Go Blue! (?)

College football is here. Normally this is my favorite time of year, except this year feels a little off. I’m not prepared. I have no clue what’s going on. It hasn’t hit me that it’s time.

I spent all summer in an apartment with no cable television, so I haven’t watched Sportscenter or any of the college football preview shows whose names I can’t even remember. I haven’t been away from the Internet but I also haven’t been able to get enough consistent time on it to do any worthwhile and necessary reading (my google reader has about 8mm unread items). I’ve barely even been around other Michigan friends to talk about the season – when the rare converasations have happened, I’m the guy nodding silently without adding anything. And I’ve been on the road sans computer and TV the last couple weeks while the hype has undoubtedly been building making me evermore clueless.

Apparently some newspaper wrote something about how we broken some practice rules. I don’t know enough about the situation to comment but people are obviously upset. Damn you traditional media! (Does anyone else think that this – writing sensational and inaccurate stories to rile up the new media sphere – might be print’s new business model? Like, every couple of months they’re going to throw out a “Hey fuckers, you suck!” and wait for the mobs to bring them readers, pageviews, ad rev etc…)

Also, apparently all Florida fans continue to be douches. I mean this in the nicest way possible. But as someone who has an above average number of gator friends on facebook withou actually going to school there, let me just say that you all are annoying! You know when you are driving down the road on a beautiful sunny day, the roads are wide open, a brisk cool air is flowing through the windows, and youre doing 20 over with no cop in sight? The fast lane is clear, the slow cars are actually staying to the right and as you pass one you notice a bumper sticker that rubs you the wrong way. And no matter how perfect the day is, you just have to flip the bird? Florida fans, you are the asshole driving that other vehicle.

Anyway, I’m now at the airport again en route to a vacation in Europe, meaning I’ll continue to be clueless for another two weeks. I hope they bode well for the team whose season I know not much about.

Go Blue! (?)