Pigskin Paradise

Well, football rules here.

It is just the way it is.

I was at the local public market last weekend, and while browsing, heard the music broke up to announce the score of the OSU football game. They play in Columbus - a little geography lesson folks, that is the capital of Ohio and it is about 90 miles away... yet, our nice live music was interrupted for the score.

Now, I spent 3 years at OSU. I had season tickets my freshman year. I went to 1 game. The rest of the 3 years I learned to avoid the debacle as much as possible.

Now, when I say football rules, I mean it.

Everywhere you go here, if they sell retail merchandise, they have OSU items. Shirts, hats, coats, socks, coasters, lighters. If you can imagine it, you can buy it in red and grey with the OSU logo on it. At the gas station, at some restaurants and at pretty much everyplace with a cash register...

Everywhere.

Back when heck was a pup and I was at OSU, the campus, sans bars, closed down.

I mean it, people. Closed. I learned this early on when I went to Long's Bookstore and tried in vain to open the door and found it locked. Huh? I needed to get some things for school and it was the middle of the freakin' afternoon.

Someone resolved my confusion by explaining to me like I was a child, that it was FOOTBALL SATURDAY, dumbass.

Yes, silly me.

No one can do anything except eat and drink and watch the privileged football goons smash each other up. I mean everything closed except bars and restaurants.

So, today was THE BIG GAME. Our local Ohio equivalent of the Cal Stanford game.

Michigan vs Ohio State.

Now, when I was at OSU, this game was kinda bad news. The campus is fronted by a mile long strip of businesses - High Street, and the name is pretty appropriate, if ya get my drift... anyway - for these particular home games, out came the plywood. You'd think we were in hurricane territory. After the game, cars would be turned over or set on fire and all sorts of mayhem would ensue.

Yup.

OSU vs Michigan. Time to plan a weekend trip off campus, way off campus.

Anyway, I am now safely about 88 miles away from the scene, and happily so.

Mind you I am not a fan of football, but, well you wanna know why Ohio is soooooooo windy????

Michigan SUCKS.

Yup and we kicked their sorry asses 42 to 7. Ha.

But, I hate football and the privileged life of the football player that I witnessed at OSU.

Did I mention we won?????

You know what, we have kicked their sorry blue butts for 5 years in a row now...