I'm a sucker for sports movies,I played competitive hockey for many years so I can somewhat relate. When The Game Stands Tall is a great movie about sports,teamwork,family and faith. It's a bit different then other sports movies as this team is never really the underdog. For the coach and what they are trying to teach these boys is not football but to give them life lessons that will last them the rest of their life. Teamwork,being hard-working are things that will last you the rest of your life even when you can no longer play football. The football scenes were well shot. This movie is not about any one player it's about a team.

When the Game Stands Tall is about coach Bob Ladouceur and his values. Bob Ladouceur turned down bigger offers to coach high school and build people. The movie has religious values about the measures we give is the measures we receive. Team over individuals, depending on each other, commitment, and selflessness over selfishness. One experiences the unfairness and trials of life, and the dealing with adversity. I keep seeing in substories Good over evil, and light over darkness. The most low point in a bad year and the movie is over come by giving at a V A hospital. A strong script, and inspiring story. The directing and acting excelled. One experiences the intelligence/strategy, heat, pain and pressure during the football action. The distractions and frustration off the field blend into the field action excellently. How the team deals with the adversity not only make the team winners, but builds productive people. The ending scene is inspirational. I give What the Game Stands Tall and eight out of ten.

. . . will just love seeing Mel Gibson's "Jesus" (actor Jim Caviezel) carrying NOT just one person, as in the poem, but an entire football team on his shoulders for hundreds of yards. When Jesus, a.k.a., head De la Salle H.S. gridiron coach Bob Ladouceur, this time, is accused of cheating by his coaching peers at a league meeting, his California pig-skinners immediately lose their next two games after having won an American record 151 in a row. Sure, Bob's heart attack and the murder of a key player might have had a little to do with this, but anyone who knows their football realizes that the real problem was that Bob scheduled his Concord SPARTANS to play the Bellevue, WA, WOLVERINES in Game 152. When have green-and-white clad Spartans gotten much of a break against Wolverines (even those clad in maize & purple)? With the players' constant rendering of The Lord's Prayer and ubiquitous Bible verse quotations, movie goers will wonder whether they've bumbled into church. Hopefully, many of the players depicted here have followed in famed Gridder Pat Tillman's footprints to keep us all safe from Terrorism, rather than accumulating dangerous quantities of cash from the NFL.