What Philly fans have "prescribed" for T.O.

[JET]

Originally Posted by Rexi

TO should have a good game, I really hope he stomps the Eagles secondary.

Off topic, but Rexi, you ought to know something about your sig. I couldn't find direct confirmation, but I knew this was out there. From the "A word a day" site :

From: Nicholas Wood (nickbeeATfuse.net)

Subject: Norman Einstein Quotation from AWAD, Feb 8, 2002:

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. -Joe Theismann, Former quarterback

This quote which is rightly attributed to Joe Theismann has an even more humorous explanation.

It turns out that Theismann went to high school with Norman Einstein and he was the class valedictorian. This was verified by Sports Illustrated some years back which ran Einstein's yearbook picture with the story.

So, when Theismann says, "He's no Norman Einstein", he means the same thing as we do when we say, "He's no Albert Einstein." How are we to know this? Well, apparently Joe Theismann is no Norman Einstein.

I searched for Theismann's high school (South River High School, New Jersey) but didn't find anything resembling a list of students from 1966 or 67, which is when JT would have graduated.

I found the high school name in his College Football Hall of Fame page (which references Theismann showing up to Notre Dame at 5'10, 147 pounds). The CFHoF page link is in his wikipedia entry, which, by the way, has a link to thewarpath.net, a site some of you may have heard of. It also has a link to youtube with the leg injury, but you couldn't pay me to watch that.

Thread hijack over.