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Article source for : Lou Holtz fires humorous jab at Toledo on ESPN

From a Nov 22, 2007 Futon Report blog posting titled "Lou Holtz, Them’s Fightin’ Words":http://futonreport.net/index.php/2007/4512966 :


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In "Lou Holtz'":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Holtz Thursday pep talk on the Kansas-Missouri Civil War-era “Border Showdown” rivalry, adorned in KU garb, he dropped this quote on ESPN during halftime of the Arizona State-USC game:

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"Only twice have states gone to war with one another. One of them was Ohio and Michigan, where they had a boundary dispute over Toledo. That history doesn’t record who won the war, but we have to assume Michigan did, because *nobody would fight to keep Toledo*".
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br. The ESPN "video":http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3123784&categoryId=2564308&n8pe6c=1 of Holtz pretending to be the Kansas football coach when he made the Toledo crack.

!http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2280/2057455550_751d42b756.jpg?v=0!


br. Photoshop photo from the Futon Report :

!http://futonreport.net/stuff/2007/11/toledofoxnews.jpg!


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