Did you hear that they're exhuming the Gipp for DNA purposes?
Did you hear that they're exhuming the Gipp for DNA purposes?
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]peek-a-boo!!
Just read that.....wonder why?
the way the season is going,presumably to clone some players.
Lol, mid...
i wonder if the family will say why...it's very odd to exhume a body, do DNA testing on it for apparently no reason.
I saw that! The best part is that ESPN or FOX sports was taping-- sounds like a reason to watch a sports network!!
Now of they showed the actual removal of the body...that would be cool!!!!
I can't wait to see if they exhume Hodini?
Last edited by Danny62; 10-12-2007 at 01:44 PM.
Oh, George Gipp not Ronald Reagan. The REAL Gipper.
If anyone finds out when the show will on please let me know?
Maybe they will show how he looks after all these years?
Gotta admit its got some of us curious??
that is some sick stuff. he died in 1920. what could be left and why?
Ya, I mean back then they didn't exactly have top of the line coffins either.
Yeah I read that, too, and in the article it said "for reasons unknown" or something like that. Boo...
Well the mystery is solved. Another paternity test.
Gipp's remains were taken Oct. 4 for testing from a cemetery near the Upper Peninsula village of Laurium. Rick Frueh, whose grandmother was Gipp's sister, said in a statement he authorized the exhumation, which angered some family members.
Gipp died in 1920 from pneumonia and a strep infection during his senior year at Notre Dame, where he was the school's first All-American and set a school career rushing record that stood for more than 50 years.
He is known for the deathbed exhortation attributed to him years later by coach Knute Rockne, who rallied the underdog Fighting Irish by telling them Gipp had urged the team when the chips were down to "win one for the Gipper."
The phrase became a political slogan for Ronald Reagan, who portrayed Gipp in the 1940 movie "Knute Rockne, All American."
Mike Bynum, an Alabama sports author who is researching a book on Gipp, said he came across an Internet posting several years ago by a woman who believed she was a descendant of the football great. She was a granddaughter of Eva Bright, a South Bend, Ind., woman Gipp had dated for about a year before his death, Bynum said.
Bynum said he helped put the woman in touch with Frueh and other Gipp relatives. Eventually, Frueh decided to have the body exhumed. Gipp's right femur was removed and the other remains reburied, Bynum said in a telephone interview.
The DNA testing of the bone was conducted at a laboratory in Dallas. Results this week showed no link between Gipp and Bright, Bynum said.
In a statement, Frueh said he had no regrets about the exhumation and felt it had been important to learn whether Bright's descendants were part of the Gipp family.
"Helping family is the strongest act of love that we can offer each other. And if it happened again, our response would be the same," Frueh said
I saw the story but did not know why they did it. Thanks