10:30 pm. We finished giving baby Claire a bath. I’ve been putting off writing a blog entry for almost a full week for obvious reasons. It’s time to sit down and come up with some type of cathartic bullshit to feel better after the garbage that was Michigan’s opening weekend. But first I decide to procrastinate a little longer with a cigar and a Scotch on the back patio. Write drunk, edit sober as they say… probably..
I decide to let Malcolm (our dog) out with me to enjoy a cool September night. As per usual, he’s wrapped his chain around the fire pit and a couple of chairs so it barely reaches the grass. I decide to untangle it fully so he has maximum use of the yard. I cut the cigar, light it, and sit down to ponder how to start this week’s entry. He takes off towards the corner of the yard as a squirrel bolts in front of him in the same direction. I yell at him to stop in attempt to keep him from whip lashing himself and/or dragging the fire pit across the yard. He slows down enough to avoid catastrophe. The squirrel gets away.
Then he zig-zags back towards me shaking his head in repeated violent sneeze-caughs. Foam shoots away from his mouth in larger volume with each consecutive outburst. That was no squirrel. The next hour and a half or so are spent repeatedly rinsing him with a mixture of baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, dish soap, and dog shampoo. It’s a fitting way to recreate the mood after last weekends football performance.
Last year the Big Ten was the best conference in the country. That they were left out of the playoffs because they beat the hell out if each other in the regular season was a testament to how stupid the CFP still is. The undefeated (shut up!) bowl season confirmed this. This year…
Like… I was expecting Hunters on Legendary and got more Jackals on Heroic.
Elswehere, Penn State needed a 4th down conversion and overtime to beat THAT Sun Belt team… MSU struggled against Iowa State.. But then again, they always look bad in early games against bad teams… That’s a side effect of saving your entire offensive playbook for the U-M game… Sometimes it causes you to barely beat bad teams. Sometimes it causes you to go 3-9 (If you think that’s a cheap shot at MSU, it’s not… I’m saying that even with THAT team and all of the BS that happened on and off the field, they shouldn’t have gone 3-9…) Also Utah State is probably a little better than people thought. Illinois scared a bunch of you by barely beating Kent State, but we knew they would suck. Nebraska didn’t even get to play… The Northwestern Purdue game was pretty good.
Maybe it’s week one and college football is to unpredictable to.. predict.. (shut up it’s 1 am) a season based on one set of games. Maybe we’re back to everything is hopeless… (See the “Everybody probably sucks” posts from 2 years ago). Time will tell.. You all enjoy the next couple of weeks of football everybody. Me? I’m converting to Aussie Rules Football. Go Richmond Tigers!
Look forward to a detailed write up of the AFL by “Guest Author Matt” who just got back from the land down under… as soon as I figure out what the hell it is they’re doing out there.