[Husker] The Roman Soldier and the Greek Stoic

[Don Rietsch]

Steve is right.  We need to be stoic.  Things could be worse, we could be
Detroit Lions fans or we could have just lost a ton of 401K money due to a
market crash.  Wait a minute!  I am a Lions fan and I did just lose a ton of
money in the market.  

I've got to go.  Gotta find a rope and a chair....  (I live in a ranch home
so I can't even jump out a window.)


-----Original Message-----
From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
Steve Stone
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 1:11 AM
To: husker-tssi.com
Subject: [Husker] The Roman Soldier and the Greek Stoic

Once upon a time a Roman soldier serving in his legion's Torture Unit 
was hard at work trying to elicit information from a Greek Stoic but 
without result.

The soldier was twisting the Stoic's right leg in what should have 
been an agonizing way, so he was astounded when the Stoic casually 
remarked, "If you twist that leg a little more to the left, it will 
break."

The frustrated soldier gave the leg an extra bit of torque which 
ended in the sickening crunch of shattering bone as it penetrated 
flesh.

The Stoic looked at the soldier and said, "I told you so."

________________

The moral to the story, of course, is that it might do all of us 
considerable good to develop some stoicism about the Husker football 
program because there's a lot more hurt out there just waiting to 
happen. Crying when it happens won't help the program, the players, 
the coaches, or the fans (ourselves).

Count me in for much gritting of teeth. :-)

Steve Stone

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