Now that the time has come to set aside one obsession — um, that would be college football, for those of you who may not have been paying attention — I get an immedate shot at starting up another. Yes. It’s time for me to start babbling about skiing again. This makes it look like… Read More just in time.
I’m just now getting to the point where I feel like I’ve recovered from the game. We spent all day eating, drinking, watching, drinking, eating, watching … and then the jumping, yelling, hugging, drinking, eating… To be more specific: Fred brought over about 37 pounds of homemade sausage to keep us going all day. Everyone… Read More a different drive.
We came back down from nine points down? In Ann Arbor? In the fourth quarter? Are you fucking kidding me? That’s an all-timer, boys and girls. Even Father of Uncle Crappy can’t remember a win like this one … and he goes back to The Snow Bowl and beyond. O — H —
I felt pretty confident about this one, despite the fact that Michigan was rightfully favored as they came into Ohio Stadium. Everyone remember Teddy Ginn’s punt return for a touchdown, but the turning point was the 98-yard-drive in the second quarter, with Brandon Joe carrying the ball out of our own end zone and none… Read More history: 2004.
Neither Michigan nor Ohio State had an especially good year, and Penn State had already clinched the conference before the game. But a mediocre season was made better by whipping UM 22-6. Better still was the fact that The Future Wife came to her first Michigan game in 1994. (It was Fred’s first Michigan game… Read More history: 1994.
This was the culmination of the first year we really started to do the big tailgate parties, and we got good and cranked up for this one. Ohio State already had the best record — 12-0 — of any team of my lifetime, but it would all be for naught if we couldn’t beat Michigan.… Read More history: 2002.
Uncle Crappy 