Will you make the trip to Columbus this year?
As a Wolverine fan behind enemy lines its almost unthinkable of Wolverine fans being in the heart of the "worst state ever" but there are a good few of us in this hellish city. This year as we all know it's Michigan's turn to come to Columbus and face the Bucknuts in the Shoe. However this year there is a much stronger feeling like last year that Michigan will once again defeat Ohio St thus making the ticket demand higher than in previous years (2008-2010). I being a Columbus resident will make the effort to join my maize and blue brothers in a see of soviet scarlet and grey. The question is if you can get tickets or do get tickets will you be here in "Urban Nation" on November 24th?
August 5th, 2012 at 11:42 AM ^
Once was enough for me. Never again.
If Michigan was ranked #1 with Ohio being ranked #2 AND Michigan was somehow favored as a ridiculous 14 point favorite...I still wouldn't go the shoe.
I've been to West Lafayette, Bloomington, Evanston, Champaign, Iowa City, and Minneapolis (Metrodome). I'll go there eventually, but not this year.
Nope. I will be in NY city to watch Michigan hockey play Cornell at MSG.
August 4th, 2012 at 10:00 PM ^
Yes I will to cheer on the team I love, other fans come to the Big House.. Why should I not go to away games. Go Blue.
Also My season tickets were in the mail today. I'm so happy!!!!!
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August 4th, 2012 at 10:20 PM ^
First time posting....but I'm excited about checking the game out here in Cbus....Few Michigan grads including myself have set up group seating within the shoe via OSU student tix
By the way, I've been here in Cbus for 4 years now and I wear Michigan gear often without any serious issues...but obviously I am smart enough to avoid the frat areas lol
Go Blue!
August 4th, 2012 at 11:26 PM ^
However it's going to be fun plundering and pillaging Ann Arbor with other Buckeyes during the Urban Meyer regime.
Good luck vs Alabama though, I LOATHE Nick Saban. A Michigan win would be perfect to silence those mouth breathing SEC troglodytes.
August 5th, 2012 at 12:24 AM ^
with all of the Ohio State fans who think the same way (Eleven Warriors did poll on it; I suppose the numbers might be the same on the Michigan side if the positions were reversed), in the world's largest dumpster, lock the lid, and let you all have your way with each other. Doing it inside a dumpster would save on clean up costs later on. Hopefully there'd be no survivors.
August 5th, 2012 at 11:21 AM ^
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August 4th, 2012 at 11:46 PM ^
I admire anyone's bravery to be in that stadium with America's worst fan base. Even in victory, they're just too insufferable to be around.
August 4th, 2012 at 11:51 PM ^
All UofM fans need to make the trek down to Columbus at least once. You don't have to go more than that to understand. You don't have a true hatred for that school, even if you think you do now, until you actually go there for a game. Most other friends I've spoken to who have been there feel the same.
August 4th, 2012 at 11:54 PM ^
Nope, NYC for the Preseason NIT (Wed and Fri.) and hockey at MSG vs Cornell (Sat night).
August 5th, 2012 at 12:19 AM ^
Went to Columbus for the 08 and 10 games and I can watch the football game in a NYC bar.
August 5th, 2012 at 12:19 AM ^
Been a couple times. It was fun, despite losses..
I'd feel safer in Juarez, Mogadsihu or Baghdad. If I'm feeling (really) adventurous but can't make any of those destnations work, then maybe.
August 5th, 2012 at 10:34 AM ^
August 5th, 2012 at 10:43 AM ^
The nation's leading college football team blog?
One of the nation's geatest institutions of higher learning?
The leaders and best?
August 5th, 2012 at 11:28 AM ^
Not all of us who read and post here attended the University of Michigan.
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August 5th, 2012 at 12:33 PM ^
once while a student at UM, once long after. I generally had a pretty good time the first time, we wore our M gear and went out that night I didn't think it was all that bad then...I remember being in a bar that was 3-4 stories where the upper floors were circular balconies over the main/ground floor. They served beer in big plastic buckets and we were doused from above as soon as we entered and thought it was pretty funny and subsequently headed upstairs and proceeded to douse OSU fans, it was all pretty good humored and for the most part everyone just got drenched and laughed. We left that bar and went to another bar that was really long and had bars along eacj side with people standing on the bar and as we walkd dopwn the middle, already drenched, we were again showered in beer. Most peope on both sides were soaked so nobody really cared, I had a blast. that was in '87 or '88, though and IMHO the rivalry has taken an ugly turn since then.
My second trip was in the late '90s and it was waaaay different, OSU fans were not at all friendly or humerous about the rivalry and there was just a ton of trash talking and a lot of people that literally were trying to get into some kind of physical altercation with you if you even looked at them cross-eyed. I met about 500 pricks who were instant 'tough guys' when they had you outnumbered 15:3 with really big mouths or who did things like step out in front of you to make you walk around them......like 7th grade stuff.
I recently went to the Mets/Giants game here in San Francisco with a guy who grew up on the east coast but went to Texas and now lives in Austin. I was joking with him that if the ?Giants won I was going to get to give some Long Island friends from school a batch of grief (I lived in Alice Lloyd the year Da'Mets won the series and thusly suffered immensely) . When he found out I went to Michigan he admitted his wife was a Buckeye and told me how after Texas fans returned from their visit to Columbus for the series they all had stories of how awful the people were there and how poorly they were treated and in general just how low class the OSU fans were. I told him to take that experience and multiply by about 5-10 for the Michigan game. One night at dinner when a few Texas fans were relating to them their Columbus experience, his wife can't take it anymore and just blurts out 'Texas fans are just pussies,' which is pretty much the reaction I get when I tell any OSU fan about how other fans perceive them.
No way and im about 20 mins or so from Ohios campus... Its not safe.
Driving out with the fiance (Georgetown grad) on her birthday