{"id":251967,"date":"2017-10-24T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=251967"},"modified":"2017-10-25T16:25:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:25:43","slug":"columbia-university-embarrassed-by-football-teams-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/10\/24\/columbia-university-embarrassed-by-football-teams-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia University Embarrassed by Football Team\u2019s Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Did you see this? Ha! Columbia University. They\u2019ve got a football team. The football team is a doormat every year. The football team is a cupcake. Guaranteed, if you\u2019re a university and you want to win a game, pay Columbia to put them on your schedule. Having Columbia in is like having a Division 2A team come in &#8212; and the people at Columbia love that. The faculty and the administration at Columbia University love the fact that the football team\u2019s horrible because it shows that Columbia is a member of the academic club of intellectual pursuits and not some jock haven.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there\u2019s a problem. Hee-hee-hee. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/24\/nyregion\/columbia-football-winning.html\">Columbia Football Keeps Winning. Some Fans Aren\u2019t Happy About It<\/a>,&#8221; and it made the New York Times! That\u2019s how we know. Quick: What is the mascot of the Columbia football team? Does anybody know? I mean, we have football fans galore here and nobody knows. It\u2019s the Columbia Lions. You know where Columbia is, right? You know which one it is? (interruption) No! No, no, no, no. Way, way&#8230; (interruption)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-252035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-102417-Columbia-University.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-102417-Columbia-University.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/650-102417-Columbia-University-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Yeah, where all the drug deals go down. Way, way up there on the Upper West Side. You want&#8230;? (chuckles) Just walk across the street from campus, whatever you want. Big tower up there. Columbia journalism. This is where Ahmadinejad went to make his speech, and he said there aren\u2019t any homosexuals in Iran (laughing) and the students all started laughing. Ahmadinejad said, &#8220;Oh, do you know some? Could you tell me where they live?&#8221; (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, &#8220;When the Columbia Lions football team snapped its infamous 44-game losing streak on Oct. 8, 1988, Michael Rosenthal was among thousands in the stands who stood and cheered, &#8216;We won!\u2019 &#8230; Almost 30 years later, as the school is forging its best football season in recent memory, going 6-0 after the weekend\u2019s 22-17 win over Dartmouth, some Columbians are&#8221; not happy. They are not happy about this. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jill Levey, a New Jersey fund-raising consultant [said], &#8216;When my husband told me that Columbia had beaten Penn, I said, &#8220;That\u2019s bad news.&#8221; When I went to Columbia, we prided ourselves on being anti-football and pro-intellectual. Can\u2019t we retain our pride in being anti-athletic intellectual nerds?'&#8221; The story makes the New York Times! They\u2019re upset the football team\u2019s winning at Columbia. 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