EveryJoe » ted kennedy http://www.everyjoe.com Sports News - Tech Reviews - Entertainment - Life Tips for EveryJoe Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:00:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Ted Kennedy, an Almost Packer Legend http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/ted-kennedy-an-almost-packer-legend/ http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/ted-kennedy-an-almost-packer-legend/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:01:35 +0000 Cherie Burbach http://www.everyjoe.com/?p=83888 Post from: EveryJoe

Ted Kennedy, an Almost Packer Legend

]]> After Senator Ted Kennedy passed away I was surprised to see that he had almost become a Green Bay Packer. On his senate website, it says that he was approached by then Packer Head Coach Lisle Blackbourn. Blackbourn told Kennedy he had caught the attention of several talent scouts and that they gave Kennedy a hearty recommendation for whoever wanted to pick him up.

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Kennedy played Senior Right End while at Harvard, and was flattered that Green Bay was interested in him. However, he told Coach Blackbourn that “he had plans to attend law school and to ‘go into another contact sport, politics’.” (Very well said, of course!)

The Packers could have used Kennedy. They went 4-8 in their 1956 season and were outscored by their opponents 264-342

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