the subject is football, the theme is overcoming adversity

I have always had a measure of respect and appreciation for Bobby Bowden, the football coach at Florida State University, but my level of respect has increased. I knew that as a Christian coach he encourages his players to attend church. He also is a Sunday School teacher and many of the players attend church with him from time to time. Today I read about the way he went above and beyond the call of duty to help the new coach at Marshall University in the spring of 1971. After the entire football team was killed in a tragic plane crash in 1970, Bobby Bowden spent time to help that university rebuild the program. He was coaching at West Virginia University at the time. The Times-Union published this article - Movie opens old wounds for Bowden - written by Gene Frenette about the role of Coach Bowden and the story as it is told in the new movie "We Are Marshall"

Four months after the plane crash into a West Virginia hillside that killed 75 people, including nearly all of the Marshall players and coaches, Lengyel was hired to direct the most daunting job of rebuilding in college football history.
Lengyel devoted four years to that task, which gains national exposure as the movie We Are Marshall opens Friday in theaters. But he's quick to credit Bowden, who had just completed his first season as West Virginia coach, for assisting Marshall in the comeback process from the worst sports-related
disaster in U.S. history.