While You Were Drinking: Camping Edition

Here's what happened this weekend while you snuck in 40 drinks at last call:

• Fall camp commences today.  Listen man, we've been around the block together many times.  We've won that pre-season paper Big Ten Championship and pre-season paper National Championship more than anyone.  This year, we ran away with it.  Typically (read: always) that's a recipe for disappointment.  However, the team is not backing down from the lofty predictions.  They have seemed to take on the personality and confidence of their Coach, which I can't imagine being anything but good.
• On the flip side, tough to get all gaga over a team that doesn't have a quarterback, as the battle for signal caller re-ignites between O'Korn and Speight today.  Tough to judge, and might be tough to deal with as the season progresses with our fairweather fanbase.  Handling demands to play the backup as soon as the starter shows a hint of weakness won't be fun.
• Jordan Kovacs made it to Hollywood.
• Jehu Chesson's mystery injury was that he tore his PCL in the bowl game.
• Buckeyes are classy.  So are their moms.
• Isaiah Livers, a four star forward, has committed to John Beilein over Michigan State.
• Go get yourself a copy of Enthusiasm Unknown to Mankind...it's beautiful.

The Themes, The Themes, The Themes - Part 3/3

Part 1 here , Part 2 here

11/5/2016 - Time TBA - Marryland Terrapins, Theme: Soups and Stews 

Sure we'll have the classic sausage and cheese chowder...that stuff ladeled over Pammy's Cheesey Potatoes is the bomb diggity...but I've got a turtle meat supplier and an old Italian recipe for Terrapin soup.  It calls for a chunk of Ralph Friedgen love handle fat (did you know he's at Rutgers now?).  Note:  if this gets the 3:30 bump, we may alter it to be fried turkeys.

11/19/2016 - Time TBA - Indiana Hoosiers, Theme: Kegs and Eggs 

The home slate comes to a close with a team that took us to OT last year (forgot that, didn't you). No chance this goes 3:30, so let's concentrate on breakfast and pound draft beers.  Hoosier Daddy Omelettes, Pancakes, Bacon, and a keg of something that goes down easy.

Way Back When-sday Got Thirsty on the Road

October 22, 2012:  Moscow mules on a bumper just outside of Lincoln, Nebraska before Michigan's first contest in the Cornhusker's home stadium.  More pictures and recaps of the day here.

The Themes, The Themes, The Themes - Part 2 of 3

Part 1 Here

9/24/2016 Time TBA - Penn State Nittany Lions, Theme: The 90's

We'll do our guests from Penn State the courtesy of travelling back to a simpler time, the decade we allowed Penn State to join our conference, before we all found out what Joe knew.  Dig out that '97 National Championship gear (Who are you kidding? I saw you in that shit last week) and prepare to enjoy some grunge music, watch Fresh Prince of Bell Aire reruns, remember when we won all the Big Ten Championships...and celebrate the life and career of John Cooper.  

10/1/2016 Time TBA - Wisconsin Badgers, Theme: German

Commence October with Octoberfest!  Bratwurst hash, bratwurst on buns, bratwurst on skewers sticking out of drinks...basically sausage everywhere.  And pretzels.  Gotta have pretzels.  Oh, and dark beer poured into your face from a boot (recently found the one I pilfered from the Essen House).

10/22/2016 3:30PM - Illinois Fighting Illini, Theme: The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party and Homecoming Hoedown

Cocktails.  Southern charm.  Biscuits.  Gravy.  Fried chicken.  I'd tell you to wear your Sunday best, but you won't listen.  Can we settle on cowboy hats and boots?  Regardless, let's channel our inner Florida-Georgia rivalry and raise a crafted glass of cold old fashioneds and martinis to our fair Wolverines.  Perhaps some crappy off-key Jason Aldean bullshit in the background making me want to vomit.  This tailgate involves the lethal combination of liquor and a 3:30 kick.  Pace yourselves kids.

Weekend Roundup, Swoosh Edition, 8/1/2016

Had my first real Harbaugh experience last night at the Nike event.  As a 40-year old man, I'm not sure it's acceptable to consider not washing the hand he high fived, but what I experienced was akin to Kramer's reaction to Pam.

• The CFP powers that be adjusted some future playoff dates.  Despite the fact that the media machine has convinced you that Harbaugh is about to lead us to 5 consecutive national championships, you probably are blissfully unaware that the National Championship this year is in friggin' Tampa.
• So, you might have heard Michigan is switching from Adidas to Nike.  Time to just deal with the fact that there's going to be a silhouette of Michael Jordan on most of the clothing you own for the next several years.  The kids love it.  And that's what matters.
• Details of the Michigan - Notre Dame contract aren't going to give you any respite from the feeling you had that we got jobbed in nearly every aspect of the deal.
• Admit it, the Tigers have sucked you back in.
• Draymond Green snapchatted his schlong to the world, said he was hacked, then admitted his Spartan education left him too dumb to use Snapchat.  This just a few short weeks after his was too dumb to walk away from a bar fight.
• In other Spartan blotter news, Keith Appling is looking to get off on a technicality from his May gun charge.