PLARF Title Match Re-cap

The commercials lost!

Among the few commercials that anybody enjoyed, the Budweiser commercial appears to be the undisputed champion.  Here's an interesting story about the trainer of the Clydesdales:

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Now that the game is over, fans of American Rules Football (you know who you are!) can turn their collective attention, as most of them seem to be collectivists, to the PLARF HOF inducting - someday soon - its second murderer.  And certain sports fans out there remain insistent that Peter Edward Rose remain banned from baseball and Cooperstown.  Yes, it is true that the PLARF has no rule explicitly barring its players from committing homicide whereas Major League Baseball does prohibit gambling.  Evidently American sports fans believe it to be better to honor and celebrate the playing career of two killers than honor and celebrate the playing career of a guy who placed a bet or two.

Eagle-eyed PLARFers may have observed in the PLARF-sponsored commercial highlighting PLARF efforts at making the game safer, they depicted an American Rules Football game from 1906.  The gridiron obviously lacked its grid which, as informed readers of Heavy Artillery learned here last week, there still was a grid in the gridiron as late as 1908.

Revisionists!  Collectivist revisionists!

Long-range Reconnaissance

So long as we've punished ourselves thus far with American Rules Football talk, let's again look back to a time when it was a great game.

Here you see (above) the 1903 Purdue Boilermaker squad.  No helmets, no shoulder pads.  And they hit just as hard as any unindicted homicidal maniacs.  Sticking with 1903, we now migrate - regrettably - to the Ivy League.  Talk about collectivism!

This (above) was the Harvard-Dartmouth game on 14 November 1903.  Gridiron!

When one must think, painfully, of Ivy League football, one doth thinketh of Harvard-Yale.  Or Yale-Harvard.  Yes, it mattereth not Rosencrantz and Guildenstern!

This was Harvard at Yale on 19 November 1910.  The grid was, by then, a relic of the recent past.  The forward pass had yet to ruin the game.  Proof?  This game ended in a 0-0 tie.  Quoting Edith and Archie Bunker; Those were the days!  This 0-0 tie set up one of the all-time most anticipated grudge matches in the histories of New Haven, Connecticut and Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Lux Et Veritas v Veritas!  Verily!

On 25 November 1911, Yale visited Harvard and these two titans of Ivory Towerism settled their score..... by settling for yet another 0-0 tie.  Now that is what I call light and truth, Ruth!  Afterward, the ladies and gentlemen of letters milled about the field.  Get those hooligans off the turf, Johnny!

 

One can only imagine what all those Crimsonians would have been talking about:

 

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