" I wasn't born yet, but maybe Carl remembers that one as a 21 year old? "

Afraid not, Mike. Back then, civil rights and-western college football wasn't on the Newark Star Ledger's plate.

1973 – "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.

Lesson learned ?

" Bork said Nixon promised him the next seat on the Supreme Court following Bork's role in firing Cox. Nixon was unable to carry out that promise, but President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork for the Supreme Court in 1987; he was rejected by the Senate. "^[