No matter what sports writers say, there is no actual Ivy League. But the figment took a half-step toward fact last week. The presidents of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale signed an expanded version of an old Harvard-Princeton-Yale agreement—no “athletic scholarships,” no first-year men or scholastic delinquents on varsity teams, no post-season games—in short, strictly antiseptic amateur football. Members are not required to play each other, and no formal championship will be at stake. Far from forming a league comparable to the Big Ten, the ivy-covered institutions were merely seeking to “maintain the value of the game while keeping it in fitting proportion to the main purposes of academic life.”
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Defensive lineman Josiah Green, a member of the All-Ivy League second team last fall as a junior, has posted a couple of highlight videos that are worth a look. Sometimes guys in the middle of the defensive line get overlooked, but overlook Green at your own expense.
Part 2! pic.twitter.com/mTbdZO0lcL
— Josiah Green (@thejgreenery) February 26, 2024
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EXTRA POINT
Got a great lesson yesterday in buying local vs. chasing down the cheapest price at a big box store.
We've been having difficulty with a multipoint door lock and stopped by the hardware store in town to ask about it. The clerk ended up spending probably half an hour with us, explaining how the lock works and what the problem might be, showing us similar locks on show-room doors, and searching the manufacturer's intranet for the specifics we needed to know in order to set up a repair or get a replacement. She then took us to another section of the store and suggested trying something else that in the end fixed the problem. And while she was at it, she showed us something about our windows that we didn't know.
While we were at the store I happened to mention the issue I've been having with my electric lawn tractor and two of the fellows who work there who overheard what I was saying offered ideas about who might be able to help, with one even making a call on my behalf.
Can you save money buying from the big guys? Sure, but yesterday was a reminder about just how knowledgeable and helpful the folks around the corner can be and why they will continue getting our business.
