Extra! Extra!

Men from all corners of the Internet explain their phenomenal expectations without even adjusting their mediocre attitudes!

A dime for a dozen copies!

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Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait.

An upset happened in college football? NO FREAKING WAY. THAT NEVER HAPPENS.

Lol I didn't even watch the game.

I'd hardly consider trolling at 11 pm local time the middle of the night.

My favorite part of this thread. All others need not apply.

I avoid you like the plague, Rainman. Paint me however you want, but this is what I posted about Ohio football earlier this week:

The only thing every one of us can control is how we enjoy the game. If we go to games, bring friends and family, make a day of it, have fun and cheer, treat people right around us... magically IT IS our own personal football utopia. Hopefully some other people see we're having fun and it brings some more into the fold.

This mindset works for most things in life. Think about it: when I'm sitting on the grass up on the hill watching a game in Peden, I'm happy. The scoreboard doesn't have to be gigantic, the stands don't have to be filled and everyone doesn't have to be a superfan. There doesn't have to be a ranking next to our name. I'm watching a bunch of hard-working athletes that are wearing the colors and name of the university I love at a really high level. I'm sitting in a town I love, surrounded by hills and majestic trees turning their wonderful colors, all of it bringing back a bunch of great memories. This place creates new memories for me each year.

That said, I think the program needs to win games for there to be a baseline happiness. Knorr years didn't lend themselves to wonderful Saturday afternoons. I do think there needs to be energy injected into the gameday experience. At the very least, the concessions need to be fixed. But if we're going to be unhappy until the football program is a well-oiled national machine, we're never going to enjoy this thing. In the words of DFW, "if [we] don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, [we're] gonna be pissed and miserable every time."

Expect more from the program, but don't forget to enjoy it. It's a sport. It's Athens. It's fun.

(Me) <---- Shakes head, walks away


(because if this is anyone's reaction after a really good win in a place Ohio hadn't won at in my lifetime, I have nothing else to say.)

While I'm online,

Part of the reason I was able to troll and response troll at 11 PM from IHOP and at 1 AM from my buddy's apartment is because I've just finished hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650 mile walk from the U.S. border of Mexico to the U.S. border of Canada. The walk took 6 months.

I'm posting this humble brag because I do believe some on here do not have preloaded tension against me and would be very much interested in checking out my blog, notwaitingtolive.com. For this brief moment in time, the number of people from around the world who have completed the Pacific Crest Trail in one hike is comparable to the number of people who have summitted Mt. Everest. (Surely that will not be the case in the near future with the rapidly increasing popularity of the trail).

Sincerely,

This unhinged guy

Congrats! That's impressive!

Thank you for your kind words Robert.

+1

Glad to see you back, TS. And, congratulations on that loooong hike! :-)

+1 Diamond Cat and allen!
Let's focus on the Buffs ! They are very much like EMU, but with a better running game. This one will be a war, and our kids and staff had better be ready for a struggle.
We went to Buffalo last year to watch that game. (ok, it was on my bucket list, I didnt get out much as a youngster!) What a long miserable ride home after watching that game! Hopefully our kids remember that night!

You have got to be kidding me.