Lol i was there and i witnessed the great aggy meltdown of 2016 NSD. It was grand!!!
The latest beatdown that i was refering to was aggy thinking they had brink only for him to spurn them and stay with us.
If they lose or give up there "12th man" trademark then i will be able to gloat over this victory till the end of time.
If they lose their trademark, don't gloat. Use it as an example of what happens when you get caught doing deceitful things.
aggy had a tradition of calling their fans in the stands the team's "12th Man." It dated back to at least 1921 and was a tradition also practiced by hundreds of other schools. In 1939, the head of their alumni association was asked to write a radio play about some aspect of their football game and they chose the 1922 post season game they played. The radio play glamorized a player who had left the team earlier in the year to play basketball. When the guy came down from the press box, no one thought anything of it, because conference eligibility rules were not yet in place and the individual as a student at the school.
The guy stood among 9 other available substitutes. Even if the team has played with fewer than 11 players, it wouldn't have been novel or unprecedented. In the 1894 Harvard-Yale game, Harvard finished the game with just 8 players, due to injuries.
Some time after the radio play, the school began to conflate what really happened with the story as told in the radio play. In 1962, the school first associated E. King Gill with their 12th man tradition in a school yearbook. Over time, the school entirely represented the fictionalized radio play version as fact. they crossed the line when they falsely attested to the radio play version as fact in their filing with the USPTO. In November, they represented the radio play version of events in a federal court filing against the Indianapolis Colts.
And now, hopefully, the school officials will get to very publicly explain their actions. And I believe they won't be able to. Had the school been honest about their tradition, everything would have been fine. But they lied.
If this happens, the story should be that public employees should be ethical and honest. Public university administrators should have integrity. I think this will eclipse the Ross Margraves clusterf##k.
In some ways, I can't believe they were so stupid as to get themselves into such a stupid situation. Then again, this is what happens when public employees have a greater loyalty to themselves than to the people they are supposed to serve.
