Time for Groucho to Weigh in on College Football.

I commented on this article College Football Is Powerful: The Proof Is in the Alcohol – NYTimes.com.

This reminds me of two quotes.

The first is from John Warner, Carnegie Mellon’s 4th president. The year was 1961

.“…We haven’t yet found any satisfactory reason for an educational institution to provide an athletic “show” on a commercial scale for a high proportion of the general public.”

The next is from “Horse Feathers”,1932, starring the Marx Brothers

GROUCHO (Dean Quincy Adams Wagstaff ): Have we got a stadium?

FACULTY: Yes.

GROUCHO: Have we got a college?

FACULTY: Yes.

GROUCHO: Well, we can’t support both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.