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Top Sports Video of All Time

In 1999 ESPN aired a program called Sports Century which counted down the top 100 athletes of the 20th century. Near the end of the series, which included a 30 minute program on each athlete, they aired this video to the music of Dream On by Aerosmith. We dare you to watch it and not see America - all that was... all that can be. Pause the video when you see Grambling Coach, Eddie Robinson, at his retirement ceremony. The tears... the lines of history etched on his face... that look. It captured the many years of no money, bus rides, players who played for Grambling because no major state school would allow black athletes. In that one second shot of his face you see it all. The struggle. The victory. The purpose of it all and the struggle overcome. You see the realization that it's over. It's over. The weight of a life well lived about to end. It's the struggle that brings purpose. And this video... more than any other supports that supposition.
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