Wait a minute. Didn't Jack Kemp avoid the draft so he could play in the AFL?

[NNN0LHI]

Didn't Jack Kemp by getting his draft deferment force someone else to maybe die in Vietnam so he could continue playing professional football? Didn't Jack Kemp love every war he didn't have to fight in?

Isn't this the same Jack Kemp Tweety is fawning over like he is the greatest guy in the world?

What the fuck is going on here?

I guess all is forgiven when we die?

Don

[Captain Hilts]

1. Yes. Yes. Beats me. Indeed it is, Don. Capt. H.

[hobbit709]

2. That's the one.

He had a bad knee that would have kept him from running in combat.

[ingac70]

6. But didn't stop him from playing pro Football.

that makes him as bad as Limbaugh and his anal cyst.

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. He was before Vietnam.

His draft eligibility years were 1953 to 1961. We only had a small number of volunteer advisors in Vietnam in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He did find some way to avoid the draft though. Just guessing, but it probably was some prior football injury.

[NNN0LHI]

5. He received his draft notice in 1962 the same year he began playing for the Buffalo Bills

Injuries, including a broken finger, kept Kemp from playing for most of 1962. That season, Kemp received a military draft notice for service in the Vietnam War, but was granted a draft waiver because of a knee problem. The injuries healed, and Kemp debuted for Buffalo on November 18, 1962 by directing the only touchdown drive in a 10–6 win over the Oakland Raiders. He played only four games for Buffalo in 1962, but made the AFL All-Star team. The Bills won three of their last four games to finish 7–6–1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kemp

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. We only had advisors over there in 1962. Few if any draftees were in 'Nam back then.

He turned 27 in 1962, so if he received a notice it must have been just prior to the end of his 8-year window.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Guess Shakespeare had it backwards!!! Especially if you are a repuke!!!!

Friends Romans Countrymen
by William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar
Act 3, Scene 2,

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest -
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men -
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

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