The Victors
Michigan 34-10 Western Michigan
1-0, Big Ten 0-0

That was probably the least satisfactory first-game-of-the-year experience I've had. Yesterday's truncated win wasn't painful like the desolating loss to Notre Dame in the opening game of the '98 season, a rough way to come off the high of the '97 National Championship, but with the multiple delays & the game eventually being called due to weather it hardly feels as if the season has begun.

This was the only Saturday of September that I'll be able to spend parked in front of a television, making all the usual offerings to the football gods; I will follow the valiant Wolverines as obsessively as I am able & will maintain the frequency & quality of "The Victors" posts as well as possible.

"Hoke Springs Eternal"? Absent hope, foster the hope that there is hope.

Go Blue!

The Rebel Black Dot Songs of the Day
Duvall, "Racine" from Volume & Density (T.L.A.M.)

Samstag, 3 September
The University of Michigan Marching Band, "The Victors" from A Saturday Tradition (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: The 2:16 rendition near the beginning of A Saturday Tradition, not the 2:13 rendition at the end of that selfsame album.

Freitag, 2 September
The University of Michigan Marching Band, "Varsity" from A Saturday Tradition (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary:

"O Varsity! We're for you,
Here for you to cheer for you,
We have no fear for you,
O Varsity!"