Go army or navy?

[fortebleedsblue]

Who you rooting for? I'm going with the underdog I want to see Army win one

 

[Skiblets]

My brother is a proud grad of USNA. Go Navy, Beat Army!!

 

[Dooley]

I have no dog in this fight. I think this game would be the only game that I'd be cool with handing out a "participation trophy" to all players.

 

[whaler11]

Go under 56

 

[Skiblets]

Army's new unis are sweet and so are Navy's new helmets. When's the last time we broke out alt unis?

 

[RedSoloCup]

Grandfather was Army Air Corps, have to go with the Black Knights.

 

[Oxford Bob]

Best name in the game. Wave Ryder of Navy from Hawaii.

 

[Doggie Style]

Navy!

 

[fortebleedsblue]

I'm convinced (football wise) army is cursed

 

[Skiblets]

There is no better moment in sports, IMO, then the end of the Army Navy game when the stadium is silent for the playing of both schools' fight song. Goose bump inducing every year. conference realingment. This game is what college football is all about.

 

[Skiblets]

Oh yeah, one more thing. Go Navy!!!

 

[huskymedic]

I had popped this up on the Recruting Board but then realize that some folks may never wander there...

"See where the cadets and midshipmen who are suiting up for the 113th annual Army-Navy Game are from. The 2012 game will take place on December 8 in Philadelphia, PA."

http://esrimedia.maps.arcgis.com/ap...5d0d2&webmap=65f8702c28cb45d286d3065e2eeb9908

 

[coachRD]

Who you rooting for? I'm going with the underdog I want to see Army win one

Agreed. My favorite teams after UCONN are the service academies so I always root for them. I was pulling for Army given the results of the past decade. They put themselves into position but couldn't be finishers today. Great game, great intensity, great young men on each side.

 

[uc1974]

I'm an Army VN vet. I know where most of the good candidates and FB players go--NAVY.

 

[ArmyHuskyFan]

FML.

BTW - a lot has changed since Nam uc1974. Would be interesting to know what you consider a "better candidate". I will give you the fact that they are much better at football than us though.

 

[uc1974]

Let's just say we don't belong in Asian land wars and still haven't figured that out. A majority of good potential officers aren't going to choose a career where they will be given multiple deployments to some Asian disaster in a no win situation. I still have RPG nightmares once in a while. More will choose Navy or the Air Force. I know there are many fine USMA graduates but it is my humble opinion that it gets the lesser of the talent overall. BTW, I was one of those crazy Army guys that took more than one regular tour in VN so I do understand the sense of duty. Pragmatism usually trumps duty, however, especially when you can have both in the Navy or .

 

[Carl Spackler]

I'm an Army VN vet. I know where most of the good candidates and FB players go--NAVY.

My best friend in high school went to West Point, and I went to Annapolis. I didn't make it throught the academy, and clearly still live, he did, and died. I was better than he was, and he knows it.

 

[whaler11]

My best friend in high school went to West Point, and I went to Annapolis. I didn't make it throught the academy, and clearly still live, he did, and died. I was better than he was, and he knows it.

Lets just for a second pretend this is true.

Your best friend made it through an academy and you didn't. You are implying that he died in the line of duty and you are posting you were better than he was and he knew it.

I hope that someday you find the professional help that you so dearly need.

 

[Skiblets]

My best friend in high school went to West Point, and I went to Annapolis. I didn't make it throught the academy, and clearly still live, he did, and died. I was better than he was, and he knows it.

Carl,
You shouldn't post after 11 PM. WTF are you trying to say here?

 

[Bootsthemonkey]

I always root for Navy since I'm a Navy veteran but both my father and brother were in the Army, and a kid who played football for me is now a wrestler at West Point. So it doesn't kill me if Army pulls out a win once in a while...

This year it was tough how Army went out. They played a hell of a game.

 

[CL82]

Lets just for a second pretend this is true.

lol

 

[freescooter]

I feel bad, but I don't get all squishy squashy about this one. Two teams that are just ok to not that good from a football standpoint. its like watching an Ivy League game. And while I respect the cadets and the middies, they are like everyone else...some are great guys, some are jerkwards, some are brilliant, others are politicians, some will be fine military leaders others will be pompous asses who get their men killed unnecessarily. If we're lucky, there will be a George Marshall and an Ike among them. Though if memory serves, Marshall was a VMI guy, not West Point. Maybe an Omar Bradley.

 

[ArmyHuskyFan]

Let's just say we don't belong in Asian land wars and still haven't figured that out. A majority of good potential officers aren't going to choose a career where they will be given multiple deployments to some Asian disaster in a no win situation. I still have RPG nightmares once in a while. More will choose Navy or the Air Force. I know there are many fine USMA graduates but it is my humble opinion that it gets the lesser of the talent overall. BTW, I was one of those crazy Army guys that took more than one regular tour in VN so I do understand the sense of duty. Pragmatism usually trumps duty, however, especially when you can have both in the Navy or .

I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. While the GWOT has not been extremely kind to the USMA's football recruiting and program in general (our last victory over Navy corresponds pretty nicely with the beginning of the GWOT). It has, in my opinion, had the opposite effect on the quality of the men and women who attend the Academy for the purpose in which it was founded, to serve their Country. I started at the Academy in 1997, so when I made the decision to attend USMA I didn't know that I was going to be sent to fight in one of those dreaded Asian land wars that you speak of. Every class of Cadets that started at the Academy since then knew going in that they were going to have to spend their time in the suck and might not come home alive. You clearly define "talent" and "good officers" in a different way than I do. To me the decison to embark down a path with the knowledge that it is going to be much more difficult than the road not taken is a "talent" and what I look for in "good officers". If a young man or woman chooses Air Force or Navy purposely because they don't want to deploy to the front line and fight our Nations enemies than that is 100% their prerogative. I will still thank them for their Service to our Country like I do all Veterans. It will not bemoan the fact that we missed out on a more talented or better officer though, because that is not the case. We may have missed out on a better student or a better athlete, but leading soldiers in combat requires a lot more than those simple attributes as you would know based upon your DD214.

 

[Bootsthemonkey]

If say these teams are a tad bit better than the Ivies. UConn would have destroyed Yale or Harvard this year but could have easily lost to Army or Navy.

 

[kibblesnbits]

Army-Navy is so much more than a football game. I wouldn't trade the real student athletes and true heroes on those rosters for all the talent in Tuscaloosa. Between seeing so many that have sacrificed so much for our country and the true comrades-in-arms of two academies that can battle for hours (who else choked up watching the Army QB leave it all on the field in one final attempt to win the CIC Trophy) and then honor each school's alma mater, it's an event unrivalled in our sports landscape. I attended with my brother (a Maj. Gen.) and nephew (a recent WP grad) and can honestly say it was one of the most memorable pro or college games I've attended - even if the final result was a letdown. I 'd encourage any sports fan to attend "America's Game" at least once.