The power of football

You'll hear a lot of cliches about the game of football.  But I've never heard the power of the game expressed more clearly than this...

"You take this kid from south central Los Angeles and bring him to Atlanta, GA, and take another child from the mountains of north Georgia, and they've been raised very differently, probably raised to hate each other.  And you make 'em sweat in the same color shirt.  And they come in and out of that locker room, and they pull that nasty jersey off enough times, and it starts to dawn...that sweat smells about the same on everybody.  And I get busted in my mouth and my blood's the same color as my brother here.  

And a miracle happens and I call it the miracle of team.  It's why I do what I do.  Those two guys raised to hate each other become brothers and they love each other, and it lasts for the rest of your life."  

Bill Curry, head coach of Georgia State, on the ESPN program Boys of Fall
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