True Highlights (1-1-11)

Just as you would expect a coach of a Rose Bowl Champion team to say, Coach Gary Patterson of TCU praised his quarterback, thanked the ecstatic fans, and spoke of his wild emotions during the most intense play of the game.
In this season’s Rose Bowl, the undefeated Horned Frogs battled the Badgers of Wisconsin down to the last minutes of the game. After the Badgers got into the end zone to cut the TCU lead to just 21-19, they had no other choice than to go for the conversion; however, as the ball was headed toward a wide-open receiver, Tank Carder denied the pass and forced the Badgers to try an on-side kick… which was recovered by TCU--the play that basically locked in a victory for the mighty team from Texas.
So, of course, in his interviews, Coach Patterson was asked about Carder’s amazing play, his team’s great quarterback, and what this win meant to him. But something definitely stuck out in the questions that were asked by the reporters.
As anyone who knows the slightest bit about TCU and their history could tell you, the Horned Frogs are a “little guys” program. Yes, their linemen are far from “little” and their record far more than a “big” deal, but coming from the Mountain West Conference, not many college football groupies outside of the Mountain knew of this incredible team until recently when it has become nearly impossible for this fighting, purple football team to go unnoticed.
With this in mind, the surprising question that was prevalent in the interviews was if this TCU win was for “all the little guys,” (meaning all the other teams that don‘t get their turn to shine in the BCS spotlight because of the BCS rules that most college football fans know as terribly bogus). Both Gary Patterson and his 42-7 quarterback answered the same way: they won, first, for TCU, and next, for all the little guys; Coach also said something to the effect of “it was for all those guys that didn’t get their chance.”
In a sport that focuses more and more everyday on individual superstars and teams that win based on one player’s actions, you can see a lot of teams and teammates that let so much get to their heads. You would think that if anyone in college football had the right to be conceited, it would be this unstoppable Texas program; but they just won an incredibly well-fought game and gave the win to the “little guys everywhere who didn’t get their chance.”
TCU is just what football needs. Not only do they pull off game-changing highlights, and defy all possibilities with their remarkable players; but they pull off true highlights and change the focus from individual superstars to teams that win for something so much bigger than themselves.