Obama's a playoff fan.

by platnumkid on Nov 4, 2008 5:25 PM EST Comment 2 comments

So in case you haven't heard last night on MNF Obama and McCain were asked to comment on how they would change sports today if they were elected. McCain went vanilla and said he'd eliminate steroids. Obama on the other hand came out with guns blazing and said he'd institute a college football playoff system.

I didn't see this last night but a colleague of mine told me about. I couldn’t believe it. I proceeded to explain about the hose job that Penn State got the last time a President stuck his nose in the National Championship picture. I went to hunt the interwebs for a suitable Paterno vs. Nixon article and I found this gem:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE7D9133BF937A35752C0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

You should note that it’s from 1987 and it still highlights how often PSU gets the raw deal with undefeated, untied, uncrowned teams. I especially love how the second page of the article degenerates basically to anticommunist ranting.

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that's a george vecsey article

and it’s quite good…definitely worth a read. thanks for posting it.

I wouldn't trust old rooster me neither.

by spakajewia on Nov 5, 2008 9:24 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Gotta love Joe

‘’I don’t understand how Richard Nixon could know so much about college football in 1969 and so little about Watergate in 1973,’’ Paterno told the Penn State graduates in June 1973.

That’s awesome!

by PSU Jen on Nov 5, 2008 9:53 AM EST reply actions 0 recs