For the decades we have gathered for the Army-Navy game and rooted for Army! For the past decade PLUS, it has been a particularly forlorn hope. This year, I will AGAIN say “Go Army” but THIS Navy team - WOW! To paraphrase that old Simon & Garfunkel song, I now know where Roger Staubach’s doppleganger has now gone! FYI: Roger won the Heisman in 1963 - I feel so old!
For 10 Army classes, beginning with the Class of 2005, it has been a losing season their entire school life and this will likely make it #11. It is not fair, 14 straight loses! I demand that football parity be restored! (I’m not holding my breath!)
I have been a Navy fan since 2003, my son’t Plebe Year. We still have our season tickets, and have been to every Army Game since 2003.
While I hope Navy prevails again this year, I can tell you that I believe that a weak Army team is bad for morale at West Point, bad for Army morale, and bad for our country.
Had not a family conflict interrupted, I had planned to go to West Point this past weekend with a bunch of Navy Alumni Parents to cheer for Army against Rutgers.
As a Navy fan, I would be happy so see Army go 11-1 every year.