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Smartboy
07-18-2010, 06:12 PM
I thought for sure, with the release of the fourth season, some new conversation would be easy to stimulate! No such luck! Because of this, I will try (yet again) to see what I can do by writing about site traffic! My last thread has twenty-eight views and zero replies. I have decided to commemorate this by writing about the fact that, twenty-eight years ago, the books were re-written so that Jim Thorpe was, once again credited with having won all of the medals that he earned in the World Olympics! Of course, he was long dead, but his family was issued replicas of the gold medals that he had earned. As a lot of you probably know, after the games, he was stipped of his winnings because of a tiny little technocality about the Minor League Baseball that he earned a few bucks on. After this death, his family took the issue on as a cause. They felt that a lot of athletes of other ethnic and racial groups had skelotons in their closets as big if not bigger than Jim's. However, their's managed to get sweeped under the carpet. Maybe Paul could have done a documentery on this subject. Also, another reason that he might be interested in this situation is that the Olympics is a sporting event and his family owned a sporting goods store!