There's Something Going On At GrillMarx: Michigan 45, Maryland 20
/Big city visits are the one redeeming factor of the addition of Rutgers and Maryland, so DC was on the menu for the weekend, and Michigan expat bar Ivy and Coney was the tailgate spot all day Saturday leading in to the 4pm kick. It was tremendous on all accounts. Met up with a bunch of the tailgate crew, met some new friends, and ate a very accurate replication of a Lafayette coney dog.
As Michigan dominated on the field and I was starting to dream of ways Michigan could beat Ohio State again, a random Maryland fan came up the aisle and felt the need to inform me that the game was rigged. I thought he meant that refs we’re making calls in Michigan’s favor, and was ready to provide 30 years of evidence to the contrary, but then he went off on a diatribe about how Locksley is somehow on the take, and just going through the motions so he can get to his steakhouse in the post game. “Come see me at GrillMarx” the fan said…I’ll tell you the real story. I laughed and chatted up the Maryland fans around me about this crazy conspiracy theory filled fan — and instead of dismissing him as a loon, a couple of them doubled down on Grillmarx. So, something is going on at Grillmarx. I did not go to Grillmarx for the real story. Instead I went to Stan’s Cocktail Lounge, where a record scratched as we entered akin to when Flounder and the boys stepped in to the Dexter Lake Club. Pours were heavy, food was fried, and music was the kind of late 80s early 90s R&B that makes a suburban Detroit kid smile. Success.
