BREAKING
WISHBONE FAITH

Topics: Belief; Christianity; Faith; Loyalty; Support; Trust; Unbelief

References: 2 Timothy 1:12; Hebrews 10:23, 35–39; 11

Alumni and fans made UCLA football coach Pepper Rodgers’s life miserable the year his Bruins got off to a horrible start. Nobody in Southern California would hang out with him. “My dog was my only true friend,” Rodgers said.

“I told my wife that every man needs at least two good friends. She bought me another dog.”

Rodgers is tough in the face of adversity, however. When his players at UCLA were having difficulty adapting to the wishbone offense he’d installed and the school’s alumni demanded that he adopt another system, Rodgers didn’t budge. “The wishbone is like Christianity,” he said. “If you believe in it only until something goes wrong, you didn’t believe in it in the first place.”

—“A Look at Our Legacy,” coachwyatt.com (August 29, 2003)