Time Flies
Does time fly even faster than normal for anybody else during college football season? There's something different about the way weeks pass in the fall when there's a Michigan game to look forward to on Saturdays. Don't know if I articulated that very well?
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:47 PM ^
I think it's because there's a constant pattern to the week. In the off season, you don't have benchmarks like 1) game, 2) game column, 3) tuesday recruiting, 4) UFR defense, 5) UFR offense, 6) game preview, 7) friday night lights, repeat.
The ability to set short term benchmarks helps pass the shorter time periods when compared to the amorphous week that is the off season. Basketball didn't even offer such a rigorous pattern, sometimes going over a week without a game. You lose focus of the individual idiosyncrasies of football season, thus making time feel like it's going slower.
Just my e-pinion.
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:51 PM ^
He runs so fast on saturdays during football season the he creates enough speed and momentum to cause the earth to spin faster and faster.
I thought everyone knew that?
(on a serious note I agree. the weeks do seem to go by much faster)
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:54 PM ^
It passes slower for me during the season because I'm always so excited about the game.
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:37 AM ^
I don't know about anyone else here, but for me time has dragged terribly starting with the MSU game last year, when it became obvious that Threet-a-DEATH weren't going to be able to get the job done. Since then, UM fans have had to endure the insults of MSU and OSU fans, and the laughter and condesenscion of national football fans.
That, along with waiting for football season, combined to make this entire year unbearably slow until the ND game. Now, of course, the national consensus is that "Michigan is back," and time has been paroled from its prison sentence, free to move at its normal and customary rate.
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:06 AM ^
Someone among us negged me just because I got to the 200 point level. Wow.
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:26 AM ^
Negging also makes time slow
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:27 AM ^
Fixed.
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:22 AM ^
I think it's because there's so much to digest during the week... you get used to having nothing Michigan football related all summer long, and all of a sudden there's almost too much info to keep up with.
The other part of it is last year. I really noticed it in the week after Notre Dame. After all the suffering of last season I was kinda happy to stop and bask in the glow of the win, but there's no time to dwell on it. Saturday seemingly was here before I knew it.
Anyone else notice how much it annoys non-football people that you have something to look forward to all week?