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A Mandate.

I believe after fixing the Economic Meltdown, catching that terrorist mastermind and ending the fiasco in Iraq… the college football post season is the next pressing matter facing our nation.

There is a precedent for Presidents weighing in on College Football; some successful and disastrous.

  1. 1905:  Teddy Roosevelt calls Harvard, Yale and Princeton to a White House summit to address the violence in the early game.
  2. 1969:  Richard Nixon attended to the Texas – Arkansas game and declared the winner the National Champion after the game before the polls were released the next week.

*** Penn State was 22-0 at the time and had just won the Orange Bowl so for the President to ‘declare’ a national champion by presenting a plaque to the Texas team after the game didn’t sit too well with Joe Paterno:

“I don’t understand how Richard Nixon could know so much about college football in 1969 and so little about Watergate in 1973.” Paterno, said in June of 1973.

Here’s to hoping for a playoff, I’m in the plus one category myself.

Game No. 2: Ohio State at Northwestern.

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On Saturday Nick, Emily and I headed up to Evanston for the Ohio State – Northwestern game.  The game started kind of slow but Ohio State pulled away early in the third quarter.  Terrelle Pryor could consider this his breakout game after some of the touchdown passes he threw.  Northwestern’s game planned consists of the Quarterback Draw and the punt.

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Up next:  Illinois:


ClownDown 2008: Team Cosmopolitan Warrior.

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On Saturday Todd and I formed team Cosmopolitan Warrior to compete in the ClownDown 2008.  For those who don’t know ClownDown is a citywide adventure race in Chicago similar to the Amazing Race.  This years race included 42 teams and 13 destinations throughout the city.  Cosmopolitan Warrior fared pretty well considering it was our first year.  We ended up finishing 11th (just missing our top 10 goal) and in under 3.5 hours.  We ended up making 2 tactical mistakes that probably put us out of a top 5 finish:

  1. Missing a stop on the Red Line and ending up at the Clybourn stop.
  2. Heading for the Harold Washington Library instead of the Original Library (ie Cutural Center).

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The highlight for me during ClownDown was after running about 3 blocks we stopped to wait for a bus in Greektown.  While waiting a couple teams ran by us before the bus finally came.  About 3 blocks later we see the teams running up ahead to the next bus stop and Todd told our bus driver not to stop for the other team.  His response was simple:  “If they’re not at stop I’m not stopping”.  Good to his word, our bus just kept rolling as the other team tried to flag down the bus.  It was glorious.

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* A special thanks to our Camera Crew: Josh & Eric.

** I plan on posting a video in the next couple of days from all of our footage; it should be interesting.

*** The rest of the photographs can be found on Flickr.