As you gather around the Thanksgiving table and settle in for some UT football on Thursday night, be sure to go see the movie showing now "My All American" starring Aaron Eckhart and Finn Wittrock.
Written by Angelo Pizzo who wrote Rudy and Hoosiers, the story is set in the late 1960s as Darrell Royal (played by Eckhart) recruits an undersized player from Colorado to play for UT.
Freddy Steinmark (Wittrock) proceeds to have a dream-like football career before he starts having pain he can't ignore during the 1969 season culminating in the Game of the Century Texas v. Arkansas [ which of course Texas won].
UT football, Darrell Royal, Austin are co-stars of the show. The scoreboard at DKR Texas Memorial Stadium (for many years) has been named the Freddy Steinmark Memorial Scoreboard - even a longtime fan like me did not know that).
A good story - keep a stiff upper lip - it's a sad one.
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