[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23644]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




CONGRATULATING THE APPALACHIAN STATE MOUNTAINEERS ON THEIR VICTORY OVER 
                        THE MICHIGAN WOLVERINES

  (Mr. COBLE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COBLE. Mr. Speaker, following Appalachian's upset football win 
over Michigan, Boone, North Carolina, is no longer a sleepy Blue Ridge 
mountain town. The representatives from each university responded to 
last Saturday's contest with class: Appalachian not insufferable in 
victory; Michigan a gracious loser in defeat.
  But the beneficiaries of this game, Mr. Speaker, are the underdogs, 
the little guys who are given little or no chance of tasting the spoils 
of victory. Appalachian's Mountaineers and Michigan's Wolverines will 
post impressive records during the 2007 season. But Saturday's game, 
Mr. Speaker, will reinforce the optimism of the proverbial underdog, 
with the assurance that their chances of achieving victory, albeit 
remote, are within the realm of possibility, and much is to be said in 
support of that conclusion.

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