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#7 is of special import imo. It could absolutely be their undoing in this game.
I would also submit;
8) They are making guarantees and handing out free tickets to the Big Ten Championship game up in AA. They haven't won anything in a decade and a half and are acting as though this is over before it's even played. Their entitlement and arrogance being shown full frontal if it's ever been shown at all.
I call this one out because it speaks to why, as a reasonably sane adult, I get so into Buckeye football;
It has nothing to do with the results of games validating my existence. My family, the work I do for my organization and the work I do in my community accomplish that for me.
I stay away from using "we" when discussing the Ohio State football team but when it comes to the eternal struggle with tsun, the eternal struggle between good and evil, the eternal struggle between the positive values I was taught as a youth and the wanton arrogance and entitlement I was taught to revile, then I feel absolutely justified in using "we" because The Ohio State University is the school that represents where I am from. What I was taught. Who I am and, more importantly, the people who raised and taught me. It doesn't matter if you went to school at OSU, if you were born in Ohio or have become a fan through marriage or some other circumstance. We are all Buckeyes.
So, when I see these bastards flaunt their arrogance they are disrespecting the state of Ohio, The Ohio State University, my family, my ancestors and my heritage. It isn't about what happens on a football field, this is about the fields our families worked in the boiling heat and freezing cold to put food on their own table and many others. Those fields are where they taught us a work ethic and right from wrong. Be humble, work hard, serve others.
Those fields of the past are where I picture some arrogant, entitled punk from the "Harvard of the West" spitting on my ancestor because they were born into more wealth. Be an entitled douche, do nothing, the world is here to serve you.
I, for one, shall be damned if I ever let that happen without a fight. I don't care if the sports teams at Ohio State lose 1000 times in a row. I will never give up the fight. If you love The Ohio State University for the same reasons, if you know it or not, these bastards are doing the same to you.
So then, the question becomes are you going to join the fight or are you going to sit there with your arms crossed in the corner pouting and bitching about the things that aren't perfect?
If it's the former, then show up and cheer your lungs out. Watch it from wherever you can and do the same. Don't quit if it goes against the team for stretches of the game. Stay in it, cheer them and give them every ounce of positive energy you have until the end. If you choose the latter then I pity you but I don't have time for you.
Go Bucks!!
Fuck *ichigan!
