Remember the Titans

[the team is facing racial tensions as they try to compete well as a high school football team during the early 1970s]

As Blue so adequately put it, "And y'all fools think that's something?...man, that ain't nothing y'all."  He was addressing his team reminding them that what they are facing is something greater than the team realized.  As is said in the clip, the team came together at camp, but then the real world is not as easy as camp.  Camp was not easy either.  It is only experiences that are borne from hardship that mean something to us.  Imagine winning a trophy and having put no hard work in, it doesn't really mean anything.  It is the hard fought battle that means something.  That is why when you study really hard for a test, or you work really hard at your job that you feel the joy of success.  

Blue is touching not only on fighting through adversity for the sake of the joy to be had after all the hard work, but also a choice to be made.  It is a great parallel for a Confirmation.  It is an accepting of the faith that somebody professed for us at Baptism.  So our parents, "Coach Boone," spoke for us when we were younger, but now it is time for us to take on what we believe, to speak for ourselves.  Coach Boone could not make the players get along, or think that working together will make them better people.  It is a choice that they themselves had to make.  It was something that the team had to answer, the question of whether or not they were going to let race get in the way.  

The question becomes for us, is that when the going gets tough are we going to accept the faith, that we have proclaimed thus far, or will we give up, and let the world dictate what we believe.  The camaraderie that the team felt coming back from camp was a true experience that they should not ignore, but rather embrace, which is the same of what we should do.  We should not deny the experience of faith we once had, or explaining it away.  It is real.