RUTGERS WINS AND WHY IT MATTERS

When the elites of the New York metro area caused Columbia, New York University (known far and wide as NYU), and Fordham to drop big time football in the late 40s and early 50s they robbed the less than affluent kids of the New York metro area of the chance to compete at a top level in their home environment. This meant that local athletes had nowhere to go but "there," somewhere far from home where their families and friends could only read about their exploits or hear rumors of dreams achieved. So Columbia, the team that produced the first win over the wartime undefeated Army juggernaut in four years; Fordham University (1942 Sugar Bowl champions), the school that boasted what might have been the greatest offensive and defensive line in college history -- the "Seven Blocks of Granite," featuring some guy named Vince Lombardi among others; and NYU (Cursed by the un-New York name of "The NYU Violets"--I ain't kidding you) a school that produced some great individual players---all from the New York metro area--- ceased to compete except at the unknown conference level. New York elites actually caused these schools to drop big time football because football was beneath them. Nobody at the New York Times cared; in fact the New York Times doesn't even cover their local high school teams.

Heck, you have to understand, high school public school football is played by "the children of nobodies" while the children of elites care about (full contact) yacht racing, suicide soccer, horse shows, and La Crosse.

Well, after last night the entire area gets to see the kids from their poorer families play. At last they can experience first hand the success of their kids, the ones that play in the largest metro area in the country, the scum that is ignored by the New York elite press and television. Now their kids, who are among the best high school football players in the country, don't have to go to Florida, Oregon, or Michigan to get their shots at fame and the Big Time. Everyone in the tri-state area is suddenly cheering for a college football team. Their college football team.

This actually means something. I’m not exactly sure what.