John Edwards had enough delusions of grandeur to try out for the Clemson football team

[taterguy]

Since we've all known that for years is anyone really surprised at the recent revelations?

[EFerrari]

1. I hear he once bought a scratcher, too.

What a surprise.

[supernova]

2. What college age guy

doesn't want to try out for the football team. This is news, how?

[taterguy]

3. I didn't

Guys a lot bigger, faster, and stronger than I was.

No pain, no pain.

[EFerrari]

4. But most of them do it with bad hair. Don't go off topic.

:)

[supernova]

7. Mea culpa, I left the reservation for a minute

:P ;-)

[Robbien]

5. What, you upset that there are not enough threads disparaging Edwards

that you have to set up a new one?

[taterguy]

6. Who said I was upset?

I was just making an observation.

[golddigger]

8. Yeah, a dumb one!

[taterguy]

9. You're just jealous that you didn't think of it first

[EFerrari]

13. A brazillion posters weigh in on the Edwards marriage

but you bring up a legit sport and all hell breaks loose.

Man. I need a scorecard.

[Robbien]

10. yeah right

"I'm not being nasty. I'm just making an oh so innocent observation."

Yeah right, not buying.

[taterguy]

12. I'm not selling anything

So I really don't care if you're buying or not

[Robbien]

17. What you are trying to do is desperately setting up as many threads bashing Edwards

as possible.

With everything else happening in the world to be commenting about, you are some sorry dude obsessively stuck on sniffing Edwards penis.

[taterguy]

20. How many Edwards threads have I started?

I'm pretty sure this is the only one.

[Robbien]

22. Again not buying

Oh go do all the nasty sniffing you care to do, but you will have to do it without any more interaction from me.

eom

[taterguy]

24. If I was gonna lie about something it wouldn't be something that you could easily contradict

All you'd have to do is post links to all the Edwards threads I've started.

Go ahead.

I dare you.

[Bluebear]

11. "I was just making an observation." - you forgot to bat your eyes demurely :)

[cwydro]

14. Don't know this story...

isn't he kinda small for football?

[taterguy]

16. That's the point of my OP

Yes, he's small

But he still tried out for the team

[saracat]

15. And he was delusional enough to actually get a " scholarship"

I don't understand sports but apparently they didn't use him enough or he wasn't fast enough or whatever they needed so he wasn't first tier or something and ended up losing the scholarship for not playing much. At least I think that was what I read. I may have forgotten something but he was indeed a football player, in high school and college. But he left Clemson because he couldn't afford to go without the scholarship.That was how he ended up at UNC, Chapel Hill.

[taterguy]

18. Oh FFS

He finished undergrad at NC State

UNC Chapel Hill is where he went to law school.

And no, he never got a scholarship at Clemson. He was just a walk-on.

[Catchawave]

21. I think you posted while I was typing...lol...GMTA!

And looking for his Clemson photo.

[Catchawave]

19. Uhm, he did make the team....

Though I don't think he was good enough for scholarship money, so he had to drop out for financial reasons.

[EFerrari]

23. This thread needs an irony detector.

[taterguy]

25. Moonlight Graham made it onto the roster of the New York Giants

How would you rate his contributions to society as opposed to his brother Frank Porter Graham?

Tell the truth.

[saracat]

26. I don't know who those people are.Sorry.

[taterguy]

27. Frank Porter Graham was a very progressive Senator / Educator

He lost his Senate seat in 1950 in a very divisive, race-baiting race. One of his opponent's advisers was Jesse Helms and that's when Jesse learned that hatred wins elections.

Graham spent most of his professional life as the Chancellor at UNC, and is most responsible for giving that university a reputation of being a beacon of liberalism in an otherwise backward area.

Moonlight Graham is the real person that Burt Lancaster's Field of Dreams character was based on.