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The Game - HBO documentary

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Does anyone know if HBO is still going to film that documentory about the rivalry with scUM this year? I heard something about it last year, and with the game just around the corner thought that someone might know or remember hearing about it as well.
 
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Dispatch
HBO tackles storied lore, unique lure of The Game

Thursday, November 1, 2007 4:11 AM
By Nick Chordas


The Columbus Dispatch
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Kirk Irwin | dispatch
Former OSU player Tom Skladany, left, with ex-coach Earle Bruce at the premiere screening of an HBO documentary about The Game

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Former OSU players Dick Ellwood, left, and Jim Stillwagon




An hour before the premiere screening of Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry on Tuesday night, former Buckeyes Dick Ellwood and Jim Stillwagon huddled near a table of hors d'oeuvres in the Wexner Center for the Arts. The topic of discussion: Ohio State's 50-14 win over the Wolverines in 1968, Stillwagon's sophomore year.
"We get home, it's about 9 o'clock, and everybody is celebrating," explained Ellwood, a letter winner in 1949 and 1950.



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DDN

OSU-Michigan rivalry captured in film

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By Marc Katz
Staff Writer

Friday, November 02, 2007
You will laugh, you will cry, you will cheer.
Before HBO's epic, Michigan vs. Ohio State, The Rivalry is finished, you might even want to pound your chest and throw your shoe through the TV screen ? not because you don't like the production, but because you get so close to the temperament of Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler, you begin to act like them.


Whew, at the end, you kind of feel like you've just played in a game yourself.



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starBUCKS;987110; said:
MARK SNYDER: HBO's 'Rivalry' slants toward Ohio State

"The Game" slanted towards the Buckeyes?
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WAAAAAH!

They didn't talk as much about us because we suck!

WAAAAAH! :cry:

That article says that HBO didn't even contact LLLLLoyd Carr for an interview. Who can blame them? All they would have got would be footage of a cranky old man whose most common facial expression is a cross between bitter beer face and the look you get when you just smelled a fart, asking the interviewer, "Why would you ask a dumb question like that?!"
 
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jlb1705;987136; said:
WAAAAAH!

They didn't talk as much about us because we suck!

WAAAAAH! :cry:
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If it's about the entire rivalry, how would we suck considering Michigan leads the all-time series? I could see if it were a documentary based on the past six years, but you're not making much sense.
 
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SNIPER26;987146; said:
If it's about the entire rivalry, how would we suck considering Michigan leads the all-time series? I could see if it were a documentary based on the past six years, but you're not making much sense.
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Most of those wins came before television, and everyone from UM's glory days in 1901 are gone now.
 
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SNIPER26;987146; said:
If it's about the entire rivalry, how would we suck considering Michigan leads the all-time series? I could see if it were a documentary based on the past six years, but you're not making much sense.
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I guess it seems one-sided because they couldn't interview anybody from M*ch*g*n's Paleolithic Era glory days. I guess you guys do deserve credit for winning a bunch of football games when all anybody else was doing was beating rocks together. :lol:

Relax, I'm just making fun. I realize the value of a piece like this being as balanced as possible. I agree with the article that it idea of glossing over M*ch*g*n's 1997 championship is alarming - even if it does make for more pleasurable viewing for myself and other like-minded people.
 
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