Clemson Wins!

[underpants]

2. 😆

Reminds me of Calvin Trillin’s piece “The Gipper Lives!” It was a comment on how the press treated Reagan. In the piece Trillin writes that George Gipp didn’t really die. He was living in a retirement home. The whole thing was a story Knute Rockne made up and the press lapped it up. In fact Notre Dame football wasn’t really all that successful under Rockne. The coach would just wait a few weeks after the season and then start claiming that ND had been undefeated and were national champions again. The South Bend and Chicago newspapers would report it as fact and it spread from there.