One of the first things I saw before making this, just by coincidence, was this old black and white footage of a game, and it was a CBS documentary that they did on this team, that coach and this season. I watched it and that's when the story really became significant to me, because it wasn't just a contrived Hollywood movie. It was real. At that moment, the seed was planted that I want to do interviews with these guys and stick it in the closing credits, which is what we did.

James Gartner