First taste of the Wishbone offense, I guess,
for ol’ Number 66, right femur
plucked from his skeletal frame. Caused duress
for distant cousins, they gravely demur
in their lawsuit against Gipp’s great nephew
who exhumed grand halfback’s remains to get
a leg up on DNA testing. Frueh
won one for the Gipper, ending some threat
our Notre Dame legend might have fathered
a daughter via an eighteen year old.
Digging sports news, ESPN gathered
a film crew at tomb’s sideline to record
backhoe in motion as it clawed the vault,
flagged by plaintiffs as more ill-planned assault.
Roger Armbrust
November 17, 2007
