Quote of the Day (Bill Cosby, on His Awful College Team)

"Every school - the name had a 'berg' at the end of it. Muhlenberg, Gettysburg, Shippensburg. We lost to all of them.”— Bill Cosby, on his college football opponents at Temple University, quoted in Neil Genzlinger, “CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Mining Cosby’s Golden Past,” The New York Times, January 11, 2012

Well, according to an earlier Times story on the legendary comic and actor, Cosby exaggerated his team’s ineptitude--somewhat (5-11-2, in two seasons). It still sounds as if he rues not having listened to his grandfather’s advice when he was a young: “Do. Not. Play. Football.” The reason? “Your. Bones. Are. Not. Set. Yet.”

Quite a few professional football mastodons--including members of the 28 teams who won’t be going to the Super Bowl this year--are dealing with aching bones, or worse, this morning, undoubtedly wishing they had better sense than to get involved with the game.