wintertwister Same with West Virginia. Syracuse center Patrick Whelan, a Davis teammate, said of the movie's inaccuracies, "Were sitting watching this thing, saying, 'Jeez, where did they get that from?'" Screenwriter Charles Leavitt expressed surprise at the scene in the finished film, whose original script did not involve West Virginia.
Adino1 2 years ago
never take life for granted
golfswagga23 2 years ago
I just watched "The Express" which prompted me to do some research on Ernie Davis. Amazing Football player, Amazing man...the kind of person that makes the world a better place. How sad.
MMAKiller 2 years ago 2
the movie version "the express" is very inaccurate as this video clip proves. I'm pissed that the movie is lying to everyone about this game.
dre5116 2 years ago
@dre5116 , well if you watched Schindlers list you would think only Jews died in ww2.
cotullaguy 2 years ago
Very well said because the movie is about Ernie Davis not about everything else that happened or did not happen people get caught up in everything but what's important.
firedriver21 2 years ago
fair point but the movie was more about the player not just this one game and after all it is a movie that was made to make money
Jenkinss 2 years ago
cotten?
tfmiddletoniii 2 years ago
Legend has it that Kern Tips [1904-67], who narrated this film, was perhaps the greatest college football radio announcer of his day in Texas, and certainly a colorful announcer as well.
byrd56 2 years ago
wasn't there a big fight in this game?
Brozzy525 2 years ago
yah...just watched the movie too...maybe there was no fight? maybe that was hollywood being hollywood again?
boshkay 2 years ago
americans vs the texas racist all they needed was the hoods
johno934 2 years ago 3
ha bobby yates was a lefty
geobreezy 2 years ago
God took him to a better place
madchronic 2 years ago
I love you Ernie Davis and the 1959 Syracuse Orangemen. You are a huge influence to even young guys like myself. Amazing footage. I went to Syracuse University just because Ernie Davis and Jim Brown went there. In 2003, SU basketball team showed them Texas boys how to play basketball, and they had the play of the year (T.J. Ford) who ran into a brick wall (Craig Forth). Go SU! Long Live Ernie Davis!
DLSGlobal 2 years ago 33
i love earnie davis i remember that game to it was a good game i loved it
jgodfreyjr 2 years ago
wow! Ernie Davis who would have thought we'd still be watching his game even after nearly 50 years! this would have been beyond his wildest dreams....im just sorry he was around long enough to see what a legend he has become.
baby98blue98 2 years ago
he was simply amazing, and taken too soon like an angel, he was too good to stay on this planet and become nasty like others around him
mjg1708 2 years ago
lol 4:09 the dude flew!
sickoicko12 2 years ago 2
when i watched a part in the movie where he is helping the linebacker up after he blocked him to the ground . i couldent belive my eyes when he pulled him to the ground when he was offering a hand up. it made me feel sick... im white
babyedsall 2 years ago
good for you
whitedevil2 2 years ago
damn it wasnet 22-14 like in the movie i get if you want to strech the racial violents but atleast make the score right
Cameron4cbtv 2 years ago
They cut away from those tackles pretty quick. Who knows what is left of this highlight reel.
ToastMaestro 2 years ago
anybody else wonder why the announcers voices sounded so weird back then?
other6people 2 years ago
1:41
1337 leet baby :D
Bruft 2 years ago
This a great movie.... But this clip does no justice for wat really happened.. There was an team fight in this game.....
RICHAFROMAN76 2 years ago 2
Yeah, the movie seems much more violent than the video, but than again who knows...Oh and Ernie Davis died of leukemia at the age of 23, I think it was in august.
cruisehes 2 years ago
thats 2 bad that Ernie died. I think i might no how he died. Ill hav 2 watch teh movie again. And b1rdtman has a point. It wasnt really as violent. There was no punching or kicking. 23-14 Syracuse. Some nice plays by Syracuse too.
Holy crap the texas punt/kick returner was really good.
Nice Video man. 5/5
DrakeParker45 2 years ago
leukimia =[
dakillarob 2 years ago
leukimia
buccaneer34 2 years ago
Didn't look nearly as violent as The Express
b1rdtman 2 years ago
its so said how earnie davis died
Mrvids2324 2 years ago
LOL 4:10 diving ftw
jeffhebert18 2 years ago
5:45 clear facemask...
DubbleLzNhell 2 years ago
ernie davis what an inspiration and an amazing player sad the way he had to pass and still being so young
04mchaco 2 years ago
in the movie they had ernie davis' touchdown reception as the last play... but its kinda kool how some things in the movie actually happened
perm30 2 years ago
this was a lot different than the movie but still the refs were pissing on him like 5:50 that was so late. sick run right before it.
hailmary7283 2 years ago
o sorry i didnt hear him say texas was holding my bad.....
WILDKCAT 2 years ago
wait wtf, did they get two tries to go for two????
WILDKCAT 2 years ago
imagine his and jim brown in the backfield
firmehomie 2 years ago
Every one of those goal line sneaks were in! The movie was correct about the anti-Cuse refs! Go Cuse!
scatman44 2 years ago 2
2:53 Look at those RACIST liberal DIXIECRATS ....soon to become today's Democrats -PILE on the wonderful Ernie Davis! And this was WAY after he was already down.
Despicable!
Big Daddy
PS Today these horrifying vile liberals have gotten worse - BITING OFF the fingers of old men!
BigDaddy1968 2 years ago
hardly piling on, he jumps past the pile
Iamatreee 2 years ago
"Hardly piling on, he jumps PAST the pile."
That's 15 yds....maybe an ejection.
They TOTALLY piled on the...er...NEGRO.
haha
Seriously, it was Despicable. I weep when I think about how our country was just 50 years ago.
But, from what I've read the movie DID exaggerate the amt of racial animosity the team received. I mean syr only had THREE black guys. It was hardly 2 Live Crew or anything!
LOL
Big Daddy
The MAN
BigDaddy1968 2 years ago
An ejection? Football is a contact sport. Piling on happens in football on all levels, that wasnt racist in the slightest.
Iamatreee 2 years ago