For the Rest of Our Lives

I am a couple of weeks late on commenting on this subject, but despite the untimeliness, this post needs to be written.
A couple of weekends ago, the University of Florida's football Coach Urban Meyer and quarterback Tim Tebow appeared on ESPN SportsCenter's "Sunday Conversation", and a couple of very interesting stories were spotlighted. Of course, the Philippines missions and the competitiveness were once again foisted upon us by the World-Wide Leader. But that isn't what caught my attention. To me, the most interesting part was when Coach Meyer started to tell the story of Tebow's speech to the team at halftime of the BCS Championship game against Oklahoma. After returning to the locker room tied 7-7, Tebow took over in the locker room. That conversation is linked to the title of this post. Click on the title, we will wait.

OK. We are back! Now, that seems like a darn good halftime speech. However, if he had a great speech writer, he might have spiced it up a little, perhaps, something like this:

At the beginning of the game, Meyer said 60 minutes for the next 60 years of our lives. I say Fuck that. Fuck that. Let's go out there, play the next 30 minutes for the next 30 minutes, and leave it on the field. We have the opportunity to play like gods for the next half of football, but we can't be afraid to lose. There is no room for fear in this game. If we go out there and half-ass it because we are scared, all we're left with is an excuse. We're always gonna wonder. But if we go out there and give it absolutely everything ... that's heroic. Let's be heroes! Come on. Whaddya say boys?!

Now wouldn't that have been a rousing speech at halftime? Well, it was. At least for the Coyotes in Varsity Blues.

Tim Tebow basically plagiarized Jonathon Moxon (James Van Der Beek for our lady readers). Not basically - he did. Tebow said that the team had "30 minutes for the rest of their lives". Come on. Really? And this guy is supposed to be the greatest leader in the history of college football?! At least copy Coach D'Amato from Any Given Sunday. (Side note - both Varsity Blues and Any Given Sunday were released in 1999).

I guess kids today do receive their learning from Hollywood, or at least, those that are home-schooled.

And, since I mentioned the movie, I had to add this little ditty ...