Go Tigers!
by Kenneth A. Carlson
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Actor: Adam Michael Gayheart, Danny Studer, Dave Irwin, Ellery Moore, Joe PaternoDirector: Kenneth A. Carlson
Brand: Team Marketing
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Video Group
Product features:
- Officially Licensed
- Highest Quality Recording
Movie Reviews of Go Tigers!
Movie Review: Football Fever in Ohio
Summary: 5 Stars
Being from Alabama, I always assumed that the South was unsurpassed its myopic devotion to football. Go Tigers!, therefore, came as something of a shock. Massillon, Ohio, has taken football hysteria to new depths. Massillon's football boosters go so far as to visit the local hospital to put tiny plastic footballs in the cribs of newborn boys. (If newborn girls get anything, we don't hear about it).
The football in this movie is only mildly interesting. It is the people of Massillon who fascinate. The kids on the Massillon High team are under almost-unbearable pressure to win every game (something that their parents and coaches attempt to rationalize away). The "win-at-all-costs" philosophy definitely prevails; one of the team's star players has spent 15 months in jail for rape; another transferred into Massillon High under questionable circumstances.
A good sub-plot in Go Tigers! concerns the Massillon's attempts to pass a levy to improve the local schools. While the community is passionate about football, education is not as popular. The three stars of the Massillon team all get scholarship offers to play college football; but two of the three struggle to get standardized test scores high enough to be admitted to college.
One of the more-interesting aspects of the film is the extent to which some families in Massillon plan their boys' education around their sons' high school football "careers." Many of the families hold their sons back for a second year in the 8th grade so that they will be bigger and more experienced by the time they are seniors.
As a final note, the cinematography in Go Tigers! is wonderful. The filmmakers captured some wonderful shots of Massillon.
Go Tigers! covers ground that other books and movies have also covered. Still, it provides an excellent look at the uneasy intersection of sport and education in our high schools.
Summary of Go Tigers!
Welcome to Massillon, Ohio, where high school football is nothing short of religion. For the 33,000 people who live there, football is life--a veritable "cradle to the grave" experience that begins in the maternity ward where coaches make visits to scoutHigh school football rules in Massillon, Ohio. In this blue-collar community, dubbed "Touchdown Town" in a 1951 newsreel, the Washington High Tigers are a cradle-to-grave passion. Team boosters visit maternity wards and bestow footballs to newborn "little Tigers." A mortician offers customers Tiger theme caskets. This winning documentary, ranked by ESPN.com as among the six best sports documentaries of all time, chronicles the Tigers' pivotal 1999 season--its 106th!--in which the team's success or failure on the field could impact an upcoming tax levy to save the town's beleaguered schools. Filmmaker and Massillon native Kenneth Carlson is no mere cheerleader. He tackles the touchy issue of priorities (some parents hold promising eighth graders back so they will be bigger and stronger) and the town's Stepfordian devotion to the team that put it on the map ("Conform or be destroyed," states one disaffected youth). More inspiring are the profiles of the team's three captains, in whom one can see the positive role football plays in their lives. --Donald Liebenson
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