I want to pay homage to Ronnie Bass father who said in the movie. "If blacks and whites can fight a war together, then why can't they play football together." His father's decision to send his son to a southern-state and integrated school system in the 1970s helped win a state championship. Fantastic
@@ErichVonCartmann Mr. Erich, "our" minds are made upon this subject matter. Two commenters agree with you, sixty-three commenters agree with me and this "True Story." at this time. Thanks for making me worthy enough to comment and disagree with my statement
Mr@@traceyscott909 Sir, 63 likes just means 63 people enjoy Fantasy. Most of what happened in the Movie "Remember the Titans" is pure Hollywood Fiction and Fantasy. It does not take much research to find this out. Here is one link here: thegruelingtruth.com/misc/remember-the-titans-disney-19-lies/
TMS, why did you delete your comment? You know it is OK to be fooled by Hollywood, happens to all of us. Just know this, all Hollywood movies that are "Based on a True Story" is at least 75% Fabrication. You think Remember the Titans was bad, check out Braveheart! The events in that movie was at least 90% Fabrication from Real History!
who dont??????? hell, I call any coach of mine (even my high school golf coach (that I taught how to play golf my freshman year) "Coach") its called RESPECT.
@@Mr.Iwuagwu His son looks EXACTLY like the guy in the movie. Are you blind? Please notice that the post you responded to has 43 Thumbs Up while yours has...let's see....ummm....0.
@@Mr.Iwuagwu So, this is your way of admitting you are wrong? Or, are you telling me that you are indeed blind? Since you did not use a complete sentence, it is very hard to tell.
@@OverlandOne the guy looks white if that's what ur saying... does not look like the actor. Have you seen the movie? AND 43 (no 58) of the 1.2 thousand people who watched this liked the comment you are referring to..
Remember the titans is the greatest movie ever at least in my book and all those actors who was a part of that movie were the greatest actors ever, and the young lady who played coach Yost daughter was just spell bounding dynamic.
Probably my all time favorite movie! Lots of life lessons can be learned from this movie but, I have to say the star of the movie was not Denzel Washington, tho he did a great job as usual but, the very young Hayden Panettiere stole every scene she was in.
I remember the scene in the movie were sunshine through the ball at julias and said YOU A FRUIT CAKE HUH. But yeah I love that movie it's one of my favorite football movies out of all of different ones
Famed as a football player, he was a hell of a baseball pitcher too. I played against him in college. He was arrogant as hell. Our leadoff man was about 5'3". Bass looked at him and laughed as he got in the box. First pitch fastball, our man about took his head off with a line shot back through the box. Realizing the seriousness of a little piss ant school playing the University of SC, he beared down and I think threw a one hitter against us.
I am about the same age as Ronnie Bass, I was a military brat since my Dad was in the Military when I was born and the affirmative action program was shoved on me at an intellectual (not a personal or human level) when I was in School. My township was integrated before I started school so far as I know. I don't know what transpired in the town or if people hated each other when the Black School was closed and they were all sent to the Township schools. So far as I ever saw the black and white kids all got along and there was good relations in the town all around. When I was asked about integration I don't know much about politics or stuff in the South and such so I always answered based on my own town where people basically seemed to bet along with one another. Mom was the most hostile. She was always reminding me that "they" were sinners and not fit and such but I guess I took after Dad and the reality that he was in the Military with both blacks and white. There are a lot of programs around the "Beltway" both in Washington, DC and also Virginia and Maryland that are experimental social and sociological programs and so I wonder if the decision of the Colonel to bring his boy to Alexandria was inspired more by the Government and Military interest in integration than a personal choice or personal decision. Given the race hatred you see I guess I have to suggest that probably force was and may still be necessary to push whatever agenda the political types are pushing. Although actually when I left college I had been prepared for the possibility that I might have to work with Blacks. Basically I've found blacks to be hostile and they don't like me and for all of the reality that I lived in a town and went to school where Black and White studied together I even got some hatred and hostility from simply answering a question about affirmative action and Blacks as basically thinking things were going well in my own local school. There may have been more underlying hatred of integration even in my northern small town than I knew. I do know that for Ronnie Bass his live appears to have turned out better and his story better than anything I've experienced. And I wonder if Dad's decision to leave the military had something to do with this. America wants a strong military and a strong national defense but they don't always treat veterans very well. And the reality that force is necessary for integration may be a reason for this. Quite honestly, I have never seen or heard a genuine debate where people on both sides of this issue - good people so far as I can tell - have actually sat down and presented their arguments in a sane, rational manner without name calling and such. None of the kids in this film seem to be radicals. They seem to be a lot like me ... basically faced with a situation and having to live with it. They were threatened with not being able to play football - perhaps the only part of school some of them like. As I recall, I was threatened if I did not show support for government action when I was young. It's just that there has never been anything in the way of rewards for any of this stuff in my case. I guess they'd say there is still a lot of work to do.
My school disegregated in 1976, after I went to a high school that won the NorCal 5A Championship - 95% white - I'm Polynesian mix of everything, but loved it there. Hated my new high school. I even hated my own minority race, at first. Front line was compared to Dallas Cowboy front line and the biggest of them all was a very popular Islander that scared the living shit outta me. We actually became friends cuz of a stupid Vocabulary class we had together and he'd tell everyone I was the funniest guy he'd ever met. Made me a popular guy. Fast forward 45 years: His daughter is my daughter-in-law. We have a beautiful TALL grand daughter and a really beefy 15-year old grandson. But, he doesn't get to play football, to both his grandpas' chagrine. He's well over 300 lbs now. We hug when we see each other at gatherings and he still laughs at everything I say.
The high school was desegregated 6 years before the events in the movie. By 1971 everyone was getting along and the team was winning. The movie takes ALOT of cinematic liberties with what really happened.
I knew it was based on a true story cus burt died from a drunk driver after already being paralyzed after being in a car accident... Disney wouldn't make that apart of the movie unless it was true sad for him but good overall story
Get your facts straight. Desegregation of TC Williams happened in 1965 not in the 70's. In fact it was a merger of 3 schools which combined to make TC Williams. Because of the large student body, they had a bigger talent pool which led to their success.
That happened in 1971 , TC Williams , Hammond ( Gerry Bertier in the beginning of the season in the film tells coach Boone " I want all my boys from Hammond as starters ! " ) and GW .
That's why I love sports. It truely is the one thing no matter what color you are it brings people together. Hope all these race baiters can see that one day. Classic story and movie for sure! Go BISON 🇺🇸🤘
The truth is that the segregation aspect of this movie was fictionalized. Desegregation in Northern Virginia schools actually began, in 1965 and by 1970 all the schools in that area had integrated.
I'm not downplaying racism. All I'm saying is that a lot presented in this movie was fiction.There were NOT parents protesting TC Williams over school integration in 1970, nor was the school the first and only school in Northern VA to integrate. This was Alexandria, not Little Rock, AR of 1958.
I met the real Herman Boone. I was the emcee for an event he was the keynote speaker at back in 2008. He confirmed what has been mentioned above that the schools in that area had actually been integrated a few years before. However, he ALSO said that many of the players on that 1971 team had come from Middle Schools that despite being integrated on paper, were in reality STILL pretty segregated in 1971, and for many students, moving to a fully integrated HS was a BIG adjustment. He stated that as a result, there was quite a bit of tension between black and white students, andmany times that tension would carry over to the field. He also stated though, that sports was something that brought people together, and that fact was shown pretty accurately in the movie. Yes, it was dramatized a bit, but the spirit of the portrayal is accurate. He also added that Ray, despite not being a real person, was a composite of a handful of players that at the beginning of the season still weren't happy about playing with some of the black players. He said what isn't mentioned in the film is that in return, some of the black players were initially unwilling to go all out to protect or play with some of the white players as well. No one was kicked off the team, but when leaders like Bertier and Julius stepped up and laid down the law, they fell in line. That part of the movie is accurate. Boone has said that on the record many times that it was those two (as portrayed in the movie) that were the real catalysts that made the ship sail smoothly. The drama behind Coach Yost and the HoF was fabricated for dramatic purposes to give Coach Yost the hero moment and the BEST dramatic pep talk speech to come out of a football production before Any Given Sunday or Friday Night Lights. However, what Coach Boone said WAS true was that there were instances during the season when he and other coaches thought a few refs might be favoring the other team because of some pent up racial prejudices. They could never confirm it though. It was all just their personal speculation. All that said... I STILL LOVE the movie, and consider it one of my all time favorites!
Athletes are always eating a lot, but their weight is contained by them always working out. Once you’ve had the same diet for years, you can’t change it so easily. Now that you’re no longer working out daily, you begin to gain weight.
Yes it was added so he could take a leadership role in the team If you noticed the guy he kissed was the biggest baddest one. He was asserting his dominance over them.
I want to pay homage to Ronnie Bass father who said in the movie. "If blacks and whites can fight a war together, then why can't they play football together." His father's decision to send his son to a southern-state and integrated school system in the 1970s helped win a state championship. Fantastic
That really never happened. Don't believe everything Hollywood, the Government, or Big Media tells you.
@@ErichVonCartmann Mr. Erich, "our" minds are made upon this subject matter. Two commenters agree with you, sixty-three commenters agree with me and this "True Story." at this time. Thanks for making me worthy enough to comment and disagree with my statement
Mr@@traceyscott909 Sir, 63 likes just means 63 people enjoy Fantasy. Most of what happened in the Movie "Remember the Titans" is pure Hollywood Fiction and Fantasy. It does not take much research to find this out. Here is one link here:
thegruelingtruth.com/misc/remember-the-titans-disney-19-lies/
TMS, why did you delete your comment?
You know it is OK to be fooled by Hollywood, happens to all of us. Just know this, all Hollywood movies that are "Based on a True Story" is at least 75% Fabrication. You think Remember the Titans was bad, check out Braveheart! The events in that movie was at least 90% Fabrication from Real History!
Wasn't it the 70's?
Awesome that he still calls his highschool football coach, coach.
In your face blank screen
Coach is always Coach.
they will always be coach
who dont??????? hell, I call any coach of mine (even my high school golf coach (that I taught how to play golf my freshman year) "Coach") its called RESPECT.
It's the true American spirit, oh take us back to those good old days.
"Running your hands through your hair ain't gonna make them goldilocks grow back any faster".
Lol
haha it’s my favorite movie
His nickname started differently than the movie showed too.
The son looks like the guy who played the original Ronnie Bass in the movie Remember the Titans
John Kurkjian he looks nothing like him
@@Mr.Iwuagwu His son looks EXACTLY like the guy in the movie. Are you blind? Please notice that the post you responded to has 43 Thumbs Up while yours has...let's see....ummm....0.
Pirate Labs damn dude chill
@@Mr.Iwuagwu So, this is your way of admitting you are wrong? Or, are you telling me that you are indeed blind? Since you did not use a complete sentence, it is very hard to tell.
@@OverlandOne the guy looks white if that's what ur saying... does not look like the actor. Have you seen the movie? AND 43 (no 58) of the 1.2 thousand people who watched this liked the comment you are referring to..
"4th quarter. 4th quarter. 4th quarter."
"What is pain? FRENCH BREAD."
"Will you ever quit? NO. WE WANT SOME MO. WE WANT SOME MO!"
His son looks just like him.
His son looks just like the actor who played his father in the movie (Kip Pardue).
His son kind of looks like the actor who played him in the movie
Have never seen this video, but super happy I did! Sunshine was doooppeee🤙🤙
Remember the titans is the greatest movie ever at least in my book and all those actors who was a part of that movie were the greatest actors ever, and the young lady who played coach Yost daughter was just spell bounding dynamic.
His son look more like sunshine than sunshine sr
Imagine being Sunshine’s son. If he reaches college and gets big he’s gonna be all over the place lol
Damn more the 40 years later
Amazing 😁 great stuff !
Black, White, Brown or whatever.... We can all find common ground!
Only whites had a problem
@@johnvallery5539 explain?
@@joshuak2810 he made an ignorant statement. Reason why he wont answer and back it up. Coming from a brown man myself
That is why all of this garbage about "systemic racism" is complete nonsense.
@@elgringolocoMaldonado I will answer whites started private schools just to not go to school with us.
he made the pitch!!!
Mighty mighty Titans 2001, love my school and the culture... In Alexandria we don't look at color we look at you.
That was a great movie and it reflected the time it happened. Sunshine played a great part
"You know what I want" 😂😂😂
He had a son, so i guess we know 😆. That must been a Hollywood/Disney line
so can his son make that pitch.....or does junior need a pep talk from coach Boone?
Well all need that pep talk from Coach Boone.
Or maybe he needs Rev to teach him the veer.
crimdell my friends name is Boone
Probably my all time favorite movie! Lots of life lessons can be learned from this movie but, I have to say the star of the movie was not Denzel Washington, tho he did a great job as usual but, the very young Hayden Panettiere stole every scene she was in.
his son looks something like the actor that played Ronnie Bass,eerie.
81way 0
Wonderful movie
Sunshine jr
it is always fun to hear your father’s stories. LOL
Yes he went to my alma mater University of South Carolina go Gamecocks
Marques Williams .. Proud to say that USC is my alma mater too. As a Columbia, SC native.. Grew up a Gamecock fan and graduated from there too ('02).
My dad played with Bass at USC in the late seventies. OL #76
His son looks just like the actor who played his father in the movie (Kip Pardue).
Patrick Colon no he doesn’t
I remember the scene in the movie were sunshine through the ball at julias and said YOU A FRUIT CAKE HUH. But yeah I love that movie it's one of my favorite football movies out of all of different ones
Kim Mcfarland he threw the ball at Gerry because he called him a fruitcake
Cequan Walker my bad lol thanks for correcting me. It's actually been a while since I watched the movie. I love that movie.
#GOCOCKS
Top 5 for sure
He's a Gamecock!! #SpursUp
Ain't sunshine suppose to be...from California
sanders georges Did you watch the movie at all?
yes
@@osu5inarow lmao did you watch the damn movie?! The whole point his name is sunshine
@@thebee9907 He came from California dumbass. Sunshine is just a nickname
Lol he’s referring to how in the movie Petey describes him as Californian when talking about how the character is gay
1:42 Looks like he finally got that pitch down
😂
Famed as a football player, he was a hell of a baseball pitcher too. I played against him in college. He was arrogant as hell. Our leadoff man was about 5'3". Bass looked at him and laughed as he got in the box. First pitch fastball, our man about took his head off with a line shot back through the box. Realizing the seriousness of a little piss ant school playing the University of SC, he beared down and I think threw a one hitter against us.
🔥🔥
Straight 🧢
5:16 5:16
Great story. Tell it again.
Great story, thanks for telling it.
Sunshine!!!
Sunnnnshiiine!! 😆
Wow!!! Cool
🎶Sunshine.. Sunshine.. Sunshine..🎶
0:28. "Most of the problem came from the parents"
I am about the same age as Ronnie Bass, I was a military brat since my Dad was in the Military when I was born and the affirmative action program was shoved on me at an intellectual (not a personal or human level) when I was in School. My township was integrated before I started school so far as I know. I don't know what transpired in the town or if people hated each other when the Black School was closed and they were all sent to the Township schools. So far as I ever saw the black and white kids all got along and there was good relations in the town all around. When I was asked about integration I don't know much about politics or stuff in the South and such so I always answered based on my own town where people basically seemed to bet along with one another. Mom was the most hostile. She was always reminding me that "they" were sinners and not fit and such but I guess I took after Dad and the reality that he was in the Military with both blacks and white. There are a lot of programs around the "Beltway" both in Washington, DC and also Virginia and Maryland that are experimental social and sociological programs and so I wonder if the decision of the Colonel to bring his boy to Alexandria was inspired more by the Government and Military interest in integration than a personal choice or personal decision. Given the race hatred you see I guess I have to suggest that probably force was and may still be necessary to push whatever agenda the political types are pushing. Although actually when I left college I had been prepared for the possibility that I might
have to work with Blacks. Basically I've found blacks to be hostile and they don't like me and for all of the reality that I lived in a town and went to school where Black and White studied together I even got some hatred and hostility from simply answering a question about affirmative action and Blacks as basically thinking things were going well
in my own local school. There may have been more underlying hatred of integration even in my northern small town than I knew. I do know that for Ronnie Bass his live appears to have turned out better and his story better than anything I've experienced. And I wonder if Dad's decision to leave the military had something to do with this. America wants a strong military and a strong national defense but they don't always treat veterans very well. And the reality that force is necessary for integration may be a reason for this. Quite honestly, I have never seen or heard a genuine debate where people on both sides of this issue - good people so far as I can tell - have actually sat down and presented their arguments in a sane, rational manner without name calling and such. None of the kids in this film seem to be radicals. They seem to be a lot like me ... basically faced with a situation and having to live with it. They were threatened with not being able to play football - perhaps the only part of school some of them like. As I recall, I was threatened if I did not show support for government action when I was young. It's just that there has never been anything in the way of rewards for any of this stuff in my case. I guess they'd say there is still a lot of work to do.
My school disegregated in 1976, after I went to a high school that won the NorCal 5A Championship - 95% white - I'm Polynesian mix of everything, but loved it there. Hated my new high school. I even hated my own minority race, at first. Front line was compared to Dallas Cowboy front line and the biggest of them all was a very popular Islander that scared the living shit outta me. We actually became friends cuz of a stupid Vocabulary class we had together and he'd tell everyone I was the funniest guy he'd ever met. Made me a popular guy. Fast forward 45 years: His daughter is my daughter-in-law. We have a beautiful TALL grand daughter and a really beefy 15-year old grandson. But, he doesn't get to play football, to both his grandpas' chagrine. He's well over 300 lbs now. We hug when we see each other at gatherings and he still laughs at everything I say.
My mom went to college with him at The University of South Carolina.
Eric Ramirez lmfao
Hahahaha
Danny Bright how do you think you were born haha
Eric Ramirez 🤣🤣🤣
Savage!
The high school was desegregated 6 years before the events in the movie. By 1971 everyone was getting along and the team was winning. The movie takes ALOT of cinematic liberties with what really happened.
Next generations stars 😊
Very cool
#12!!!!!!
This is awesome, I def woulda cleared the kiss part up tho lol
Cool!
So they ain’t gon ask about the kiss with Gerry? 😂
That didn't happen that's why
Never happened ! Bertier was a monster , nobody could get near him !
His son looks like the dude that played him in remember the tatans
Omg his son could star in the movie ...sheesh
my man sunshine become lastik
💀💀💀
Do they have reunions?
Callum Lyall they kinda died hehe
I watched the movie remember the titans it’s actually a good movie.But my favorite person is Petey Jones
This country could learn a lot from that movie.
They need to show it in schools,churches,job, ect
@J Wil it was a Disney film, you honestly think it was going to portray every single event as it happened? Get the stick out of your ass.
with Trump in office its not possible
Very cool. Son looks quite a bit like the actor, so maybe his dad did, too. :-)
I knew it was based on a true story cus burt died from a drunk driver after already being paralyzed after being in a car accident... Disney wouldn't make that apart of the movie unless it was true sad for him but good overall story
He wasnt paralyzed until after the season portrayed in the movie. Disney doctored the story
Don't forget, 12 is Tom Brady's number, too! And yes, his son looks like the kid in the movie.
Does he still work for ESPN ?
**!Sunshine!**
Where does he play now?????
That's bad white boy
Get your facts straight. Desegregation of TC Williams happened in 1965 not in the 70's. In fact it was a merger of 3 schools which combined to make TC Williams. Because of the large student body, they had a bigger talent pool which led to their success.
That happened in 1971 , TC Williams , Hammond ( Gerry Bertier in the beginning of the season in the film tells coach Boone " I want all my boys from Hammond as starters ! " ) and GW .
His kid looks like the actor who played it
i watch the movie
Those Oregonesk winged helmets 🤤
God bless Jesus loves and has a plan for all have a blessed day
😮😮🎉🎉
My one question is are you really left handed or was that just the actor
That's why I love sports. It truely is the one thing no matter what color you are it brings people together. Hope all these race baiters can see that one day. Classic story and movie for sure! Go BISON 🇺🇸🤘
@Cya but none of them HAD to stay and now today it's not even a thought. Beauty of sports 🇺🇸
Lol, "race baiters." We know what that is code for....
WHO??
His first seen he through a pass 50 yards and dropped in the bucket to bean a guy . And then he couldn't make a 5 yard pitch ?
Sunnnnnshinnnne lolz
Alexandria is not considered the south in. VA
The truth is that the segregation aspect of this movie was fictionalized. Desegregation in Northern Virginia schools actually began, in 1965 and by 1970 all the schools in that area had integrated.
joe jones That doesn't matter, it still was an important topic to bring forth. Stop downplaying racism.
I'm not downplaying racism. All I'm saying is that a lot presented in this movie was fiction.There were NOT parents protesting TC Williams over school integration in 1970, nor was the school the first and only school in Northern VA to integrate. This was Alexandria, not Little Rock, AR of 1958.
I met the real Herman Boone. I was the emcee for an event he was the keynote
speaker at back in 2008. He confirmed what has been mentioned above that the
schools in that area had actually been integrated a few years before. However, he ALSO
said that many of the players on that 1971 team had come from Middle Schools that
despite being integrated on paper, were in reality STILL pretty segregated in 1971, and
for many students, moving to a fully integrated HS was a BIG adjustment. He stated
that as a result, there was quite a bit of tension between black and white students, andmany times that tension would carry over to the field. He also stated though, that
sports was something that brought people together, and that fact was shown pretty
accurately in the movie. Yes, it was dramatized a bit, but the spirit of the portrayal is
accurate. He also added that Ray, despite not being a real person, was a composite of a handful of players that at the beginning of the season still weren't happy about playing with some of the black players. He said what isn't mentioned in the film is that in return, some of the black players were initially unwilling to go all out to protect or play with
some of the white players as well. No one was kicked off the team, but when leaders
like Bertier and Julius stepped up and laid down the law, they fell in line. That
part of the movie is accurate. Boone has said that on the record many times that it was
those two (as portrayed in the movie) that were the real catalysts that made the ship
sail smoothly. The drama behind Coach Yost and the HoF was fabricated for dramatic
purposes to give Coach Yost the hero moment and the BEST dramatic pep talk speech
to come out of a football production before Any Given Sunday or Friday Night Lights.
However, what Coach Boone said WAS true was that there were instances during the
season when he and other coaches thought a few refs might be favoring the other team
because of some pent up racial prejudices. They could never confirm it though. It was all just their personal speculation.
All that said... I STILL LOVE the movie, and consider it one of my all time favorites!
You can throw a mile. But cant pitch three yards. 🏈
RRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@Danny Flowers
I thought he was gay
Brommiesfour Nicolas I thought that to🤣
Nah he was just trolling them cause they just assumed he was
His son look like the real thing🤣🤦🏽♂️
Gamecocks 🤙
I wonder if he really kissed that guy? Lol!
So he kissed the guy?🤣
Did they ask him if he is gay and if he really did kiss another boy player on the lips?
He said that scene never happened
The character wasn't gay in the movie. He was just standing up to bullying and did what he knew would provoke the most anger to start the fight.
In the movie Ronnie was a total chick magnet.
sexual assault in a locker room
osnhao I believe good qbs can get inside people’s heads. It’s why they are considered generals on the field.
The movie is half truth and half lies. The people who made the movie are the real racist.
Son? So Sunshine wasn’t gay? Or he just liked kissing dudes in the locker room.
The amusing korean laterally bolt because closet timely supply pace a wooden push. sordid, unruly furniture
thought jocks maintained their exercise and kept their weight down. looks like Mr. Bass has put on a few pounds.
That's what happens when you go from age 18 to 58.
Well Julius did tell Bertier they would get old and then get fat....
Athletes are always eating a lot, but their weight is contained by them always working out. Once you’ve had the same diet for years, you can’t change it so easily. Now that you’re no longer working out daily, you begin to gain weight.
He has a son....so was he gay, or bi? Not that it matters, but the movie added it for a reason right?
Yes it was added so he could take a leadership role in the team
If you noticed the guy he kissed was the biggest baddest one. He was asserting his dominance over them.
The guys were calling him a queer so he did it in response to that.
@@robertwoods7739 That kiss never happened , Gerry Bertier was huge and the toughest guy on the team , the only All American , nobody would dare !
His son? I thought he was gay?
His son looks just like him.