Go Tigers

Starring:Danny Studer, Ellery Moore, Adam Michael Gayheart, Dave Irwin, Joe Paterno
Director: Kenneth A. Carlson
Studio: New Video Group
Product Type: DVD

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High school football rules in Massillon, Ohio. In this blue-collar community, dubbed "Touchdown Town" in a 1951 newsreel, the Washington High Tigers are a cradle-to-grave passion. Team boosters visit maternity wards and bestow footballs to newborn "little Tigers." A mortician offers customers Tiger theme caskets. This winning documentary, ranked by ESPN.com as among the six best sports documentaries of all time, chronicles the Tigers' pivotal 1999 season--its 106th!--in which the team's success or failure on the field could impact an upcoming tax levy to save the town's beleaguered schools. Filmmaker and Massillon native Kenneth Carlson is no mere cheerleader. He tackles the touchy issue of priorities (some parents hold promising eighth graders back so they will be bigger and stronger) and the town's Stepfordian devotion to the team that put it on the map ("Conform or be destroyed," states one disaffected youth). More inspiring are the profiles of the team's three captains, in whom one can see the positive role football plays in their lives. --Donald Liebenson
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Welcome to Massillon, Ohio, where high school football is nothing short of religion. For the 33,000 people who live there, football is life--a veritable "cradle to the grave" experience that begins in the maternity ward where coaches make visits to scout

Go Tigers
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Go Tigers
Starring: Ellery Moore , Joe Paterno , Danny Studer , Adam Michael Gayheart , and Dave Irwin
Director: Kenneth A. Carlson
Manufacturer: New Video Group
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ASIN: B00006ADER
Release Date: 2002-09-24

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Welcome to Massillon, Ohio, where high school football is nothing short of religion. For the 33,000 people who live there, football is life--a veritable ?cradle to the grave? experience that begins in the maternity ward where coaches make visits to scout future linebackers, and ends in a customized football casket emblazoned with the Tigers mascot.A surprise hit in theaters across the country, GO TIGERS! chronicles the 1999 high school football season of the Massillon Tigers. On the heels of a losing year, the Tigers risk losing football in Massillon altogether, as an upcoming vote on a new tax levy is the only thing that will prevent massive budget cuts and the limination of the football program. With the vote clearly riding on the team's success, it is up to the three co-captains--quarterback Dave Irwin, linebacker Danny Studer and defensive end Ellery Moore--to ensure that an entire town's hopes and reams come true. Just three days before the crucial vote is to take place, the Tigers face the biggest game of their lives against archrival McKinley.In the spirit of such hit films as Remember The Titans and Hoop Dreams, accomplished filmmaker and Massillon native Ken Carlson brings us the real story behind America's hysterical obsession with sports, and for the first time lets us experience that same rush of adrenaline along with a real life team. With an SRO crowd of screaming fans and a town's future at stake, GO TIGERS! is an energetic and absorbing thrill ride not to be missed.

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High school football rules in Massillon, Ohio. In this blue-collar community, dubbed "Touchdown Town" in a 1951 newsreel, the Washington High Tigers are a cradle-to-grave passion. Team boosters visit maternity wards and bestow footballs to newborn "little Tigers." A mortician offers customers Tiger theme caskets. This winning documentary, ranked by ESPN.com as among the six best sports documentaries of all time, chronicles the Tigers' pivotal 1999 season--its 106th!--in which the team's success or failure on the field could impact an upcoming tax levy to save the town's beleaguered schools. Filmmaker and Massillon native Kenneth Carlson is no mere cheerleader. He tackles the touchy issue of priorities (some parents hold promising eighth graders back so they will be bigger and stronger) and the town's Stepfordian devotion to the team that put it on the map ("Conform or be destroyed," states one disaffected youth). More inspiring are the profiles of the team's three captains, in whom one can see the positive role football plays in their lives. --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews:

Grrrrrrrrr 8.......2006-09-29

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.

hometown.......2006-01-23

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!

In depth look.......2005-10-25

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.

Great high school football.......2005-07-25

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!!

I hate Football....I love this movie!!.......2005-04-14

Not to bemoan the people of small town america but i'm glad I had the good fortune to grow up in a big city. Seeing the insane obession of people who live there lives for high school football is hilarous! If you love football and are from a small town, you'll root through the whole film, if you don't live in a small town and don't care for football, you'll chuckle through most of it. I recommend watching "Hands on a Hard Body" after seeing this, another great doc.

Charlie Rose with Frances Fitzgerald & Lou Cannon; Peter Matthiessen; Warner Wolf (April 26, 2000)

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Charlie Rose with Frances Fitzgerald & Lou Cannon; Peter Matthiessen; Warner Wolf (April 26, 2000)

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As talk surfaces about nuclear arms agreements coming from Russia, Ronald Reagan biographers Frances Fitzgerald and Lou Cannon talk about 1986 in Reykjavik, Iceland, when President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev came within an eyelash of a massive nuclear reduction treaty. Then, Peter Matthiessen, nature writer and co-founder of The Parish Review, on his new book, Tigers in the Snow, which explores the efforts being made to save the species and contemplates the impact of their majesty and grace on our collective imagination. Finally, WCBS sportscaster Warner Wolf on his new book, Let's Go to the Videotape!

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: David's Car Payment; The Pennies; Lonesome Parents; Tigers Go to Dance

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The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: David's Car Payment; The Pennies; Lonesome Parents; Tigers Go to Dance

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Starring: Parley Baer , Bruce Belland , Ivan Bonar , Lloyd Corrigan , and Mary Jane Croft
Director: David Nelson , and Ozzie Nelson
Manufacturer: Good Times Home Video
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Release Date: 2002-12-03

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