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I know this has been posted elsewhere, but I'm just as sure most haven't yet seen it.

If the mods feel this shouldn't have its own thread, feel free to delete. I was ready to run through the wall when I saw it. It's Al Pacino's speech from "Any Given Sunday" with a Packers twist. Thanks, PackerFanFan!

A Game of Inches
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Worth reposting. The juxtaposition of the speech (below) with the pictures is fabulous.

Courtesy BTP:

quote:
I don't know what to say really.
Three minutes
to the biggest battle of our professional lives
all comes down to today.
Either
we heal
as a team
or we are going to crumble.
Inch by inch
play by play
till we're finished.
We are in hell right now, gentlemen
believe me
and
we can stay here
and get the **** kicked out of us
or
we can fight our way
back into the light.
We can climb out of hell.
One inch, at a time.

Now I can't do it for you.
I'm too old.
I look around and I see these young faces
and I think
I mean
I made every wrong choice a middle age man could make.
I uh....
I pissed away all my money
believe it or not.
I chased off
anyone who has ever loved me.
And lately,
I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror.

You know when you get old in life
things get taken from you.
That's, that's part of life.
But,
you only learn that when you start losing stuff.
You find out that life is just a game of inches.
So is football.
Because in either game
life or football
the margin for error is so small.
I mean
one half step too late or to early
you don't quite make it.
One half second too slow or too fast
and you don't quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They are in ever break of the game
every minute, every second.

On this team, we fight for that inch
On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know
when we add up all those inches
that's going to make the ****ing difference
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.

I'll tell you this
in any fight
it is the guy who is willing to die
who is going to win that inch.
And I know
if I am going to have any life anymore
it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch
because that is what LIVING is.
The six inches in front of your face.

Now I can't make you do it.
You gotta look at the guy next to you.
Look into his eyes.
Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.
You are going to see a guy
who will sacrifice himself for this team
because he knows when it comes down to it,
you are gonna do the same thing for him.

That's a team, gentlemen
and either we heal now, as a team,
or we will die as individuals.
That's football guys.
That's all it is.
Now, whattaya gonna do?
I heard it for the first time in the other topic that posted it.

Slight off tangent, but...

Of the movies I am aware of, I have considered the following to be the finest monologues I have ever heard.

1. Satan in The Devil's Advocate - it's near the end of the movie, pretty mesmerizing.

2. The general played by Nicholson in A Few Good Men.

3. The blind guy in Scent of a Woman (at the school hearing).


If you add this one, 3/4 are Al Pacino. Pretty intense.
Ammo,

Oh yeah!

My favorite monologue is in The Devil's Advocate. My gosh, it was intense.

Salmon Dave,

Speaking of Nicholson on film and women, I love As Good As It Gets where the receptionist asks Melvin how he writes women so well.

I think of a man and take away reason and accountability.
This game in the Superbowl. In two weeks, just another game will be played in Dallas. This is the game that we will be talking about for 50 years. The Packers are the better team, only something freakish will cause us to loose.
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Originally posted by PoHarry:
Wow, this is your Super Bowl? So if the Pack wins today and loses the Super Bowl you would be satisfied?


Since your's and Lovie's Super Bowl was Sept. 27, 2010, yah.
I'm not satisfied, however, I'm very proud of this Packer team & everything they've accomplished this year.

But as a great coach once said....

"We're not done yet!!!"

I love this Packer team and I'll probably get emotional if they do win today.
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Originally posted by ammo:
quote:
Originally posted by PoHarry:
Wow, this is your Super Bowl? So if the Pack wins today and loses the Super Bowl you would be satisfied?


Since your's and Lovie's Super Bowl was Sept. 27, 2010, yah.


Not hardly. That was just a bump in the road man. I guess that would be the date you lost in Chicago. I don't remember trivial dates like that.

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