Big game today. 3 p.m. Go Navy! Army has won 5 of the last 7 and is favored by 2.5. Nine of the last 12 have been decided by a single possession.
Go Navy! Beat Army!
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All the NIL stuff going on, Academy players can't go that way (as yet) since they are considered federal employees who all get paid around $1100 a month. However a good chunk of that goes to uniforms, laptops etc. Cadets pay around 5k for uniforms and such over their academy years. The capes that cadets wear are all leased and cadets pay for them. The coaches are paid for by alumni who control a lot of Army athletics while academies run the facilities. Of course academies ultimately control the show but the lines are kind of Byzantine. Our "heroes" at Yale have been trying to tinker around in that
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Why Philly ? Do you go to to it ?I understand the why of it and I get it, but I wish it always played in Philadelphia.
(and by no means am i a fan of the city of brotherly love)
I think it’s cool they move it around .
should be in baltimore, philly, meadowlands....the 3 stadiums between the academy's that can hold the fans.....
There's something to be said - STILL - for "tradition." 90 games have been played in Philly (most at JFK). It was originally held there as a "central" location between Annapolis and West Point (although New Brunswick would've been a lot more "central" I guess, lol.....). It's also pretty damn cool to see 100 or so busses, carrying the 4 classes of cadets, traveling down the NJTP!
*** although when played at Giants Stadium a few times it was, by far, the loudest you could hear the Cadets and Middies singing on TV. That stadium was "tight" and damn loud compared to The Vet, The Linc, Gillette and others.
Ask my 10 year old who we are rooting for today, same answer every year- America. If you haven’t been to one yet, I highly highly recommend going.
If its on yer list make it #1. once attending the game, it will never be the same game you've watched on TV.
GO ARMY BEAT
navyMy former Rutgers roommate took me to the Giants Stadium Army-Navy Game and it is definitely a superior and different experience than watching on TV.
The December 2, 1905 game was held at Princeton before 35,000 with President Theodore Roosevelt and former President Grover Cleveland in attendance.
Bowls are tough for Army because A) they only had five wins and B) as an independent they have no tie-ins. They can only get into a couple of bowls - Military being one but this year has Tulane and VTech. Armed Forces bowl can take Army but they already have AF v James Madison. Looks like no bowl for Army or Navy this year even with a 6th a win
Today is their bowl game! Winning today is 100,000 times bigger then some little known bowl game.
Army and or Navy both know to go to a bowl game they need 6 wins each year before today's to get into a bowl. Selection Sunday will always be before this game.
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I get it too but don't like it either. At the same time I understand I've been spoiled living in the Philadelphia area. I've been to every Army Navy game in Philadelphia since 1988 when I moved here. I've been to two at the Meadowlands and four in Baltimore.I understand the why of it and I get it, but I wish it always played in Philadelphia.
(and by no means am i a fan of the city of brotherly love)
As always Go Navy Beat Army!!
The back of the Army helmets say Rock of the Marne which refers to the Army 3rd Infantry Division who earned the name at the turning point of WWI.
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/425091/3rd-infantry-division-became-rock-marne
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/425091/3rd-infantry-division-became-rock-marne
Walt Disney created the design for Rocky the Bulldog for the 3rd Infantry back in 1965 and on Army’s helmet today.
I think the Army qb is better than Gav, certainly runs better and is more accurate throwing
Just the trajectory alone and then he chases after the guy who recovered it. Plus the replay shots were excellent.
Analytics play. Numbers say you’ll get the two point conversion on one of the two td’s you need. If you get it on the first, you increase chances of winning meaningfully.