Product Details

• Actors: Usc Trojans
• Directors: n, a
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Shout Factory Theatr
• DVD Release Date: March 14, 2006
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EF5MRM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,748 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Fight On! An Inside Look At The 2005 USC Trojans is a sideline pass to the Trojans’ 2005 season featuring an inside look at their 12 regular season games, the 2005 Heisman Trophy ceremony and the 2006 BCS Championship Rose Bowl game.

The Trojans boasted not one, but two Heisman Trophy winners on the field in 2005. Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush led their team and set an example of leadership, excellence and teamwork along the way. Fight On! is an exclusive, in-depth look at the players and their remarkable season, including interviews with Leinart and Bush as well as coach Pete Carroll and other star players like LenDale White.

With field-level camera angles and exclusive game footage Fight On! is an intense, dramatic review of the year, combining on-the-field action with sideline footage not shown during the live telecasts. A rare look at Trojan pre-game rituals further takes viewers behind the scenes.

Showcasing such feats as the 34-31 victory over Notre Dame, the November 19 battle with Fresno State and the dismantling of cross-town rival UCLA — Fight On! presents the story of a team that fought hard every step of the way, winning 34 straight games as it assaulted the offensive record books.

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE
USC vs. Hawaii
USC vs. Arkansas
USC vs. Oregon
USC vs. ASU
USC vs. Arizona
USC vs. Notre Dame
USC vs. Washington
USC vs. Washington State
USC vs. Stanford
USC vs. Cal
USC vs. Fresno State
USC vs. UCLA
Heisman Trophy Award
BCS Championship Game
USC vs. Texas

BONUS FEATURES
Reggie Bush: His Place in Trojan Tailback History
"Matt Leinart - Under the Lights" (childhood)
"Matt Leinart - Under the Lights" (high school years)
Trojan Football 2006 Recruiting Class
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: USC’s Home Field Advantage
Senior Speeches After UCLA Game

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fight On! Great Memory for Trojans Fans!, April 30, 2006

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Scott E. Herman (Fallbrook, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fight On! - An Inside Look At The 2005 USC Trojans (DVD)

IF you are a USC Trojans Football fan you will love this video. The main feature is a game by game look at the 2005 season. This includes watching the highlights of what could be the greatest offense in college football history. QB Matt Leinart, RB's Bush, White and Kirkman, receivers Jarrett, Smith, Byrd, Davis and that outstanding offensive line are highlighted time and time again. The exciting win at Notre Dame and the fight to the end with an inspired Fresno State are memorable. All Trojans will appreciate this years victory over UCLA. Even the loss to Texas in the National Championship game at the Rose Bowl is reviewed. As with prior years, the video includes footage inside the locker room before and after games giving an insiders feel to the production.

The bonus features are a new addition this year. In the previous three DVD's produced as highlights for the 2002 through 2004 seasons, nothing but the main video was included. These extra features are all interesting. The Reggie Bush piece and the two on Matt Leinart are taken from Fox Sports West broadcasts. I enjoyed the look at the 2006 Recruiting class the most. The UCLA speeches were a special treat.

With all that was included, I would have appreciated even more. As in prior years, the video team at USC failed to include video of Spring workouts, the summer camp and practice during the season. Unlike past years, this video didn't include as much video in the locker rooms. Pete Carroll is a remarkable motivator. The atmosphere in that room is electric and seeing more of it, the fabric that binds the team, one to another, is inspiring.

This is not a video for everyone. Fans of the college game will appreciate it but to truly enjoy it you have to bleed Cardinal and Gold. This is an outstanding scrapbook, a celebration to yet another memorable year for USC Football.

Congratulations to the Texas Longhorns on their victory over the Trojans in the Rose Bowl and on their National Championship.

Fight On!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WE'LL NEVER SEE THE LIKES OF THEM AGAIN!, April 26, 2006

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Steven Travers "AUTHOR/WRITER" (CALIFORNIA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fight On! - An Inside Look At The 2005 USC Trojans (DVD)

This DVD is a melancholy act to watch, since the march towards the greatest season of all time was interrupted by Texas. This does not stop it from being a must for Trojan fans and college historians. The 2005 Trojans were the best team ever assembled, but like other "bests" - the 1954 Indians, the 1983 Cornhuskers, the 1969 Orioles - history will not accord them the title because they did not close out. But this DVD shows something nobody will ever see again; two Heisman winners in the same backfield, plus a third (LenDale White) had he played his senior year. If Bush, White and Mike Williams all played four years. . . ?

Mind boggling.

Texas fans will love this because you can watch in awe at how great USC really was, then sit back in further awe of the fact that the only team in history that probably could have beaten this bunch was the '05 Longhorns led by the superhuman Vince Young. It was a battle between the Carthage and Rome; Troy and Athens; Patton and Rommel. It does not get batter than that!

Carl Weathers narrates this, and he has the voice of Biblical authority. It details each game, has plenty of interviews with key people (Matt Leinart's Fox show, Reggie Bush, Pete Carroll); highlights Bush vs. the likes of O.J. and Gale Sayers; and spotlights all the '06 recruits, who look like the 2008-09 national champs!

Take away all the other reasons to get this DVD: the breathtaking highlights of the insane Notre Dame game, played under the "blue, gray October skies" of South Bend, is worth the price.

It also makes no excuses about the Rose Bowl loss. Credit is given in noble defeat, which is SC's way.

Fight On!

STEVEN TRAVERS, author of
THE USC TROJANS: COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S ALL-TIME GREATEST DYNASTY
BARRY BONDS: BASEBALL'S SUPERMAN
SEPTEMBER 1970: ONE NIGHT, TWO TEAMS, AND THE GAME THAT CHANGED A NATION
TROJANS ESSENTIAL, A'S ESSENTIAL AND RAIDERS ESSENTIAL

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, But Not As Good As Previous Years, April 24, 2006

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Rich (Leucadia, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fight On! - An Inside Look At The 2005 USC Trojans (DVD)

First, I am a die hard Trojan fan, and don't even know why a Texas fan would attempt to review or discuss this DVD. So most importantly, for Trojan fans, or simply fans of a football team that is more fun to watch on offense than any other in history, this DVD should have been 5 stars. It wasn't for three reasons. First, the creators did not use any copywrited TV coverage and footage (presumably to save money), therefore the views of the plays are almost exclusively low endzone coverage and very hard to follow (occasionally they are brilliant as plays come right too them, but that doesn't justify the exclusive use). Secondly, the narrator was dispassionate and over acting with vocal drama (yep, I know, hard to mix the two but he did). Lastly, the script never allowed you to relive the drama of the game. You did get a nice look at the players up close, but this should have been: (1) 30 minutes longer with better longer and better game scripting and (2) created with the mix of tv coverage like in every previous year. Tim Ryan should have been used again as the narrator. A major dissappointment when contrasted to each of the previous annuals, and given such a great year by such a great team.