He wheeled in a television monitor, Aaron Rowand recalled, “like it was elementary school,” to prepare his players for battle with a scene from “Braveheart.”
“He says, ‘Boys, there’s a team ahead of you that has faltered. It is now your time.’ ” Giants coach Tim Flannery said. “He hits the play button and there’s (Gibson as) William Wallace telling these guys, ‘It’s your time.’ He played the clip and didn’t have to say anything after that. Everybody’s been yelling, ‘Freedom,’ ever since.”
I’m guessing this was taken as a so-bad-it’s-good thing, right? Because no one can really take Mel Gibson seriously these days.
Either way, the title of best motivation video of all time has to come down to one of the following: (a) The end of “Last of the Mohicans” when Chingachgook kicks the holy hell out of Magua; (b) the part in “Animal House” when Bluto gives the “was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor” speech; or (c) Bill Murray doing the “it JUST DOESN"T MATTER!” thing in “Meatballs.”
In other news, I’m not allowed to coach my son’s soccer team anymore.