TMQ at it again
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/081007&sportCat=nfl
Not only does Easterbrook not correct his completely wrong characterization of the funding for the new club seating and the stadium improvement, he takes another shot at Michigan football.
At this point I suspect his wife cheated on him with a Michigan grad, so he takes out his anger by ripping Michigan in his column every week.
October 7th, 2008 at 4:45 PM ^
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:45 PM ^
This week's comments are not that bad at all. The cheerleader professionalism is a running observation (that surely ignores all anti-correlated data points), of which the Michigan-Illinois game would be a perfect example if it is true. Did anybody else notice if the cheerleaders put on pants and jackets?
Also, while I can understand the gatorade shower, there is some kernel of truth to it being questionable. I'm sure other people made similar comments.
Yes, it is annoying that he never says anything positive about Michigan, this week's article really wasn't that negative, if at all.
October 7th, 2008 at 7:50 PM ^
I wasn't referring to the cheerleader professionalism bit, I know that's a running thing with him. However, I think he's pretty ignorant if he doesn't understand the gatorade shower.
1) It was the biggest Michigan comeback in stadium history and the 2nd largest in school history period
2) It was RR's first conference victory
3) It was a victory over a top 10 opponent who Michigan was not expected to beat at all
4) We were so spectacularly awful in the first half, and so great in the 2nd, with a down-to-the-wire victory that wasn't decided until the last 10 seconds, that I think the emotion of it made the gatorade shower make plenty of sense.
Considering this is a pattern with him to rip Michigan whenever he can, and how horribly wrong he was on the facts last week, it figures that he'd not only fail to respond to his being wrong but take another shot at Michigan instead. I think at this point you could say you're an alum (even if you're, say, and OSU fan), make up something about the program that's completely false, and he'd print it as fact anyways.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:23 AM ^
That's true. It is a little ridiculous that all these people are emailing Gregggggg Easterbrook with ammunition to say bad things about Michigan. They both are supposed fans.
Stop it people! Don't tempt TMQ with more anti-Michigan factoids. We all know he'll throw them in there on his own like that "Weasel Bowl" comment a couple weeks ago.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:11 PM ^
October 8th, 2008 at 1:29 AM ^
Why would I waste time worrying about a column full of creepy poems to cheerleaders written by a guy who spends his free time trying to convince people that a meteorite is going to destroy Earth soon?
October 8th, 2008 at 8:39 AM ^
Honestly, who cares. If it hasn't already been made crystal clear that one should expect anything more than a mailed-in, paint-by-numbers columns that reaches lazy conclusions, then I don't know how one could be convinced otherwise.