Mike Eruzione
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Right.
When I saw the movie for the first time and I heard his speech, I went, holy shit, that's long.
I don't remember him saying that.
But I remember him saying, you were born to be a player.
You were meant to be here.
This moment is yours.
Tonight is your night.
But in the movie, they lengthened it because of what he talked about in practice the day before.
They're ripe.
They're ready to be beaten.
If anybody can beat him, you guys can beat him.
And on and on and on about that.
So I think they incorporated what he said the day before into the speech before the game.
Yeah, we got telegrams.
I mean, every day you'd get bags of telegrams from people all across the country.
That's the only kind of way that we knew people were watching.
But I remember we got a telegram from a lady in Texas.
And I live in Boston.
And all the telegram said was, beat those commie bastards.
Swear to God.