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November 17, 2006
The Big Game
This Saturday the #1-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes will meet the #2-ranked Michigan Wolverines in the game of the century. The game will be a home game or an away game depending on whether you live in Columbus, or Ann Arbor.
I don't know where it's being played.
I do know that one of the sales guys thinks the score will be 7 to 3. My brother hopes it will be 30 something to 30 something. The guy in the next office thinks it will be 14 to 7. Everybody thinks Ohio State will win ... and really, so do I.
The congressperson for my district may be Deb Pryce (the incumbent). It may be Mary Jo Kilroy (the Democratic challenger). We don't know ... the race is too close and there are too many ballots left uncounted. The deadline for getting the count done is tomorrow ... Saturday ... game day. The deadline has been extended as whoever is in charge of the office that does the counting has given his staff the day off (and he probably did this a while back).
So, we won't know until Monday who the winner is.
Both candidates are OK with this.
Really, would you want to be the candidate who bitched about the OSU/Michigan game inconveniencing you? Probably not. Further, if Deb Pryce wins we'll quit talking about it in two weeks ... if Mary Jo wins we'll quit talking about it in two weeks ... if Ohio State wins (or even loses) we'll never stop talking about it.
I was telling my brother (a rabid OSU football fan) , who lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, about this last night and he stopped me. The story had been covered by his local station.
Another portion of our conversation went like this:
Jim: You know who Ted Ginn is, right?
Me: No.
Jim: How about (somebody else, who, it would turn out was an OSU Football Player)
Me: No. Is he an Ohio State football player?
Jim: You don't know who Ted Ginn is?!
Me: Jim, I can name all the cast members of How I Met Your Mother, but I'm not much on knowing OSU football players. I know Eddie George owns a bar in town.
Jim: OK. You know Eddie George ...
Me: Was he a running back?
Jim: So you know Ted Ginn is a running back.
Me: Wait, I'm not saying Eddie George was a running back. I'm saying he could have been a running back. I know he owns a bar in town.
Jim: Ted Ginn is a running back. You know the success Eddie George had?
Me: Yes.
Jim: Ted Ginn is having the same kind of success now. There's a song called Ted Ginn Did Everything... blah blah blah.
(By the way, it's by the Dead Shembecklers. I think Shembeckler may have been a coach somewhere. I don't know that he's really dead. You can buy the album at iTunes.)
If Ohio State loses I'm pretty sure I people could not come to work at all next week and when asked where they were all they'd have to say is, "the game" and their employer would understand.
Of course, that wouldn't work for me. Too many people know I lack the give-a-shit-about-sports gene.
One more aside: Any screw-ups regarding Ted Ginn and Eddie George being running backs is all on me. My brother knows the positions they played. I'm pretty sure I butchered Shembeckler; I don't care.
UPDATE: Ginn seems to be a receiver.
UPDATE: Bo Schembechler died today.
Posted by delmer at November 17, 2006 6:29 AM
Comments
Not much of a college football fan, either, but I may try to watch this one. If you put a gun to my head, I could not name a player or coach for either of the two current teams. Well, maybe Ginn ... now.
Posted by: Rob at November 17, 2006 12:03 PM
Ted Ginn is a wide receiver.
Bo Schembeckler apparently died today. The timing of his death is suspect as most feel he did it to motivate Mushigan to win. Desperate people do desperate things.
Go Bucks!
Posted by: Darrell at November 17, 2006 1:53 PM
I just heard about Bo. What are the odds.
Posted by: delmer at November 17, 2006 2:07 PM