We're not asking you to be perfect on every play. What we're asking you is to give a perfect effort on every play from snap to whistle.

Walsh taped newspaper articles above his bed heralding Pittsburg's upset victory the year before. Every night for a year he heard those articles rustling in the breeze from the ceiling fan. It made it hard to sleep but he wanted to remind himself of that loss every night before he went to bed.

He told his teammates this story during the meeting the night before the rematch with Pittsburg in the 1992 NCS championship game, and it has been passed down ever since.

"Patrick Walsh is the most passionate person I have ever met, and he was able to channel that tremendous passion into high school football like nobody I've ever seen," says Tyler Scott, a senior wide receiver on the 1991 team that lost to Pittsburg.

It wasn't until after the Spartans defeated the Pirates 41-6 the following day that Walsh took the articles down and slept peacefully.