Countdown to Showdown (November 17, 2006)

31 HOURS

This will be the last time I get to write something this year before we find out what we have all been waiting for: Will the Amaizing Blue's 2006 Season's "Phoenix out of the Ashes of 2005" continue to rise and defeat the team south of the Border known as the Suckeyes and move on to the National Championship, or will this year's run come up just short of inconceivable and be sidelined by an OSU team that was the pre-ordained to win the National Title? 35 hours and all will be known......I am sure some reader's of this rant will be happy with a victory and we know other readers will rejoice to see the Wolverines trip and fall......It's funny - how can so many people get so jazzed up about this game? As my wife continues to remind me - it is just football. My life won't change that much - win or lose. So why do we become so emotionally charged?

I think it comes down to this: less is more. We only get to do this once a year. That is truly what makes it special. You only have to remember the year, and any fan can tell you where the game was (for the uneducated - ODD YEARS ANN ARBOR - EVEN YEARS OSU) and relate the game conditions, who played, and probably nail down a final score if you give them a chance to think about it. That's what makes it fun......

So, I am sticking with my pre-season prediction for this game - Michigan wins tomorrow. I won't bother giving you a score, it's not the point.
(What the hell - Michigan 31 - OSU 24. And Steve Breaston has a big day - just a hunch)


But as far as ridiculing my South of the Border Brethren:

I probably should define some term from above so they "get it"
Phoenix - Greek Mythology - every 500 or 1000 years - depending on what you learned - the old Phoenix built a nest of wood, set itself on fire, and the new Phoenix would rise out of the ashes of the old....Also used by the MMQ as a play on words for Michigan's 2006 Phoenix ending up in the National Title game in Tempe (Close enough to Phoenix, AZ)
Inconceivable: It means that it was an idea (This would be a thought - something I have never witnessed a Suckeye do) that wouldn't or couldn't have been considered before

I know that the Hooch houses chewing tobacco stores will be emptied pre-game in order for you to build up the Suckeye Courage and provide Spit Ammunition for the visiting Wolverines- You clowns are all class......Actually, you would interpret that as going to class, so let me rephrase and say you are classless......
What happens to all the shipping in the midwest on Saturday when you have 95,000 JB Hunt truck drivers in the stadium rooting for your team? (Thank you UFER!)
Is "Muck Fichigan" really that original? Or are you simply frustrated because there aren't that many one syllable words that rhyme with "Wolverines", and the favorite OSU graduate expletive rhymes nicely with "Bucks" - as in "Blank the Bucks!"? - Only I would never stoop so low as to utter such a phrase....
Does it bother you that you can't bring back and interview Maurice Clarret of the 2002 National Title because he is currently upstate doing 5-10 for driving with open intoxicants and transporting loaded weapons?

Let's not forget that it was Michigan that "gave" the Best Damn Band in the Land their signature "Script Ohio" in 1933....Kind of like how we taught Notre Dame how to play Football.....

GAME ON!

GO BLUE! BEAT THE BUCKS!

MMQ

"What the Mind can Conceive and Believe, the Mind can Achieve...
And Those Who Stay Will Be Champions!"
-Bo Schembechler, University of Michigan Locker Room