Grambling's White Tiger

With new laws passed which seek to promote racial integration, a small black college in Louisiana is faced with an opportunity to increase desperately needed federal funding by offering a football scholarship to a white athlete from California by the name of "Jim Gregory" (Bruce Jenner). Unfortunately, there are several problems involved which makes things a bit more difficult than first realized. For starters, although he is a solid quarterback for the most part, the football team already has two better quarterbacks ahead of him with another good recruit possibly waiting in the wings as well. So his ability to actually play is problematic at best. But even more concerning is the overall racial animus in that particular part of the country which threatens to explode at a moment's notice-and the football team is far from being a safe haven. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a decent film from the standpoint that it served to highlight a national problem that had been ignored for much too long. On the other hand, the acting-especially on the part of the lead actor-was rather lackluster at best and this factor was evident throughout the course of the movie. That being said, while it certainly wasn't a great film by any means, from an historical perspective I suppose it was worth the time spent to watch it and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Average.