Posted on 12/08/2016 6:59:51 AM PST by God luvs America
That’s because Navy has Marines playing for the team!
Semper Fi!
------You obviously do not understand Army guys. Go Army, beat the swabbies!
chins up, army. you have a hope in hell this year; Navy's best three players are all injured for the game.
The Navy has one every game since 2002 but hey, sock it to them Army! Huuuuuh!
I went to the Army Navy lacrosse game last year at West Point. Amazing game. If anyone is remotely close to West Point, I highly suggest you go see the lacrosse game in the Spring. Plenty off seats in front row and the game is amazing. Left their beaming with patriotism.
What Navy has done in part to be dominant in shot is they prioritize winning football games. They put money into hiring top notch coaches. The Naval academy coach’s salary is more than double the USMA coach’s. They also have a number of players who went to the NFL either abandoning their service committments entirely or getting a specious waiver to serve in the reserves instead of active duty.
Is that the role of a service academy? I don’t know. Are they drawing better future marine and navy officer candidates by having a good football team? Maybe. Probably they are getting some cadet prospects favoring Navy over Army because of their football team, but finding people to fill the seats in the incoming classes with high quality cadets/midshipmen hasn’t been a problem.
What? Donald Trump the spur heeled “draft dodger”?
If any academy had an affinity to athletics by nature, military ones would.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Staubach
Roger Thomas Staubach (born February 5, 1942), nicknamed Captain America and Captain Comeback,[1] is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL).
He attended the U.S. Naval Academy where he won the 1963 Heisman Trophy, and after graduation he served in the U.S. Navy, including a tour of duty in Vietnam. Staubach joined the Dallas Cowboys in 1969 and played with the club during all 11 seasons of his career.
GO NAVY - BEAT ARMY!
I love lacrosse. Played it in college. Too bad it isn’t better known. Beats football.
Navy has no weight standards for their football team. Army does.
See post 34.
West Point is for nose picking, mouth breathing, cone headed losers. Annapolis is for brilliant, strong, hero-types.
I know this to be true because I'm USNA '92. ;-)
BEAT ARMY!
That's not too far from the truth. When I was in Air Defense Artillery Officer's Basic in '76, our flag football team had several Naval Academy grads from the class that followed ours. Most of them played on the Navy football team, and we were dominant.
So dominant that we were split into two teams, because the powers that be couldn't stand the thought of a bunch of butterbars winning the Post championship. Both teams gave it a run, though.
****Like one former grad sent me, “Anyone have a VHS player? I want to watch a tape of the last time Army beat Navy...”****
This is what I love about our country and what muzzies and many libs never get to experience. FRIENDLY rivalries...
...helps to make life fun.
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