007 - someone up there hates this state

[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.]

Comments

[devilwentdownto.livejournal.com]

... Ah'm... confused. How're ya playin' two games?

[talktodahandeh.livejournal.com]

Because the goddamn division got all messed up!

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It's no' fair. She kicked my ass las' year and now I'm gonna have i' kicked twice!

[devilwentdownto.livejournal.com]

He blinked.
Don' say tha'. He grinned doggedly.
Ah got a good feelin' abou' this season~

[talktodahandeh.livejournal.com]

Prob'ly for you. Me n' her've been fightin' for who knows how long. This thing? Once a year. Tha's how it's supposed ta' be.

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[devilwentdownto.livejournal.com]

[ooc also, that's my favorite description of the Walton War]

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.

[talktodahandeh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess.

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[devilwentdownto.livejournal.com]

He chuckled.
Believe me darlin', ya'll make it. Jus' try ta enjoy tha game~

[talktodahandeh.livejournal.com]

She's gonna kill me, bu' yeah, ya got a point.

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[devilwentdownto.livejournal.com]

Plus~ Ya gotta love tailgatin'.

[talktodahandeh.livejournal.com]

This is true! I gotta say, I make the best-- [] --second best bratwurst in the history of tailgatin'!

[devilwentdownto.livejournal.com]

He chuckled.
Ah'll have ta try some then~