chatster

October 7th, 2014 at 4:12 PM ^

That's probably NOT an appropriate method for motivating Michigan Football Team 135. There were times when Tony Soprano's Motivational Strategy might've gone a little too far. (RIP Fabian "Febby" Petrulio, a. k. a. Fred Peters.)

WARNING:

The link contains graphic violence and some explicit language that might offend those who are either unfamilar with HBO's "The Sopranos" or the term "garroting" or who are unaccustomed to or squeamish about viewing a murder (even when it's a fake -- and no one really dies) or hearing or using foul language.  

There's a reason why the embedding feature on YouTube has been "disabled by request." 

DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK OR WATCH THE VIDEO IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT BE DISGUSTED BY WHAT YOU SEE OR HEAR. 

For those faithful viewers of "The Sopranos," you may remember this from "College," the fifth episode of the first season when Tony takes Meadow to visit colleges in Maine and they have an overnight stay at a motel. This scene occurs during Tony's daytime excursion while Meadow is being interviewed at Colby College after they've left the motel.

Joined: 09/14/2010

MGoPoints: 26948

543Church

October 7th, 2014 at 4:59 PM ^

I did something similar when coaching my son's baseball team.  We had two games in a row where we got smoked badly.   At the next game in my pre-game speech I took the game ball from the previous day and threw it as far as I could into the woods nearby and told them we're going to forget all about yesterday.

The kids loved that and got super fired up, all except one who was very concerned that nobody would ever find the ball and started wandering into the woods to find it.   

It worked on 9 year olds....not sure about 19 year olds.

 

 

 

Joined: 03/09/2012

MGoPoints: 10547