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REASONS MICHIGAN SHOULD BE HAPPY

10. Current BCS fiasco has created a previously impossible scenario: Michigan fans actively pulling for Ohio State. Coming soon: Hutus for Tutsis, matter colliding happily with antimatter, and dogs living with cats.

9. Outrageous and indefensible voting in human polls only further presses point of eliminating humans from the process altogether. Michigan again doubles funding for Robot Overlord Construction Program in hope of making BCS and weak, fleshy humans obsolete. Lloyd Carr's brain wants a comfy jar in a robot.


It's on the way, Lloyd. Weak, fleshy human voters...

8. Hypothetical contrasts highlight UM erudition in flattering way. Pissed-off, highly literate Michigan fans likely to only leave 10,000 word retorts in little read tweedy rags like The New Republic and The New York Times. Ohio State fans, if in same situation, would leave flaming bags of poo on Gator doorsteps.

7. Song Girls will cheer even when you score, Wolverines.

6. Michigan will escape discomfort of dumping Gary Danielson. He's already, calling, texting, wanting to cuddle and shit...and we just hooked up one night, man. Like, giving us a rash already, dude.

5. PR move by SEC in scheduling to be countered in '07 with promotional spot airing immediately after SEC game. Spot will feature Michigan football team crushing rocks with bare hands, making deft catches of cute infants thrown from tall buildings by evil, mustachioed madmen, and disarming ticking bombs seconds before detonation. Soundtrack: Live To Win, by Paul Stanley.

4. Spared soul-wrenching second loss in a year to Buckeyes? (Too soon?)

3. Allowed to satisfy evil quotient for year by rooting against Pete Carroll, noted humanitarian.

2. Will thrill to Florida returning to the site of the program's biggest, most humiliating, excruciating, and total loss ever, the 6227-24 loss to Nebraska in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl. Former Florida wideout Chris Doering is actually still stuck in the turf of the stadium, having been blocked into the ground by Michael Booker in the late third quarter of the fiasco. He serves as groundskeeping consultant and pens childrens' books on his laptop under an umbrella the crew puts out for him somewhere around the 32 yard line.


Eyeballs...scorching...

And the number one reason Michigan fans should be happy they're not in the national title game...

1. Michigan fans will be spared hallucinations caused by staring directly at Barry Alvarez's tie, who will be calling the title game along with Thom Brennaman and Charles Smith in the booth. Will also be spared Brennaman's "Troy Smith takes off...the ten...the five...SAFE! The ref says he's SAFE!"

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Yes, Gator fans, remember, Troy Smith is what Tommie Frazier would have been if he could THROW.

Enjoy!

by sjs1959 on Dec 4, 2006 3:26 PM EST reply actions  

…just wanna throw some orange n’ blue love to the might, mighty Maize n’ Blue… here, here to taking down the Trojans in the NIT Tournament errrrrr… i mean Tournament of Roses Bowl

by The Football Gods, Reggie Nelson, and Ball State on Dec 4, 2006 3:28 PM EST reply actions  

“4. Spared soul-wrenching second loss in a year to Buckeyes? (Too soon?)”

Nope, it is never too early to remind them that they’re Ohio State’s property.

by AnnArborIsAWhore on Dec 4, 2006 3:30 PM EST reply actions  

One would think a decade would lessen the pains of that 96 Fiesta Bowl. So far I’m still in the “rage” phase of mourning.

by hazer on Dec 4, 2006 3:32 PM EST reply actions  

Fair dinkum statement here: we may very well be OSU property soon, as well. It’s a big club this year.

by Orson Swindle on Dec 4, 2006 3:32 PM EST reply actions  

You forgot to to mention “ease of game-planning against once-proud offense.” Thanks, I think.

by DC Trojan on Dec 4, 2006 3:32 PM EST reply actions  

One thing is for sure, the Fox broadcasts of the Sugar, Orange and Most Extreme Elimination – Fiesta Bowl Edition, will mark the nadir of college football coverage on national television. If the BCS selecstravaganza is any indication Lincoln Financial would put together a better show.

The suckage will be so powerful that the pattern of light that makes up the broadcast might not be able to escape the screen. For observers outside of the Schwarzchild radius the picture will appear to be frozen on the visage of Alvarez wearing a suit that can only be described as penstripe gingam.

Plan accordingly.

by Hokie Andrew on Dec 4, 2006 3:34 PM EST reply actions  

While this entry was a good effort to distract the Buckstaches from delivering their flaming bags of poo, I still think you’re going to get those special deliveries — figuratively and perhaps literally — every damn day between now and January 8th.

by DevilGrad on Dec 4, 2006 3:38 PM EST reply actions  

Great bit on Doering. He did get a score, though. Also, Booker had a breakout game, don’t beat yourselves up there.

sjs1959:

How many national championships has Troy Smith played for and won? Touchdown Tommie has a robust 3:2 ratio and didn’t need the Heisman…

Despite Eddie George’s long lasting impact on the game of college football.

by 'BoroHusker on Dec 4, 2006 3:43 PM EST reply actions  

Thanks Orson…

The list did help a little. Now I’m just crying on the inside.

by Desmond Brady on Dec 4, 2006 3:43 PM EST reply actions  

RE: #10 –
One would assume that if the Wolverine Faithful put a serious hurt on USC, then they will become Gator fans on Jan. 8 in hopes of a split title.

by Floyd on Dec 4, 2006 3:44 PM EST reply actions  

LOL @ the song girls.

by zzgator on Dec 4, 2006 3:50 PM EST reply actions  

Troy Smith couldn’t hold Frazier’s jock.

by AUAlum on Dec 4, 2006 3:54 PM EST reply actions  

That ’96 Fiasco Bowl never took place, or at least my mind has done a good job at erasing all memories.

Until now.

Oh well, at least the rest of America will get to see one of college football’s most dynamic DB’s in RFN. Who was eerily silent against the Razorbacks. I like to think he was saving up for the bowl game. Mr. Ginn and Mr. Gonzalez I hope you have your cleats laced up tight.

by BDoc on Dec 4, 2006 3:54 PM EST reply actions  

I’m bit late weighing in on this but could someone explain to me why Michigan has any right to be legitimately pissed off? I’m a FSU guy so god knows I don’t ever want to see UF succeed at anything, but they totally deserve this. They played a tougher schedule and lost a tough game to a damn good team (is Auburn as good as OSU – no, but that’s not the point). The whole "well, we only lost to them by three thing points and it was in Columbus" thing is ridiculous. Home field advantage is part of college football. It’s possible UM is the number 2 team in the country but that doesn’t mean they should get to play OSU again. If they beat the Buckeyes – what does that prove? They’re not better than them on the road during the grind of season but they are at a neutral site with a month to prepare? If they lose again we don’t find out anything we didn’t already know. Finally, Big Ten folks – ending your season two weeks before everyone else and not playing a conference championship does matter and it should matter. I think it’s perfectly legitimate for voters to say "We weren’t sold on UF two weeks ago but they went out and beat their rival on the road (and yes FSU was dreadful this year – offensively anyway – but that’s always a tough game) and handled a pretty good Arkansas team in the championship and now I think they deserve it." Explain to me why it isn’t?

by Joe on Dec 4, 2006 4:00 PM EST reply actions  

Re: the Neb..Ne..N…Can’t there be a [Game Redacted]?

by Ltrain on Dec 4, 2006 4:06 PM EST reply actions  

Oh, come on, now. Michigan also gets to wear the pretty, pretty dress that Southern Cal has prepared for them.

by captaineclectic on Dec 4, 2006 4:11 PM EST reply actions  

Bdoc, RFN was silent? i guess an amazing INT doesn’t count?

by adam on Dec 4, 2006 4:15 PM EST reply actions  

“It’s possible UM is the number 2 team in the country but that doesn’t mean they should get to play OSU again.”

It’s water under the bridge at this point, but there is not a no-rematch provision in the BCS contract.

Time to focus on SC, anyone got a link to the song girls’ home page so that I can begin that process?

by maskedavenger on Dec 4, 2006 4:24 PM EST reply actions  

You know, watching Bama implode on CBS all year, I developed a real death hatred for Gary Danielson. After the Florida game, I said, “Gary Danielson is a fucking imbicile,” while on the phone with my mom.

But, after all the hatred Michigan fans are heaping on him, I like him a little. OK, a lot. But as was said to Mike Shula, the love of a Tide fan is fleeting. So, enjoy it while it lasts, Gary, before I kill you at halftime of the Bama-Arkansas game next season.

by Newspaper Hack on Dec 4, 2006 4:29 PM EST reply actions  

  1. - You’re thinking of Crouch – fine runner, played in a championship game, couldn’t pass his way out of a wet paper bag. Frazier could throw like Smith and run like Crouch, and had an all-Felon on the option pitch too… damn those Nebraska teams were good. (In the football-playing, rather than the not-throwing-girlfriends-down-the-staircase, sense.)

by peachy on Dec 4, 2006 4:33 PM EST reply actions  

As a Gator and a Falcon fan, I’m deeply offended by your use of the phrase “Michael Booker”.

by Mr. Wrong on Dec 4, 2006 4:42 PM EST reply actions  

Re: #15 –
I hadn’t gotten around to it yet, either, but I would make the same points. When you look at the big picture, Michigan’s arguments for being in the title game just don’t hold up well when compared to the Gators. The real basis for the controversy was that UM stayed at #2 after losing their last game. But in the only BCS rankings that matter – which take the whole season into account – UF had a stronger case for a shot vs. OSU.

Of course, as a Buckeye, I’m perhaps a bit biased. Anything that gives displeasure to those people is A-OK in my book.

See ya in Glendale, Gators.

by RodBeck on Dec 4, 2006 4:42 PM EST reply actions  

Be happy with your gift Florida fans. Because you were gifted the berth against the Buckstaches. Maybe after Urban Cryer washes his pussy he’ll figure out how to stop Troy Smith. We wouldn’t even be having this conversation if it wasn’t for that moron from Arkansas who blew the punt in his own endzone. Better bring some lube to Glendale.

by Dead Schembechler on Dec 4, 2006 4:44 PM EST reply actions  

And when will you be giving back the National Championship you won on a DO OVER?

by Dead Schembechler on Dec 4, 2006 4:45 PM EST reply actions  

Oh, our Buckeye friends! They’re already here.

This should be fun. Pull up a styrofoam cooler and relax.

by Orson Swindle on Dec 4, 2006 4:46 PM EST reply actions  

FSU Fan:

“It’s possible UM is the number 2 team in the country but that doesn’t mean they should get to play OSU again.”

Ummm… under the current system, yes it does. Top two teams play.

And do you seriously believe that the voters – who only a week earlier jumped a USC squad over Michigan after it beat ND almost as badly as the Wolverines did back in Sept. – flocked to Florida after USC lost because they saw something in Florida’s 10-point win Arkansas and its 7-point win over a positively anemic FSU squad? Really?

by Daniel Adams on Dec 4, 2006 4:47 PM EST reply actions  

It’s a very odd dynamic when our opponents in the national championship game are carousing on a Florida blog in good spirits, yet our opponents’ rivals (enemy of my enemy?) are vitriolic. Good times.

by Gator03 on Dec 4, 2006 4:56 PM EST reply actions  

Dead Schembechler-

I think you may be confused about what a pussy actually is. Maybe you should ask someone who’s seen one in real life?

by The Conscience of a Nation on Dec 4, 2006 4:56 PM EST reply actions  

Hey, some of us Buckeye fans have long since upgraded from styrofoam to plastic , aka “fancy coolers”…

by Pants McPants on Dec 4, 2006 4:58 PM EST reply actions  

Classy, and reusable, Pants. Your green engineering earns our praise.

In related news, we’re wearing hemp jorts now. The chafing’s unbelievable, but anything for the planet.

by Orson Swindle on Dec 4, 2006 5:00 PM EST reply actions  

Daniel Adams,

You are definitely still in the “denial” stage of mourning. Don’t worry, rage and sadness are soon to follow. I’m holding out on you reaching the acceptance phase though.

by hazer on Dec 4, 2006 5:08 PM EST reply actions  

well, you stay classy Dead Schembechler. striking a blow for the Buckeye Nation everywhere. Glendale, Arizona, watch out! hordes of totally sloshed, screaming, ignorant barbarians from Ohio are poised to invade, plunder, pillage, and make total asses of themselves and their school!

on a more lucid front, is that Pete Carroll site for real? I mean, c’mon. it’s gotta be some kind of super realistic ironic Internet thing, because it if it’s an actual Pete Carroll website, what a douchebag, complete with bombastic intro music and a big shit-eating grin. In other words, a perfect fit for USC.

last-well, if I had any doubt at all that Paul Stanley was a freaking genius, there it goes. I would only approve such an add for UM if their players are wearing doofy World of Warcraft outfits and waving swords around the whole time.

by rolliefingersmustache on Dec 4, 2006 5:11 PM EST reply actions  

sorry, pants mcpants. i was ranting while you were delivering a classy rebuttal to your fellow Buckeye’s idiocy.

by rolliefingersmustache on Dec 4, 2006 5:12 PM EST reply actions  

I don’t understand what Michigan fans are bitching about. They were perfectly content to be passed in the polls by USC, who has an equal number of losses (1) as Florida. No Michigan fans were on the message boards then complaining about how they were clearly better than USC, even though USC’s one loss came to a putrid Oregon State team and USC has shown a tendency to let Evil USC come out an run the show occasionally. I think it’s just because everyone is used to being T-bagged by USC so much that they’re willing to grin an bear it. Now Florida—with their one sketchy Evil Leak loss to Auburn on the road with Auburn bombarding them Manuel Noriega-style with loud music between plays—comes in and passes them at the last minute, and the Michigan people are up in arms. I think they’re just upset because it was all so sudden. They had gotten ready to be T-bagged by USC, and now here comes Urban from the blind side with his gigantic T-bag and knocks them out. They just weren’t ready.

by glacialspeed on Dec 4, 2006 5:17 PM EST reply actions  

Troy Smith will be the 3rd best player on the field behind half of Reggie Nelson and the other half of Reggie Nelson.

by Old Sweaty Wrists on Dec 4, 2006 5:17 PM EST reply actions  

Hey Joe, Mr. “It’s possible UM is the number 2 team in the country”….. so, say they are. Isn’t the BCS supposed to match up #1 and 2?

Why is this year different? Why is this the year that the Coaches poll goes the way of “vote for the attractive matchup?”

Good lord, this has turned College Football into “American-frickin-Idol.”

Great job guys.

by Bruce on Dec 4, 2006 5:17 PM EST reply actions  

I have a history of borderline retardation, but I don’t think Dead Schembechler is a fellow Buckeye?

I did like the cryer zing! though. I mean, it rhymes with Meyer, even though they’re spelled differently. See? It’s funny.

by Gator03 on Dec 4, 2006 5:21 PM EST reply actions  

“FSU Fan:

"It’s possible UM is the number 2 team in the country but that doesn’t mean they should get to play OSU again."

Ummm… under the current system, yes it does. Top two teams play. "

I love that when the when current BCS provisions support an argument people are all for it but when it screws them it’s total bullshit. Regardless of what the BCS’s stated goals are it should exist to produce the best possible national championship game and this year I think they did. My point was that while UM may be the number 2 team – we know they’re not the number 1 team – UF might be. The title game isn’t to determine who is number 2. If they beat USC and OSU wins they can bitch but even then they won’t have the case Auburn did in 04 or USC did in 03.

RE #28 – I think it’s a case of defending your right to hate. FSU fans have earned the right to hate UF. UM got it handed to them by pollsters and computers.

by Joe on Dec 4, 2006 5:22 PM EST reply actions  

The road to Glendale is paved with Gators.

As to #25, I’d note that the BigTen/PacTen/Rose Bowl alliance of death sucked up OSU-ASU that year, leaving FSU with nobody left to play but the Gators after the Big 12 imploded.

This scenario almost replayed itself saturday — if Florida had lost Saturday night, Michigan would have been the best 1-loss team left standing (who wasn’t a rematch), and OSU would have assumed the month-long face of dread that FSU faced in 1996 prior to the Sugar Bowl.

The real beef is with poolsters caught up in the myth of the final score; Michigan was never a real threat in the second half of that game. How they were ranked ahead of USC/UF right behind them after a clear and decisive loss defied years of polling convention (late loss drops you a few spots). A late loss and they don’t move? Now that was injustice that eventually got corrected.

by GoneGator on Dec 4, 2006 5:24 PM EST reply actions  

All this focus on Buckeye incivility is priceless coming from a state whose chief exports are mullets and mongoloidism.

by Duke on Dec 4, 2006 5:31 PM EST reply actions  

At first I thought Dead Schembechler was the refugee from the library, but then made soem age appropriate assumptions. It’s a sure sign when TCOAN has to ask if he has ever had an anatomy lesson, and not just his 7th grade textbook.

Kid, you need to go out to the garage and break into your father’s stash of classic Playboy issues.

After you’ve done that, then you can come back and comment if you can play nicely.

by Southern Papa on Dec 4, 2006 5:32 PM EST reply actions  

Duke, cocaine. Our number one export is cocaine.

After that, we’ve got plenty of other stuff. Sunburns. Boy bands. Phosphate. Mullets are somewhere around 17th, right around embarrassing politicians and derelict Fieros.

by Orson Swindle on Dec 4, 2006 5:35 PM EST reply actions  

Orson, you are one lucky guy — TCOAN’s putdown of Dead Schembechler was absolutely first rate. I’m afraid that our OSU and UM visitors didn’t quite pick up what happened.

Obviously you married up.

by baconboy on Dec 4, 2006 5:36 PM EST reply actions  

You have no idea, baconboy.

by Orson Swindle on Dec 4, 2006 5:39 PM EST reply actions  

“Yes, Gator fans, remember, Troy Smith is what Tommie Frazier would have been if he could THROW.”

Touchdown Tommie threw 43 career TDs. Thats forty three. Not bad for a guy who couldn’t throw and who quarterbacked an option attack.

by Al on Dec 4, 2006 5:40 PM EST reply actions  

Hey Bruce, don’t know if you’ve seen the polls, but the BCS is matching up #1 and #2. And while you can claim you got jobbed by the pollsters, I didn’t really hear you worrying about them when UM wasn’t dropped after losing, the first time that had happened since 1945. Sitting at home eating cheeseburgers is a bitch, ain’t it.

by italiangator on Dec 4, 2006 5:40 PM EST reply actions  

BTW, I was at that Fiesta Bowl beatdown by Nebraska when I worked for the alumni association. I guy I worked with who had played for Florida later told me that mid-way through the 4th quarter his friends wanted to leave and he told them “No, I’m watching the best college football team I’ve ever seen play.” Nebraska was that good that year. I just remember their pulling guards running 40 yards down the field and pancaking anything that moved. It was scary as hell. OSU is good, but they don’t at all compare to that team.

by baconboy on Dec 4, 2006 5:40 PM EST reply actions  

We sincerely hope they don’t compare to that team.

by Orson Swindle on Dec 4, 2006 5:46 PM EST reply actions  

baconboy, I don’t know of another team ever that was better than that one- also because that UF team was damn good. Most ridiculously talented and skilled team I’ve ever heard of. The bail bondsmen in Lincoln did a fine job that year.

by italiangator on Dec 4, 2006 5:47 PM EST reply actions  

funny that a buckeye fan (presumably) is suggesting that someone give back their MNC won on a DO OVER.

i’m sure there are plenty of Hurricane fan/gangstas that feel the same way about the…..wait for it….its coming….just…another…15 seconds….lets let them celebrate a bit first…PI call.

by tbone on Dec 4, 2006 5:51 PM EST reply actions  

Stranko, Orson!

Congratulations boys! Don’t mind the Ann Arbor riff raff- (To rip off Bobby D.) “We gave them a chance two weeks ago and they blew it!” I recommend studying the Penn State tOSU game tape- our Defense held them to 10 points- unfortunately our offense gave them 14. A basketball Championship and a Football Championship in one year? Go Gators!

by Lion4Life on Dec 4, 2006 6:15 PM EST reply actions  

Boy are you people dumb. The correct score of the 1996 Fiesta Bowl was 6230-24. Get it right. It was probably the dresses Florida wore that blinded you to the true score.

And yes, that was likely the best collection of talent ever on a college football team. You’d have to go to prison to find any better.

by Scott on Dec 4, 2006 6:16 PM EST reply actions  

Hey IG, post 47….wrong, I’m a Buckeye fan.

So, google vote manipulation, and maybe you’ll catch up.

Anyhow, personally I’m glad UF is there to take the butt whoopin. It’s just that their fans think they deserve it, is the only problem. It was a gift. Say thank you. Then after the game on Jan 8th, say thank you again, for your 2 loss season. Not bad for a 2nd year coach. Or so i hear.

by Bruce on Dec 4, 2006 6:31 PM EST reply actions  

Bruce, if you’re talking vote manipulation, what about people voting Florida #5? To be manipulation, it’d have to all be in one direction. And let’s say we take out the human polls- computers have UF and UM tied at #2. What then?

by italiangator on Dec 4, 2006 6:48 PM EST reply actions  

Then take the %’s out as far as needed to get closure.

And pray for programmers who don’t have an agenda.

by Bruce on Dec 4, 2006 6:56 PM EST reply actions  

Bruce, it’s no surprise the system frustrates you, as you clearly don’t understand it. Among the poll votes, teams receive a % of the total possible votes (i.e. OSU receives a 1.000 because they receive all first place votes, and 100% of all possible points). But the computers only rank teams in order (OSU 1, Florida 2, Michigan 3, etc.) and there aren’t any percentages assigned to them. So it’s impossible to extrapolate the computer polls – Florida and UM are both .9400000000000. They’re perfectly tied, and if you think that deciding who plays in the championship game based on an a ten-thousandth point difference would be any better than allowing unbiased voters to have a say you’re Nutt-style-crazy.

by Gator03 on Dec 4, 2006 7:05 PM EST reply actions  

God Lord Man, I’m glad to be overseas this year of the Gator (not really) due to all of the incessant bitchin’ that’s going on over the BCS breakdown.
Since I’m probably hearing only 50% of the talking heads….
Isn’t this what college football’s about? Endless debate that makes you want to buy an ATV afterwards and run over various symbols of your rivals’ castrated mascots.

Go Gators!

Beating Tenn, Da Dawgs, and the Criminoles plus an
SEC Champs. That’s freakin awesome.
Possibility of a National Champiomship, Amazing.
Pissing off a bunch of Big Ten Fans having difficulty with the combination porn sites and their long john underwear, Priceless….

by GatorSeoul on Dec 4, 2006 7:06 PM EST reply actions  

I forgot how great it is that there aren’t any obnoxious Ohio State fans who are regular posters on this site. Ohio. The land that evolution forgot. (although Kansas may be catching up.

by j.j. on Dec 4, 2006 7:07 PM EST reply actions  

Troy Smith doesn’t have Lawrence Phillips and Ahman Green.

I don’t know why Michigan fans are pissed at us. We didn’t vote us in. Maybe you should direct your anger at the rest of the country who obviously didn’t feel you were deserving.

by Cruzer on Dec 4, 2006 7:09 PM EST reply actions  

GatorSeoul, of course that’s what it’s all about- if we think about it, it’s what was great before the BCS, and thank god all the guesswork/bitching didn’t end with this. I’ve always argued for a playoff, but in the end, I don’t know anymore- it’s the bitching and screaming that makes it more fun.

by italiangator on Dec 4, 2006 7:16 PM EST reply actions  

All this focus on Buckeye incivility is priceless coming from a state whose chief exports are mullets and mongoloidism.

Comment by Duke — December 4, 2006 @ 5:31 pm

Ohio’s chief export, by contrast, is smart kids. Somewhere along the way, the state apparently developed a policy of hoarding the mullets and mongoloids for breeding purposes.

As I’ve said before, my home state has been in a thirty-year cycle of reverse-Darwinism that led inexorably to Mike Cooper.

by DevilGrad on Dec 4, 2006 7:29 PM EST reply actions  

EDSBS, even when we disagree, you still make us laugh. Thank you for that…and godspeed against tOSU…

by CDB on Dec 4, 2006 7:29 PM EST reply actions  

Adam, you’re right, RFN did have a nice INT. Though, the lack of bone-jarring, skull-cracking hits had my RFN gauge running a bit low.

I’m glad that Stranko and Orson have provided us fellow Gators with such nice digs. Hopefully the fans from O-H-I-O and Meeechigan don’t fuck ’em up too much.

Besides, being underdogs with no shot of possibly winning just adds to the post-game gloating.

by BDoc on Dec 4, 2006 7:42 PM EST reply actions  

If Michigan is #2 for losing to OSU by only 3 is Illinois #6 for only losing to OSU by 7.

by Cruzer on Dec 4, 2006 7:49 PM EST reply actions  

God, I hope we don’t break out the orange pants for this game.

by white-boned demon on Dec 4, 2006 7:59 PM EST reply actions  

I would like to correct certain misimpressions left by this post.

Michigan fans will not be happy until 1.) we win the national championship as determined by all polls, except that we can’t, because all poll voters simultaneously have heart attacks when they recognize how friggin’ great Michigan football is; 2.) a few days later tOSU’s coaching staff is arrested for NAMBLA-related racketeering activity, and 3.) Touchdown Jesus weeps uncontrollably, which, as foretold, triggers 1,000 years of winless Notre Dame teams. 4.) Sean Astin and Tristar Pictures apologize for “Rudy,” which never broadcasts again. We don’t accept the apology, but are mollified when they agree to shoot a movie about Tom Harmon. Later that morning, after 5.) brunch with John Kerry and Bo Schembechler’s resurrected Holy Ghost, 6.) we all orbit in space for awhile, then 7.) land back on Earth and learn that pot has been legalized.

Anything less will be considered disappointing.

by CrimeNotes on Dec 4, 2006 8:14 PM EST reply actions  

You forgot 1a: They escape being the team to be the Buckeyes will ritually massacre on Jan. 8th in Glendale. Congratulations Gators fans.

by GoBucks on Dec 4, 2006 9:03 PM EST reply actions  

If Michigan fans bitch enough, will they get to go to the championship game? If so, we’re in trouble. With everything we go through as Gator fans, this feels great. Years of loyalty are paying back exponentially.

by Tizzle on Dec 4, 2006 9:38 PM EST reply actions  

Wasn’t it just a few days ago that UM fans were saying no rematch and Florida fans were saying their OOC wasn’t strong enough to be in the MNC?

I guess that’s the beauty of my Humanitarian head coach; in his own way, he has encouraged all of you to plant your feet on the ground and reach for the stars.

Pete loves you.

by SeaTrojan on Dec 4, 2006 9:41 PM EST reply actions  

I guess that’s the beauty of my Humanitarian head coach; in his own way, he has encouraged all of you to plant your feet on the ground and reach for the stars.

Or in the case of tOSU fans, reach into the cooler and fling your ordure at the blinky lights above your heads.

Pete loves you.

He really really does.

Pete loves you.

by DC Trojan on Dec 4, 2006 10:14 PM EST reply actions  

Hey now, us Buckeye fans have nothing against Florida. We’re just enjoying the gnashing of teeth by Michigan fans.

Anybody thinking we’re going to blow Florida out or anything of that nature must be on crack.

by AnnArborIsAWhore on Dec 4, 2006 11:02 PM EST reply actions  

The awesomeness of this post is a figurative steak on the ol’ shiner.

by Flop on Dec 4, 2006 11:12 PM EST reply actions  

Begin ramblin quote:

“Michigan fans will not be happy until 1.) we win the national championship as determined by all polls, except that we can’t, because all poll voters simultaneously have heart attacks when they recognize how friggin’ great Michigan football is; 2.) a few days later tOSU’s coaching staff is arrested for NAMBLA-related racketeering activity, and 3.) Touchdown Jesus weeps uncontrollably, which, as foretold, triggers 1,000 years of winless Notre Dame teams. 4.) Sean Astin and Tristar Pictures apologize for "Rudy," which never broadcasts again. We don’t accept the apology, but are mollified when they agree to shoot a movie about Tom Harmon. Later that morning, after 5.) brunch with John Kerry and Bo Schembechler’s resurrected Holy Ghost, 6.) we all orbit in space for awhile, then 7.) land back on Earth and learn that pot has been legalized.

Anything less will be considered disappointing."

Wow. I dunno. Did you guys ever consider … uh … just beating Ohio State?

by D on Dec 4, 2006 11:55 PM EST reply actions  

Tizzle, everything Gators fans have gone through? Like dominance of the SEC for the decade of the 1990s? “Rebuilding years” of 8-4 and 9-3? Dominance of the Georgia Bulldogs? TOUGH times, let me tell ya.

by rob on Dec 5, 2006 12:18 AM EST reply actions  

peachy (clear back at #21) as the old adage goes…we don’t pay our forty bucks to watch ’em not throw their girlfriends down the stairs. Or something like that.

My 2 cents: I’m so glad to see the Gators in the big game…if for only to be able to read more of this for the next month (replete w/95 Sker tributes.) And it is even better, coming at the expense of Michigan. FYI…my experience dictates that you will not hear the end of this “screw job” talk from the mechicken lot for quite some time. It’s been 9 years…and yet we continue hearing the deluded rantings as to how the wolverines might possibly have hoped to stay within 3 TD’s of the Huskers in ‘97. Anyone with half a brain in their head, who’s watched any NFL games in the last decade or so, might be able to tell you who got the “gift” that year. (Beating Leaf & Wazzu by 5 points or beating Manning & the Vols by 4 TD’s…tough choice.)
Since the cozy little Rose bowl arrangement that insulated them from even having to face NU in 97 (and actually having to back up all their talk) is now a thing of the past—they need to come up with new distortions & distractions that divert attention from the fact that the share of the MNC that they received in ‘97 (that the good people at Disneyco & the rest of the AP voting punditry were influential in helping them secure) is their only evidence of prominence on a national scale, since the Truman administration…a fact that must really suck for followers of a team that we always hear referred to as such a dominant force in college football. I’m just hoping that this latest supposed “screw job” at the hands of UF will take the place of their crying and whining about 1997. But I won’t be holding my breath. After NU beat their 17-point favored asses last year…it was just more excuses & talk.

So congratulations to all Gator fans…and I’ll be rooting hard for Florida to beat osu (another perennially over-rated & over-hyped big 10 team that I can’t stand.)

by DT on Dec 5, 2006 2:09 AM EST reply actions  

DT,
You can’t say the Bucks are overrated this year. This far in the season, they’ve got far and away the best resume in the country, and they’re not even on the receiving end of the regular ESPN suckfest (Best ever! Bring on the ’85 Bears!).

by j.j. on Dec 5, 2006 7:46 AM EST reply actions  

You guys have no shot of beating OSU. The BCS got it wrong. Anyone who watched both teams play this year knows UM is better.

by BT on Dec 5, 2006 8:13 AM EST reply actions  

Oh DT, it really is entertaining when patients at the mental hospital get on a computer.

Are you just going to ignore that Michigan was #1 in both polls going into the Bowl Season?

Bringing up the NFL and Manning like that is some sort of proof is hilarious. Could you give me a rough estimate of the big games Manning has won in the postseason since he picked up a football? I’m going to guess that if it ever happened, it stopped right about the time he became a Vol.

I’m not claiming Michigan would have blown out NU, but there is no way you can objectively say that it wouldn’t have been a great, close game.

by Matt on Dec 5, 2006 8:25 AM EST reply actions  

Ugh. Only another 34 days of the blogfan pissing contest. Hey, who stole my cooler? Pants? Was that you?

by tOSU_radar on Dec 5, 2006 8:53 AM EST reply actions  

“Despite Eddie George’s long lasting impact on the game of college football.”

Hey, say what you want about Eddie, but that’s a hell of a restaurant he’s got up there in Columbus… I wish I was his flat-screen TV salesman…

tOSU may yet grind UF into the ground… but this is really starting to look like Karmic payback for that pass interference call against Miami

by RedTide on Dec 5, 2006 8:59 AM EST reply actions  

For the record, I don’t think Dead Schembechler is a Buckeye fan (unless Buckstaches is a term of endearment). Or perhaps it’s just my wishful thinking as I would just like to distance myself from him.

by Kate on Dec 5, 2006 9:25 AM EST reply actions  

the thing that gets me about Dead Schembechler is that his name links to twisted martini. for this reason, i think he’s most likely a figure from some nightmare of mine.

by adam on Dec 5, 2006 9:51 AM EST reply actions  

I was actually enjoying this until I came to the snivelling whine about Auburn playing music between plays. I have been to a few venues and I don’t recall any that did not use the PA system between plays and during timeouts. Are y’all going to complain that Auburn people were making noise on the field at halftime? They actually allow music at basketball and even baseball games too. If you want quiet, go find a nice fag sport to root for like tennis or golf. Football is a sport for people who have testicles…that have actually dropped. I am not sure which one is the cure for what ails in this case, but one of these should do the trick.

http://www.vagisil.com/productinformation.shtml

http://www.collegegear.com/sf/stores/1333/p-163083.shtml

interesting that “this product is temporarily out of stock!”

by sheepman on Dec 5, 2006 9:57 AM EST reply actions  

#85

Am I the only one who finds it funny that the Auburn defending comment was authored by “sheepman”.

Confirms what I’ve heard for years – Auburn, where men are men and livestock are nervous.

by BamaTaxMan on Dec 5, 2006 10:28 AM EST reply actions  

Reason #11 that Michigan should be happy:

UM doesn’t have to look at the, umm, Seadonkies that comprise “Team Tebow”.

Yikes!

by Aerobab on Dec 5, 2006 10:32 AM EST reply actions  

i’m thinking sheepman is new to the website. we don’t much coton to the fag comments. and i’m thinking it takes pretty big balls to walk around in most cities with your boyfriend.

by adam on Dec 5, 2006 10:49 AM EST reply actions  

additionally, it’s not that we have a problem with a stadium being loud, it’s that the school feels it’s necessary to pipe in noise. kinda sad that a stadium can’t make enough noise on its own, a la the screaming drunks at BHG.

by adam on Dec 5, 2006 11:04 AM EST reply actions  

Hey Sheepman? Eat shit.

—Ovary-havin’, football-lovin’, testicle-lackin’, but still a better man than you CFB fan

p.s. Why the vagina hate? Did your mother’s bite you on the way out?

by The Conscience of a Nation on Dec 5, 2006 12:27 PM EST reply actions  

Lmao…Does Arizona have wide enough roads for all the double wide trailers and RV’s coming out of Florida with Rebel flag stickers on the windows???? Like 90 percent of the nation will root for OSU just on Civil War principal alone……Go North..

by Yankee on Dec 5, 2006 2:18 PM EST reply actions  

TCOAN,

We are not worthy……we are not worthy……we are not worthy…..

(But then again, neither is your husband)

You are proof that most, if not all, Southern men have completely outkicked the coverage.

by BamaTaxMan on Dec 5, 2006 2:22 PM EST reply actions  

Awww! blushes

by The Conscience of a Nation on Dec 5, 2006 2:32 PM EST reply actions  

No, they’re all right! All of them! In fact, we have no idea how we’ll get the RV ready to drive to the nearest package store, much less Arizona.

Wherever that is! HAH! Is that even in America! We don’t know.

We’ll be over here in our little pink dress, shaking just thinking about the Buckeyes and their big fans! [shudder]

They just won the internet! Where will we go now? Besides prison or the WWE match we spent the rent on?

by Orson Swindle on Dec 5, 2006 2:57 PM EST reply actions  

jj (#78) I’ll surely grant you that OSU is far and away the best team (on paper) to this point this season. You’ll get no argument from me on that. But those who would compare Troy Smith’s accomplishments to Tommie Frazier’s are pretty good examples of what I’m talking about here.

And Matt (#80)…are you just going to ignore that NU was #1 in 1997, until they won on the road against a conference opponent…guess that blows to hell the argument that only michigan can win & get jumped. Peyton Manning & his postseason record notwithstanding (last I checked, he had been to the NFL postseason about a half-dozen more times than Leaf)…pointing out all of the NFL talent that came from that Tennessee team (Jamal Lewis, Leonard Little, Raynoch Thompson, Al Wilson, Terry Fair, Peerless Price) is merely to say that since NU SPANKED that team and Michigan won in a 4th quarter squeaker vs. a much lower-ranked & less talented Wazzu bunch…well, objectively speaking, you’re the one that should be committed—if you think that Michigan was anywhere near being in NU’s class that season (just because Charles Woodson was able to bail them out time & time again with some well-timed punt returns for TD’s.)
I guess that’s just where you & I differ…I am (with good reason) claiming that NU would’ve blown out Michigan that year. Good thing for Michigan fans that, back then, the big 10 was still able to go and hide in the Rose bowl. That fact alone has allowed this nonsense to continue for almost 10 years now.

But one thing we can see eye-to-eye on is that I can say that Scott Frost is still a pussy for:
-Going to Stanford
-Hiding in a closet, while LP dragged the girl he was banging down a flight of stairs
-Being singlehandedly responsible for losing NU’s 26-game winning streak (vs. ASU)
-Grovelling like a girl for all the world to see after the Orange Bowl, begging for a MNC…when he should’ve left it like Wistrom & Peter did: “You’ve seen Michigan & you’ve seen us…now ask yourself who’d you rather play least.”

That, and a few years back, I knew Yale Van Dyne…and I always thought that he was a cool dude.

by DT on Dec 5, 2006 3:07 PM EST reply actions  

Re #91:

Going with your Civil War principle, Yankee, maybe that’s why the voters gave the #2 spot to Florida. They feared a second War Between the States if another SEC team got shafted out of a NC title shot a la Auburn in 2004. And as far as Confederate flag stickers go, I don’t think that’s Florida so much as Alabama, Mississippi, and/or Georgia.

I envy you Gator fans for having a team that always seemed to find a way to win, except against us(Auburn). Unfortunately I knew we were good for one loss this season, to a team that we should have easily beat. Expected it to be Arkansas and it turned out to be them AND Georgia.

But enough of the tears in my beer…all I can say now is Go Gators! Represent!

by A Clean Kick to the Facemask on Dec 5, 2006 3:23 PM EST reply actions  

Love your blog. Even though I’m a pissed off Michigan fan, this was a funny post….

by Bill in Brimingham on Dec 5, 2006 7:38 PM EST reply actions  

I don’t understand all the cracks about Florida being a redneck state. Most of the state is either Cuba or New Jersey, both of which are equally easy to mock as rednecks—and more unique. Many states are subject to redneck jokes, how many can you bash for the other two? (Oh, and we have like eleven billion old people)

by Rob G on Dec 5, 2006 9:55 PM EST reply actions  

Attagirl TCOAN! You never cease to amaze me for living up the “Conscience” part of the name.

Sheepman: read more, post less.

by Geaux Irish on Dec 6, 2006 1:44 AM EST reply actions  

Listen, Florida. The BCS and us are going through…some issues right now. But we just want you to know, it’s not really your fault. Sure, we were happy-go-lucky before you came into our lives. And maybe, just maybe, if you hadn’t been born, this relationship wouldn’t have slid so far so fast. But…don’t take that to mean that we love you any less. I mean, she did have a lot of problems from the beginning. So just remember: the BCS is the hateful she-devil that took our pride, our money, and our faith in truth and justice; not you.

On the plus side, I might finally get to screw that bitch from LA that I’ve had my eye on since 2004.

by eric on Dec 6, 2006 2:19 AM EST reply actions  

DT, which unranked team did Michigan have to cheat — in overtime — to beat? Unlike Nebraska, I seem to remember them instead upending the #2 team in the country 34-8.

Also please let me know the next time a #1 team wins their bowl game, then drops in the polls.

by Jeremy on Dec 6, 2006 11:02 AM EST reply actions  

Dominance of the Georgia Bulldogs?

{Drops bottle of Jim Beam, lowers head into hands … muffles scream}

by Jmac on Dec 6, 2006 6:44 PM EST reply actions  

I’ve got two children at UF, a wife from UM, and an OSU diploma on my wall. 1/8/07 will be a day even greater than when the Bucks crushed Miami in the 03 Fiesta Bowl. And tOSU basketballers will whip UF on Dec 23. Double Nat Champs for OSU in 07, while UF only contemplates what could have been. Life is good.

by KE on Dec 6, 2006 7:27 PM EST reply actions  

yo wtf is rong whit you people y is the souht park video isin’t availeble wtf put it back or ill kill you or ill go and kill you dad and then marie you’re momand become you’re dad and give u a spanking.

Peace

by kevin on Feb 4, 2007 3:33 PM EST reply actions  

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