[NU Sports] Pride of Illinois?

[Roy Lamberton]

I like the Railsplitter Trophy, make a 10 foot log with an axe in it.....

That would really be something to heft on the sidelines.!

rsl

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Nolan [mailto:nolan at romaine.tssi.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:54 AM
To: Roy Lamberton
Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Pride of Illinois?

> The Sun Times is reporting that they want to establish a "Lincoln-Obama
> Pride of Illinois Trophy" for the NU-Ill game.

If they really want to name the trophy after something that reminds
people of Illinois' most famous non-living citizen (Lincoln), why not call 
it the 'rail-splitter' trophy?  That even gives them a number of physical 
representations to consider. 

Of course, people might counter that Lincoln wasn't born in Illinois, he 
was born in Kentucky.  (Obama was born in Hawaii.)  There was a US president
who was born in Illinois, though, Reagan.
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Mike Nolan