In all likelihood, Troy Smith will win the coveted Heisman trophy.
Here is what caught my eye in a New York Times story on the legendary coach John Heisman today:
He was a man of many faces and skills, and in a lifetime, he used them to help create what is now an accepted cultural American character, the autocratic football coach. Despite an Ivy League education in law, Heisman never became a lawyer, but he instinctively honed a talent for commanding, melodramatic locker-room oratory.
Heisman, standing before his players when he first met them, would hold aloft a football and ask, “What is this?”
Answering his own question, Heisman said: “It is a prolate spheroid in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing.”
Heisman would pause and add: “Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.”
OUCH.
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