I don't get it. We see a football team who died in an aircraft crash, still wearing their uniforms. Don't the deceased appear the way they do when they died? Why was this whole team wearing their uniforms on board the airplane, including their helmets? It makes no sense.
shareMaybe the plan landed on them during a match or training session.
Nobody said they were on the plane.
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Yes they were, the guy said "Coach, somehow I don't think we survived the crash?". Someone who has a plane crash into them and die wouldn't say something like that, first off because they would probably be dead before they even knew what hit them (literally).
shareyeah survived the plane crash, doesn't mean they were on it.
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Right, so a plane landed on an entire football team ? How often does that happen?
sharelol,
take 9/11 as an example.. how often does that happen?.. but it happened.
Anyway the quote from the receptionist was 'Thats what happens when you die and this is what happened when they die" So thats what happens when the football team dies.
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Why do you all assume it was a plane that crashed? Maybe they were on a bus, and they would have changed out of uniform when they got back to their own school. Is it really that important?
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They were on a bus. Normally, the team wears their uniforms on school buses going to away games in high schools.
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"…on a plan"? You've got a Hell of a lot of nerve calling someone else "genius", "genius"!
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The thing is you were castigating the other person for making a mistake and you made a goof when you did it. I don't mind typos, but they really stand out when you get on someone else's case.
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It was to show what they were. Yeah, it seems strange, but the film isn't supposed to be reality.
shareI always assumed it was on a bus heading to a game that they crashed. But thats just me...
shareYeah, I could've sworn it was mentioned that they were on a bus. Plus, Juno says "I'm not your coach, he survived." Not many people survive plane crashes.
And I thought the context set it up rather clear that they were on a bus, it's well known that football teams and other sports teams travel on buses. Although they would've changed out of their pads before getting on the bus, or maybe they were too stupid and that is the reason they couldn't get out in time, while their coach could.
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Yeah the context suggests it was a bus. I mean a team of football players with their gear on a plane just doesnt add up. Its kind of absurd. I've seen the movie several times and it never crossed my mind they might had been on a plane.
shareI thought it a bus that fall down to the bottom of a mountain or something like that.
And also Juno was the big sister of the coach :D
For over 20 years I have always thought that they were on a bus... on their way home after a game.
shareI always thought it a plane crash, for 20 years. A bus never even entered my mind. I don't have statistics to back up my theory, but I would imagine that bus crashes where everyone perishes are very rare - after all, they are huge heavy vehicles and travel relatively slowly. In most crashes, only some would die. With a plane, on the other hand, in a bad crash, everyone usually dies. It's hard to survive when you're travelling so fast/high up. So the fact the *entire* football team died, and not just some of them, would support the aircraft theory.
Of course, thinking about it now, there is one thing that supports the bus theory. In a bus accident the dead corpse would still most likely remain intact, compared to a plane wreck where the body might be in thousands of pieces. So the fact that the players are all intact would support the bus theory.
yeah but football teams travel in buses. And if the bus crashed and they were wearing their uniforms it would make sense that they couldn't get out.
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"In a bus accident the dead corpse would still most likely remain intact, compared to a plane wreck where the body might be in thousands of pieces. So the fact that the players are all intact would support the bus theory."
Well in all these years I'd never thought of a plane, only a bus. And yes, I did wonder why they'd be in full uniform on the bus.
But then you bring up "after-life science". Obviously people disintegrated in a plane crash etc., cannot appear in the form they died in, i.e. pieces and ashes, so we must assume there's some leeway between the actual appearance and a perceived appearance for those types of corpses.
Science aside, if they had changed in the locker room and were in street clothes then a busfull of plain-dressed guys just isn't as funny as guys in uniforms!
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Same here - I've always thought it was a plane crash until just now! Yes, a bus crash does make more sense and, while it IS rare to have most of us bus's passengers killed in a crash, it likely depends on HOW or WHAT crashed the bus (a speeding freight train, a fall over a cliff, etc.) so it's now beyond the realm of possibility.
The fact that the team was wearing their uniforms never clued me in either for some reason - I guess I figured it could've been a short plane flight like say from KC to St. Louis (around 30 - 45 minutes or so).
I also saw elsewhere here on this board a reference to an infamous fatal, still-unexplained plane crash from 1955, but obviously the movie took place much later than that and the team had "just" died.
Loved Michael Keaton's performance here, btw - maybe the best "Keaton" comedic performance since the late, beloved, incomparable Buster!
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I agree that it is a bus. Te other thing is it is stated that the coach lives and since there is not actually an "entire team" worth of players in that scene, I would guess that other players survived as well. I always assumed it was a high school or college team traveling by bus, and I think that is set up pretty clearly.
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what if you slip on the soap in the shower and die? do you have to be naked forever? lol.
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what if you slip on the soap in the shower and die? do you have to be naked forever? lol.
i haven't seen this movie since i was 9 but i always assumed it was a bus crash.
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