OT-Your gameday rituals (for any sport/team)

This is the only sporting event we have a ritual for. We all have our assigned seats, everyone brings a case of their favorite beer and everyone wears the same UM football shirt for the year. After the games we finsh our cases and go home pissed or happy. We go to one game a year and we set up shop at Pioneer with every piece of UM memorabilia we own either on our bodies or hanging off the truck. We grill burgers and finish our cases of beer. Simple, but it gets the job done.

and when you click the toe, it plays "Hail to the Victors." I have to click it every gameday as soon as I wake up....or we lose.

Having moved to the West Coast my gameday ritual has changed a little bit because of the time difference. I used to wake up, make steak and eggs, put on my Woodson jersey, crack open a Miller Lite and dip some Skoal peach. We were pretty awesome that year...I think I need to bring that back!

I don't have an established pre game plan beyond going to whichever one of my friends' houses has a grill out. Post game varies, but usually ends up with me throwing up in the Pancheros bathroom (sometimes replaced by other campus favorites depending on my level of rage/ecstasy).

My entire family prays for a Michigan victory so I dont come out of the basement like the dude that beat up Julia Roberts in Sleeping With The Enemy.

Get up, watch some Gameday or tune into radio pregame, depending on how early the kickoff. Have home and road caps (and bowl). M for Motts wristband (after Braylon vs. MSU, you're prying that off my dead body). Ear radio. Ticket. Usually try and tie my jersey to the position of strength needed for the game. Or the big time ones, like Woodson, or the actual Jarret Irons practice jersey, for the big opponents that aren't our big rivals. For those I have the "Remy boosts Irish" tee, the "My 2 favorite teams are Michigan and whoever plays Ohio State" for, duh, OSU, and a variety of MSU slur shirts (my fav, though dated now, is the "Take a second and suck my Clock" one). Dress otherwise weather appropriate, blare The Victors from the Stereo, walk to game (or tune in channel...or, on occassion, brave getting out of car to weave through the dirty masses of an opposing school).

I wake up, buy a fifth of SoCo and a case of Bud Light. Then I watch the game with as many alums as I can rally (usually 6-7 total) and casually drink some BL and PBR. Afterward the men Circle of Death the SoCo to celebrate or mourn the events that had transpired earlier in the day while the women bitch about us being alcoholics. I love America.

I get up, hit the gym (typically boxing), then head home shower up. I then clean every square inch of my condo. After that I grab beer and liqour, plop down in fron of the TV with friends and watch the UM game.

For hockey I must put on all of the following: Sorel boots OR Michigan sneakers one black M sock, one white M sock (with the black one on the right foot) black leggings M bellybutton ring yellow tank top Maize jersey blue bracelet Variations to this have failed, even if watching at home. Say what you will about black leggings, but we've mysteriously lost every hockey game I have attended (this season) in jeans. I have no football superstitions, my enrollment is obviously the jinx because M had won every football game I had attended before being a student. However, I do invariably wear very tacky blue shorts covered in maize Ms, with pants under them when it gets cold, and a maize top varying from tshirt to sweatshirt depending on temperature. And ok, I'll admit, my pregame ritual does involve dancing on porches.

I brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack.