Study Reveals: Boston College Not Near St. Joe’s

It’s been just a few weeks since St. Joseph’s decided to adopt Boston College as its football team so the kiddies have a football team to root for in the fall.

Well, the St. Joe’s campus is up in arms (well, not really) and today there are dueling columns in the school newspaper (The Hawk) about the subject. While the pro column makes the usual points — hey, cheap trip to Boston, which is “a very fun city” — but I’d like to look at the con column:

This convenience perspective is probably most effective in capturing the true absurdity of the idea. A quick search on Mapquest.com [apparently, this column was written in 1999 —ed.] shows that Boston College is located nearly six hours northeast of the St. Joe’s campus, a seemingly unreasonable and prohibitive distance for the program to succeed.

I can picture the St. Joe’s brass slapping its collective forehead about now. “Six hours! Why didn’t we look that up first?” Also, who needs to look up how far away Boston is? Okay, a better question: Who would admit to doing that?

Program offers a new sport for fans to enjoy [The Hawk]
Football is unecessary luxury for a small school [The Hawk]
[via Soft Pretzel Logic]
March 2: St. Joe’s To Combine Hawk, Eagle In Mad Experiment