Guess We Should Chime In On This
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In case you haven’t heard, there’s a big college game tomorrow, as the Wolverines of Michigan will attempt to defeat the Buckeyes of Ohio State by kicking an oblong leather ball through a large upright H. We anticipate it will be most exhilirating.
OK, so this post isn’t actually about the NFL, but c’mon…the Game of the Century only happens once every, what, every 11, 12 months? We haven’t seen a Game of the Century since Matt, Reggie, and crew squeaked past the Irish on the last play of the game last year. With that in mind, we feel it’s our duty to share what we’re stoked about in tomorrow’s game:
- Michigan’s Fatties: We admit, we don’t catch much college ball, but from everything we’ve heard, Michigan’s defensive front 7 is flat out nasty. We love good defensive football, and these guys are supposed to be one of the best defensive in the college game in the last 50 years or so. We think it’s fair to say that they should provide the biggest test that OSU has seen all season.
- Ted Ginn Jr. and Troy Smith: Ginn and Smith are two of the most exciting players anywhere in the country. Smith is exceptionally athletic, poised, and an intelligent. Ginn is just wicked fast. Both players are fun to watch, and break off Sportscenter-type highlights like they’re going out of style.
- Wings: We’ve been pretty much sticking to a steady diet of pizza and beer so far this season, but since this is A) a college game, and B) the Game of the Century, we decided to break the monotony a little bit. So, Saturday at around 11 AM Pacific Time, we’ll be descending upon Fire on the Mountain to get about 6 dozen of the most hellafied, sauce-afied, spice-afied buffalo wings you could possibly imagine.
- The Chess Match: It’s pretty well documented that Jim Tressel has made making Lloyd Carr his bitch one of the cornerstones of his career at Ohio St. We’ll be interested to see if Carr has an answer this time around, and if he can find a way to keep Troy Smith from taking over the game, as he’s done the last two years. We’re thinking probably not. But we’ve been wrong before.
While we’d love to see a 44-41 horserace, all evidence points to this one being rather low scoring. Because they’re playing at the Horseshoe, and because of Tressel’s aforementioned owership of Carr and the Wolverines, we’re taking OSU in this one, by a score of 23-17.
We should note that today is a sad day for football fans around the country, as former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler has died of a heart attack. We’d love to make some jackass comment about irony of Schembechler dying on the eve of the big game, especially in light of the fact that the OSU band The Dead Schembechlers has been in the news lately, but we just can’t bring ourselves to go there. That said, be prepared for this one to beaten like a, um, dead horse tomorrow by ABC.
Finally, we’ll end with a philosophical question, something we’ve been wondering about for years now. Obviously, before tomorrow’s kick-off there will be the perfunctory Moment of Silence in honor of Schembechler. If you’re in the stadium, everyone knows that you should stand, take off your hat, and show your respects….but what’s the protocol if you’re watching the game at home? Are we couch-potatoes compelled to lay of the nacho cheese dip for a minute, and stand in silence? Or is it cool to just go on, business as usual, feeding, belching and talking shit to our friends? Let us know if you have any thoughts on this, because this uncomfortable situation has been making us feel awkward for pretty much our entire sports-spectating career.
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