I haven’t seen any news article on it yet,  but I had to say something about it.  There’s apprently some uproar about Bobby Bowden’s FSU football squad using “Let’s Roll” as a theme song.   The uproar is that the guy who (name escapes me) led the passenger revolt that thwarted the Sept. 11 hijackers from rweaching their destination and crashed the plane short of their target had used the phrase to commence the plan.  Bowden actually used the connection between the two and thought it a theme worthy of veneration for just that reason.

Regardless,  “let’s roll” has been around for years.  Bowden using it for a football fight song is no different in my book than any of the much less serious uses to which the phrase has been employed.   One might argue that Sept. 11 changed all that.  It now invokes images of that fateful day and the heroism of that group and that individual.  Does this preclude the use of that term forever in the lingo of our everyday lives?  I think not.