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"Kenneth M. Sanderson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 11 Jun 2015 11:20:47 -0700
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Kent,

A profound observation!

Ken


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Kent Rasmussen <[log in to unmask]>
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> A correspondent sent me this note from a Green Bay Packers discussion
> group. I believe it's worth sharing.
> __________________
>
> Erik from Sanford, FL
> Vic, didn’t you get the memo? Everything old is bad and everything new
> is good. How many times as a Packers fan have I heard that nine of our
> 13 championships we won don’t count because they didn’t call the game
> the Super Bowl prior to January 1967. It’s the same ridiculous
> historical bigotry that can make a man as great as Jim Brown nothing but
> your average running back today, in some folks’ minds. According to
> reports, Secretariat would have beaten American Pharoah at Belmont by
> two seconds. How can that be? Everything old is bad. Nobody that did
> anything a long time ago was any good, except Mark Twain.
>

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