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#16 NCSU at #12 Wake, 11/13 - 7:30p ACCN

Out fans have shown out the last few games, plus we have all the students here. Enjoy the home crowd and ditch the LOWF sensibilities.
 
It's a beautiful morning here in Winston-Salem. Perfect day for football. Let's get this done.
 
Saint said:
By Dane Huffman – Managing Editor, Triangle Business Journal
3 hours ago
WHEN WAKE FOREST SNUBBED LOMBARDI: Wake Forest University has only won two Atlantic Coast Conference football championships, and N.C. State University hasn't won the ACC title since 1979, so interest is high ahead of Saturday's game between the two teams in Winston-Salem.

Wake Forest's only titles came in 1970 and 2006 — and it's interesting to wonder how the Deacons' fortunes would have turned out if they'd hired Vince Lombardi when they had the chance.

According to multiple accounts, Lombardi was a successful NFL assistant coach with the New York Giants but was eager to become a head coach. He applied for the position at Wake Forest and "was confident he was the most qualified for the job," according to one biographer.

But at a time when the South was segregated, Lombardi's Italian heritage hurt him. Lombardi heard from a friend who was on the inside at Wake Forest and told him the school "will never hire a coach whose last name ends in a vowel."

Wake Forest hired Paul Amen, who went 11-26-3 over four years, and the Deacons went on to decades of mediocrity in football.

Lombardi eventually landed the only head coaching job he could, with the hapless Green Bay Packers — and turned the Packers into the dominant team of the 1960s.
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Has the story ever been confirmed that the reason he stopped bringing the packers to town was because he got kicked out of woolworths because they thought he was black?
 
Liquid Karma said:
Out fans have shown out the last few games, plus we have all the students here. Enjoy the home crowd and ditch the LOWF sensibilities.
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This. I’m jealous of you all who will be there tonight. Hope to see you in Charlotte.
 
Fuck Herbstreet. Picked Pack. Howard called our defense awful.
 
College Game Day. A current/former player, not sure who he is, just joked that Wake Forest has the best Defensive Coord in the country. Everyone laughed.
 
CHillDeac said:
College Game Day. A current/former player, not sure who he is, just joked that Wake Forest has the best Defensive Coord in the country. Everyone laughed.
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It’s Matt James who was on the Bachelor. He said A and M has Wake’s former DC. A and M has Mike Elki who left Wake for ND and then A and M.

Both of those guys were Wake football players. Tyler Cameron was on The Bachelorette and Matt James was The Bachelor.
 
wasn’t watching but matt james has been a pretty awesome rep for the deacs
 
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