Fat snowflakes were falling in Mount Pleasant when fierce MAC rivals Western Michigan and Central Michigan kicked off in a nationally televised game on ESPNU.
Inspired by the remarkable true story of retiree Jerry Selbee (Cranston), who discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery and, with the help of his wife, Marge (Bening), wins millions, using the money to revive their small Michigan town.
It's a story that many long-time Kalamazoo residents may have heard, especially if they followed the local baseball scene in their youth; Future President of the United States George Herbert Walker Bush played on the Yale University baseball team that made it to the College World Series in both 1947 and 1948. In fact those first two College World Series were played at Hyames Field.