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Minutes before the kickoff for Super Bowl II, Coach Lombardi called his players together and made a short speech. This is what he said:.
It's very difficult for me to say anything. Anything I say would be repetitious. This is our 23rd game this year. I don't know anything else I could tell this team. Boys, you are a good football team. You are a proud football team. You are the world champions of the National Football League, for the third time in a row, for the first time in the history of the National Football League. That's a great thing to be proud of.
But let me just say this: All the glory, everything you've had is going to be small in comparison to winning this one. This is a great thing for you. You"re the only team in the history of the National Football League to ever have this opportunity to win the Super Bowl twice. Boys, I tell you I"d be so proud of that, I just fill myself up with myself. I just get bigger and bigger.
It's not going to come easy. This is a club that's gonna hit you. They"re gonna try and hit you, and you've got to take it out of them. You've got to be 40 tigers out there. That's all. Just run. Just block and tackle. If you do that, there's no question what the answer's going to be in this ball game. Keep your poise. You've face them all. There's nothing they can show you out there you haven't faced a hundred times before. Right?.
Lombardi's Super Bowl II speech falls into the classical perspective of persuasion. It passes the five characteristics of the classical perspective. It is episodic, which means it has a beginning, and middle, and an end. Not only is this speech an episode in itself it is part of a greater episode which is the season that the Green Bay Packers were currently playing. Lombardi's speech is definitely overt, intentional, and methodic. It is also audience-centered where the audience is his football team. Finally, his speech is ethics-centered.