[NU Sports] football and brains

[MHRJGScott at aol.com]

First of all I would like to thank all the listers for not getting into  
politics during this happy time in America, but I would like to comment on  a SI 
article which talked about "the revenge of the nerds" eggheads, and other  
wimp-like braniaks which were having good season, CATS!!, Duke, Stanford, Rice,  
Vandy, etc. Just where does it say that a person with a high IQ can not kick  
some butt.
I hope our new Chicago guy can do what he says and from the NYT:
 
"Maybe, just maybe, the result will be a step away from the  
anti-intellectualism that has long been a strain in American life. Smart and  educated 
leadership is no panacea, but we’ve seen recently that the converse — a  White House 
that scorns expertise and shrugs at nuance — doesn’t get very far  either. 
We can’t solve our educational challenges when, according to polls, Americans 
 are approximately as likely to believe in flying saucers as in evolution, 
and  when one-fifth of Americans believe that the sun orbits the  Earth."
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