Do you know Ernie Davis? No, so maybe you know the TC Williams Titans? The sheer amount of challenges Ernie Davis and the Titans have faced just to play football, a game they love, is astonishing. In both of these stories the men were faced with choices to make, and not just for themselves but for everyone around them to see. Their stories took place in the 1960s, a time when African Americans were treated unfairly. I believe society only saw what it wanted to see and only heard what it wanted to hear. Choices were made about people because of the color of their skin, not how good they were or how hard they tried. But why the color of their skin! “We should judge people by their character, not by the color of their skin.” (Martin Luther King Jr.) Ernest Davis otherwise known as Ernie Davis was the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy. Growing up Ernie was pushed around by white people. You see, there was a line that divided the cities that you were not allowed to cross. One day, while Ernie was collecting bottles, he crossed the finish line without thinking and was greeted by a couple of white boys doing the same. They were shocked to see a black man on their side of the tracks. They said they would let him go if he dropped the bottles before counting to three. When they got to three and noticed that he had not dropped the sack, they immediately tried to attack him but he broke through and ran away. When he soon realized that he loved the feeling of running and holding on to something at the same time, he knew that football would be the sport for him. So when he was young he started playing football. He started out in a pee-wee league where he was forced to stand out and by stand out I mean he wasn't allowed to wear the... middle of paper... home Titans. But before they became the Titans they were something else, they were segregated in a black and white school but were forced to become one. When the two football teams were together it was obvious that they had no respect for each other. The coach had a mandatory training camp that the team could attend. When leaving the school bus, Boone entered the first bus only to see white people as he checked out the second bus, all he saw were black people. He called for both buses to be cleared and paired the team, one white and one black. They had to know each other because the person he paired them with would be their roommate at camp. When they heard this, both races complained, but Coach Boone disagreed. When they reached the field, Coach Boone told them to get acquainted. The next day they were supposed to show up for training bright and early