Good Monday afternoon to you. It's a short work week for many of us, but in other ways, it's a work week unlike any other as we have much extra curricular on our plates. That's right, our disdain and scorn for the cesspool of inhumanity that is the University of Michigan certainly won't bubble to a boil on its own. While initially I intended to approach this Skull Seshy from a 'business as usual' weekend recap fashion (LOL officials), the excess of emo self-hating after, you know, a WIN over an incredibly solid Iowa team, has merited drastic measures in order to get everyone back on the same front. I seldom encourage xenophobia and jingoism towards our neighbors to the north, but until roughly 3:20 P.M. Saturday afternoon, we're all systems go to crank the execration up to 11. HATE. HATE. HATE.
"From the deepest desires often comes the deadliest hate" There aren't many better ways to set the tone for a week in which we both simultaneously present what we're thankful for as well as what we're hateful for than with a diddy from the seminal easy listening quartet, the Dead Schembechlers. Gentlemen, do the honors:
"Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies" Having an Ohio State-Michigan game on Thanksgiving Saturday for the first time since the Cooper-era The Vest's inaugural campaign necessitates making some sacrifices. In order to honor (as it is written in the book of Woody) the need to both jump in Mirror Lake as well as attend the game, many students and those affiliated with the university are doing just that are doing just that:
Also because of The Game, Block O program coordinator Jamie Kanehl plans to eat Thanksgiving dinner at the Recreation & Physical Activity Center instead of with 30 relatives in her hometown of Jacksonville, Fla.
Thanksgiving has always been important to the sophomore, who has staged an annual holiday play with her cousins since she was small enough to portray a potato. Still, she didn't feel too conflicted when she learned of the Michigan date.
"I knew exactly what I would do," she said. "I thought, 'OK, well, I'm going to stay here.'"
This individual gets it.
I do have minor complaints, however, with the article's insinuation that somehow having the Mirror Lake jump on Tuesday is somehow sacrilege. The date of the game and the date of Mirror Lake alike aren't sacred; it's the act itself. You're in no way desecrating something bigger than you if a super majority of those partaking mutually concur that the best way to handle things is by coordinating a near universally agreed upon rescheduling. The article goes on to mention disconnected students who still intend to participate Thursday, you know, well after all their peers have already marked the occassion. Ordinarily I'd likely just say, "hey, the more jumps the merrier", but the idea of likely under a hundred students adhering to a day of the week more than a tradition itself after nearly a thousand have already partaken is frankly kind of sad. If you're looking to jump, do it on the Thanksgiving accommodating date of Tuesday with all your peers. Doing it on Thursday just to be elitist and/or stubborn is a waste of energy.
I myself and the rest of us old alums, on the other hand, can participate be taking an ice cold shower Tuesday evening to mark the occasion. Either that or just drink a bunch, right? Go Bucks.
"As long as you hate, there will be people to hate" MGoBlog is a superb site we often pay lip service to what with their being the model for most other individual team blogs to aspire towards. Seeing as this is the one week where their and our content respectively may have overlap, I figure why not jump over and check and see what wisdom they have to impart on us Buckeyes:
Yikes. It's just like USA Today.
"Hatred bounces" For those wondering for a feel of maybe how big the forthcoming Ohio State victory over Michigan will be, Vegas has you covered. Oddsmakers have set the early lines firmly around Ohio State (-18). My initial sentiments were "holy s#!+ that seems a bit much for a rivalry game", but the very same folks were absolutely spot on with respect to Penn State and Iowa (which I thought should have smaller and larger spreads respectively). There's a reason they're paid to protect the kind of money that they are.
"Hatred is one long wait" Saturday seems impossibly far away at this juncture, but in all honesty, it's three short work days and a tryptophan nap or three away from coming to fruition. In the interim, I present, for your consideration, hippy robots playing that abomination "Hail to the Victors" exactly as it was intended to be heard:
