From www.CourierNewsOnline.com

Before the BIG game, Bears Coach Lovie Smith said - No motivational speakers required. Instead, they would get their inspiration from within during their final team meeting. Perhaps, Lovie should have as the Colts brought in a motivational speaker (according to the article, their speaker was not someone like Matt Foley, the late Chris Farley’s farcical motivational speaker who lived in a trailer down by the river). Their speaker was Former Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves. “Helio and I have gotten to become good friends,” Colts coach Tony Dungy said. “He actually let me in his pit when they were getting ready for the Indianapolis 500. I think it’s a big stage and the Super Bowl of their sport and he’s won a couple of them.”

Smith choose NOT to have a former player or inspirational speaker. “I’ll cut you off right there,” Smith told a questioner at Friday’s press conference. “We’re winners, we go through the same routine. I don’t really bring in a lot of outside people. We have coaches, we have players and that’s the way we do things. So we won’t be doing that.”

My question: Should he have? If so, who should he have brought in and why?

Tim Richardson is an inspirational speaker who speaks about how giving increases employee morale, lowers employee turnover, increases customer loyalty and creates higher profits for Fortune 500 companies, associations, and national conventions. He is the founder of the The Worlds Biggest Blog Party an event which will connect bloggers from all over the world to raise money for charity. He is also founder and president of the Bill Walter Melanoma Research Fund. For more information on Tim, go to www.TimRichardson.com