A Most Trumpean Victory For West Point

American Thinker ^ | December 14, 2016 | William F. Marshall

[Kaslin]

What a sight to behold! After 14 long years in the gridiron desert, the football team of the United States Military Academy defeated their age-old nemesis, the United States Naval Academy, in that most iconic of American rivalries, the Army-Navy football game.

As fans’ feet and fingers froze at icy M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore last Saturday, the game opened with an invocation by a Navy chaplain, whose baritone delivery and thunderous phrases brought to mind Charlton Heston in the Ten Commandments. I half-expected him to produce a couple of stone tablets with the game’s final score etched on them, but covered with a ceremonial cloth till the big reveal with the game-ending cannon blast. It was a fine prayer.

The rivalry this year had the usual good-natured jibes between the schools in the 117-year-old tradition, although some of the methods of delivery don’t date back quite as far as the rivalry itself. In the run-up to the game, we Cadet parents were treated to a stream of student-produced spirit videos on our Facebook feeds of West Pointers mocking their Annapolis opponents. Navy had a few good video zingers of their own. These would-be Lorne Michaels saw their productions replayed on the Jumbotrons during the game for the benefit of the fans in the stadium, and I’m guessing at home as well. Pretty funny stuff.

[trisham]

Yes! And...

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LOLOL!