… of America’s multiple university football scandals is touched on in this letter to the editor:
The juxtaposition of a cartoon about the Penn State scandal and Steve Ford’s column July 15 on the [University of North Carolina] athletics/academic mess caused me to think that, in a perverse way, UNC-Chapel Hill should thank Penn State. If the national media were not caught up in Penn State’s football-related criminality, they might be focused on UNC’s mendacity instead.
It’s like – how far back does your football scandal memory go? Isn’t the University of Miami already gone? Everybody was mega-fretting over that one so recently… And the letter writer’s right – Chapel Hill’s beyond-grotesque academic scandal (and unlike Penn State and U Miami, Chapel Hill has until recently been seen as a serious university) has evaporated in the Penn State shower-mist.
It’s an American thing. UD’s married to a Pole who comes from an old accomplished family. He remembers everything and everyone from the fourteenth century on. UD’s a typical American. Comes from nuthin and can’t remember – doesn’t know – anything from more than a couple of generations back.
In the case of football scandals, Americans can’t remember anything from more than a month back.
July 22nd, 2012 at 12:02PM
Oh, come on! You must remember Dr. Dentons, Father Coughlin, Lamont Cranston, and Lydia Pinkham (not to mention WW I and the winning of the West).
July 22nd, 2012 at 2:27PM
What?! The University of Miami’s scandal is already gone? Must be time for a new one:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/21/2904868/report-university-of-miami-coach.html#moreb
We’re #1!!!!! In scandals.
July 22nd, 2012 at 3:26PM
francofou: I meant I can’t remember any family stuff more than two generations back. I have a vague grip on American history…