denouement
part of me wants to believe michigan would have come out hungrier and probably won that osu game had the bucks not lost to msu the week prior. i almost feel like that moment could’ve been the guns of icarus shorting the surface tension of the outsized wolverine aspirations, long before the first-quarter clock in the big house even began winding down. but rather, it came off the frenetic chaos of an overtime win on the road in bloomington, and subject only to a formality over in columbus, set to be a mildly entertaining display of cold fatalism, which harbaugh’s team would no doubt be watching in bed later that night. over in the corner, that scarlet revenge-fantasy was just sitting there on a platter, ripe and bloody for the taking, and drenched in all the haunts and pines for a reprise of bo’s improbable first-year finale against the mighty bucks. entropy accelerated, distorting reality, ready to rip through our collective maize and blood-barrier, and rapture us bathed in the unforgettable chorus of the victors.
and, then, just as inexplicably as past had nearly become prologue, entering stage left was sparty to pull the spartiest spart out of his seemingly bottomless bag of tricks - deftly switching on michael geiger to silence the tremors festering under ann arbor and to pull bucky’s curtain with one swift kick. as the spartan team rushed over to taunt the osu student section after the improbable win, i couldn’t help but think the spartan players were not in fact rushing the osu student section, but rushing the nearby cameras to taunt the prone wolverines through their television sets instead; sparty’s teeth gleaming with white hot enthusiasm known only to mankind, watching big brother deflate in disbelief in an encore performance of a repressed memory several weeks removed.
and with that, msu had eviscerated the pregnant possibility of an orgasmic coup-de-grace; that vanquishing an undefeated buckeye squad; that white whale - right in front of our helpless eyes. i want to believe this because i want to believe there is more to the strength of a football team and the appeal of the sport than just physique and technique. i want to believe that there’s something sticky in the ether that envelops those stupefying moments of glorious delirium seen only on saturdays in the fall. hail, hail to saturdays in the fall.
/end catharsis.
December 2nd, 2015 at 9:35 AM ^
What?
December 2nd, 2015 at 9:40 AM ^
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December 2nd, 2015 at 10:11 AM ^
well, shit man... if you put it that way.....
December 2nd, 2015 at 9:44 AM ^
Ummm....
December 2nd, 2015 at 9:49 AM ^
We get it. You like adjectives.
Edit: On second reading, that's actually pretty funny. Nice work.
December 2nd, 2015 at 9:46 AM ^
I found this very difficult to comprehend...
December 2nd, 2015 at 9:50 AM ^
I felt the same way..OSU elevated Everything after the loss all the negative publicity after the MSU loss had to anger them and motivate them to play their best game of the year AGAIN against Michigan
December 2nd, 2015 at 9:51 AM ^
I've not seen the phrase "eviscerated the pregnant possiblity of an orgasmic coup-de-grace" before. Now I have.
December 2nd, 2015 at 10:00 AM ^
yah, using that phrase was up there with skydiving on mine. glad i was able to check that one off!
December 2nd, 2015 at 10:10 AM ^
Think about setting this all forth in short, strong, realistic sentences (e.g., "OSU plays crazy. We all play crazy, I guess. I guess God plays crazy.").
December 2nd, 2015 at 10:13 AM ^
thanks for the feedback. i also wasn't a fan of the longer sentences when i first wrote it, but couldn't quite find a way to chop them up in a way that still had some rhythm to it. going to play around with this more.
December 2nd, 2015 at 10:18 AM ^
I think your shift key is broken.
December 2nd, 2015 at 10:30 AM ^
yeah... the cheeto dust buildup has developed into a think callous under both shift keys.
December 2nd, 2015 at 11:51 AM ^
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December 2nd, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^
For a fair and reasonable criticism.
December 2nd, 2015 at 11:56 AM ^
Hey did you lift that, almost exactly, from Nabokov's touchy afterword to Lolita?
December 2nd, 2015 at 12:47 PM ^
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December 2nd, 2015 at 10:43 AM ^
It's funny that you mentioned the white whale, because you talk like Melville, except bad. EDIT: this is not an insinuation that Moby Dick is at all a readable book either.
December 2nd, 2015 at 12:45 PM ^
-the whale should be scarlet and grey, as in "that white.....nay, that scarlet and grey.... whale - right in front of"
-thank you William "M" Burroughs
December 2nd, 2015 at 11:40 AM ^
You're Dennis the WTKA caller aren't you?
December 2nd, 2015 at 11:45 AM ^
It has a stream of thought, free from, "On the Road" feel about it.
December 2nd, 2015 at 11:57 AM ^
obviously
December 2nd, 2015 at 12:52 PM ^
oh well, capital letters are for humans.
December 2nd, 2015 at 6:05 PM ^
December 2nd, 2015 at 1:30 PM ^
i enjoyed this.
and felt the same, even more weirdly.
msu beat us twice this season:
- once on a lucky punt block
- once by sneaking by osu and making them angry
December 2nd, 2015 at 1:43 PM ^
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December 2nd, 2015 at 7:02 PM ^
Right on
December 2nd, 2015 at 10:28 PM ^
December 3rd, 2015 at 10:25 AM ^
I'm not sure I've seen anything this overwrought. Did it sound good when you proofread it?
December 7th, 2015 at 12:46 PM ^
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