It should be no surprise our family loves the movie Hoosiers. Every year as the weather starts to turn cool, TNT has a Hoosier's marathons. As if that is not enough, we own the movie. Justice has watched it so many times he is constantly throwing out quotes randomly around the house. He does not fall far from the tree because Coach Keene has the movie memorized. "Don't get caught watching the paint dry Cam." "It okay, it's my assistant coach." "Coach stays, I stay." Seriously, the kid has a comment for most moments.
Justice loves Coach Sears. Coach Sears let Justice be the ball boy the first game of the season IF he produced five 100% on his spelling tests. Justice worked extra hard those weeks. Coach let Justice come into the locker room this past homecoming weekend. Ironically, we were playing IW. Its my understanding that Coach gave the pre-game speech and then asked Justice if he had anything to say. A Keene has rarely ever been at a loss for words so Justice walked to the front of the orange and black players suited up to play with confidence. Justice cleared his throat. "Don't worry about the size of the crowd. Don't worry about the fancy uniforms. It's Homecoming, lets Beat Illini West!" Justice pulled a mini Norman Dale. For those that don't know who Norman Dale is--he's the basketball coach of Hickory. When Hickory was in the locker room before tip off Coach Dale gave this exact speech.
Justice IS Norman Dale in his room. His room is set up just like a locker room. I constantly hear him giving those words of encouragement to his stuffed animals. No doubt in my mind Justice is on track to be a great leader someday. No doubt in my mind Hoosiers is one of the best movies ever made.
