In the terrific boxing documentary When We Were Kings, George Plimpton recounts the story of Muhammad Ali's commencement speech to the graduates of Harvard University. "Give us a poem!" one student shouted. Ali surveyed the quieting crowd and said: "Me, we."
"It stands for something more than the poem itself," Plimpton said.
It stands, in fact, for everything that's wrong with personal pronoun usage in modern sports.
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What do you mean, we?
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Doesn't matter, Spurs will win this year for sure!
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