| abstract | - It's the big game. Your team is down. The final minutes are on the clock. The coach calls for a time out and brings the whole team in. Maybe he goes over strategy first, or maybe he skips that. Either way just before the team goes back out on to the field of battle, the coach gives a Rousing Speech to inspire his team to victory! Examples of Win One for the Gipper include:
* Knute Rockne, All American is the Trope Namer, and probably the most famous example. The "Win one for the Gipper!" speech is repeatedly lampshaded and parodied.
* And when Knute Rockne said this to the team, they said, "Why should we? He's dead." - Dave Barry
* Parodied in an episode The Simpsons where Mr Burns tells the team "There's a little crippled boy in hospital who wants you to win. I know because I crippled him myself to inspire you."
* Parodied in Airplane!. Ted Striker feels guilty about causing the death of seven men under his command during the war, including George Zip.
* Major League 2 has this. First, the manager of the Indians is in the hospital recovering from a heart attack, but tries to avert this trope by telling his successor not to give the team "one of those 'Let's win this one for Lou' speeches... I couldn't stand that." He's promised that won't happen, but later it is played straighter than straight... with a little lie about the severity of Lou's state.
* Parodied in SpongeBob SquarePants, where Spongebob implores everyone to do well for Squidward, pretending that he was the one who did something nice for them.
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