OSU is returning tickets to Michigan's athletic department for the game
This is new. Like I dont remember EVER seeing this before and I'm a man....I'm 60!
Just got this text from the athletic department:
Michigan Athletics: ALL HAIL! Tickets just returned for our BIG football game vs Ohio State. Saturday 11/30 at 12pm. Buy South Endzone seats for $150 each!
To purchase now, reply: BUY HAIL + quantity
Offer Details: http://goRB.me/eMBfQj Txt HELP for help, STOP to end all
If you were at the freaking 2009 game you know the sound of OH....IO filled the place at the end of the game and it was a god damn sea of red in there. I guess they've gotten bored.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:05 PM ^
Maybe they see the writing on the wall.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:12 PM ^
This is the inscription that was written: mene, mene, tekel, parsin
“Here is what these words mean:
Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.
Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Maize and Blue.”
November 19th, 2019 at 12:36 PM ^
Nice reference from the prophet Daniel. Couldn't work a humiliation of Nebuchadnezzar in there too?
November 19th, 2019 at 12:43 PM ^
Nebuchadnezzar was dead. Belshazzar, who shared Nebuchadnezzar's towering ego but had none of the strength or leadership ability, was in charge. At least, for the most of the rest of that day.
NUMBERED
NUMBERED
WEIGHED
DIVIDED
November 19th, 2019 at 12:47 PM ^
Ryan Day = Belshazzar confirmed.
November 19th, 2019 at 7:12 PM ^
None of this was covered in the 1981 film "Excalibur," which comprises the extent of my Christian knowledge. I am so out of my depth in this thread.
November 19th, 2019 at 10:56 PM ^
but had none of the strength or leadership ability,
Those were not things Daniels said when he enumerated the reasons why the finger wrote on the wall.
November 19th, 2019 at 11:03 PM ^
Daniel 5:17-24
17 Then Daniel answered the king, “You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the writing for the king and tell him what it means.
18 “Your Majesty, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness and glory and splendor. 19 Because of the high position he gave him, all the nations and peoples of every language dreaded and feared him. Those the king wanted to put to death, he put to death; those he wanted to spare, he spared; those he wanted to promote, he promoted; and those he wanted to humble, he humbled. 20 But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory. 21 He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like the ox; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and sets over them anyone he wishes.
22 “But you, Belshazzar, his son, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this. 23 Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways. 24 Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:44 PM ^
Why would we put the name of the hover ship from "The Matrix" in there, ya dumb ass???
November 19th, 2019 at 1:20 PM ^
Yea, there's a lot of Christian allegory in the Matrix.
November 19th, 2019 at 1:24 PM ^
Really? I assumed they named their homeland "Zion" after a young man born that year who they predicted would go on and do great things in the NBA??? ;-)
November 19th, 2019 at 1:27 PM ^
Jesus died on the cross for our sins.
Zion had his shoe explode for our viewing pleasure.
Coincidence? Unlikely.
November 19th, 2019 at 2:03 PM ^
So... this is a pretty good thread.
November 19th, 2019 at 2:04 PM ^
Jesus died on the cross for our sins.
Zion sinned by taking money to go to Duke and his career almost died on a wicked cross-over.
November 19th, 2019 at 4:16 PM ^
Jesus died on the cross for our sins...so if you do not sin, Jesus died for nothing.
November 19th, 2019 at 4:21 PM ^
So I shall sin as much as possible to maximize the the greatness of His sacrifice.
*checks sky for lightning*
November 19th, 2019 at 6:32 PM ^
You just did. Sad.
November 19th, 2019 at 10:31 PM ^
One of *thee* most underrated comments I've ever read. Absolute gold my friend!
November 19th, 2019 at 5:14 PM ^
Good luck with that do not sin part.
November 19th, 2019 at 7:44 PM ^
Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:31 PM ^
That's probably the best way to state it since they can't read the writing on the wall.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:48 PM ^
why you keep trying to read that word?
November 19th, 2019 at 1:27 PM ^
Yup, they're skeert. Signed, Pappy
November 19th, 2019 at 2:25 PM ^
The writting on the wall is that they are all buying tickets to the BIG championship game, and saving their money for the CFP games.
Lets disappoint them.
November 19th, 2019 at 3:42 PM ^
The writing is on the wall....jpg)
November 19th, 2019 at 8:17 PM ^
I promise you there will be plenty of OSU fans there that day. I can also guarantee that OSU doesn’t need their allotment of tickets because UofM ticket holders sold their tickets weeks ago. Prepare for a sea of OSU fans. I would bet that the majority of OSU fans have no ties to the athletic dept and could get better tix on stubhub for cheaper.
November 19th, 2019 at 9:16 PM ^
Scrolled down a bit to see how far until someone said this, because I was going to post the same thing. There will be tons of red in the stands. Just hoping their team is emotionally wiped out after a tough one against PSU and we can watch them all cry in our house.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:09 PM ^
I guess they're not taking this game seriously.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:50 PM ^
I wonder why...
November 19th, 2019 at 2:27 PM ^
I bet the average fan is saving up to go to the CFP instead.
they know they are in so might as well spend the money on that game(s)
November 19th, 2019 at 3:53 PM ^
This is sadly the most likely reason.
November 19th, 2019 at 3:55 PM ^
You bring up a very good point; all about economics. I'll believe it when I see it. The only time OSU fans were somewhat scarce in Ann Arbor for The Game was in 2012 when they were 6 and 6 and Fickell was the interim head coach.
My guess is there will be no less than 20,000 in our stadium on Nov 30th, maybe down from from the 30-40K in 2017. Just a guess on those numbers.
November 19th, 2019 at 11:01 PM ^
2011 you mean. 2012 Ohio St was undefeated thanks to a 2nd half collapse by Michigan in the Shoe.
November 19th, 2019 at 5:27 PM ^
So I guess there'll be a sudden run on these same tickets after Penn State beats them Saturday?
November 20th, 2019 at 11:18 AM ^
Agreed, and they will be playing in Indy regardless of the outcome.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:10 PM ^
I will say that the OSU fans I know have been incredibly subdued considering they are undefeated and one of the favorites to win the national title. Maybe because Ryan Day doesn't seem like much of a "rah rah" guy? I don't know.
November 19th, 2019 at 1:08 PM ^
I know some of them too and I have a possible explanation.
1. In OSU world, they feel this is the best OSU team ever.
2. They also know that all OSU teams have one inexplicable embarrassing performance and lose a game by a huge margin to a random team for no apparent reason.
3. It ruins everything if that loss is still coming.
November 19th, 2019 at 3:08 PM ^
I think it has more to do with a growing belief that even if they lose to Michigan (which in their minds is catastrophically unlikely due to the first point you made) that they will still end up in the playoff. Essentially, The Game is inconsequential this year for more reasons than one and subsequently they're not going to waste their money on tickets to another meaningless game this season. Especially one they have to travel to.
I also believe that losing to Michigan doesn't take them out of the playoff because they will still have the Big Ten championship game and Michigan is clearly playing better and will likely earn the committee's respect if they win. OSU would probably drop to number 5 or 6 and after championship weekend there should be another opening what with the top 2 SEC teams playing each other.
November 19th, 2019 at 4:41 PM ^
From your lips to God's ear. Like I've been saying, I hope the Buckeyes destroy PSU wrapping up the B1G East, that the smart money says they need only one win out of the Michigan and the B1G Championship games to make the playoffs, and they come into Ann Arbor fat, dumb and complacent.
Our boys hand them their heads on the 30th; they destroy the B1G West team just to make sure they reach the playoffs, and the Rose Bowl says c'mon down! It would be especially piquant if we got to play a Pac 12 Champion Utah.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:10 PM ^
Yeah and buy them and you’ll be setting with OSU fans. I’d rather dump a bowl of fire ants in my boxers than watch a game in the presence of those dicks.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:17 PM ^
I’m in section 9 low row and the visitors section is above me top rows. Anything in that section and you’ll be sandwiched in between the bedsheet cowboy and that clown the entire fan base idolizes. Not to mention you’ll end up with roots bbq all over you from their in game smorgasbord.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:23 PM ^
There will definitely more Michigan fans no matter where you sit dude.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:24 PM ^
Not in the section I’m referring to. Strictly visitors up there.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:33 PM ^
So you think there will be more OSU fans in the whole stadium than UM fans?
November 19th, 2019 at 12:49 PM ^
Are you hard of reading? There will be more osu fans in the visitor's section. Not a difficult concept to grasp.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:59 PM ^
Hard of reading? And those OSU fans will be surrounded by Michigan fans. That's not very difficult to grasp either, hence home field advantage.
November 19th, 2019 at 1:43 PM ^
Sick burn
November 19th, 2019 at 5:53 PM ^
He's getting at the annoyance (to put it lightly) of sitting near a bunch of OSU fans in that specific section. Not the percentages of Michigan fans vs. OSU fans throughout the stadium.
I am in Sec. 6 and I remember at the 2015 game, that part of the stadium almost felt like being at the Horseshit. In 2017, I couldn't go due to a lot of family coming into town. I would assume it was even worse based on how it looked on TV and the down year we were having. Bottom line, OSU fans are easily the worst in America and the fewer of them invading our stadium on the 30th, the better.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:52 PM ^
Been to a ton of games .... never an OSU game. Since 2006, I wouldn't want to go to one. Same sentiment as you. Zero desire to see one in the midst of 300 drunk toothless truck drivers with bad BO and nacho cheese in their beards.
Hell, the last time I even watched a Michigan v OSU game was 2012. I think I watched half of it.
This will be 7 years and counting I pretend there is no football that day, National bye week prior to conference championship games. Go to a bar with no TVs, binge watch a new series, etc.