PERHAPS THEY WERE THE FIRST SYPHILIS-FREE RECRUITING CLASS EVER
by Spencer Hall on Jan 29, 2010 2:22 PM EST
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PrintAccording to Notre Dame historian Lou Somogyi, 17 members of the class became starters or regulars in an era when players played on both sides of the ball. As in most classes of the era, some freshmen were a bit older because they didn't go to college until after they served in World War II. One of those was future hall-of-famer Jim "Jungle Jim" Martin, an end/tackle who served in the Marines before coming to South Bend
We appreciate the effort to be historical, but the first guaranteed syphilis-free recruiting class seems to be a bit a bit of a low bar for a Best Recruiting Class ever. Another unfair advantage this class had was having so many World War Two veterans, who got to train for football by actually killing people with fire, bullets, and their bare hands. Besides the Tom Osborne Nebraska classes of the early '90s, no other team has had that rare privilege in such numbers since.
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Well come on now
They said Weis only looked at the stars listed by a player’s name and didn’t do enough in-person scouting. Perhaps then something could’ve been done about the syphilis that ravaged Jimmy Clauson’s face.
I'm sorry...what?
I’m too distracted by the thumb in Spencer/Orson’s picture to focus on the writing.
Uhhh...
distracted as well… what are we supposed to call you now? did “Orson” go along with the old banner? Are you just Spencer Hall to us now?
This place is Nuts.
That is all.
by Board Certified Scrotologist on Jan 29, 2010 2:38 PM EST reply actions
Pun intended, scrotologist?
Because yes or no, you should probably be slapped either way. And I say that with love.
STRONG LIKE BOAR
by Red Clay For Brains on Jan 29, 2010 2:44 PM EST up reply actions
Now you've done it
There’s some story about how a Notre Dame football player was serving in the Pacific in WWII and was captured by the Japanese, and allowed to keep a ring or something similar by a Japanese officer who recognized him from when he (the officer) was a student at USC.
This story, when recounted by Notre Dame alumni, is an excuse to go on about how morally bankrupt USC alumni are (guilty!) and how we’re just the sort of people to be traitors (not sure how that applies to a Japanese national) which is a bit much… I mean you don’t see us complaining about their veneration of a foreign potentate.
It was on the Bataan Death March
that this event took place.
DC how does Pete Carrol’s ass taste these days? haha
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!
- Ben Franklin, skirt chaser par excellence
by Charlie Weis's Colon on Jan 30, 2010 7:55 PM EST up reply actions
Belated
Belated thumbs-up for the new digs.
And to ND fart-sniffers, belated congrats on having the best ever recruiting class*.
*During a period of segregation and when Yale, Penn (the “original U”) and Delaware were ranked powers.
Oh, goddammit
You’ve gotten my college football fandom in my pro football fandom. I can’t be Harris and Tracer Bullet at the same time! Ah, it’s like having MPD!
I know how that felt
Damn Internets
Sancto Tedford
by Anonymous IV at Mono Lake on Jan 29, 2010 3:29 PM EST up reply actions
Yup
Errbody know you ain’t winning shit unless you got the clap…granted if you got that die slow you’re in trouble.
Kids are also a plus.
Yeah BoYeeEEeeE
by InTheBleachers on Jan 29, 2010 3:50 PM EST up reply actions
I DON'T
…read anything on EDSBS that isn’t written by either Orson Swindle or Holly. I don’t like this Spencer character one bit!
by Terry Bowden's Shoe Lifts on Jan 29, 2010 3:24 PM EST reply actions
There
needs to be a list of all the great college players that have gone on to doing some serious time. Maybe EA sports will release it as a video game…
Sancto Tedford
by Anonymous IV at Mono Lake on Jan 29, 2010 3:26 PM EST reply actions
Sort of like Tecmo Super Bowl meets Grand Theft Auto? Nice concept.
Sounds like the start of a good thread for folks to list players. I’ll start:
Ron Mexico
Of course it
must include Lawrence Phillips and the all time great, OJ Simpson.
Sancto Tedford
by Anonymous IV at Mono Lake on Jan 29, 2010 4:10 PM EST up reply actions
Art Schlichter and Maurice Clarett. I can't in good conscience count Alonzo Spellman.
Kirk Herbstriet is a crime against humanity, but he is dreamy like Rick Neuheisel.
by Crabapple Buck on Jan 30, 2010 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
think you could get away with it if you used only nicknames? “and Ron Mexico hands off to the Juice”
Aim for the head baby Jesus
That
was awesome! Some of the worst time offenders do have good nicknames. Such as Fright Night. Otherwise known as Mitchell Freedman who is serving eighty years for sexual assault.
Sancto Tedford
by Anonymous IV at Mono Lake on Feb 1, 2010 2:41 PM EST up reply actions
I have nothing constructive to add to this, I’m just making sure my account is working.
Nice job on the redesign.
by boddagettaflyer on Jan 29, 2010 3:26 PM EST reply actions
Hello? Is this thing on?
Good lord, that flaming football in the upper left is 31 flavors of awesome.
Gotta love the Beano Cook-esque line of thinking that lets you say teams of 5’8’’ white guys running the flying wedge were the BEST EVAR.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Jan 29, 2010 3:29 PM EST reply actions
I get it!
The flaming football means that it burns when you pee. That Spencer guy sure is clever
Sancto Tedford
by Anonymous IV at Mono Lake on Jan 29, 2010 4:35 PM EST up reply actions
The sad thing is
We’ll still have people commenting on Spencer’s “name change” and the new site layout in September after the season starts back up.
Team Speed Kills
SBNation's SEC Blog
by Year2 on Jan 29, 2010 3:46 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
God, I hope not
Once a Mountaineer, always a Mountaineer.
by MtnEer_in_SC on Jan 29, 2010 8:19 PM EST up reply actions
Didn’t you read that Orson Swindle also wrote under a “weak and fleshy name”?
If you didn’t I hope great Chthulu eats you particularly slowly when HE awakes from drowned Ar’leh.
Once a Mountaineer, always a Mountaineer.
by MtnEer_in_SC on Jan 29, 2010 8:23 PM EST up reply actions
Isn't Chthulu following "Iron Maiden " around?
"Ignorance, I can fix, stupidity, well that's another matter!"-82nd Airborne NCO
Syphilis is not blue chip
Athletes now-a-days get the premiere STD’s, like herpes and the clap-clap clap-clap.
One word
Penicillin… unless you have something that antibiotics can’t cure… then you die a slow and painful death, but you gain awesome futbaw abilities…
Only two Alabama teams?
time for a volley of death threats from East Bumphuk Bama
January 7th, 2010: the day I went from being a delusional obnoxious Alabama fan to being an obnoxious Alabama fan
What the
FUCK happened here? Being buried in work all week and then coming to EDSBS to decompress and seeing this is like going out on a 48-hour bender and bringing home something you are sure is about 5’3" 165 lbs, then waking up the next morning and finding yourself laying next to a fully satisfied Emmanuelle Chriqui.
I like.
USC No 7?
Rey Maualuga would like to know how many girls have to be in his car next time to move up the list.
"Pray boldly - you, too, are a mighty sinner!" Martin Luther
F Charlie Weis!
Fat bastard keeps shit just rolling through me!
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!
- Ben Franklin, skirt chaser par excellence
by Charlie Weis's Colon on Jan 30, 2010 7:53 PM EST reply actions
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