Essential Question Response #7

So my essential question for this response is
Can determination allow you to accomplish anything?

I couldn't help but remember the football game between Boise State and Oklahoma. At the end of the game, Boise State was trailing Oklahoma by seven points. Boise State was on the fifty-yard line with only eighteen seconds left. This situation was extremely bad for Boise State and many teams would have been defeated mentally. But Boise State was determined not to lose and pulled off a spectacular lateral for the fifty-yard touchdown, which sent them into overtime. After their spectacular play, during overtime they were faced with the decision whether to kick for the extra point and go into double overtime, or to go for a conversion, risking it all to win. Their determination to win caused them to take a gamble for the win, and after another spectacular play they scored the conversion and won the game. Boise State was faced with many grim situations in that game, that would have broken many teams, but their determination to win pulled them through each one of those situations and allowed them to pull of a spectacular win.