You mean people in NJ don't know who Vince Lombardi is?
Kind of makes the trophy meaningless. Ah well, we in the UK who are NFL fans know the score.
Roger Collett
Arrowhead Press
http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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From: "Kenneth Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: And just case you didn't realise
> Halvard Johnson wrote:
>> Anny, this reminds me that some guys researching a book on the
>> New Jersey Turnpike some years back found that nobody working
>> at the Walt Whitman rest stop knew who Walt Whitman was.
>>
>> Hal
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> And this surprises me how?
>
> Turnpike rest stops are named for people from NJ or associated with it.
> Anyone know who John Fenwick was? Clara Barton? Richard Stockton?
> Walt Whitman!! Vince Lombardi?:-)
>
> At least someone had the good sense NOT to name a rest stop for Charles
> A. Lindbergh.
>
> ken
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