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HungaryGator
Doubletree Resident
(96.10.187.52) on 9/22/2018 - 9:47 a.m. says: ( 189 views
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"its hilarious how so many go into full spin cycle to deny him credit for it" |
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Message Replied To ========== I did not know that Emmitt Smith is the all time NFL leading rusher. * ============================== but but but Barry Sanders this and Eric Dickerson that and blah blah blah. More TDs, more rushing yards, more receiving yards, better blocker.....oh but it doesn't count because he had a better Offensive Line....for his whole career apparently. In fact he's almost entirely a product of having that great overpowering all conquering Offensive line for his entire career and at every level he ever played at. It doesn't matter that he finished high school as the #2 career rusher in the history of high school football in America and was the national player of the year because.....Offensive line. It doesn't matter that had he returned to UF and merely matched his career average pace, he would have finished as the leading career rusher in the history of college football in America because.....Offensive Line (just ignore the fact that our OL and entire Offense was severely weakened by really tough NCAA sanctions imposed right before he arrived). No No No....its all the Offensive Line. In an alternate galaxy if those other backs had had his all conquering Offensive Line, they'd have racked up far better stats. Honest. |
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-- Starred by: IntimiGator Thunder Beachmaster SpacinGator chigatorbri GatorTrekE -- Beginning in late 1862, James Phelan, Joseph Bradford, and Reuben Davis wrote to Jefferson Davis to express concern that some opponents were claiming the war "was for the defense of the institution of slavery" (Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American, pp. 479-480, 765). They called those who were making this claim "demagogues." Cooper notes that when two Northerners visited Jefferson Davis during the war, Davis insisted "the Confederates were not battling for slavery" and that "slavery had never been the key issue" (Jefferson Davis, American, p. 524). Precious few textbooks mention the fact that by 1864 key Confederate leaders, including Jefferson Davis, were prepared to abolish slavery. As early as 1862 some Confederate leaders supported various forms of emancipation. In 1864 Jefferson Davis officially recommended that slaves who performed faithful service in non-combat positions in the Confederate army should be freed. Robert E. Lee and many other Confederate generals favored emancipating slaves who served in the Confederate army. In fact, Lee had long favored the abolition of slavery and had called the institution a "moral and political evil" years before the war (Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 2003, reprint, pp. 231-232). By late 1864, Davis was prepared to abolish slavery in order to gain European diplomatic recognition and thus save the Confederacy. Duncan Kenner, one of the biggest slaveholders in the South and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the Confederate House of Representatives, strongly supported this proposal. So did the Confederate Secretary of State, Judah Benjamin. Davis informed congressional leaders of his intentions, and then sent Kenner to Europe to make the proposal. Davis even made Kenner a minister plenipotentiary so as to ensure he could make the proposal to the British and French governments and that it would be taken seriously. |
its hilarious how so many go into full spin cycle to deny him credit for it HungaryGator 9/22/2018 - 9:47 a.m.
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