[NU Sports] Our "D"

[NEONRye at aol.com]

Nice article in today's Tribune about our suddenly fearsome defensive  unit:  
_http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-081002-northwestern-defense,0,673557
4.story_ 
(http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-081002-northwestern-defense,0,6735574.story) 
 
But they need a nickname.  How about "Son of Purple People  Eaters"?:-)
 
Let's all enjoy our "day off" from 'Cat pigskin tomorrow and come back  
strong against Sparty.  The next two games at home really set the table for  the 
season.  Win 'em both--which obviously will be no easy task--and we are  on the 
way to big things, including serious national rankings (with all the  pressure 
that brings) and the prospect of some nice bowling opportunities.   It's a 
heady feeling to be 5-0, but this team hasn't yet been up against a  clearly 
better, more talented opponent, so we don't really know the true  potential that 
it has.  What we do know is that, so far, Fitz's boys have  found a way to 
win, something that wasn't really true the past two years (i.e.,  since RW was 
taken so suddenly).  This seems to be a "T-E-A-M", and PF  knows what it takes 
to maintain the unity and the psychological drive to  prevail, having been to 
the "Mountaintop" himself. And we clearly have  about a dozen (or more) very 
talented playmakers on both sides of the ball.  I remain hopeful, but wary.
 
On another note, while they are not--and have never been--my team, for  those 
Listers who are in virtual mourning right now over the Cubs' abysmal  showing 
the past two days, you all have my sympathy (and empathy).  My  daughter's 
boyfriend is a Cubs fanatic from Chicago (a Wisky grad, but I really  like him 
in spite of his going to a NU rival, and his dad used to be an NU law  prof), 
and he is just dying, because he really thought this was "their  year".  As a 
longtime sufferer of NY Jets ignominious defeats and chokes, I  can 
relate--although we will always have Joe Willie Namath and the upset of the  Colts to 
fall back on.
 
Paul Levinson



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