American winner takes all

Chapter 255 Either win or die (22)

In the only large multiplex movie theater in Tuscaloosa, Ethan and McKenna were staring at the big screen.

On the movie screen, it was Ethan's good friend Leonardo DiCaprio. He was standing at the bow of the ship, holding fat K Kate Winslet's waist, while Kate opened her arms and stood in front of DiCaprio... There is no doubt that this classic The scene will remain in the hearts of everyone who has watched this movie.

In the pitch-black cinema, the audience burst into subconscious exclamations.

In Ethan's previous life, it was more difficult to find one person who had never seen Titanic than to find 100 people who had seen it.Ethan himself has watched it at least ten times on various occasions.

This also caused him to seem particularly bored at the moment, and he even wanted to recite some lines.

It was the end of September 1997, the eve of Titanic's wide release. Of course Ethan didn't want to watch the movie, but McKenna beside him had been seduced by a classmate and insisted on asking Ethan to accompany her.

In the disaster movie scene in the second half of the film, McKenna seemed even more nervous and did not dare to breathe. Later, when the two protagonists parted, she was extremely sad, with tears rolling in her eyes, and when the elderly Rose Heart of the Ocean was thrown into the vast sea. She returned to the past at the last moment of the film. When she danced with Jack for the last time, McKenna showed relief.

"This movie is only three hours long, but it seems as long as the whole life." After walking out of the cinema, McKenna took the initiative to hold Ethan's arm, seeming a little unfinished.

"Maybe the lives of most people in this world are not as exciting as a movie." McKenna sighed.

"No, the splendor of life cannot be depicted in movies." Ethan had a different opinion.

"Speaking of life, McKenna, it's getting late, it's almost dark..." Ethan said, this is business.

"Ethan, it's only 02:30 in the afternoon." McKenna reminded.

"That's right." Ethan nodded, still pulling McKenna towards the Hilton Hotel.

"Wait...hey..." Of course McKenna's arms couldn't twist Ethan's thigh.

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"Ethan, isn't this good... How can you play ball when you spend all your energy on me?" McKenna said with a blushing face as she hugged Ethan.

If Ethan performs abnormally, isn't it his own problem?

It was him who made Ethan too indulgent.

"Why don't you save some energy tonight, and I'm really too tired." McKenna could hardly open her eyes.

It was still dark at this time, and Ethan was going to take McKenna to dinner before continuing.

"My dear McKenna, don't even think about going home tonight, your sister can take care of herself." Ethan said.

"Oh, Teddy O'Connor." McKenna said half asleep.

"By the way, how is your father's injury?" Ethan asked. He had to take time to visit him in the past two days, but fortunately he was very close.

"There are multiple fractures. The doctor said you need to rest for at least half a year. During this time, the school will arrange for others to provide you with medical assistance." McKenna responded.

"I do have a good candidate..." Ethan thought of Dr. Laila who was far away in Los Angeles.

Ethan and McKenna started talking, and McKenna immediately opened her eyes alertly: "Female doctor?"

"Gender is not important, what is important is the medical level. She has made great achievements in sports medicine."

McKenna nodded and didn't think much about it.

"By the way, Ethan, have you watched the local news in Tennessee these past two days?"

McKenna and Ethan explain in detail.

Within the Southeastern Conference, many media began to spread the news. Various reports compared Ethan and Peyton Manning in detail, and emphasized that Peyton Manning was stronger than Ethan this year through their scores.

"Besides, I think you have indeed slacked off a bit during this time..." McKenna continued.

"Yes, because of this, McKenna, you can't leave me tonight." Ethan always insisted.

"Ethan..." McKenna put her head on Ethan's shoulder and prolonged her voice, but Ethan just didn't listen to her, and there was nothing she could do.

Ethan did notice what McKenna mentioned.

Not only for comparison, in addition to Alabama, the local media in the surrounding states also gave Peyton Manning more exposure opportunities, and there is great momentum for Peyton Manning to replace him.

There must be someone behind it.Recall that on the eve of the Independence Bowl last year, someone specially arranged for reporters to come and cause trouble. It was obviously the same person.

Of course Ethan will make him pay, and as for now, beating Peyton Manning is even more urgent.

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On September 9, Alabama’s fourth-round matchup was against the University of Southern Mississippi.

The University of Southern Mississippi, unrelated to the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University, is another institution of higher learning that participates in the CUSA Athletic League.

Like the Houston game at the beginning of the season, this is still a non-conference game.

This kind of game is usually played at Alabama's home court, and is led and organized by the University of Alabama, not just to sell more tickets and generate revenue.

And Ethan can just use this game to accept the results of these two days of "hard work".

In the third quarter of the game, Ethan threw a 75-yard super long pass. Different from the high-arc parabola of previous long passes, this "flying meteor" rugby route has a very small upward arc in order to be more precise. Quickly into the hands of the receiver.

As a price, there is no way it can be done without a terrifying arm strength.

The astonishing long pass made all the coaches feel relieved, even though Ethan had previously made bold statements about smoking this year's victory cigar.But everyone knows that this year's Alabama Crimson Tide is different from last year, and the chance of winning is actually not high.

There is no good team, and the quarterback's statistics are not very impressive. This is the most fundamental reason why Ethan is suppressed by Payton in terms of statistics.

And now seeing with my own eyes that Ethan is still growing rapidly, it can be regarded as leaving a glimmer of possibility for Alabama to win.

To say that everyone is most happy, it is Mary.

When she saw Ethan's wonderful pass, she was first surprised, and then she muttered in her heart: "Why are you so awesome?"

It’s not that I really want Ethan to lose, I just want to make Ethan feel a little bit in danger.

However, the less time Ethan spent participating in training, the better his health and skills improved instead of declining.

This made Mary feel even more incredible.

And the more this happens, the more a seed will be planted in her heart, wanting Ethan to devote himself to football.

It's like a paradox. The better Ethan does, the more distressed Mary becomes.

In the end, Alabama easily defeated its opponent 27-14.

This game was paid on-demand, and there were only a few reporters who came. Ethan didn’t see Penny coming either, maybe she was going to report on other games.

"Ethan, what are your plans for tonight? If I remember correctly, you just had a date with McKenna? Just in time, we can have extra training tonight." Mary found Ethan after the team was disbanded, and what she said I mean, I want Ethan to stay.

"Mary, what did you eat last night?" Ethan asked suddenly.

"Ah? What about the Italian-style braised beef I ate last night, which I learned on a food show?" Mary responded subconsciously.

"Then do you want to eat tonight?"

"I didn't think about it. Do you want to eat the food I cooked?" Mary tried to ask.

I saw Ethan turn around.

"Although you had dinner yesterday, do you still want to have dinner today? In the same way, if you had a date yesterday, of course you should continue the date today."

"I..." Mary suddenly became speechless. "Not only will I not be participating in the training, but also several teammates will not be participating in the training. When I was changing clothes just now, I made an appointment with a few people to relax tomorrow." Not only will Ethan not train himself, but he will also bring others with him. Let's mess it up together.

Mary seemed unable to bear it, her eyes wanted to kill Ethan with a thousand knives.

"See you tomorrow, my dear Ms. Mary." Ethan blew her a kiss and turned to leave.

In fact, Ethan had told McKenna before that he would train tonight. In fact, he was leaving time for Penny.

This is the convention agreed by the two. On the night after the game, Penny will go to Ethan and talk about life all night long.

But this time Penny wasn't going to show up.

"Ethan, I'm in Montgomery," Penny said on the phone.

"Working?" Ethan heard that Penny's side was noisier.

"No, I have a day off today."

"Then drive over?" Ethan invited Penny.

It's not a long drive from Montgomery.

"No, I'm going shopping with my friends tonight. Let's meet again next week," Penny said.

Then she introduced the other person to Ethan, a female reporter from ESPN, whose work nature was similar to Penny's. The two met after a previous press conference.

"Okay, I wish you a good time." Ethan hung up the phone.

Of course Ethan wouldn't mind if Penny went out with her friends.

The problem is, I will be all alone tonight!
"There are still too few girlfriends!" Ethan fiddled with his cell phone, calling everyone else one by one, and also told Demi Moore some good news.

"Congratulations, the current rising momentum of stock funds is very rapid!" Ethan said when he came up.

After Nicole Kidman left, Ethan started preparing to open a position, but Catherine provided a person's phone number.

It was her cousin "Vincent", who said that this matter was easy for him. The next day, Ethan received a call from a fund manager who worked at Morgan Stanley. From what he heard, this person told Vincent He respects him very much, maybe Vincent is his big customer.With the selfless help of this industry insider, Ethan’s investment plan was officially implemented after a series of complicated procedures.

The five female celebrities invested a total of 3000W. Ethan also invested almost all the surplus from the previous independent bowl. In addition to the savings of Lisa, Charlize and others, this stock fund initially had more than 8000W. The fund has now risen by more than 70%.

To be honest, as an old leek who often turns off the lights and eats noodles, Ethan couldn't believe it when he saw this number for the first time.

Demi Moore was naturally very excited when she heard the news. Even as a famous actor, such a high reward is beyond her reach.

"Ethan, I love you, baby! mua!" Demi Moore blew a kiss on the phone.

Not to mention blowing a kiss, it's totally fine for her to call her daddy.

"Stop doing this, how are you going to thank me?"

On behalf of several people, Demi Moore reached a step-by-step agreement with Ethan. The higher the income, the higher the additional bonus, and Demi Moore was ready to make additional investments.

Earn money, receive favors, and most importantly, gain the trust of these rich women.

There is a saying that confidence is as good as gold.

The more these stars earn, the more they invest, the more they trust Ethan, and the more space Ethan has to operate...

After hanging up the phone with Demi Moore, the name of Nicole Kidman came into view.

According to memory, Nicole Kidman would get divorced three or four years later.

Ethan still has this principle, but as her investment manager, Ethan has to report to her about the investment results.

The phone only rang twice before the other party hung up.

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"boom!"

The bowling ball knocks down all the pins and gets full points.

"NICE!" A group of teammates behind Ethan cheered.

Ethan wasn't kidding Mary, he called out all the new players on the team tonight.

Except for the performance of the last few newcomers in the game against Arkansas, which was slightly normal, in other games, the performance of these newcomers was somewhat unsatisfactory.

On weekdays, each of them works harder than the other. They are the first to arrive at every training and the last to leave. The coaches, including head coach Eugene, also provide guidance to these newcomers.

Unfortunately, I just can’t get good results.

Ethan thought about it and felt that the problem was not with training, so he called a few people out to do some team building and bonding, and secondly, to see if there was anything he could do to help.

"It's been almost a month since you entered Alabama. How do you feel?"

Ethan saw that it was almost time and started to get to the point.

Several people looked embarrassed, so Ethan diagnosed them one by one.

After some questioning, it turned out that there were no serious problems. The main problems were nervousness and the inability to adapt to the sudden increase in the intensity of the confrontation.

College football teams, especially top football teams like Alabama, which have been at the forefront for many years, can be said to have historically gathered many talented football players.And the same goes for Alabama's archrival.

In high school, you could only meet a few "monsters" a year, but now every opponent is a group of "monsters". This huge difference will take time to get used to.

"It can only mean that your vision is too narrow. You must know that what we encountered at the beginning were all garbage. Arkansas was last last year. Looking around, the University of Tennessee, Florida, Auburn, Louisiana, and Georgia , these are the real opponents.”

"Moreover, this is just the beginning. Since you have devoted yourself to football, you naturally want to become a professional player in the future. Look at the drafts in the past few years. NFL teams will only give contracts to those with the most outstanding performance, and the rest will All of them will be eliminated. If you can’t adapt to the intensity of this kind of confrontation..."

"Then I don't think there is any need to continue playing rugby. It's better to focus on my studies."

There are very few people who purely regard rugby as a hobby. Most of the people in the United States who are willing to consider rugby as a career are not from very good families.

Behind every dazzling star is countless sweat, and this road is very hard.

Who would play rugby if they didn't have a choice?If you can't work, you won't get a contract, you won't have income, you won't have enough to eat, you won't be able to raise your family, the opposite sex will look down on you, and your peers will look down on you.For some, this is unthinkable, but for others, this is the only consequence of failure.

Of course you can stay flat if you want, but if you want to feel proud and stand out, you must win.

Give me victory or give me death.

Ethan didn't have time now to treat these people like flowers in the greenhouse and seduce them, and his trick of removing the firepower worked to some extent, and all the newcomers fell into deep thought.

"Senior Ethan, actually we...we really want to know why you can run so fast!" At this time, Trent Dilfer said the question in everyone's mind.

"If you want to learn, I can teach you." Ethan responded generously.

There are some things that you cannot teach yourself, such as "how to have such outstanding physical fitness", but other aspects of experience and skills can still be taught.

At this moment, Ethan's cell phone rang.

It’s Nicole Kidman…

(End of this chapter)