Now that the US is knocked out, I am formally extending an invitation to the American people to support Norway.
Why?
1: The Vikings discovered America before Columbus.
2: There are more ethnic Norwegians in the US than in Norway.
3: Next weekend we can pillage the English peasants together.
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i like the game a lot. the devs did a great job. whoever made the micro transaction decision did not #CFBPlayDontPay
250 years ago today, a man stood up in a room full of nervous delegates and said the words that made America inevitable.
Not Thomas Jefferson. Not George Washington. Not Benjamin Franklin.
A Virginia planter named Richard Henry Lee.
It was June 7, 1776. The war had already been going for over a year. Men were dying. Cities were burning. And yet the Continental Congress still had not officially declared independence from Britain.
That morning, Lee rose and read aloud a resolution he had been instructed to deliver by Virginia:
"That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."
John Adams immediately seconded it.
The room erupted.
The debate that followed was so heated that Congress had to table the vote entirely. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and South Carolina were not ready. Their delegates had not been authorized to vote for independence. Some feared it was too soon. Some feared it was treason.
So Congress bought time. They postponed the vote for three weeks and quietly appointed a committee to draft a formal declaration, just in case the resolution passed.
That committee included Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and a soft-spoken 33-year-old Virginia lawyer known for his elegant writing.
Thomas Jefferson.
Jefferson wrote the Declaration. It was adopted July 4. The world celebrated.
And Richard Henry Lee, the man whose words started everything, whose resolution is the reason any of this happened?
He had already gone home to Virginia. He missed the signing entirely.
Jefferson is immortalized. Lee is a footnote.
History is funny that way.
We spend so much time talking about NIL and the portal that we forget what college sports are supposed to be about.
Army Head Coach Jeff Monken told me he wants to get back to development, stability and education. Not five years at nine schoolsโฆ. not chaos disguised as opportunity.
College sports should give young people a real shot to grow, graduate and build a life. With all the noise and money, we canโt lose sight of that โฌ๏ธโฌ๏ธ