Go Tigers [VHS] | Adam Michael Gayheart, Dave Irwin

Go Tigers [VHS] | Adam Michael Gayheart, Dave Irwin | Great high school football

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	Go Tigers [VHS] Adam Michael Gayheart, Dave Irwin New Video Group, 2002 average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A surprise hit in theaters across the country, Go Tigers! chronicles the tension-filled 1999 high school football season in Massillon, Ohio - a town where football is nothing short of religion. In the spirit of the hit documentary Hoop Dreams, this is the real story behind America's hysterical obsession with sports. An energetic and absorbing thrill ride not to be missed.

Grrrrrrrrr 8

Go Tigers! is a wonderful, and wonderfully deceptive, movie. When viewed casually it flies by like an NFL highlights reel, slick, glossy, beautifully photographed, and expertly edited. These are universally familiar images, the great touchdown pass, the banks of lights, players banging into each other in testosterone-fueled euphoric celebration. Then you stop to remember. This is a documentary about high school football, and even more importantly, precisely what high school football means in Massillon, Ohio. (Turns out it determines the future of the school system!)

Go Tigers! is the brainchild of Ken Carlson, he wrote, directed, and produced - and, as luck would have it, he's from Massillon. This makes his achievement even more remarkable because the one attribute that dominates this movie is how even-handed and fair it is.

Movies in this genre fall into two groups, either they are love-struck anthems honoring the virtues of sportsmanship and its inspiring way of embodying all that is noble about life - or - they are supercilious indictments of the anti-intellectual hod-carriers and Neanderthals that brutalize each other instead of pursuing worthwhile activities - translating Proust into Sanskrit for example.

Massillon, Ohio is football crazy by any standard, but Carlson never takes cheap shots, he doesn't laugh at his subject, nor does he idealize it, he simply presents it. This is the very hard work of a documentary, and Carlson succeeds.

Where Friday Night Lights gave us a grotesque portrait of the psychological, and physical, damage done by football mania in Texas, Go Tigers! calmly introduces us to a funeral director presenting the "Obie Special," a deluxe coffin souped up to warm the cold dead heart of even the most rabid Tigers fan. The film counts on you to do the math for yourself.

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Great high school football

I thought this movie was great. I love watching high school football or just football in all. This shows what OHIO high school football is all about. Not Texas, Not Florida, and Not California. It shows how strong the community and schools in ohio are when it comes to there football. Ohio is one of the top 4 recruiting states for college programs and this film is one reason why. If you like watching or playing high school football or any level of football i believe u will enjoy this film. Even if your not a Buckeye!!

Football Fever in Ohio

Being from Alabama, I always assumed that the South was unsurpassed its myopic devotion to football. Go Tigers!, therefore, came as something of a shock. Massillon, Ohio, has taken football hysteria to new depths. Massillon's football boosters go so far as to visit the local hospital to put tiny plastic footballs in the cribs of newborn boys. (If newborn girls get anything, we don't hear about it).

The football in this movie is only mildly interesting. It is the people of Massillon who fascinate. The kids on the Massillon High team are under almost-unbearable pressure to win every game (something that their parents and coaches attempt to rationalize away). The "win-at-all-costs" philosophy definitely prevails; one of the team's star players has spent 15 months in jail for rape; another transferred into Massillon High under questionable circumstances.

A good sub-plot in Go Tigers! concerns the Massillon's attempts to pass a levy to improve the local schools. While the community is passionate about football, education is not as popular. The three stars of the Massillon team all get scholarship offers to play college football; but two of the three struggle to get standardized test scores high enough to be admitted to college.

One of the more-interesting aspects of the film is the extent to which some families in Massillon plan their boys' education around their sons' high school football "careers." Many of the families hold their sons back for a second year in the 8th grade so that they will be bigger and more experienced by the time they are seniors.

As a final note, the cinematography in Go Tigers! is wonderful. The filmmakers captured some wonderful shots of Massillon.

Go Tigers! covers ground that other books and movies have also covered. Still, it provides an excellent look at the uneasy intersection of sport and education in our high schools.

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In depth look

I'm no fan of football, but I like Go Tigers! It's a look at football in small town America. It's both nice and scary to see how the town reacts to the local high school football.

Go Tigers is a well made look at fanaticism at its best.

hometown

I grew up in massillon ohio. it was where i was born and raised. while i may not like football, and i may not have succumbed to the hysteria surrounding the massillon/mckinley games, i loved being there. and i would just like to say in defense of my hometown, this movie was hyped beyond belief. everything in it is rather exagerated. yes, some of those people are lunatics about thier football, to the point of insanity, but its not really how its portrayed. i gave it three stars because i wasn't actually sure what to do! i was proud of the recognition, but slightly upset that so many people, people who have never been to massillon, never even heard of it, have nothing but horrible things to say about it because of this movie. yes, teenagers get drunk. they get tattoos and piercings. that's happened since the beginning of time. kids are kids. these ones were just caught on tape!

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