For a school that dropped football in 1959, Brandeis sure has been having quite a bit of gridiron success lately. The Boston Globe reports that Benny Friedman- an NFL pioneer in the 1920s was generally credited with popularizing the forward pass, and who later became the first and only football coach (1949-1959) in the history of my alma mater- is a strong candidate for posthumous induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He’s already in the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
And not only that, but we’re about to have a Super Bowl in which the owners of both teams have ‘deis ties: the Eagles’ Jeffrey Lurie got his PhD there, while the wife of Patriots owner Bob Kraft, Myra, is a graduate as well; both men are big donors. Remind me to tell you the story sometime about when, as a Justice reporter, I was yelled at and told to put my pen down by Mr. Kraft during a School of Economics speech, when I tried to ask him about the team’s then-impending, later-scuttled move to Hartford.
Posted by Stephen Silver at January 31, 2005 06:29 PMleave it to Brandeis propaganda PR department to inform us that "Myra Kraft owns the Patriots along with her husband Bob" and to blatantly lift such lines as "truly Michael Vickian" from another source.
also .... like Jehuda knows what the NFL is, let alone who Tom Brady and Donovan McNabb are.
wow, during my years at 'deis the eagles went from a mediocre 10-6, to 7-9, to an abominable 3-13, back up to a slightly less abominable 5-11. and today they are in the Super Bowl. wow.
Posted by: LilB at January 31, 2005 11:14 PMI am sure throwing the curve ball like that at Bob Kraft is something you would like to have back now given his success.
Posted by: Matt at February 1, 2005 08:27 PM