Breaking the Huddle Documentary

[RamblinPeck]

Anyone else see this on HBO? I watched about 3/4 of it last night and was pretty interesting, but was a bit too focused on Bryant/BAMA.

Was also disapointed by not having much of anything about Tech outside of some old footage we were in. Not that we really broke any big barriers, but first black QB in major southeastern football is kind of a big thing, and the fact that we didn't have riots with integration would have been nice to highlight.

Nothing else really to talk about, but would love some of you old folks to chime in on thoughts from back then.

 

[DeepSnap]

Don't have HBO, but I read a little about the show.....

At the time Eddie McAshan arrived on campus in the fall of 1969, we really didn't care if he was pink, yellow, green, red, or polkadot. "Can he help us win?" was and should be the only question asked.

As the #1 QB out of FL that year, and especially stealing him right out from under Doug Dickey's nose there in Gainesville, we were happy to see him.

Same for the arrival of Greg Horne out of Atlanta-Murphy in '70 & Joe Harris the next year. There were others, but the only question among the players was "Can he help us win?"

Everyone was shocked by the outcome of the USC-Bama game and after we heard about Sam "Bam" Cunningham, we knew the tectonic plates of CFB had shifted.It's taken others a decade or two more to figure it out, but we knew.

 

[RamblinPeck]

Thanks for that Deepsnap, really appreciate that post. Im curious why it took so long for GT to integrate athletics when the student body was integrated in '61?