And the Season Hasn’t Even Started Yet

I could have sworn my check every month to the L.A. Times was for home delivery of that newspaper. Yet I have been receiving what resembles the Daily Trojan for the last three weeks. Then it occurs to me that this is the official sign that football season is here. Trojan propaganda has become an annual event with you.

The sad part is all you are doing is loading your Trojan bandwagon with blind supporters who actually believe your tinted journalism and Jolly John’s rhetoric only to have their hearts broken in November when they routinely get beat up by the Bruins and Irish.

Notre Dame could walk in with an intramural team and still firmly plant a foot up SC’s backside.

MARTIN S. MANGIONE

Whittier

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With the UCLA football program mired deep in mediocrity (43-36-1 the last seven years), Times writers apparently think they will keep Bruin fans mollified by “happy talk.” So Jim Hodges writes that as head coach of Pacific, Bob Toledo “won, but not enough to keep a job.” (Toledo was 12-30 there.) Then Mike Downey says of Bob Field, architect of a defense that gave up 300 points last year, “UCLA is lucky to have him and will be lucky to keep him.”

Hey, guys, you may not care if UCLA has a successful program, but we do, and more frankness and less Pollyannish puffery would be appreciated.

WILLIAM PLATT

Sherman Oaks