Autzen Stadium "Dreams in their Eyes."

"The Dreams in their Eyes."


I am one of those, those over gifted athletes who never had to try, not hard. Yeah, I practiced, was on a team, teams Varsity, H.S., but I never really had a reason, ever.  I even have sweat shirt from the team at college; I was always fast and I just joined to get a easy A, just to get my degree. I was going somewhere else in life finally; I had direction. College will do that point you in a direction give you something you think you can do and live on possibly enjoy. If you get a chance to be a part of a team, any team group something done with hard work and group effort even when it's ugly, and you pass through it or even over come it and be the winner you were part of a team. Never lose that, and you earned it, the earning more is what we want to hear next. The beating this world hands down a winner in everyone's eyes, and that is a fine and noble goal, but if we really tried hard what would we become?
 The next thing that happens changes it all, one trauma, one fall, one tear, break missed ball or note in a song. You can't go back and change the music, you can't ever go back, and catch the ball, make the push when you should of. It happened to me, and I had to get up and dust off, I had to get up, and keep going, I had to train like no man should train unless he is going to do something really hard. I had to train like every thing that I wanted and hoped for was at risk. I had to train like I had the very devil him self chasing me and I was trying to keep up with big G. I got up. I trained everyday, I worked everyday, everything I did with purpose and need of greatness that pushes boundaries, and I broke a few. I was becoming that winner. I was setting records and doing what I know other said could not be done.
 Tragedy is part of life and it again touched me, and all I knew. I was down again. I got back up and I ran. I trained. I would run to the plaque at Autzen Stadium and read the engraving. I would get down on one knee and cross my self into prayer then getting up renewed.  I would read just a few lines, about the mothers who so believed in the dreams in their children's eyes, who supported them and loved them raising them to reach their dreams. You see that's it right there in essence of why I get back up and shine, and it's the essence of every Duck who reads this, it is the essence of every student who said I am going the extra mile, the extra set, the extra, long distance until then their night was not through, until then they couldn't rest, why they had dreams in their eyes.
  
I called the front at Autzen office one day. People were defacing  the plaque, they were stepping on something that had become sacred, and I called because it kept happening. I called because it meant something big to me does it to you?
"What are the Dreams in you Eyes?"
THOR