<p>here's a nice write up of Harvard's Best last year.<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-FBN-Bears-Rams.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-FBN-Bears-Rams.html</a></p>
<p>Another example of the power of the "Harvard" name.</p>
<p>so you're saying his skills don't merit third string, its all because of harvard power?</p>
<p>Oh his skills certainly merit 3rd string, and he may well stick; but the disproportionate amount of ink (or pixels) devoted to this particular 3rd stringer are certainly due to his newsworthy status as a graduate of Harvard.</p>
<p>If you watched telecasts of the Senior Bowl and the Hula Bowl (where he acquitted himself well) you would have noted the disproportionate amount of attention paid to him - and in particular to his college affiliation - by the sportscasters.</p>
<p>On occasion, he was referred to not by his name but very simply as "Harvard" !!! (... ie, "Harvard really threw that ball a helluva long way downfield!!"</p>
<p>The same syndrome was on display in last night's Green Bay/ San Diego Charger preseason game, where San Diego rookie receiver Carl Morris, otherwise obscure, was never referred to without the "Harvard" modifier, sometimes twice in the same phrase; ie, "the Harvard kid, Morris, a graduate of that prestigious institution, looked good on that play".</p>