9/23/23 Noon ET Rutgers at Michigan Game on BTN

I'm a little disappointed it's on cable, but it is what it is. Time to break out the streams! On that note, has anybody ever attempted to quantify back-alley stream viewership?

Mowing the front yard before kick off, the back yard after and watching Rutgers get their butts kicked on JJ's yard in between.. 

Aaaand I'll be spending the afternoon at a three year old's birthday party. Not my kid, but one of his classmate's. Fantastic. 

I will be there. First game in 5 years. Bringing my Dad with me. We are coming from 10 hours away in Kentucky, which Dad is a fan of, but when we attend these games he always goes in to MDen and buys gear and wears it that day. 

I will be watching from the comfort of my couch with a cooler of beer 

Should be an interesting game. Rutgers has a good defense so if they can run the ball against them that should be a good sign.

(Rivalry game)

With Chris Ash out of his misery, we’ve seen a lot less Chirpy Rutgers, which makes me sad.

Chirpy Rutgers was on the receiving end of 2 point conversions when we were up by 29 and 49 points, in a couple games.

Chirpy Rutgers saw themselves as Ohio State Lite, collaborated on a satellite camp, and OSU promptly poached all the best Rutgers recruits.

Chirpy Rutgers was also on the receiving end of a 3rd string fullback scoring a record-tying touchdown late in the game.

Chirpy Rutgers created the best, by FAR, marketing slogan for a game: “Stripe the Birthplace” was hilarious.

Chirpy Rutgers created a “sEcReT sOcIeTy” which “vandalized” the field; said vandalism could best be described as “adorable”: they left teddy bears.

Chirpy Rutgers took out a full page to celebrate a linebacker who chose Rutgers over Michigan, called out Harbaugh by name.

I miss Chirpy Rutgers. Competent-At-Football Rutgers is much less fun…

Rutgers actually has a good defense and good DL. Probably the best DL we play in the regular season.

Yay can’t wait for the shit stream in Guangzhou I’ll get. 

Rutgers has managed to surprise us the last two seasons.  Last year they led us at halftime and two years ago, they held us scoreless in the second half, missed a chip shot 4th quarter field goal that would have cut our lead to 4 and Jake Moody missed a field goal that would have iced the game earlier before we recovered a fumble.  That game was...uncomfortable.  

Looking forward to the locomotive.

Sleepy noon game, there will be a weak student section and a Rutgers team always fired up to be physical and take it to us.

This game feels annoying already.