Well-said Mark Hebscher … my cope is to paraphrase JFK’s “Moon Speech.” *Bonus points if you know the college football series President John Fitzgerald Kennedy actually referenced during that speech in Houston in the late summer of nineteen sixty-two.

‘But why, some say, the Dodgers? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 100 years ago, fly the Atlantic?

‘Why does Northwestern play Michigan?*

‘We choose to take on the Dodgers. We choose to take on the Dodgers in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.’