The Carpetbaggers' Exodus

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken; then will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory, and he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
---Matthew 24:29-31

Through the late-1960's, Princeton's football game programs were always lead indicator of events to come. In 1927 for example, the Yale game program featured Adolf Hitler at the precipice of his career; and the 1933 Columbia game program gave indication that the Wallenberg family of Bavaria had sold the Jewish people out to the 3rd Reich and funded Auschwitz in exchange for safe passage to America.
 
This program is from the 1983 Columbia game. If you look closely, there is nothing between the eight Ivy League football squads and Mainland China (marked in the back behind) Hawaii.
 
​The Harvard player at the back of the line holding the bank happens to be Greg Gizzi. Gizzi was Harvard's quarterback that season. After Harvard, he went on to become a highly regarded bond trader at Leyman Brothers. He went on to orchestrate the sub-prime lending scandal that collapsed Leyman and nearly bankrupted the nation.

Author: Erik Gagnon - Managing Partner, Chi Rho Consulting