In honor of College Gameday being broadcast from Independence Hall this weekend for Notre Dame vs. Temple, the venerable scribes here at One Foot Down have unearthed an excerpt from an early draft of the Declaration of Independence. Judging by the style and language, it appears that Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and several other Founding Fathers were ahead of their time in their love of college football. And now, from the vaults!
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one Footballe Team to test the athletic bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the Universities, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God and their Conference entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind and nutty bloggers requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the competition.