007 - someone up there hates this state
Sep. 3rd, 2010 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whatwolverines[Few things in life make Griffin truly upset. Economic problems and Ohio, mainly. Today, one of those problems seems to have taken a new step in making him extremely upset, as with recent football announcements. Now, Griffin loves football a lot, and even his calendar has a countdown to opening day (same with hockey, and you're going down, Anaheim) with a cute little blue and gold 'M' on opening day's date. And for a long while, he was waiting for the news of when 'The Game' was going to be, being the infamous one day event where Ohio State and University of Michigan faced off and determined 364 days of either misery or happiness.
And then he got the news.
Like receiving news that a relative has died, Griffin is curled up on his couch (which somehow moved from one side of his living room to the other, but he doesn't care) and pissing and moaning like the world is going to end. It pretty much is, for him anyway. So what's this god-awful news? Well, thanks to some terrible decisions regarding football divisions...
Michigan and Ohio are playing two games.
That's two instances of fans nearly killing each other and people peeing in gas tanks and vandalism and two chances at being miserable for a year. Even the U of M-MSU rivalry hardly compares to U of M-OSU. This is a tragedy.
And so he sits, crying and raging in the midst of a temper tantrum. Any other decent year, he would probably be excited but he's had a losing streak to OSU lately, so this is devastating.]
And then he got the news.
Like receiving news that a relative has died, Griffin is curled up on his couch (which somehow moved from one side of his living room to the other, but he doesn't care) and pissing and moaning like the world is going to end. It pretty much is, for him anyway. So what's this god-awful news? Well, thanks to some terrible decisions regarding football divisions...
Michigan and Ohio are playing two games.
That's two instances of fans nearly killing each other and people peeing in gas tanks and vandalism and two chances at being miserable for a year. Even the U of M-MSU rivalry hardly compares to U of M-OSU. This is a tragedy.
And so he sits, crying and raging in the midst of a temper tantrum. Any other decent year, he would probably be excited but he's had a losing streak to OSU lately, so this is devastating.]
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Date: 2010-09-03 07:56 pm (UTC)Um...
Griff?
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Date: 2010-09-03 07:58 pm (UTC)You dare intrude on my moment of misery? You're very brave.
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:00 pm (UTC)okay? So, wha's happened?
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:02 pm (UTC)[]
T-two games! Not just one!
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-03 08:07 pm (UTC)[]
It's no' fair. She kicked my ass las' year and now I'm gonna have i' kicked twice!
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:11 pm (UTC)Don' say tha'. He grinned doggedly.
Ah got a good feelin' abou' this season~
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:22 pm (UTC)[]
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:31 pm (UTC)He laughed.
Darlin'. Ah got mah rivals too. Hell, nex' week 'm playin' Spurrier. Then there's tha Deep South's Oldest Rivalry with Auburn. Got some hate fer Florida, an' ah swear ta God ah'm gonna drive 'em inta tha ground.
Then there's tha one weekend where ah go a lil'... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean,_Old-Fashioned_Hate) He shakes his hand in a kinda... eh manner.
Believe me ah know a lil' somethin' abou' rivalries.
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:45 pm (UTC)[]
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:49 pm (UTC)Believe me darlin', ya'll make it. Jus' try ta enjoy tha game~
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Date: 2010-09-03 09:33 pm (UTC)[]
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Date: 2010-09-04 01:38 am (UTC)Ah'll have ta try some then~
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:03 pm (UTC)Given the addition of Nebraska, that looked to be an attractive match up for a variety of reasons as well. She got exactly none of those top 5 rivals in the same division. Even if Minnesota got the protected status in order to preserve the most played rivalry in D-I football, that’s it. One out of five – no other team lost that many rivalry games or even close to it. Minnesota although a tradition to go against? Is pretty damn sad to beat into the ground after a while. She is very disappointed and pouting majorly.
As it currently stands, Wisconsin will play Iowa and Michigan at Camp Randall only 2 times over the next 10 years. This is making her miffed. Along with the politics, but she won't go on about that. Football is serious business with her. ]
Why are you so glum?
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:06 pm (UTC)Ohio, that's what. Ohio.
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:23 pm (UTC)She tilts her head to that. (Oh how familiar that might be, you should know who's city she is now.) ]
You don't have a game against them?
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:29 pm (UTC)No, I got two.
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:33 pm (UTC)... So ... what's the problem?
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:46 pm (UTC)The Game is like, the biggest thing my team has goin' for us. One game with Ohio an' it determines who gets ta wallow the rest of the year in misery.
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:50 pm (UTC)[ That glint in her eye is just a little scary. ]
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:57 pm (UTC)[]
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Date: 2010-09-03 09:13 pm (UTC)[ She almost beat OSU last year. That's all that matters. ]
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Date: 2010-09-03 09:34 pm (UTC)[]
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Date: 2010-09-03 09:44 pm (UTC)[ 'Almost' isn't good enough either for her but she's not gonna give up ever about such little setbacks. It strives her to win. ]
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Date: 2010-09-04 01:03 am (UTC)[]
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Date: 2010-09-04 01:09 am (UTC)[ The only logic that breaks this is the Arizona Cardinals. That was bullshit against the Packers. PURE BULLSHIT. ]
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Date: 2010-09-06 12:34 am (UTC)[]
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:49 pm (UTC)Wait...
Is this football we're talking about?
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Date: 2010-09-03 08:56 pm (UTC)1/2
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Date: 2010-09-04 12:36 am (UTC)So... you heard?
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Date: 2010-09-04 01:00 am (UTC)[]
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