slogans

It may well be known that I love BYU sports, and of all college sports, I love football the most.  Sitting in priesthood meeting on Sunday for some reason I felt inspired by the slogans/logos released by BYU in the past several years.  Not only are they football themed, but they are very gospel themed as well.  I collected some samples to show:

Fully invested:  

BYU use - be a fan that is fully invested in supporting the team, be a hard working, undistracted (fan/player/coach).

Gospel use - fully invest yourselves in preparing for salvation, don't casually read the scriptures or pray, but really mean everything you do and make it important.

The Quest (for perfection) - thats a little bit self explanatory for both uses.

Rise Up:
BYU use - Coming back from a less than perfect season, it is now time for the Cougars to rise up, and become a national power again.  (which I totally think they can/will)
Gospel use - "Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?" Psalms 94:16.  Also, from Hymn #324, 
"Rise up o men of God, tread where His feet have trod, as brothers of the Son of Man, Rise up o men of God."


Yes, I do think that Bronco has been doing his very best to influence this team spiritually as well as physically, and I agree that a team that is spiritually healthy will perform better physically (due to the fact that much of the game is mental, and spirituality helps mental focus).



Not to mention the constant reference to the original slogan (the one introduced the very first year Bronco was head coach) "Band of Brothers".  At first when I saw coaches and ball boys wearing that shirt at a recent practice I thought they just had some old stuff, but then I realized that its the same shirt that Bronco wears to half of the games:

And they have it front and center on all of their helmets:

 And this year they made a poster/desktop with the slogan

So, Rise up!  Be fully invested in the quest for eternal salvation through faith, repentance and baptism in the true church headed by Jesus Christ himself, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.