'The Express' DVD to Note WVU Scene is Fiction
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Posted: 11:29 AM Nov 20, 2008
'The Express' DVD to Note WVU Scene is Fiction
Universal Pictures has now told Gov. Joe Manchin that the DVD will include a statement to that effect.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The DVD version of the sports movie "The Express" will tell viewers that it contains fictionalized scenes, including one depicting West Virginia University that sparked complaints from the governor and other state residents.

Mountaineer fans are shown shouting racial slurs and throwing trash at Syracuse University's football team and its star player, Ernie Davis, during a 1959 home game.

The film celebrates Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. But Syracuse didn't play at Morgantown that year. Veterans from both teams say the incident never happened.

Universal Pictures has now told Gov. Joe Manchin that the DVD will include a statement to that effect.

The screenwriter recently told Manchin that WVU wasn't even in his version of the script.


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Posted by: WV_Boy70 on Nov 20, 2008 at 04:05 PM

I think the people from WV should refuse to view the film or allow it in any WV movie theaters!!!!!
Posted by: Anonymous on Nov 20, 2008 at 03:37 PM

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE WHEN NO ONE ELS IS WATCHING
Posted by: Hope on Nov 20, 2008 at 01:33 PM

That may not have happened in 1959 but plenty of the WVU fans act that way now. Last time I went to a WVU game I swore I would never return; the behavior of some of the fans just ruined what was usually an enjoyable family outing.
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