CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- The Red Bandanna Game is one of college football's greatest traditions. It's relatively new compared to other, decades-old pieces of college football, but the game provides messaging that never fails to draw eyeballs to the story of Boston College graduate Welles Crowther's ultimate sacrifice while saving strangers during the tragic, horrific events of September 11, 2001.
BC's ongoing mission of "men and women for others" perfectly encapsulates Crowther's final minutes, and the story itself was captured perfectly in the documentary produced for ESPN by fellow graduate Drew Gallagher. The 10-minute profile is arguably the finest work by the network and told the whole story from first-hand accounts from Crowther's family and the people saved by a man they never knew.