The Victors
Michigan 67-65 Illinois (3 O.T.)
6-3, Big Ten 2-3
.500! Five hundred! The valiant Wolverines will finish the season at .500, 6-6, even if we lose our last three games! A non-losing season! With a halfway decent change to win next week against the ill-starred Boilermakers & thus finish 7-5! .500! .500! .500! And, holy smokes, but that was exciting. Triple overtime time? Fielding Yost's ghost! The valiant Wolverines prevail over the feisty* Fighting Illini with all the breathtaking excitement of not one, not two, but three overtime times! (Added bonus: I managed not to mistype "Irish" this time!) Man alive!
"Hail! to the victors valiant!
Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes!
Hail! Hail to Michigan!
The leaders and best!
Hail! to the victors valiant!
Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes!
Hail! Hail to Michigan!
The champions of the West!"
Go Blue!
The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
Sufjan Stevens, "Come On! Feel the Illinoise!" from Illinois (T.L.A.M.)
Commentary: It would have been too easy to pick one of the several versions of "The Victors" in my library. And all credit to the feisty Fighting Illini, they gave the valiant Wolverines everything they could handle, and only just short of more than they could handle. Well fought, you gentlemen in orange.
*I am hereby changing the Fighting Illini's epithet from "craven" to "feisty." Craven was uncalled for, dirty pool on my part; the "Fighting Zooks" never deserved to be lumped in with such fiendish blackguards as the hated Buckeyes, the vile Fighting Irish, & the dastardly Spartans. They stand much more on a par with the wily Hoosiers, the pesky Badgers, and the luckless Golden Gophers.
3 comments:
Wow. Wotta game.
Wow.
That game was so nuts dude. Absolutely zero defense by either team, but plenty of offense! Neither team even kicked a field goal in any of the three overtime times! All touchdowns! Action Saturday!
Also, the word verification that I have to type in to prevent spam on this post is "spormu". We'll have to find a way to incorporate it into Project Palindrome!
"Absolutely zero defense"? That's unfair, Steeze. No one, myself included, can or would deny that Michigan's defense stinks mightily, but Michigan's offense turned the ball over three times on Michigan's side of the field in the third quarter, & yet Illinois walked away with only seven points. Seven points off three turnovers is impressive. Michigan's defense showed flashes of competence.
But, holy moley, you are absolutely right, that game was NUTS! I've had to miss some games this season due to travel, but I am so very glad that I was able to see the batshit crazy Michigan-Illinois game. The Watergirl's got it exactly right: "Wow." Wow!
Hee hee, spormu.
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