more on Nixon, "a brute in need of extermination"---Hunter S. Thompson

[Joe Allonby]

I guess when the President calls in a play, you run it.

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:08 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> He knew no more than the average--which is to say rabid--fan.  One remembers
> him giving George Allen a play to run which Allen dutifully ran and which
> notably failed.
>
> But Thompson respected his grasp of NFL football.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sat, Jan 2, 2010 10:34 am
> Subject: Re: more on Nixon, "a brute in need of extermination"---Hunter S.
>  Thompson
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:>>
> Pynchon, Coover, Roth, Thompson, others I'm sure I don't know of.....so many
> American writers so loathed that man.................>>But Thompson
> respected his grasp of NFL football.
>
>