This is awesome. I have seen Coach Niumatalolo cry multiple times in his post game speeches. It's the "phileos" he has for the kids. It is the Brotherhood of Navy Football.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120905862.html?sid=ST2010120906329
Ken Niumatalolo sees coaching in the Army-Navy game as a privilege
"...Two days before the 111th renewal of the rivalry, the Naval Academy coach actually uses the word "privileged" to describe what it's like to be in that locker room each year. ...
"They'll be in harm's way." Think about that.
We devote many newspaper pages and television shows and radio programs complaining that another malcontent millionaire walked off with Daniel Snyder's checkbook this week, as if it's never happened before.
We hotly debate whether Cam Newton should be paid, assuming every talented college player is paid anyway.
We're enraged by whom the BCS robbed and, if we're from College Park, we complain about how Maryland was sent to run-down RFK for its postseason game while the North Carolina State team it beat in the regular season gets to bask in the sun of Orlando's Champs Sports Bowl.
Do you know what the young men from Navy and Army publicly complained about this week?
Nothing. It's the same thing they complained about last week and the week before that, when they actually could have elicited some real sympathy. The 24 seniors on the Navy football team received their deployment orders on Dec. 1, most of which contained the one locale their family and friends were bracing for: Afghanistan.
...We should all feel as privileged as Ken Niumatalolo. ..."
