Usually for a big Michigan game, my nephew, who is a Penn State grad, comes over and watches with Pops and I, until he enrolled at PSU, he was a Michigan fan due to his GrandPop bringing him over to watch games together long ago when I was in NC. It was an opportunity to spend time alone with him to build that bond, independent of interference from his helicopter mother. He now has a serious girlfriend from South Africa who has joined our watch party this year and she is a delightful fun young woman.. My brother-in-law is a “silverspoon, exclusive private school in Vermont, hates football because it’s a blue collar gladiator sport that is truly American and wildly popular”, kind of guy. You know the type..the bitter contrarian. He follows the EPL instead, but he never played the sport. Which is cool, do your thing. I’m certainly a square peg and refuse to participate in things that are immensely popular in America. But he can’t just leave it at that. Every time he hears us talk about football, and in this family you will hear it a lot, he always has to make some snide comment about it..every single time. He’s just a bitter curmudgeon who has to make negative remarks about everything. I’ve bitten my lip till it bled after he does this many times, doing anything to keep myself from cutting him to pieces with my cruel and savage forked tongue. He’s f****d up so much, and too fat and lazy to even paint his own house. Forcing my sister to call me, the disabled guy who can’t bend over, and her 80 yr old father to help her finish painting before thanksgiving dinner at her place this year.
In an act of delicious irony, my niece‘s boyfriend for a couple of years, who is a huge Eagles fan, has turned my niece into a football super fan who comes over to watch Michigan with us now. Our whole family is here, with both dogs, making food, they’re drinking beer or cocktails..not me, and everyone has a blast…except my brother-in-law, who would rather stay home all by himself than just join us. The only positive thing I can say about him is he was a real good father to those kids. In that regard he was exemplary.
We WERE planning a big outside bbq on one of those new stainless open wood fire smokeless units for Saturday. But mom took ill last night and was shaking this morning from being dehydrated from being sick. She’s not in ICU..she’s in the unit below (The Very Attentive Care Unit?) and will be there over the weekend. Pop’s will be there all day, every day, from 9am until 9pm..every day she is there, because this is what he does when she is in the hospital..that is how he expresses his emotions. Coming to terms with the digression from Alzheimer’s has her in a very upset and agitated state that has worn her out. So they are going to keep her, give her a healthy shot of Valium, and just give her an extended rest to recover.
So it’ll be just me and Quinn watching the game on my new LG OLED 4k HD 120hz movement tracking, 55 inch brand new TV I bought myself for December through February Football. Yes, my dog watches football on TV..intently. The funny thing is how he reacts to commercials with Dogs!
Both Quinn and I are expecting a pretty vanilla boring game. When Michigan goes up by 2 scores it will be the Mullings show, as Michigan won’t want to risk their top RBs to getting injured. If it’s 24-0, or even 17-3 in the middle of the 3rd quarter, Jim will pull JJ because there is no way that 5000 bc Iron Age offense has a shot in hell coming back from a 2 touchdown deficit. My gambling advice is to bet the under. Final Score: Michigan 27 - Iowa 6 In the most boring game all year, unless you’re a big fan of watching death by a thousand 4 yard run plays. I expect Michigan to hand the ball off a minimum of 40 times Saturday, Maybe more if the go up early 14-0. Yes, wining the B1G Championship is great, but I think their main goals are to get up beyond Iowa’s ability to mount a comeback, then sub all the critical players out and run the ball the rest of the game to end it as quickly as possible. I don’t think Iowa’s offense has a chance in hell of smelling the endzone for 7. I really believe there’s a solid chance they get shut out.
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