Posted on 07/23/2012 11:08:31 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
Football’s just a sport.
Lacrosse is a religion!
“The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.”
Robert A. Heinlein
I’m not a fan of either.
I prefer baseball.
Go Tigers
And Bear Bryant is it’s pope
Can we make Steve Spurrier a Cardinal?
A most profound and wise statement.
Don’t leave out all the acolytes and varying level of local priests in freelance sports video production. If you are not in the circle, you are nothing no matter what.
A most profound and wise statement.
Don’t leave out all the acolytes and varying level of local priests in freelance sports video production. If you are not in the circle, you are nothing no matter what.
And Bear Bryant played second fiddle to Adolph Rupp. Nothing, not even Alabama football, matches the insanity of Kentucky basketball. The attention and hero worship in Lexington comes close to being creepy.
I’d throw in Carolina (USC) baseball.
If it is indeed a religion, then PSU should be excommunicated from the flock.
And Cathlics should just be admonished by the general population for the disaster that they had the last 40 years or longer. It is amazing that they are blaming the players for this but they are not blaming the parishoners of the Catholic Church. Close every Catholic Church should be the motto from the Penn State haters. Oh I am Catholic but also from Pennsylvania and I think you guys are INSANE!!!!
Naaah, really?
I don’t have a particular bent against Catholics in this shameful, apparently long lived coverup (according to Louis Freeh). I contrarily blame the entire football culture of this university. No, we aren’t INSANE - the insane person was the serial pedophile, aided by his oblivious wife, his oblivious coach and administration and that ‘fans’ that stood vigil near the statue to protect the memory of a coach that put program over morality. Is that plain enough INSANE for you?
Well Football is important to a college. Heck I went to Florida State and SHOULD be thrilled with this result. I am also a weekly practicing Catholic...But I am also from Pennsylvania so I feel personally involved in this story. I guess my overall probably with the story is that the CURRENT football team is getting screwed for doing NOTHING! It just seems too liberal to me to get rid of football at Penn State because of a few bad apples. I guess you guys love it when the government gets involved because of a few bad apples. I guess we should get rid of all guns because a crazy guy shot up a movie theater....I put this in the same category.
This isn’t “government” getting rid of punishing PSU football. It is an organization whose rules and regulations and doctrine PSU signed up for. I don’t care if you’re from Penn, or if you’re even a Catholic. The only reason I used the word “excommunicate” was in response to the post I replied to, and that was marginally relevant, Catholic-wise.
Yes, the team, the students and the Univeristy are being screwed, in your words, for doing exactly that - nothing.
Further, your relationship of this years-long collusion with the Aurora disaster is a stretch of the imagination and specious.
Second.
Heh heh, I catch grief from some Gators because I still worship Spurrier. But as I point out, if it wasn’t for Spurrier, Urban Meyer doesn’t win those two championships, the Gators had 0 SEC titles before Spurrier came there....he built it (of course Obama would disagree), into what it is today. Even Billy Donovan admits that having Spurrier at UF when he started coaching the basketball team helped a lot for him to build his program into an elite basketball program.
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