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Understatement has become part of the tradition. A proposal to build a history room to house the football team's memorabilia was immediately shelved when many former players complained. What makes this program so special is what you carry in your heart, they argued, not what you hang on the wall.
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Neil Hayes (When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak (Special Movie Edition))
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A local director had teamed up with ESPN to tell a story about the Baltimore Colts Marching Band, and the film came out in October of 2009. The 30 for 30 documentary entitled The Band That Wouldn’t Die was about how the band stayed in existence for 12 years after the team’s painful midnight exodus to Indianapolis and how they eventually became the Marching Ravens.
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Ted Patterson (Football in Baltimore: History and Memorabilia from Colts to Ravens)
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was fond of Steve because I was able to glimpse the other side of him. I liked how he kept things in perspective. As driven and perfectionistic as he was, he stuck to his Friday-before-game-day ritual—a haircut and nine holes of golf. One year, my partner Todd Blackledge and our sideline reporter Jill Arrington were in Gainesville before a game. We went to Steve’s office. It was a virtual museum with memorabilia covering nearly every square inch of the place. Jill was relatively new to the team. Steve welcomed us all in and could see Jill scanning his office. He showed her a photo of one of his Duke University teams. This was obviously before he took over at Florida and attained so much success. That he was proud of the job he’d done at that school spoke volumes about him. He wasn’t going to brag about himself or his better-known squads. He pointed out some of the players and what they’d gone on to do in other things besides playing in the NFL. His evident pride in them impressed me.
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Verne Lundquist (Play by Play:: Calling the Wildest Games in Sports—From SEC Football to College Basketball, The Masters, and More)