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Sunday sermon: Roll away the stone
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Sunday sermon: Roll away the stone


Nov 15, 2009, 8:51 AM

One game to go, one more stone to roll away to complete the resurrection of Clemson football.

We have stood here before, many times. Why then does this all seem so new?

Perhaps because so many times, the stone slipped. The load shifted, the foreman wasn't paying attention and it all tumbled back on us. We ended up with our path blocked, the ever-building combination of frustration and sadness that drives men mad....or crushes their spirit entirely.

Since we find ourselves back at this point, I think we can assume our spirit has not been crushed. We've never been broken, just badly bent.

Now it all is so freaking close ... look out your window this morning and you can see it.

Clemson in the ACC title game. Let it roll around in your morning coffee for just a minute. Think back, just a minute on all the times we've been this close before ... and failed.

Think of these times just once more. Then cast them away.
They will not be coming back. We will not be chained to the stones that denied us before.

We are Clemson again.

We are the guys people fear. You can see it on their message boards and on their scorebaords. They aren't looking at a soft, "punch-em-in-the-mouth and they vanish" foe. They are looking at Shiva, the Destroyer, the bringers of pain.

This is as it should be. And far more fitting, certainly to we who remember the ancient past, that Virginia should be the lamb of sacrifice. I can think of no foe more fitting to roast in the Valley to atone for the past 18 years of our exile.

White meat. Tender and juicy, roasting in the fiery pit of damnation that is Death Valley. Carved up for us all.

One more game. One more stone.

Don't just roll this one aside, Tigers. Demolish it. Crush this stone into tiny, little fragments, and let each of the faithful take a piece to hold in our hearts.

To remember the day the Tigers' roar was truly heard again o'er the mountain's height.

It is there for us this Saturday, Tigers.

We are ready.

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