My first look at “Hoosiers”
I was traveling a lot back in the late 80s and didn’t really keep up on what was happening in my old home town. My company always provided business class tickets on international flights and I usually got an upgrade to first so I was “up front” on a flight back from Amsterdam. My routine on flights “across the pond” was to have dinner and a couple of drinks and then sleep all the way to New York or Chicago. I awoke about half way through the movie to go to the john and when I got half way out of my seat I looked up and there on the screen in the front of the cabin there was a basketball game being played in my high school gym.
For a moment or two I was totally disorientated. I can’t remember being quite so confused. I really did wonder if I was dreaming. I sat back down forgetting my need to go and just stared with my mouth hanging open. I think my sister, Amelia, had mentioned they were making a film in Knightstown but it didn’t really register at the time. I finally recalled what she had said and began to realize this must be the film she told me about.
Then I got really excited about it and wanted to tell somebody; “Hey, that’s my High School gym”. I was on KLM and most of the folks around me were Dutch as was the crew. The Dutchman next to me was reading and I told him but he only looked at me like I was crazy. I had to control my excitement until I got home and could tell my wife who said “Oh, that’s nice”. So it goes……………..!!!
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