1987 Fiesta Bowl, Penn State v Miami - TYTHistory (Professor Rich)

College football is the lesson of the day by Professor Rich as he goes into detail about the 1987 Fiesta Bowl that featured Penn State v University of Miami. Aside from college football, this is also a lesson about questioning authority and the consequences of not doing so.

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[IamVerilance]

Professor Rich, you have the ability to speak about something I couldn't care less about, US College Football and yet make it interesting

[TYTHistory]

I agree completely. But one of my basic ideas about history is that history is everywhere from sports to fashion to comic books and movies to wars to literature or anything else. Everything has a context and that context is history. Joyce wrote in Ulysses "Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods." That idea guides my exploration of the past and the present.

[Lito Tongson]

Do your homework. This is NO cover up

Do a search on youtube: .Media Mayhem : The Truth Behind the Penn State Cover Up with Jim Clemente .

[cretine]

Oh my god. You just had to spoil the end of the game for me, didn't you?

[Airicks1]

Seems like forever since you uploaded a video lol.

I understand school just started for kids (and I think teachers go in 2 weeks before) so I'm not complaining or anything like - still I enjoy your videos (especially the ones about free market) so I can't help but want you to post more.

It would be cool to here you speak about Andrew Jackson some, and maybe Monroe too, like why did they make the Monroe Doctrine when they did/etc - idk just a few times in history I like lol

[uter zemson]

Professor Rich? instant thumbs up

[David Koller]

Now I'm thinking that I did watch the game, because I think I remember the game-ending interception. I remember some stat that Shane Conlan hadn't lost a football game in gazillion years, or something like that. Why do we waste so much time in life doing things that we later never remember anyway? Perhaps people who party, do X and have a lot of random sex are right after all.

[David Koller]

Very interesting. I remember the game, but I didn't watch it. So ProfRich derives lessons from the game, and that makes sense. But I still think that sports and the people who play or coach sports should not be given the importance that society gives them. If more people thought this way from the beginning, we wouldn't have to learn these lessons about the "authority" of JoePa and Sandusky.

[1phatboy83]

this was prety damn good lesson...and being a life long CANES fan i really apperciate your knowledge of the sport and the culture at the time and the impact this game had...so now who was actually the good or evil team??? LETS GO U!!!!!!!!!!

[ramirezharrier]

I barely know how to play football and still liked this a lot.

[nikkithebean]

Another great video, Professor Rich!

“Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.” - Alan Moore