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Glory Road (2006) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: The final game with Texas Western and the University of Kentucky is televised by NBC. The "Snake" logo from 1959 is shown with the 1979 "Proud as a Peacock" logo. The movie takes place in 1966, so the 1956 "Living Color" Peacock should have been used. Anyway, at the time the Peacock wasn't the logo of NBC and only the "NBC Snake" would've been used. In either case, NBC didn't televise the NCAA Championship until 1969.
  
  
• Continuity: The close-up cutaway shots of the scoreboards in several sections of the movie do not match the scoreboards used in the wide shots or action shots. Most of the time, the action shots use a modified Nevco Model 2400. The cutaways are sometimes a TransLux Fair Play/Fair Tron scoreboard, sometimes another brand scoreboard all together. The Nevco 2400 can be programmed to display a zero in the minute column when there is less than a minute of play left. In the movie, one shot shows the scoreboard display ":55" with no 0 for the minutes and later in the same scene "0:02" with a 0 in the minute column.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of blood on Shed's shirt after the bathroom scene.
  
  

• Continuity: Flipped shot: Before the national championship game begins, Coach Rupp shakes hands with one of the officials. They shake Left hands and Coach Rupp is approaching from the Texas Western bench direction.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bobby Joe Hill is forced to run stadium stairs as punishment by his coach, his microphone can be seen through the back of his T-shirt as he is bending over.
  
  
• Anachronisms: There is a banner in Memorial Gym that says "Western Athletic Conference". Texas Western did not join the WAC until 1967.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The University of Arizona letter 'A' logo is visible on the back wall of the gym during a game with Seattle. The letter logo is the current logo adopted in 1989.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The scene from Haskin's home after the high school girls victory in Ft Worth shows mountains on the horizon. There are no mountains around Ft Worth.
  
  
• Factual errors: Coach Haskins says, when offered the job at TWC, that he's glad to have a job offer in "Division 1". The NCAA didn't have divisions until 1971. In 1965, schools were divided into a "University Division" and a "College Division".
  
  
• Factual errors: Early in the film, the radio announcer identifies himself as broadcasting on KTSM. At the Seattle game, the radio announcer says WTSM. KTSM is the correct El Paso radio station.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Texas Western is playing Kansas for the Midwest Finals, there is a KU banner hanging from the rafters of the ceiling of the auditorium. The banner depicts the KU Jayhawk facing the right. That is the current KU logo, but in 1965, the logo would have been facing left.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the semi-final game you can see the real lights (turned off) behind the ones that were actually used to film the shot. This shot was filmed in the Lakefront arena in New Orleans.
  
  
• Continuity: When the girl and the guy are in the car on the hill top over looking the city, she touches his chin when the camera is facing her, but when the camera flips to the guy, her hand is on his chest.
  
  
• Continuity: After Lattin picks up his fourth foul in the Championship game, Coach Haskins takes him out of the line-up. But after the next basket by Texas Western, you see him running back down the court. it's not until later, with two minutes to go, Coach Haskins puts Lattin back in the game.
  
  
• Continuity: During the final game, there are several flipped shots of Coach Haskins cheering, and his wedding ring and watch are visible on his right hand instead of his left.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the bus the song "Down in the Boondocks" by Billy Joe Royal is playing but this song wasn't released until 1969.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the beginning of the film, Coach Haskins is coaching a girl’s basketball game. A standard 5 on 5 game is depicted, however up through the 70s (and in some states 80s and even 90s) High School Girls Basketball was played 9 to a team with the players assigned specific zones that they could not leave at any time. This was also the college rule until 1971.
  
  
• Factual errors: When one of the players gets beaten up it appears to be Christmas time and another character tells a young boy "Merry Christmas". At the time the team was supposed to be 17-0. In 1966 the schedule didn't even start until Dec. 1 so there's no way Texas Western was anything more than 5 or 6 and 0 at that time
  
  
• Factual errors: In the opening, the caption reads "Fort Worth, Texas 1965 High School State Championship" which was not possible, since Coach Haskins began coaching at Texas Western in 1961.
  
  
• Continuity: During the championship game against Kentucky, #44 hurts himself and must leave the game. A few minutes later he is announced as out for the game with the leg injury, but he is seen in several shots in the second half as being on the court and playing.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the regional semifinal in Lubbock, TX, the Texas Tech logo is the new Double T on the court. The modern Double T was not adopted until 2000.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the game against Kansas, the announcer states that the winner of the game will advance to the national championship, when in fact the winner advanced to play Utah in the national semifinal.
  
  
• Factual errors: In several action shots, the actor playing Willie Cager wears a "01" jersey. In college basketball, 01 is not a regulation number.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Bobby Joe Hill is running the steps and Coach Haskins was yelling at him you could see behind Coach Haskins in the end zone stands it has the letters UNIV, implying the word university. If he was supposed to be running at TWU the first letters would have been TEXA.
  
  
• Continuity: During the grueling "AM" practice, Coach Haskins is seen wearing a white shirt while mocking the players about the previous night. In other frames of the practice, he is seen wearing a black shirt. When he goes back to his room and kisses his wife, the shirt is white again.
  
  
• Factual errors: The movie makes it seem like Willie Cager misses almost the entire second half of the season with his heart condition. In reality Cager played in 27 out of 29 total games for the Miners that season.
  
  

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