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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: Visitors and Guests

Timothy P. Brown

Aug 8, 2023

Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discussed a recent TidBit about the term found on scoreboards that identifies the non-home team. We now use Visitors and Guests, but it was not always so, and It ties into a story of Lehigh fans not treating their Lafayette rivals as guests.

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Here’s the original Tidbit:

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Today's Tidbit... Opponents Versus Visitors

Timothy P. Brown

Jun 12

Today's Tidbit... Opponents Versus Visitors

Words matter, and our choice of words to describe others goes a long way to communicating what we think of them. For example, consider the minor controversy after Harvard Stadium's opening. The stadium scoreboards were more advanced than most. One sat atop the stands at the closed end of the stadium, and the other stood behind the goal posts at the stad…

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