tonight was perhaps the icing on a whole week of cake whose main ingredient was crap…or something. it hurts to be a buckeyes fan. i feel like i’m experiencing last year’s bcs spanking all over again, even down to the fact that both years i watched the game with a dudes named matt. (…so i’m not doing that any more…) the sucky thing is that the game should have been a lot closer than it was, because of a couple of really poor errors by the buckeyes. first off, if robiskie hadn’t dropped the pass in the end zone in the first half; and second, if austin spitler hadn’t collided with the kicker on lsu’s punt, giving lsu fifteen yards and a new set of downs…leading to a touchdown. if those two things don’t happen, it’s a tie ballgame. aargh. i can’t stop clenching my fists thinking about it.
i’m waiting for blood to flow to my fingers
i’ll be alright when my hands get warm
i don’t even like the buckeyes any more. i don’t like any other college teams in ohio, either. i don’t like the big ten conference. i don’t like the color scarlet. i don’t like the color red (because it looks too much like scarlet). i don’t like the color grey. i don’t like necklaces made with red yarn and buckeye nuts. i don’t like brutus. i don’t like beautiful orange october foliage. i don’t like charming, small-town street festivals like the bucyrus broughtworst festival or the marion popcorn festival. i don’t like cleveland, cincinnati, or columbus. i don’t like going to the short north district for gallery hop. i don’t like drew carey. i don’t like re-runs of wkrp or family ties. i don’t like warren g. harding…he was a crappy president. (i actually think most political analysts would agree with me on that one, too.) i don’t like the bible belt. i don’t like the exciting, world-record-holding roller coasters of cedar point in sandusky (where the movie tommy boy was set). i don’t like the flat-lands of northern ohio, and i don’t like the hills of southern ohio. i don’t like long, arrow-straight streets covered with shade from the old maple trees lining the curb. i don’t like sitting on my front porch swing at night during a powerful thunderstorm and watching the lightning flashes light up the entire street. i don’t like indian summers in january and amazing spring afternoons in may. i basically don’t like the state of ohio any more. check back in about a month, and i’ll be a buckeye again. i just need some time to myself.
well, i watched the game at my friend matt’s house, and my wife text-messaged me with about 1:20 left in the fourth quarter saying, “don’t come home mad.” (it’s like she knows me or something.) so here i am venting to whoever is crazy enough to read my blog. sorry for yelling.
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by deWeb
Filed under: college, football, ohio, sports, tv, what in the world?
