As much as I'd jump in front of a bus for Hoosiers, and you know this, the liberties taken when in fact the true story was even better in the first place drives me bananas. There is no better 4 minutes and 13 seconds in sports history. Period. - XMASTIME
You people know I love me some real-life
Hoosiers Milan High; the Super Bowl being in Indianapolis of course means they gotta dig up some shit to write about so they're traveling to Milan, where some old lady reiterates what
I've always said: Milan was
a great fucking team:
“We weren’t as much underdogs in our mind as they made us seem in the movies,” says Plump, sitting in his son’s Indianapolis tavern, Plump’s Last Shot. “We were in the state semifinals the year before. We had the experience. That’s why you can’t say the Giants are underdogs. Depends who you talk to. They have the experience. They understand what it takes.”
Of course, maybe a more interesting story might be to celebrate the first black team to win the state title, Oscar Robertson's Crisps Attucks team, who weren't allowed to celebrate in Indianapolis since, of course, niggers are just gonna fuck a lot of shit up
if let off the leash:
Years before Hoosiers, I knew about the 1954 Milan team: I knew who Bobby Plump was, I knew about the 4:20 stall. And I knew that they had beaten Crispus Attucks, which of course featured a sophomore named Oscar Robertson. Attucks would go on to win the next two state championships, in 1955 becoming the first black team to win the title in Indiana.
The team went 62-1 over two years and won two state championships. According to Indiana tradition, the state champion was given a fire truck parade through the street of Indiannapolis, feted as heroes. Any young man's dream, for sure. Of course when Attucks won, the powers that be decided you know what, they should have the parade "in your own community." No fire trucks, no Indiannapolis. The players were driven outside of town to hold their party because, and I quote, "They said the blacks are gonna tear up downtown."
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