We Jobbed Ourselves

Well I have let it go long enough. If you haven't been able to tell by now the University of Michigan football team has been going through a bit of a rough patch. So far this year we have lost to Utah, Notre Dame, Illinois, and Toledo. We could have beat Utah, we should have beaten Notre Dame, we had no chance against Illinois, and we completely blew it against Toledo. Now my wife has told her friends that as far as she can tell a Michigan fan will never tell you that they lost a football game. Instead, she says, a Michigan fan will always say that they were "jobbed." Until this year this has been true.

In over 125 years of Michigan football, we have never lost a game but have been jobbed hundreds of times. This year though we have went from getting jobbed to getting beat...by ourselves. Michigan's record this year is 2-4. That is two wins and four "should have won but we beat ourselves, the other team had nothing to do with it."

The first loss was to Utah and was the first game of the year in a new system, with a new coach, with pretty much completely new players. Had it not been for opening game jitters (and an extremely luck 53 yard field goal) we would have won that game handily.

The second loss was at Notre Dame where we should have won but we turned the ball over at least 7,592 times and Notre Dame cheated.

The third loss was against Illinois. Juice Williams had record stats but let's be honest, shall we? Michigan beat themselves by not building a time machine, going back to 1998 and convincing a young Juice Williams to focus on baseball.

The fourth loss was against Toledo and it was obvious from the start that Michigan was just nervous against playing the powerful Rocket team and made a bunch of mental mistakes. Had they locked it up they would have won. (They only allowed Toledo's offense score 6 points.)

So as you can see Michigan record of never getting beat by the other team is still intact. Looking ahead the Michigan schedule looks promising:

at Penn State (cakewalk)
Michigan State (bow down little brother)
at Purdue ("Boiler Up?" More like " Boiler down!")
at Minnesota (Brown Jug stays put. Period.)
Northwestern (This might be a tester.)
at Ohio State (tOSU can go to hell.)

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Will Wife Play in Peoria? Judge Thinks So.

Everyone stand and give a hearty ovation to my wife who just accepted a judicial clerkship position for a federal judge in Peoria, Illinois. Yey! Yey! Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray! We will not be unemployed and destitute this time next year! Seriously, it is a great position in a great town that may be dangerously close to Cubs territory but closer to St. Louis so I can still get my Cardinals fix in whenever I want. (Plus it may even get the Big Ten Network so I can watch Michigan crap until the cows come home.)

Since the wife has a job, now I have find one, so if you are in Peoria and need to hire a brilliant and accomplished lawyer then I am your man. Now I can just sit back and wait for the offers to come rolling in....

And now your funny video lifted from somewhere else for the day: