FYI on the "No Spin Zone" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John F. McMullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: johnmac's living room <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bill O'Reilly and I Both Led the League
In 1958-59, I led the league in scoring with a 24 points per game scoring average and has 53 points in a single game. I also led the league in rebounding. You never read about it in the paper? hmmm. Maybe it was because the league scoring and rebounding leadership was in the CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) Met League in New York City (I wouldn't have led in rebounding if our best rebounder didn't go in the army) -- and the 53 points was made while playing for St. Matthew's Episcopal Church (I was a basketball slut; I'd play for whatever church would give me a uniform). Well, that's my story -- here's Bill's -- as he writes about it and as Keith Olbermann tells it -- I'm also an expert witness, knowing a good deal about Marist College (Bill's alma mater)'s sports history. >From the New York Times -- http://nytimes.com/2005/02/07/business/media/07oreilly.html Who Knew? Bill O'Reilly of Fox Found His No-Spin Zone With a Botched Punt By MARK GLASSMAN The glossy, collectable program for the Super Bowl yesterday featured a one-page inspirational essay written by a former football player. No, not Gale Sayers. It was Bill O'Reilly. Mr. O'Reilly, better known as the host of "The O'Reilly Factor," a talk show on Fox News Channel, was a punter and place-kicker for Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The essay is a motivational piece on how a bad play helped him attain a sense of mastery later in life. "I guess you could say the end zone was the beginning of the no-spin zone," he writes. In the essay, Mr. O'Reilly, formerly nicknamed "Go-Go," after the New York Giants kicker Peter Gogolak, describes the crowd's reaction to a botched kick during a game against Iona College. "Never mind that I won the national punting title for my division as a senior," wrote Mr. O'Reilly, who has never been loath to boast of his achievements. "Never mind that I split the uprights scores of times. In the hearts and minds of my college peers, I am the man who punted a football backwards." Mr. O'Reilly was not available for comment. Greg Aiello, a spokesman for the National Football League, said Mr. O'Reilly was chosen to write for the Super Bowl program because of his affiliation with the Fox Network, the News Corporation unit that broadcast the game. "We were looking to tell football stories," Mr. Aiello said. He added, "It wasn't as if we needed a political commentator to write an essay." Mr. Aiello also said that Dan Rather, the CBS News anchor, wrote an essay in the Super Bowl program last year. "That's pretty good journalism we're doing," he said. "Fair and balanced." MARK GLASSMAN Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company --------------------------------------------------------------- >From the Transcript of the Feb. 7th "Countdown with Keith" -- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6935771/ OLBERMANN: We segue now into our nightly round-up of celebrity and entertainment news, keeping tabs. And it turns out the 2005 Super Bowl was not entirely scandal-free. This years wasnt about the commercials, the halftime show or even the Philadelphia Eagles pathetic clock management. It was about the Super Bowl program and Bill OReilly. The Fact or Fiction host and noted loofah user wrote the so-called end piece of the score card sold at yesterdays little game. He waxed poetic about the inspiration that his own football career at Marist College in New York provided observing that he once punted a ball backwards. But that, quoting here, "I won the national punting title for my division as a senior." OReilly concludes that, "I guess you could say the end zone was the beginning of the no-spin zone." But Mr. O'Reilly has done a little spinning of his own here. Others might call it resume padding. The football office at Marist told me today that football was not a varsity sport there until 1978 -- Seven years after O'Reilly graduated. When he played, it was a so-called club sport where players paid all their own expenses and schedules and most importantly, statistical record keeping were haphazard. So when he says he was the top punter in his division in the country in 1970, it does not mean what it sounds like. He was not in the NCAA division one or two or the smaller college NAIA Division I or Division II. O'Reilly in Marist played in something called the National Club Football Association. So writing in the Super Bowl program that you won the punting championship in your division would be like me writing in one of my articles in one of the World Series programs that I led the nation's high school baseball players in on-base percentage in 1973. I did, too. My on-base percentage that season was 1,000. I came to bat once and got hit in the back side with a pitch. 2004 MSNBC.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. The 'johnmacsgroup' Internet discussion group is making it available without profit to group members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of literary, educational, political, and economic issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. I believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. 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