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Speaker 1: And you're a winner of the Heisman Trophy, Indiana's very

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Speaker 1: own Fernando Mendoza.

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Speaker 2: He is Heisman.

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Speaker 3: He seems like a really nice kid. Of course, I

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Speaker 3: don't watch the sports getball, you know that's facy. But

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Speaker 3: I did see a little bit about his Heisman's speech,

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Speaker 3: and from what I can tell, and everybody on the

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Speaker 3: internet seems to love this kid. He seems really nice

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Speaker 3: and he really loves his family. Yes, that's cool to see.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to play a part of his acceptance speech

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Speaker 1: because we have to talk about something that he said.

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Speaker 4: Mammy, this is your trophy as much as his mind.

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Speaker 4: You've always been my biggest fan. You're my light, You're

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Speaker 4: my why, You're my biggest supporter. Your sacrifices, courage, love,

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Speaker 4: those have been my first playbook and the playbook that

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna carry through my side, through my entire life.

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Speaker 4: He told me that the toughness doesn't need to be loud.

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Speaker 4: It can be quiet and strong. It's choosing hope. It's

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Speaker 4: believing in yourself when the world doesn't give you much

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Speaker 4: reason to together. You and I are you winding what

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Speaker 4: people think is possible.

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Speaker 3: I love you. That's so sweet.

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Speaker 1: It was very sweet and a lot of people thought

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Speaker 1: that he did a great job.

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Speaker 2: Did you hear him call his mom mommy?

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Speaker 3: Is it mommy or mommy mother? Well you know ma am? I?

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Speaker 1: Oh, you mean like the Spanish version, right, Okay?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't think about that. Yeah, I thought it

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Speaker 2: was m O m m y either way.

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Speaker 3: I mean, my dad still refers to his mother as mommy.

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Speaker 2: Says he yeah, yeah, and I think there's.

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Speaker 3: Anything wrong with you.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't think there's anything wrong with it either.

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Speaker 1: I still call my mother mama, and my daughter still

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Speaker 1: calls me mama. And I thought it was really sweet

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Speaker 1: that he wasn't embarrassed by it at all.

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Speaker 2: I like to see people put it out there for everybody.

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Speaker 3: I like to see people whose family relationships are intact.

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Speaker 3: I haven't spoken with my mother since I was seventeen

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Speaker 3: years old. We have a very distant, non existent relationship.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So I don't have many nice things to say or

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Speaker 3: many happy man to share.

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Speaker 2: And this is the exact opposite of that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you can tell right in respect, he pays for

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Speaker 1: her and loves her, and.

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Speaker 3: Then also his grandparents too. He paid them a special tribute.

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Speaker 1: Well, he did, and here's what he had to say

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Speaker 1: to his grandparents and for.

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Speaker 4: My grandparents, moriscriviso this memo.

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Speaker 1: So his parents are from Cuba, Yes, and he is

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Speaker 1: the first Cuban American to win the Heisman Trophy.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Some people were saying that they didn't like the fact

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Speaker 1: that he was speaking Spanish.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and there was a complain I was not received. Well,

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Speaker 3: that was a completely preventable self own on the part

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Speaker 3: of Indie reporter who posted on ESPN just one word

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Speaker 3: responds to his sharing that with his grandparents. Gross and

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Speaker 3: people did not respond too kindly to that. And you

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Speaker 3: know what, I don't think that that was an appropriate response.

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Speaker 3: There is nothing wrong with honoring your family legacy, with

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Speaker 3: honoring your history, with honoring your grandparents. And if my

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Speaker 3: grandparents spoke a different language, I would take a moment

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Speaker 3: to honor them in the language that they were most

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Speaker 3: familiar with. Whether that was Polish, whether that was Spanish,

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Speaker 3: whether that was Italian. It doesn't matter what language it is.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you are paying a tribute to your family

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Speaker 3: and this is your moment and your speech. It's not

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Speaker 3: like he was saying, oh, let's invite more illegal immigrants

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Speaker 3: into the country, let's.

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Speaker 2: Change, or you wanted to make sure that the love landed.

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Speaker 3: No, he is making sure he was paying them a tribute,

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Speaker 3: and so to respond so viscerally that I think was

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Speaker 3: pretty pretty inappropriate. There.

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Speaker 1: So, the Vanderbilt quarterback after losing the heisman to Fernando Mendoza,

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Speaker 1: he went out in New.

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Speaker 2: York City, went out clubbing and was saying f all

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Speaker 2: the voters very much, sour great oh, and people came

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Speaker 2: down on him hard, and within.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four hours, I believe he put his Maya Kolpa

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Speaker 1: out there.

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Speaker 2: And turned his messaging around and blamed.

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Speaker 1: It on being a competitor. Sure, and that's why he

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Speaker 1: was being so disingenuous.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it was a brief peek into that kid's character.

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Speaker 3: And look, he's still a young man. He's got a

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Speaker 3: lot of time to grow up. But he obviously needs

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Speaker 3: to do some growing up if that's how he's going

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Speaker 3: to respond to defeat. Because when you lose, when you

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Speaker 3: are defeated, when you are beaten by a better man,

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Speaker 3: it's your opportunity to take it in and learn how

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Speaker 3: to grow, learn how to be better, not take swipes

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Speaker 3: at your competitor. That's just an ugly way to respond.

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Speaker 1: He said to be so close to his dream and

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Speaker 1: come up short was painful, and that he didn't handle

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Speaker 1: those emotions well at all, and it did not represent

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Speaker 1: who he is. Well, yes, it represented exactly you are.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the problem that represented you.

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Speaker 2: The apology may have come just a little bit too.

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Speaker 3: Late and seems somewhat insincere, but again he's he's a

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Speaker 3: young man, he's got time to grow up.

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Speaker 2: It matters how you win, It also matters how you lose.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely