{"id":1090,"date":"2023-09-14T19:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T23:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2023-09-14T19:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T23:22:48","slug":"9-12-2023-lol-purdue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/9-12-2023-lol-purdue\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/12\/2023 LOL, Purdue!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is all&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more But wait! That's not all-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But seriously.. Thanks a lot, Purdue&#8230;  You lost and now I have to feel bad about not cheating and changing Ali&#8217;s pick.  Now she (and a few others) have to sit through my weekly e-mails for a season that no longer matters&#8230; Just like Purdue!  Now, I know what you&#8217;re thinking&#8230; &#8220;Doug, you already used that joke in the e-mail thread.&#8221;  NO! The version in the e-mail thread was funnier so th&#8230; oh sorry.  A guy in a red hat says I have to stop here for 3 minutes while some billionaires make some more money &#8230; Please stand by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"522\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PeacockAd.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PeacockAd.png 522w, https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PeacockAd-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we&#8217;re back..  That was.. Well it&#8217;s a bold strategy, Cotton, but at least the advertisements for the football on the Peacock streaming service are accurate&#8230;  Anybody else use Playstation 5 to stream the first U-M game on Peacock?  4 hours of a product with ever decreasing football-to-commercial ratio means I have to watch at least slightly tape delayed.  But guess what?  Peacock doesn&#8217;t give you an idea of what&#8217;s on screen while you&#8217;re fast-forwarding!  No sped up action while going 2x\/5x\/10x, no tiny frame preview as you repeatedly mash the arrow keys on the D-Pad&#8230;  Just a black screen and a timestamp.  So I&#8217;ve got to guess how long the commercial break was, press X, and hope I don&#8217;t pick up the action during a spoiler inducing endzone celebration after a JJ McCarthy Dime throw!  It&#8217;s big piece of&#8230; well.. see the &#8220;commercial&#8221; above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But anyway, let&#8217;s get back on topic&#8230;  Football has started and I know what you&#8217;re all thinking&#8230; <strong><em>That you already used that line in the opening paragraph? <\/em><\/strong>Oh hey!  Bolded-Italicized-interjection-voice-that-is-a-commonly-used-and-independently-thought-of-literary-tool-of-several-authors-including-myself-and-not-specifically-stolen-from-my-favorite-Michigan-sports-blog*  No&#8230; well&#8230; maybe&#8230; but no&#8230; I&#8217;ll tell you what you&#8217;re all thinking&#8230; right after a word from our sponsor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article is brought to you by The Big Ten Elimination league!  Play the game!  Send me some donations!  Everyone pick Rutgers so I don&#8217;t have to keep doing this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230; You &#8220;fast forwarded&#8221; over the commercial break didn&#8217;t you&#8230; Well anyway we&#8217;re back&#8230; And I grew up on 90&#8217;s action shows so we&#8217;ll resume this section with the same scene you saw right before the break&#8230; only slightly different&#8230;  I assume the recap is because kids have bad attention spans and can&#8217;t remember what happened 30 seconds before that kick ass crossfire commercial&#8230; And the slight difference is because the TV executives couldn&#8217;t figure out which cut of the pre-commercial cliffhanger scene was better.  So here we go:  You must all be thinking &#8220;It&#8217;s two weeks into the season and there&#8217;s been no Big Ten pre-season team analysis!  How am I supposed to know who to pick?&#8221;  Well, 1. Don&#8217;t pick Rutgers.  2. If you saw my current standings in Tim&#8217;s Pick &#8216;Em league, don&#8217;t listen to me. and 3. Just read one of the articles from the last few years&#8230; it&#8217;s probably the same**  For now, this article&#8217;s gone on for too long, so let&#8217;s just cover some highlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nebraska is still Nebraska even without Scott Frost.  In week one they lost another 1 score game with a last second Field Goal by Minnesota.  In week two they got serial crushed by Colorado&#8230; who despite what the idiots who get paid to do this are saying: isn&#8217;t good&#8230;.  At this point I assume Nebraska is and forever will be Nebraska because of Scott Frost&#8217;s mom&#8230; Either she made a cross-roads deal to split the National Championship in 1997, or she&#8217;s a witch and has cursed the program for firing her son.  As I said, everybody is talking about &#8220;Coach Prime&#8221; and how good Colorado is.  They&#8217;re not&#8230; They b&#8230; OH COMMON!  God Dammit Red Hat guy&#8230; There&#8217;s like 15 seconds left in this article!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"554\" height=\"628\" src=\"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image.png 554w, https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-265x300.png 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><figcaption>The Flash!  Sure, the CG was awful, and Ezra Miller seems to be an all-around horrible person&#8230; But the acting was fine, Michael Keaton is great, and the plot wasn&#8217;t centered around an all-powerful 3-dimensional shape and a giant horned fire demon&#8230; so that was refreshing&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230; I don&#8217;t really think I&#8217;m doing this commercial thing right&#8230; Where are my billions of dollars?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8211; Sorry, you&#8217;ve been streaming on Peacock and this article has gone over the estimated time allotted.  Your recording doesn&#8217;t cover the end.  Check back tomorrow to see if this gets corrected &#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Side note&#8230; I went back to look for what I had previously called this voice of interjection and stumbled across the Scott Frost Day entry&#8230; Turns out Alabama, Nebraska, and Wisconsin haven&#8217;t changed much&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">**It&#8217;s NOT!  but that&#8217;s a topic for the next article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is all&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}