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Recent Partnerships
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Leading Through Performance, Relationships, and the Lessons of Sports
Rich Thompson shares part of his story while playing football for the University of Wisconsin. Read about having the courage to believe in yourself and your teammates who have done the work and are committed to success, even after failure.
Relentless Excerpt:
I learned about Big C courage on the football field when millions of fans were counting on me to do my job.
As a player, you practice every day to be ready for the game-winning moment. The one thing every athlete grows up wanting is to get his or her hands on the ball with a chance to win a big game. Those chances are very rare; I had only three game-winning opportunities my entire collegiate career.
I was the kicker for the University of Wisconsin and started as a true freshman. My first game-winning attempt came in the second game of my career with a fifty-five-yard field goal attempt against Northern Illinois with six seconds remaining. It had the distance but missed by inches wide left.
My second came five years later on October 10, 1992, and we were just getting a taste of what winning under Coach Barry Alvarez would be like. We’d been a very bad team for a long time; we hadn’t had a winning season since 1984. Coach Alvarez had been working for three seasons on our team culture and performance, and we were finally seeing the results.
That Saturday, we were at conference rival Iowa. The week before, we had upset twelfth-ranked Ohio State in Madison, which at that time was Alvarez’s signature win. We had some momentum and were anxious to prove ourselves. The University of Iowa Hawkeyes were a good team; the year before they’d had a record of 10–1 and gone to the Holiday Bowl. We were hungry to show them who we were (several of our coaches had Iowa ties and chips on their shoulders).
The game came down to the last play. We were behind 22–23 and managed to get into field goal range. It was a fifty-three-yard attempt, which was a long field goal at any level of the game. But it was every kicker’s dream: a chance to kick the winning field goal against a worthy rival and walk off the field a hero. The pressure was on. National television coverage, 70,000 screaming fans in the stands—this was my moment.
Or not.
First, Iowa called a last-second timeout to ice me. Fair enough. They could try to ice me all they wanted; It had zero impact. I was having a great day and feeling good. I remember standing in the middle of the field, the center of enemy territory, fans screaming with all their energy directed at wanting me to fail. But I was a focused machine, sure of my abilities. The jeering did nothing to change my certainty that I was going to kick that ball straight through the uprights. The snapper, the holder, and I had practiced the play hundreds of times. We were ready.
Kicking is a game of precision. In college football, you generally have about 1.2 seconds between the snap and the kick to get the ball into the air. Any longer and some very big linemen are coming right at you and the defense has a chance to get close enough to possibly block the kick. That day, things didn’t go as practiced. The snap took a couple of bounces across the ground and rolled back to the holder. By the time the ball was placed, far more than 1.2 seconds had passed, and Iowa had advanced to make an easy block.
Our whole team was devastated.
Unbelievably, I had another shot at a game-winning opportunity the very next week at home against Purdue. This time the stakes were even higher. We were deeper into the schedule. We needed a win. We had ended the game with a blocked field goal the week before. And it was homecoming. I had to walk out onto the field again under the same circumstances and believe that everything would work this time. I had to trust my teammates and myself to get it right under enormous pressure.
This time, it was a forty-nine-yard attempt. The snap was on point, the hold was perfect, and the second the ball left my foot I knew it was good. The crowd went wild. I ran and jumped across the field as my teammates engulfed me. That day, we walked away winners, 19–16.
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