Since yesterday, I've put up with a lot of (warranted) gloating from non-Michigan friends.
Go ahead, have your fun with us. But have a little mercy, too.
Consider this: According to a friend who called me last night from Ann Arbor, Welcome Week festivities have effectively ended three days early. The student ghettos are eerily quiet; the undergrads have lost their stomach for jungle juice and beer-bonged Natty Light. This, on the school year's most celebrated week for house parties and bar-hopping.
It's like if Spongebob SquarePants died on Halloween, and all of America's prepubescents decided they weren't in the mood for free candy.
I haven't seen it, but I believe it. And if you're a college student or recent graduate, you know how sad it is. It cuts to the heart of how Michigan football fans feel right now.
So, non-Michigan fans, feel free to throw Appalachian State at us in all future trash-talking. That's fair. But this week it's just cruel. So ease up a bit, would you?
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"It's like if Spongebob SquarePants died on Halloween, and all of America's prepubescents decided they weren't in the mood for free candy"
...sounds like a maniacal pipe dream to me, donn.
So true, Donn. Yesterday afternoon I felt like my dog died, and today it wasn't any better.
Donn, you have a blog. I have discovered it. And let me tell you, it's no fun being a Michigan fan at ND after this weekend.
I didn't even realize U of M's situation till my co-worker razzed me about wearing my Mich sweatshirt yesterday. Bummer. But the Casey at Bat ref. is nice, I'm a real sucker for allusions.
GO IRISH!
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