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Gaffney the Motivator - qwerty49 - 10-06-2019
Stanford Football’s Facebook page posted that Shaw brought Gaffney in as honorary captain for what he termed an “attitude game.” Apparently Tyler gave a pretty good pre-game speech. I would love to have been a fly on the wall.
RE: Gaffney the Motivator - 76lsjumb - 10-06-2019
It's settled, then. No more Tiger; more Tyler...
RE: Gaffney the Motivator - jonnyss - 10-06-2019
was tyler gaffney the handsome dude that was standing next to shaw on the sidelines at the end of the game? the tv was focused on the pair for quite a while.
lex24 - lex24 - 10-06-2019
Yes.
(10-06-2019, 09:04 PM)jonnyss Wrote: was tyler gaffney the handsome dude that was standing next to shaw on the sidelines at the end of the game? the tv was focused on the pair for quite a while.
RE: Gaffney the Motivator - JJJ - 10-07-2019
Quote:David Shaw's best call against Washington was inviting former Stanford two-sport star Tyler Gaffney to be the team's honorary captain.
A slashing running back who got stronger as the game progressed and left everything on the field, Gaffney played with a swagger and relished contact, dishing out as much as he received. As a senior in 2013, Gaffney rushed for 1,709 yards and 21 touchdowns.
"I wanted him up here," said Shaw, the Bradford M. Freeman Director of Football, following the Cardinal's inspiring 23-13 victory against the No. 15 Huskies on Saturday night. "This was going to be an attitude game and I couldn't think of a better person to come talk to the team, and he was awesome."
https://gostanford.com/news/2019/10/6/football-sundays-with-soltau.aspx?path=football
RE: Gaffney the Motivator - martyup - 10-08-2019
Maybe the secret sauce to Stanford's success on Saturday was the student body. This was the first home game with students on campus. If you think back over the past several years, we have struggled in games played before students returned.
RE: Gaffney the Motivator - cctop - 10-08-2019
(10-08-2019, 07:28 AM)martyup Wrote: Maybe the secret sauce to Stanford's success on Saturday was the student body. This was the first home game with students on campus.
Possibly for the second half.
At kickoff student attendance was miserable, literally only about eight rows of one section filled.
They slowly trickled in. By the end of the first quarter they had filled 1.5 sections, and by halftime the Red Zone was reasonably full though not packed.
They cheered louder for the pink T-shirt giveaway than they did for the team.
But yes, as it became apparent that we had a chance to win, the student body got more into the game.
RE: Gaffney the Motivator - martyup - 10-08-2019
I don't mean necessarily only the cheering of the students at the game, but the overall atmosphere on campus with the students back.