Topic > The Importance of Family - 1526

These groups spend countless hours working together toward one or more goals and supporting each other through triumphs and failures. Teams, at the start of the season, will set goals to win "x" games, have a perfect season, go to the playoffs, get all the "ones" in a bracket competition, or simply improve a skill. The organization will then spend more hours together in the gym, on a field or in a music room. A great example of this is in the movie Remember the Titans. Two games were integrated and placed together on the same football field to run routes together, block each other and achieve Coach Boone's goal of perfection: “We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, run a mile… Perfection. Let's go to work." During a two-week training camp, negative words and actions were expressed towards others by both coaches and players. As training camp went on, the guys started caring about each other, the offensive and defensive players started sitting together, they started treating each other with respect, and they became loyal to each other. During the camp, they learned discipline, loyalty, and how to look beyond the surface of another human being to see the other for what values ​​and beliefs were at their core. Bertier, the team captain, explained to hospital nurse Alice, that the team is a family. When Julius entered: “Alice, are you blind? Don't you see the family resemblance? That's my brother,” Julius was African American and Bertier was white. Team members fight like brothers, coaches support, teach and care for athletes like a mother or father would. Teams in today's society are just like the Titans, they have different beliefs, skin color and goals; but a team can rely on each other to achieve the goal,