Read this over on Sports Illustrated’s site in a Peter King column. He’s one of my favorite sports columnists and he wrote about asking a member of the Detroit Lions what now-fired head coach Rod Marinelli said to the team after their final game of the first 0-16 season in NFL history.
“The room got very quiet,” Hanson (the team’s placekicker) said. “Rod is a very good man. He thanked us for fighting to the end. But he said to us, ‘This is us. We own this. We did this. So man up.’ ”
That’s our quote. An amazing testimony to personal responsibility in an age and culture that blames everyone else for its problems.
This is us. We own this. We did this. So man up.
– Rod Marinelli
