What follows is an accurate account of our interaction today
Their order was ready for pick-up today. Generally speaking, I try to take the high road in situations like this. I was all prepared to say it was a great game between two great teams, and I'm grateful we came out on top. I planned to leave it there.
Well, first of all, the husband who was in last time telling me Harbaugh was going to be fired didn't even have the balls to come in. He sent the wife. What a puss.
So, she comes in and sees me decked out in maize and blue from head to toe and immediately goes into excuse mode. The TD was an Int. The refs marked the ball short for us all day. We didn't get a single break all day long. We outgained you in total yards and on and on.
I just let her talk. Then I said OSU had a great team. They gave us all we wanted and all they had. It just wasn't enough. Your guy missed his FG, and our guy didn't. Your guy threw two Int., but our guy did not. You needed to stop us with eight minutes to go, but you could not. You still had a chance to win in the end, but you did not. On Saturday, the best team won. The best team was Michigan.
I also added that I know every Buckeye in America thinks the Wilson TD was an interception, but by rule, once the ball crosses the goal line, the play is over.
She then said it won't matter when the NCAA takes away Michigan's wins from the last few years. I looked her straight in the eye and said, seriously? That's the strategy for OSU to beat Michigan now? That's kind of embarrassing, don't you think? I mean, it's bad enough that your coach lost to the substitute teacher. Now, you need the NCAA to do what the team can't? I said, come on, it was a great game, and you lost. Deal with it and try harder next year. Nobody wins them all. I said this isn't the kind of conversation with a million excuses we should be having. She said, well, your team isn't the one that lost. I said, Well, you're right about that. I smiled and said, I have to get back to work. Have a nice day; tell Jim (her hubby) I missed him today. Go Blue!
After she left, her account manager came in and said, what the hell game was she watching? She's a lunatic. I said we call them bucknuts for a reason. He shook his head and said I thought she was going to cry or punch you, or both. I just laughed.
Today was such a great day.
Their order was ready for pick-up today. Generally speaking, I try to take the high road in situations like this. I was all prepared to say it was a great game between two great teams, and I'm grateful we came out on top. I planned to leave it there.
Well, first of all, the husband who was in last time telling me Harbaugh was going to be fired didn't even have the balls to come in. He sent the wife. What a puss.
So, she comes in and sees me decked out in maize and blue from head to toe and immediately goes into excuse mode. The TD was an Int. The refs marked the ball short for us all day. We didn't get a single break all day long. We outgained you in total yards and on and on.
I just let her talk. Then I said OSU had a great team. They gave us all we wanted and all they had. It just wasn't enough. Your guy missed his FG, and our guy didn't. Your guy threw two Int., but our guy did not. You needed to stop us with eight minutes to go, but you could not. You still had a chance to win in the end, but you did not. On Saturday, the best team won. The best team was Michigan.
I also added that I know every Buckeye in America thinks the Wilson TD was an interception, but by rule, once the ball crosses the goal line, the play is over.
She then said it won't matter when the NCAA takes away Michigan's wins from the last few years. I looked her straight in the eye and said, seriously? That's the strategy for OSU to beat Michigan now? That's kind of embarrassing, don't you think? I mean, it's bad enough that your coach lost to the substitute teacher. Now, you need the NCAA to do what the team can't? I said, come on, it was a great game, and you lost. Deal with it and try harder next year. Nobody wins them all. I said this isn't the kind of conversation with a million excuses we should be having. She said, well, your team isn't the one that lost. I said, Well, you're right about that. I smiled and said, I have to get back to work. Have a nice day; tell Jim (her hubby) I missed him today. Go Blue!
After she left, her account manager came in and said, what the hell game was she watching? She's a lunatic. I said we call them bucknuts for a reason. He shook his head and said I thought she was going to cry or punch you, or both. I just laughed.
Today was such a great day.
