Judgement Day

Tomorrow will be a day of sport. To begin with, Riley and I will be playing cricket at a friend's birthday party. We will then kill time until the real game starts...

The University of Michigan Wolverines versus The Ohio State University Buckeyes

Any of my fellow Michigan students/alums realize the importance of this game. Any of you that have nothing to do with either university, but follow sports, can recognize the importance of the game as THE greatest rivalry in sports. To all of you who are completely clueless, this one game means everything. It is well known within the football communities of both Michigan and Ohio State that your team can lose every single game of the season, but if that fateful day in late November ends with a "W," the season is a success.

This game is vastly important to three characters in particular.

1) Rich Rodriguez

To say that Rich Rod's first two season's at the Michigan helm have been less than stellar is a heinous understatement. Thanks a lot Rich Rod for allowing my senior year at the "Greatest Football program in history" to be the worst season of all time. Rodriguez understands that this game will either raise team and, perhaps more importantly, fan/administration moral heading into next season or haunt him until the start of next season.

2) Tate Forcier

The kid has spunk. You can't deny that. Now, I have not been on campus and seen him strolling around pretending to be the coolest thing this side of the Mississippi, but he clearly is in it for the right reasons.

He has led the team during each victory and let the team down during each loss, but what I like most about him is his resilience. From what I have seen, he is constantly making rookie errors, but he doesn't get rattled. That should give us all great hopes for the future once he realizes that he might have been able to throw that 25 yard out against a 17 year old corner back from Harvard Westlake High School, but a big ten DB is going to read that all the way. You don't have a Henne Howitzer, buddy. On that note: I severely miss 6'4" 240 lb stoic pocket passers in winged helmets.

This game will show us what the kid is truly made of. Will he step up to the task or start his career against Ohio State in the shadow of...

3) Terrell Pryor

After what he did to us, any Michigan fan should hate Terrell Pryor. The fact that he not only shattered our dreams by not coming to Ann Arbor is one thing, but to choose to attend a University filled with degenerate low life's from Ohio? Blasphemy.

This game is his chance to confirm that he made the right decision and really stick it to us. If we prevail, however, he will have an extremely painful walk out of the Big House.

The following video is a great way to describe the rivalry and the current situation. If it doesn't give you chills, you must not have a pulse. The background is taken from Al Pacino's legendary speech during Any Given Sunday:



Riley and I are going to bring a few of our roommates to the casino to watch the game tomorrow night at 3am. Brutal. We are repaying them the favor after they brought us to a Liverpool vs. Manchester Utd. match that was of equal importance to them.

I absolutely cannot wait to see the two sides facing off at the 50 yard line. They better claw for that inch. After all, we are wolverines...