Life & The Game Of Football
“27 years ago I sat in this locker room just like you guys getting ready to play a game.
I walked down the locker room and it still smells the same.
It takes you back real quick. One of the things that caught me is how fast 27 years goes by. There are so many people that live vicariously through you! I would give anything tonight to jump in one of these uniforms with you guys.
Do Something my Father Never had the Opportunity to…
…My Father Never saw Me Play… you Play for your fathers tonight!
The feeling of all this,
That Feeling goes away, and it goes away and it doesn’t come every Friday Night.
It comes when you get married. It comes when your child is born.
So you get it…. you just don’t get it every Friday Night.
You’re going to miss that more than anything in the world.
That’s what I miss.
And so you Seniors that are focused on college, your focused on your work after High School….what you’re going to do next… your focused on tomorrow aren’t yah?
You got plenty of time for tomorrows.
But these tonight’s…. there going by fast.
You Focus on Tonight.
This is about you guys.
This is about the guys in this room that care about each other… that know that there are only so many of these nights left.
It’s about you.
Their a faceless opponent.
They just happened to draw the short straw tonight.
We would say to young kids, learn to dream. You can accomplish anything you want to, what a wonderful time in your life. I get excited when I see kids playing in the backyard or in the school yard, the advice that I would give a group of kids would be, to have dreams. Its okay to work at those dreams do whatever you can, but just has fun and there’s nothing wrong with dreaming big. I just like to see kids playing, and when they play I hope they are just having fun. Football lessons we learn as kids can all be applied through the rest of your life. Life is a team game, it’s the big game. Anybody can be a leader, be excited, be first in line when things are going great, test it when you battle through tough times, when things aren't perfect.
Where do you stand?
This is your night. Make it happen. Where that with pride one time. You can't be playing, you can't be unemotional, this IS an emotional game. On that day and at the end of your life you look in the mirror and you know, YOU KNOW, I gave it all I had and I gave it for a worthy cause. You think about what that means, you think about what it means to be on your last play. This is my last play of football ever!
This is my last play, how do I want it to be? How do I want to be remembered?
Now get your ases ready to play!
Win on three …. One … Two …. Three.
Win!”
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