The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee Tech
- Episode aired Dec 15, 1998
- TV-PG
- 30m
Casey appears on "The View" and the team follows the story of seven college football players who are suspended for refusing to play under the Confederate flag.Casey appears on "The View" and the team follows the story of seven college football players who are suspended for refusing to play under the Confederate flag.Casey appears on "The View" and the team follows the story of seven college football players who are suspended for refusing to play under the Confederate flag.
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- TriviaCasey and Dan read a list of the crew members to acknowledge their work on the show. All the names appear to be actual crew members, including: Janet Ashikaga, Editor; Maureen Gates, Wardrobe; Marie Del Prete, makeup artist; Linda D. Flowers, hair stylist.
- GoofsDuring Episode 1.11, there is reference to Bobby Knight 'redecorating' the Hoosier Dome. Bobby Knight was, at that time, head coach of Indiana University in Bloomington, which plays at Assembly Hall. The Hoosier Dome is located in Indianapolis and is home to the Indianapolis Colts during that time of year. While basketball has been played in the Dome, it very rarely hosts basketball games. (The Conceco Fieldhouse, home of the Pacers, has hosted games for universities in Indiana). At the time of broadcast (Winter 1998) it had been renamed the RCA Dome for almost five years. These types of programs never use actual statistics or facts. It's a fictional show, Anne any stats are meant for the show's purpose only, not to be factual.
- Quotes
Isaac: Exaudio, Comperio, Conloquor. That's a Latin phrase that translates: To Listen, To Learn, To Speak. Those words are carved into the stone arches that form the entrance to the undergraduate library at Tennessee Western University. This afternoon, an extraordinary young man named Roland Shepard made what had to have been an excruciating decision. He said he wasn't playing football under a Confederate flag. Six of his teammates then chose not to let Shepard stand alone. And I choose to join them at this moment. In the history of the South, there's much to celebrate. And that flag is a desecration of all of it. It's a banner of hatred and seperatism. It's a banner of ignorance and violence and a war that pitted brother against brother, and to ask young black men and women, young Jewish men and women, Asians, Native Americans, to ask Americans to walk beneath its shadow is a humiliation of irreducible proportions. And we all know it. Tennessee Western has produced some outstanding alumni in the last hundred years. People of wisdom and vision. Strength and compassion. One of them is Luther Sachs. Luther Sachs owns Continental Corp, which owns the Continental Sports Channel, which you're watching right now. Luther Sachs is a generous alumni contributor to Tennessee Western with a considerable influence over its Chancellor, Davis Blake, and its Board of Trustees. Luther, you've got a phone call to make. You've got to call Chancellor Blake and tell him to take down that flag or he can stop looking for your checks in the mail. You've got to put these young men back in a classroom, and I mean pronto. These boys are gonna make you proud one day, Luther. I challenge you to do the right thing. Not an unreasonable request to make of a man whose alma mater declares Exaudio, Comperio, Conloquor. To Listen, To Learn, To Speak. In the meantime, God go with you, Roland Shepard and you six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee. God's not done with any of you yet.
- Crazy creditsThe "Sports Night" logo in the end credits has a Santa Clause hat draped over the first "S".
- ConnectionsReferences The View (1997)
I love when Sorkin twangs my heartstrings as he did in this episode. Boy, I cried at the end.
- grnhair2001
- Sep 27, 2012