No wonder I like this guy!
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| "I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense." |
Posted on 02/16/2015 2:55:39 PM PST by FlJoePa
George Washington. Famous for being first, but hasn't done anything in centuries. RUTGERS
John Adams. Sort of forgotten and small and lost to Thomas Jefferson so...WAKE FOREST
Thomas Jefferson. Bought Louisiana, had zero scruples, drank hard, and invented the disgraceful sex scandal. LSU
James Madison. Tiny, but punched well above his weight, and lasted way longer in the game than he had any right to via craftiness. BOISE STATE
James Monroe. Known for having financial difficulties. MARYLAND
John Quincy Adams. Thorny bastard who swam naked in rivers for fun and had big-ass sideburns. WEST VIRGINIA
Andrew Jackson. Completely insane. Noted for exaggerated sense of hurt feelings versus imagined, fantastical notion of honor. Played weak schedule versus outnumbered opponents. Didn't graduate high school. Wildly successful and generally reviled. FLORIDA STATE
Martin Van Buren. Tiny alcoholic without much of a record from New York. BUFFALO
William Henry Harrison. Was on top for like, thirty days once. BYU
John Tyler. Would have rather been farming, honestly. IOWA STATE
James K. Polk. Blew up the tiny United States from the WAC-sized niblet it was prior to his Presidency to a full Power Five-sized behemoth. TCU
Zachary Taylor. Died mysteriously. PITT
Millard Fillmore. "What's he doing on this list? Was he ever President? That wasn't just a thing they made up just to name schools on television shows after him? Really? He was President, of our country? Why is Dan Hawkins running away from his body with a dagger?" COLORADO
Franklin Pierce. A "popular and outgoing" man with dismal luck, a ferocious drinking problem, and a scanty resume. WAZZU
James Buchanan. Poorly organized, ineffectual, and harbinger of disaster. The dreary Forever Alone of American Presidents. PURDUE
Abraham Lincoln. Perhaps our greatest President, savior of the Union, and dead. NOTRE DAME
Andrew Johnson. Known primarily for "secluding himself in order to avoid public embarrassment." ILLINOIS
Ulysses S. Grant. Spectacularly corrupt, wildly popular, prone to drinking, and known mostly for being good at something else entirely. KENTUCKY
Rutherford B. Hayes. Got where they are via shady backroom politics; big fan of gold standard to back all that green. BAYLOR
James A. Garfield. Spoke a lot of languages, was super smart, and didn't do much because he died before he could ever get to the endzone. Would have been the first person to tell you how smart he was, too. NORTHWESTERN
Chester A. Arthur. Didn't really try to do anything other than pay the bills. The well-considered punt of Presidents. IOWA
Grover Cleveland. Big, unremarkably remarkable, forceful, and suffered horrendous defeat before reclaiming the title out of sheer will and tenacity. Once wrote: "sensible and responsible women do not want to vote" in an article in Ladies Home Journal, which is really the most Michigan Mansplaining thing to do ever. MICHIGAN
Benjamin Harrison. From Ohio and didn't really do much. OHIO
Grover Cleveland. Big, unremarkably remarkable, forceful, and suffered horrendous defeat before reclaiming the title out of sheer will and tenacity. Once wrote: "sensible and responsible women do not want to vote" in Ladies Home Journal, which specifically is the most 1891 Jonathan Chait thing ever. MICHIGAN
William McKinley. Was goaded into war by the press, wound up being shot by an unemployed anarchist. THE NCAA.
Theodore Roosevelt. A raging, half-mad, football-obsessed egomaniac obsessed with war, shooting people, being shot, killing animals, punching people, being punched, and generally proving himself to be the baddest man in the room despite being born into every advantage on the planet in his chosen sphere. Counted more territories as his than he actually had. ALABAMA
William Howard Taft. Any ambition and talent the man had was overshadowed by his very public battles with self-defeating behaviors. OKLAHOMA.
Woodrow Wilson. Made up nonsensical garbage conferences to serve his own needs. TEXAS
Warren G. Harding. Beloved criminal with absolutely no talents besides being handsome, charming, and prone to corruption and infidelity. SMU
Calvin Coolidge. Kept a low profile and said as little as possible, which allowed him to dodge responsibility for any problems that began during his tenure but did not manifest until after his departure. NEBRASKA..
Herbert Hoover. Should probably just have stuck to his first love of mining. UTEP
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Won multiple titles; waged war in three directions; not afraid to try to pack a few courts to get what he wanted. MIAMI
Harry Truman. Cussed a lot, won close contests, had the occasional disaster. Known mostly for a famous tie with North Korea. MICHIGAN STATE
Dwight D. Eisenhower. Known for producing ineffectual subordinates and would rather be at Augusta National. GEORGIA
John F. Kennedy. Spent a good portion of the day with his pants down or looking for amphetamines. Bought titles for the whole family? AUBURN
Lyndon B. Johnson. Known for continuing a long war he could not possibly win. Like a certain mascot, was known for pooping in front of people. TEXAS A&M
Richard Nixon. A vacated title, you say? USC
Gerald Ford. Fell down a lot and was a good sport about it. Exhibited questionable judgment by showing exceeding generosity to a publicly disliked and disgraced leader. KANSAS
Jimmy Carter. No one's still really sure how this happened. GEORGIA TECH
Ronald Reagan. If you hate him, talking about him to one of his lifelong fans is the greatest waste of time, and the reverse is equally true. The simplest course is to just pretend you're not familiar with his work. PENN STATE
George H.W. Bush. Turned a relatively minor political family into a dynasty only to watch some idiot who'd been stashed in Texas turn it into a disgraceful joke. FLORIDA
Bill Clinton. Massive failures, massive comebacks, more massive failures, and a propensity for getting caught with their pants down in so many ways. Prone to bloat. ARKANSAS
George W. Bush. HE'S WILL MUSCHAMP NO THAT'S NOT A TEAM BUT THAT'S WHAT HE IS WE ALREADY SOLVED THAT NEXT NEXT NEXT---
Barack Obama. Blows up people with illegal robots. Cardale Jones is basically an illegal robot, right? OHIO STATE
“Jimmy Carter. No one’s still really sure how this happened.”
That’s for darn sure.
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I’m still chuckling at Zachary Taylor = Pitt.
These would be funnier if they were only slightly accurate.
I used to date a girl who went to South West Texas State. She was a babe but LBJ sullied the name so bad that they just changed it to Texas State. Should have taken the name “Armadillos” but kept “Bobcats”.
I like TR’s spirit, but as the founder of the Progressive movement and party, leading to Woodrow Wilson, my enthusiasm is tempered somewhat.
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You mean Lincoln didn’t attend Notre Dame? Damn...
/johnny
Some of the supposed connections are pretty stupid in that they do not make sense.
For instance, Florida State may play outmatched opponents but Andy Jackson sure didn’t. He beat a superior force of the best soldiers in the world and he didn’t beat them just a little bit. He kicked ass.
Barack Obama is the Occidental president.
Well, hopefully they'll read your posts. If not, this could set the conservative movement back decades.
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My memory is not entirely clear, but I think van Buren was our first, I can’t bring myself to write it, but Andrew Jackson smirked about it.
My mistake. It was Buchanan who people whispered about. My apologies to Van Buren.
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