"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Monday, January 05, 2004 A Dale Price dispatch from the post-Rose Bowl slough of Maize and Blue despond draws from SecretAgentMan this comment:
Astroturf isn't the devil. It is, however, the floor covering on the ninth circle of Hell. Might as well play in your living room, and also no one gets dirty. When you see uniforms smeared with mud and grass then you can say "we've got a football game."
Indeed. It can truly be said the Detroit Lions' annual Thanksgiving Day Game jumped the shark when it was moved indoors from the tundra of Tiger Stadium, where the contest was played in snow and mud.
Meantime, more proof that the Internet is a wondrous thing: a website devoted to Joe Kapp collectibles.