It’s Game Day!

Allez Les Bleu!!

We're following the exact same gameplan. I'll grill some quick steaks to fill halftime, and  ease some of the pressure 

I plan to watch it, eat, drink, and be merry: b/c the next day is work.

we will be sacrificing various animals....

seriously, safe travels and go blue! 

In games that have me anxious, I am standing almost through the whole thing, about 3 feet from the TV.  Kinda like my days in the student section!  Some things never change.

I drink but rarely eat during an anxiety-ridden game.  My appetite is gone when the nerves are shot.

I will eat a lot, drink a lot, and be nervous until UM opens up a 2-3 score lead in the 4th.

Then I will scour the internet for all the joy

Skiing until kick off. Then watching with my kids. Game kicks at 3 in Colorado

Plans for the game: pacing around like a madman and yelling at the teevee. Once the game starts? Who knows what’ll happen.

Paris to DTW is about 9ish hours IIRC, hopefully you're not in the cheap seats!

Go Blue!

Going over to my mom’s  house 

Enjoy Texas 

Hopefully you didn't leave Kevin home alone this time.

I haven't decided yet if I'm going to watch. I usually don't watch big games until the 4th quarter and then only if we are safely winning. But superstition-wise, we've probably lost more games that I haven't watched than won so I'm unclear as to how I should handle this. I'm going to order chipatis for sure. There's a place in Chicago that opened some 30 years ago (by a Michigan grad) and they have the old Pizza House version of chipatis. So definitely doing that, as I always do. 

We've had guests the last two years. Changing that up to no guests. I'll have my traditional pregame rum and coke, then only doing shots of the good stuff bourbon after each touchdown we score. I hope to be plowed in the 4th. GO BLUE!!

I watch in the office. I must be sitting when Michigan is on offense. Tomorrow I will wear my t-shirt with Go Blue on it in Hindi. My daughter wanders in and out and studies me warily. My wife looks in from the living room and asks, "How are they doing?" She already knows, having checked the score on Google throughout.

Tomorrow, we'll have the traditional southern meal of cornbread and greens and black-eyed peas. Somewhere in those peas, a dime will be floating. If I get that dime in my bowl, you know we are going to win.

Wife and I just arrived at Cleveland Airport, live in Toledo but it was 1/3 the price to fly here vs Detroit. We take off at about 9:30, get to LA about midnight!

Will be wearing a Michigan sweatshirt that was my dads.  He passed away on 12/27/15 when Harbaugh was announced as coach on the radio..was the last thing he said to my mom before going to the bedroom and passing away

I have worn it every Saturday this year (except when has been warm the beginning of the football season)

So I have a certain attachment to Harbaugh despite my criticisms of him at times

As a side note...did anyone watch the Sam Webb preview?  He mentioned in the beginning that JJ was in tears at halftime of the MD game due to pain

Go Blue!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q0hiSuL4z8&ab_channel=TheMichiganInsider

I will try to stay busy, so a few hours of end-of-year work, then change the oil in my truck!  Mrs. Jones will be preparing spaghetti bolognese for dinner, which results in an open bottle of wine, so that’s a bonus.  

What are you wearing while watching?   …asking for a friend.

I still have Covid, but I will watch alone in my basement. Probably pace for most of the beginning with sit breaks on commercials. Wife doesn’t care about the game other than how cranky I get.

I’m following your plan except my wife will be yelling louder than I will. Fewer profanities, however. 

Since Mrs Mgoblue78 and I learned decades ago not to venture out with the amateur drinkers, here's tonight's celebration:

Roku gin martinis w. blue cheese olives, a nice Malbec, Osso Bucco w. veal shanks from yesterday's pilgrimage to Cantoro Market and finished off with a Christmas gift bottle of champagne from the next door neighbors. 

Happy New Year, and Go Blue!

It's fun to finally get to watch a game somewhat relaxed again. This season was tiring and stressful for a number of reasons and everything since MSU has been somewhat chaotic. I'd love a national title, but I don't expect it so it'll be fun to be able to pull for the team without my blood pressure being through the roof