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Subject: Re: Bird On The Field

Author:
Leo Kerr

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Date Posted: 20:40:53 04/24/15 Fri
In reply to: Mike 's message, "Re: Bird On The Field" on 17:42:35 04/24/15 Fri

>I like the college Wes has that put the new science
>building on the former football field. More schools
>should do that.
>

this is one of those little ways that lets us know that Wes is really writing Fantasy. Not even fiction, but fantasy, I'm afraid..

Personally, I hadn't paid that much attention to school sports; in my high school, in the four years I was there, I think my varsity football team won.. a game? Maybe. We did better in soccer, sweeping State at least once, and one of our players went to the Barcelona Olympics on the US team.

A couple of years later, waiting for class to start, the professor was BSing with us, and made the comment when he moved east, he looked for a school without football. He disapproved of "the class of eleven" that often gets associated with college football.

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Robert Moskowitz
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Date Posted: 19:53:40 05/04/15 Mon

I was the high school math tutor for half the football team and cheerleaders. The school had to give me my own 'classroom', as I was working with almost 30 struggling students. They were my bodyguards from the other toughs at school. There were times where I stood there and took the punches, knowing that my attackers would be laid out that night. this was in '66.

I knew I was going on to college and they would be working over at Fisher Body or Chase Brass...

>I like the college Wes has that put the new science
>building on the former football field. More schools
>should do that.
>
>Every time there is a football game and they introduce
>the players they all state what college they went to.
>I get irritated because each of these players took a
>place that should have gone to someone who could use
>the education for a career that uses it. You only have
>to look at some of the players to know that they could
>never have gotten through classes without help. That
>degree in history or physed sure comes in handy,
>doesn't it.
>
>With the price of college growing each year they still
>build new stadiums with money from struggling
>students. The most hypocritical statements are when
>someone goes to the NFL or NBA before graduating from
>college. This guy is wasting a year of college to go
>pro. What a crock.