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Your Periodic Reminder of Teddy Roosevelt's Badassery

By 11W Staff - 24 October 2012
16 Comments
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"During his presidency, he was punched in the face, body slammed, submerged in a frozen river and shot - the first three voluntarily, the last one, involuntarily." (thepostgame.com)

Source thepostgame.com/blog/throwback/201210/teddy-roosevelt-athletic-preside...

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Hoody Wayes on 24 Oct 2012 - 6:08am #

He was a reformer, too...a gridiron progressive:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_Teddy_Roosevelt_save_college_football

cajunbuckeye on 24 Oct 2012 - 6:30am #

Great man, poor President.

An angry fan...rooting for an angry team...led by angry coaches

buckeyedude on 24 Oct 2012 - 6:44am #

A "progressive" Republican. Interesting.

I wasn't alive then, and I haven't done too much research on this man, but anytime I read anything about him, it always seems to be in a positive light.

Hope I don't get nailed for talking politics, but how could you not when talking about T. Roosevelt?

"Here officer, hold my beer while I find my license."

Lee in Altoona on 24 Oct 2012 - 7:56am #

Technically speaking, he wasn't shot "during" his presidency...

BucksfanXC on 24 Oct 2012 - 8:40am #

But he finished the speech! Which that alone had to be the point where everyone went, "Seriously, how can we not vote for this dude?"

“Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.” - Woody

Kurt on 24 Oct 2012 - 8:13am #

It always amazes me that Teddy Roosevelt, the Rough Rider, was born 3 blocks from where I work in New York City. He was one of our most urban presidents ever.

Jason Staff on 24 Oct 2012 - 2:55pm #

Awesome. I actually stopped by his birthplace house/museum a few years ago. It's right in the heart of NYC.

Kurt on 24 Oct 2012 - 7:41pm #

Ha! I've worked in the area for 5 years and haven't actually, you know, gone there!

Grayskullsession on 24 Oct 2012 - 8:55am #

He also killed Bigfoot:

"if irony were made of strawberries, we' d all be drinking a lot of smoothies right now."

cplunk on 24 Oct 2012 - 10:06am #

Is it too late to sign him to play MLB?

hodge on 24 Oct 2012 - 10:52am #

Pretty sure he was shot after his presidency, while campaigning for his third term as a member of the "Bull Moose" party. His initial promise was to only serve two terms, but because he was so upset at the job that Taft had done, he tried--in vain--to score the Republican nomination. The Republican party blocked him, and he ran as a third party candidate. He would be the most successful third party candidate in history, scoring a total of 88 electoral votes in that 1912 election. But the presence of both Taft and Roosevelt would split voters' preferences, paving the way for the country's first Democrat since Grover Cleveland left office in 1896.