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There have been many football offseasons when I’ve covered the possibility of one, or perhaps two, Patriot League players getting signed as free agents playing at the next level.
This offseason, we might see something unprecedented.
Four Lehigh football players – QB Mike Colvin, TE Jamel Haggins, LB Billy Boyko, and, of course, WR Ryan Spadola – all have an excellent chance at finding themselves in NFL training camps in the next couple of months.
One – Spadola – is a strong candidate for being drafted this Saturday.
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(Photo Credit: Ed Koskey, Jr./Special to the Morning Call)
When you study “The Rivalry” as long as I have, the overall trends of Lehigh students, Lafayette students, the football players, and the citizens of Bethlehem and Easton break apart, and the individual stories from each specific instance come to the fore.
Specific “game to end all games”, detailed game riots, freezing games, or unusually hot games get broken out, sometimes breaking from the normal expectations of The Rivalry in general. The Rivalry endures, and there are similar stories of seasons being made, or broken, or riots, or order, but occasionally games do have variation. Not every Rivalry game is the same..
The story of the 148th meeting of the most-played rivalry in all of college football is probably more different than anyone might have ever imagined before the season.
For Lafayette, the story is one of unmet expectations, unbelievable tragedy, and, ultimately, they hope, redemption. For Lehigh, the story is one of nerves, loss of destiny, and, ultimately, they hope, redemption.
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(Photo Credit: Kevin Mingora/Morning Call) It may have been pacing break, but the Columbia/Lehigh game wasn't lacking photo and video evidence that it occurred.I don't know if it was the overcast weather, the colder, more fall-like temperatur…