Norfolk State University

And he was the last St. Louis player left.

The veteran strong safety from Norfolk State.

Both wide receivers to the left.

First down just inside the 30.

Ken Reeves came up from strong safety to make the first contact.

And each time a cut in his hip you just hope that he's able to roll back on his feet and he does and slowly goes toward the huddle as Dennis Herrick comes in and then we'll have a timeout for a measurement with five forty three left in the game.

Reeves who made that last tackle from Norfolk State of course was a star with the Atlanta Falcons for many seasons that is just short of the first down as your belly supervises that measurement.

earlier in the second half Jaworski fumbled trying to run on a sweep and another time almost in the same spot on the field McCutchen fumbled it is certainly within field goal range for Tom Dempsey but more importantly the Rams would like to get another first down and keep using that time 539 the clock is now running the Rams have Come out of the huddle with Harrah bookending on the left side and Nelson on the right side.

I mean, my whole timeline is... flooded ladies outfits tailgates people haven't seen each other in 15 years you know alumni this alumni that acting like

it's freshman year oh my goodness yes and now that my daughter goes to HBCU I now have to be involved in this upcoming season yeah right and I'm gonna say all of that is the best part like there's no one or the other I went to an NSU homecoming years ago picnic and I was like I don't know what happened because I went to a PWI so I was like what is going on But it's like you walk onto that yard and it's like no time has passed.

For sure.

So are you going this

Not at all.

For the band.

And people may argue NSU, but I definitely love, you know, the City by the Sea.

Love the band.

I'm gonna be at a lot of them this year.

I know Hampton, Howard, Del State, uh, Norfolk State, uh, North Carolina A&T, South Carolina.

Uh, what else? Tsk Fam, you, we're gonna be at a lot of them this year, so I can't wait to see you guys.

All right? Now, when we come back-

Let's, you know, you, you know, you, you gotta see...

To your point, I don't disagree with you, but the easy answer is to look at a guy and say, "Whoa, look what he did against Norfolk State." Well, that's, okay, look what, look...

I mean, coming out of the Furman game, everybody was talking about Faizon, putting him on the Heisman list, right? Like

Same thing they did with Nico two years ago after they beat Chattanooga or whoever it was.

Oh, nice.

Well, I asked him, I said, you are rooting for the Norfolk State University Spartans.

And to his credit...

I'm open to being bribed.

Okay.

but I did say one of the other all Americans from the time I'll get one of their jerseys in orange and I will, I will root for Illinois in their next rivalry game.

If you come root for Norfolk state to this week.

And he said, so, and then I looked up there.

Respectively, Quad 3 losses to Tulane, UTSA, Northern Iowa, and Wagner.

Other losses, Essie State, Norfolk State, Brown, Charleston Southern, Albany.

They're really just here because they're in the SWAC.

Whoever ends up winning the SWAC is going to be a 16 seed.

Walker's collection was a bestseller in the 19th century, and two centuries later, Amazing Grace has become one of the best-known and best-loved hymns of our time.

[Amazing Grace] In 2011, a new orchestral fanfare based on Amazing Grace by the African American composer Adolphus Hailstork was published and subsequently recorded by the Virginia Symphony, appropriately enough, since Hailstork has served as professor of music and composer in residence at both Virginia's Norfolk State and Old Dominion universities, and in 1992 was named a Cultural Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

In addition to this fanfare, Hailstork's works range from choral and chamber pieces to symphonies and operas.

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