Even worse:
Posted on 10/07/2012 2:13:00 PM PDT by tangchung
Biden played FLAG FOOTBALL at University of Delaware !
University of Delaware 1984 yearbook features alumni Biden. Says Biden played intramural football. (if married spouse allowed to play)
http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/handle/19716/5956/1984_08_Class_of_1984.pdf?sequence=8
University of Delaware Intramural Football is FLAG FOOTBALL !!
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1fdvDGLtuRBNdzMGQ94dIN775v9u7LiltmQrkpJcSsmk
Oh my God, Noooooooooooo!
And he’s a heart beat away from the presidency....
But wait...
Who’s the president now?
Mister Mom Jeans himself?
Never mind....
LOL. Yep. Exactly.
If Ohio catches wind of “Flag Football” Biden, I doubt Obama
carries the state and loses re-election.
Never have to worry about Biden again.
From your lips to God’s ears....
May Biden fade into his “compound” in the sunset.....
In the 40s that was only for grammer school!!!
What a pussy!
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1987-09-06/news/0140330087_1_joe-biden-valerie-biden-owens-bork
[hurl!]
Joe Biden Fights Hard, Talks Harder Bork Hearings Will Put Senator In The Limelight
September 6, 1987
(snip)
He played basketball, football and baseball in high school, though his father made him quit sports at the University of Delaware to improve his perennial C average.
‘’I was always the little guy on the team,’’ said the 6-foot-tall Biden. ‘’I guess that made me more competitive.’’
The eldest of four children, Biden was the neighborhood leader — class president, the all-purpose athlete, the guy who got the girls, the fellow so popular he never really had a best friend.
(snip)
Yeah that’s for sure!
At University of Delaware if you are married, spouse can
play “Flag Football” also
Nice find, I’ll save it. Thanks!
That looks about right!
Incredibly fun but zero contact is allowed. I played at Auburn and had a blast. We won the campus championship one year beating a team made up of former Auburn (real) football players. But it’s not, in any way, “playing college football”.
St. Petersburg Times - Sunday, September 20, 1987
Author: JOHN HARWOOD
(Indirect link:
http://www.championshipsubdivision.com/forums//viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1705)
EXCERPTS
In high school, the future senator and presidential candidate used a quick tongue to compensate for not doing homework. An old classmate at Archmere Academy, David Walsh, told the Arizona Republic this spring it was Biden ‘s ‘’God-given gift.’’
At the University of Delaware , he was a mediocre student - 506 out of 688 in the class of 1965. He was ‘’trying to be the complete Joe College,’’ wrote a history professor, ranking Biden average in ‘’intellectual achievement’’ but high in ‘’command of English language.’’ The professor nonetheless recommended the former football and baseball jock for admission to law school ‘’on grounds of personality and general promise.’’
But Biden soon ran into trouble at Syracuse Law. He was accused of plagiarism after lifting five pages from a law review article for a course paper. But his pleading - ‘’I implore you, don't take my honor’’ - convinced the dean to let him stay in school, take the course over, and wipe the slate clean.
Another law dean later told a prospective employer that Biden , who finished 76th in a class of 85, had been an academic ‘’disappointment.’’ But the dean said Biden ‘s ‘’confidence,’’ ‘’general physical appearance’’ and ‘’general speaking ability’’ would help make him a natural trial lawyer.
These gifts ultimately would propel Biden to the U.S. Senate and into the 1988 presidential race. He turned to them again last week when plagiarism allegations threatened his campaign.
(snip)
But it was just last month that Biden appropriated an inspirational speech by British Labor leader Neil Kinnock. Kinnock told of ancestors who played football after long days underground in the mines, who recited poetry poetry and paved the way for him to become the first in his family to attend college.
When he saw a tape of Kinnock in action, Biden said Thursday, ‘’it was a connect. I mean, I could tell how that man felt. That's how I feel.’’
(snip)
//
BIDEN KEEPS SIGHTS SET ON WHITE HOUSE - Candidate said to have quick wit, temper
The Dallas Morning News - Sunday, September 6, 1987
Author: Carl P. Leubsdorf, Washington Bureau of The News: The Dallas Morning News
(Indirect link:
http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/1104159.html)
EXCERPT
One bone of contention was the Vietnam War, which Biden supported (he received a medical deferment from the draft for the same asthmatic condition that forced him to stop playing football ). “We would argue vehemently,’ she said, adding that Biden had “turned around completely’ by the time he ran for the Senate in 1972.
Not only was he no activist, but he had no clearly defined party affiliation.
//
See post #26:
He played basketball, football and baseball in high school, though his father made him quit sports at the University of Delaware to improve his perennial C average.
Nice find. Lots of good info.
Old Joe couldn’t play college football because of his asthma.
Thanks, will save.
That’s as close to playing football that Biden got!
Maybe a UK paper will pick this up..Ambrose?
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