Running Forward

When an African-American boy learns to outrun older white boys with his trophy of scavenged bottle-caps, one would hardly imagine that the same skill-set would lead to the emergence of none other than the great Ernie Davis (Rob Brown), one of the greatest running backs of all time in college football. Ernie plays for Syracuse, and (in the natural drift of great sports movies) leads Syracause to the Heisman Trophy and becomes a figure of great inspiration. The Express is not the no-holds-barred realism of Any Given Sunday, but rather the poetic inspiration of Remember the Titans. While a good watch, as sports movies go, it is not particularly differentiated

13/20