The video has been viewed over 6 million times on ABC13 Sports’ Facebook page.
If you have 6 minutes and 50 seconds to spare – and even if you don’t – it would be worth your time to press play and listen to the passionate speech Klein Oak head football coach Jason Glenn gave his players before they began summer workouts on June 8.
“The stuff that’s going on with our country right now is not going to divide us.”
“Your skin color, your race, your religion… that won’t divide us. We’re not doing that. We won’t allow it. There’s no hatred toward anybody because of their skin color, race or religion. Are you kidding me. I’m hurting.”
The 122,000 shares, 72,000 likes and 6,600 comments that video has generated are great, but a viral moment was not what Glenn was hoping for. He wants change - systemic, deep-within-the-fiber-of-your-being, not-just-because-it’s-happening-right-now change.
So he poured his heart out to his kids, resulting in an unscripted and passionate moment as moving as any pregame speech you’ll ever hear.