Note to O'REILLY: Ratings are up to see you squirm-lie SNAP!1 not because they agree or like you.

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3. For the laugh track O'reily was an ass-kicking, record-breaking football player

K OLBERMANN: ' Bill O'Reilly. The Fact or Fiction host and noted loofah user wrote .... about the inspiration that his own football career at Marist College in New York provided observing that he, quoting here, "I won the national punting title for my division as a senior." O'Reilly concludes that " the end zone was the beginning of the no-spin zone."

The football office at Marist stated football was not a varsity sport there until 1978 -- seven years after O'Reilly graduated. When he played, it was a so-called club sport where players paid all their own expenses, and schedules and, most importantly, statistical record keeping were haphazard.

So when he says he was the top punter in his division in the country in 1970,.... He was not in the NCAA Division I or II or the smaller-college NAIA Division I or Division II. O'Reilly in Marist played in something called the National Club Football Association.