Five score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new sport, conceived in a library, and dedicated to the proposition that all teams are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great handicapping war, testing whether that team, or any team so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war, known collectively as THE NFL. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that notion might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. Jimmy the Greek would approve.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The network executives, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this football nation, under God, shall have a new birth of parity -- and that government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich, shall not perish from the earth. . .and parity shall live for ever and ever.
- ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS Sports, NFL Inc.
