Watch ‘Lone Survivor’ Marcus Luttrell Motivate The Alabama Football Team With This Incredible Speech
The 39-year-old retired SEAL gave the pre-game pep talk to members of the Crimson Tide, recounting events from the 2005 Operation: Red Wings, in which his four-man team fought a vicious battle against insurgents while trying to escape down the side of a mountain. During the initial battle, Lt. Michael Murphy and Petty Officers Matthew Axelson and Danny Dietz were killed, with Luttrell being the lone survivor of the mission.
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Luttrell's book, "Lone Survivor," was later made into a movie of the same name. Both recounted the incredible heroism of the entire team, including Murphy, who was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.
"At no point in time was any of my teammates afraid of anything, at no point did anybody stall in the door, so to speak," Lutrell says in a video of the apparent talk. "They didn't kind of back up and say 'hey i don't want to be in this.' It was, 'this is what we're here to do, let's do this.'"
Although a video of the talk has apparently made its way online, The Blaze has noted it may not be from this specific pre-game speech. Either way, it's well worth watching.
"I was sitting on the edge of my seat," tight end Brian Vogler told AL.com. "Any time you can talk to somebody like that, you're completely locked in to everything that's going on, every word that's coming out of his mouth. And honestly, once he got done talking, I wanted to run through a brick wall."
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