Tomorrow I attend the only game that matters, you know, the one in which Ted Kennedy caught a touchdown pass in 1955. Fifty years ago, the only game that mattered for the University of Buffalo Bulls was the one that they didn't play. In 1958, the Bulls received the only bowl bid in the history of its football program. In declining the offer, the Bulls truly demonstrated what it means to be a team. Read why on ESPN.com.
I would agree that this is one of many great stories in the category of past injustices. But when are they ever going to give it a rest?
We've come a long way as a society and, in my opinion, dredging this stuff up on occasion just keeps pouring fuel on certain fires that many would chose to keep burning for the purposes of leverage or entertainment.
We understand that there are noble humans; then and now. Why can't we just leave it at that and move on.
Yes - but 50 years is a pretty notable anniversary. Seems appropriate to look back in this case.
Hard to immagine Teddy playing any sport, much less football!
All of the Kennedy's were very athletic and competitive.
Before Fat Teddy was thrown out of Harvard for cheating and before he and Dodd were in competition as a tag team for the National Waitress Sandwich championship, he was a decent football player.
That's about the only thing slightly positive that I could say about Theodore K.
Plural? Possessive? Whatevaugh. I don't need no stieenking grammar.
But there is an 'I' in Maverick. Only thing better than one Maverick is a Team of Mavericks.
We should also get rid of movies/stories/what have you about World War II. Japanese society has come a long way since then and we shouldn't keep dredging it up.
The same goes for the Revolution. British society, too, has come a long way.
What, like people aren't aware of our history and our society hasn't made great strides to advance beyond the unfortunate incidences in our past?
Yeah, at the expense of building resentments and negative sentiments that will continue to keep our society fractured and psychologically segregated, let's just keep advertising examples of past wrongs to keep them fresh in the minds of current and new generations.
There’s nothing wrong with moving on once progress has been and continues to be made.
Why is it no one gets Brian's Song weepy over women getting the right to vote? Too long ago? Just women after all? I don't recall ever seeing some moving story about suffrage (or is it sufferage?) for women.
That's b/c - ever since the advent of women's suffrage in this country - we've all be suffering as a result ever since.
Let's be serious, nobody thinks women should vote.
Moving on isn't the same as forgetting one's past, and I don't see how the ESPN article would work to build resentment between blacks and whites. Quite the opposite, if anything.
Today could very well be the last time,University of Buffalo FB fans, see Turner Gill as their HC.
If the AD at Syracuse has any intention of keeping his job, he best not make two bad hires, and hiring Gill (IMO) would be the first step in correcting his first mistake in firing Coach Paul P. and hiring Greg Robinson.
Gill has built a solid program at Buffalo, all at a place that was considered a killer for coaches with ambitions for advancing their career.
One politician who claims to be a real athlete,by the likes of Frank Rich, etc, is Obama.
That guy couldn't have played college BB at any level other than perhaps D3, in which athletic scholarships aren't awarded.
The guy doesn't have a frame conducive of gaining strength and he would never be able to play through a bump nor would he be capable of keeping low cut perimeter players, especially with the quickness of D1 players, out of the paint.
Rich may know about gay Broadway plays and cowboy movies,however he knows as much about sports, as Dexter Manley knows about reading.
