Please help me settle an internal dilemma
So in case you have been living under a rock, UM plays PSU this weekend. I really want to watch the game, but I have a potential conflict that I'm debating if I should skip out on or not. Sorry if there are better things to talk about, but I'm curious what y'all would go with.
Conflict: Potentially cousins last HS football game (playoff game)
Additional information:
1.) I moved out to the West Coast last year (moved from Michigan), and met distant family out here (my grandpa's sisters family). Last year was my first time ever meeting them, but they have welcomed me with open arms, and I've been trying to make up for lost time, since I plan to be out here a while.
2.) Family lives 2.5 hrs from me, however playoff game will be played 15 min from my apartment. Because of distance, I don't see them a ton. I think I've only seen them on Thanksgiving. Mothers day weekend, Fathers day.
3.) I won't be in town for Thanksgiving this year. So I may not see them for a bit.
4.) Not particularily close with the cousin, Cousin's mom invited me
5.) Player in question is an important player on the team (starting RB)
6.) Michigan games are a family thing for me. My dad and brother have a regular group chat going during big games.
7.) I don't have DVR.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:04 PM ^
Go to your cousin's game. The Michigan game will be easy to watch in full afterwards, regardless of DVR. It will be on the ESPN app or YouTube or Pistachio Network Flex on the Haters.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:34 PM ^
Even streaming the game while at the cousin's game would be a possibility. I've had to do it multiple times and I actually enjoyed it.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:46 PM ^
This is what I'd suggest. Have an ear bud in one ear for the stream and you can watch the cousin's game in-person.
November 2nd, 2018 at 3:39 PM ^
I was having dinner in Iceland with my phone propped up on a Coke bottle streaming the game. It was glorious.
November 2nd, 2018 at 4:17 PM ^
Was the irony intentional?
November 2nd, 2018 at 5:17 PM ^
Have you already forgotten our "place-dropping" rule here on MGoBlog? That is, any time someone posts about potentially not being able to watch the game due to random conflicts, you must post about some exotic locale where you will be or have been during a Michigan game.
November 2nd, 2018 at 5:45 PM ^
I'm thinking about the Coke bottle
November 2nd, 2018 at 5:53 PM ^
Nah. If it was TWO coke bottles, then THAT would have been...[sob]...it would have been...[sob]... ... I have to go now.
November 2nd, 2018 at 3:47 PM ^
Sugn up for YouTube TV, the first week is a free trial and you can cancel before the week is up. Go to the game while recording the Michigan game. After watching the Michigan game later on DVR, cancel your subscription. Problem solved!
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:05 PM ^
Call in sick. Watch Michigan.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:05 PM ^
Watch UM game on phone..
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:34 PM ^
Thats what I would do, pay a bit of attention on the phone to it.
But seriously, not sure what time the HS football game starts, but those things typically don't take very long. If they start at the same time, go to the HS football game and bolt home to catch 4th quarter of Michigan game.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:46 PM ^
Go to the HS game (or tell them to come over beforehand?) , tell your cousin's family you might take off early to catch the end of the Mich game. Monitor on your phone. If M is close you can boogie out towards the end of the HS game (hoping your cousin's team is winning in a blowout). If M is up big you can stay at the HS game.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:05 PM ^
Go to your cousin's game.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:44 PM ^
As you admit to not knowing your cousin very well, is it fair to characterize him as distant? Perhaps he is merely reticent.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:05 PM ^
Skip the game and watch Michigan. But come up with a good excuse. Cold and flu season is here, and you are running a 103 fever and don't want others to get sick...
November 2nd, 2018 at 3:03 PM ^
Don't know about you, but where I come from we call ^this^ "lying". ;)
...Unless you do have a 103° fever, then yeah, use this good excuse.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:05 PM ^
Watching a game on TV is fun but ultimately it is watching other people live their lives. Go out and live yours.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:49 PM ^
I mean Christ you could say that about almost anything.
November 2nd, 2018 at 3:09 PM ^
How is watching his cousin play any different?
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:06 PM ^
Family is forever. Go the cousin's game.
Even if they are distant.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:07 PM ^
3 thoughts:
1) You likely will be able to watch the game via the world wide webs
2) Prioritize people over all else
3) Make a decision! Decide now! Even a bad decision is likely better than the slow torture of pondering a question and then half-assing it. And don't question your decision unless there's a good reason (i.e., new facts are discovered, not just someone complaining).
November 2nd, 2018 at 3:21 PM ^
3 is good advice for just about anything. As Karan Higdon once said, I made the decision - now it's up to me to make sure it was the right one.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:08 PM ^
My vote: Put your phone on airplane mode, catch the full game later on replay. Go to your cousin’s game. I’d always vote connecting with people, esp family, over watching a game on TV. Especially this one since we will dismantle PSU and it’ll be fun to watch afterwards when the outcome isn’t in doubt.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:08 PM ^
Family comes first, but that's just me.
You could play it by ear at the game—if it's a blowout either way, you might be able to leave in the 3rd Q without looking like a jerk.
You also should be able to keep up on the Michigan game on espn on your phone. They have pretty frequent updating with their gamecast feature.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:08 PM ^
Dude, record the game and watch your cousins game. Make sure not to get any updates on your phone.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:24 PM ^
He is the only person in the country without some form of DVR.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:30 PM ^
Maybe he has a VCR?
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:34 PM ^
I was cleaning out my basement like a week ago and found a VCR in some cupboard. What a sad device.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:09 PM ^
Family first.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:09 PM ^
Do neither and do as I do: sit on the edge of your bed in your underwear and stare at the floor.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:09 PM ^
Go to your cousin's game. Family is more important.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:09 PM ^
Family first. Your cousin won't play HS football ever again, Michigan will play PSU every year, and BTN will probably air the game in a 60 minute highlight format. Go to your cousin's game.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:10 PM ^
Coming up with being sick during an important game reveals your motives. Your decisions are your own. Make the best! GoBlue!
*by the way I've watched plenty of important Michigan games after them being played on DVR, or other avenues without them being spoiled.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:10 PM ^
Throw everyone a curve and go to Ann Arbor to watch the game live and in person.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:11 PM ^
Wild card, bitches!
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:11 PM ^
My emotional side says fuck your cousin, watch the Michigan game live.
However, my logical side says we could use the good karma of a Michigan fan not watching the Michigan game to see their distant cousin play his final football game. That's probably a 4 point karmic swing for us.
Definitely go to the game.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:11 PM ^
You can't get time back. I'm a football junkie and will be shutting my phone off, attending a wedding and then watch when I get home. Go spend time with your family instead of watching young men play a game. I'm 37 and wouldn't have given this advice even a couple years ago.
November 2nd, 2018 at 4:34 PM ^
I don't go to fall weddings anymore. Last one I went to was the 08 Wisconsin game. Sold my tickets and went to my brothers wedding. Brother was cheated on entire marriage and now divorced! What a waste!
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:12 PM ^
Go to the HS game, get the ESPN app and watch on your phone. You gotta go...it's family.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:13 PM ^
Be a man.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:26 PM ^
be a dude
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:13 PM ^
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't he sign up for a free trial of one of the streaming TV services, record the game via their DVR service, and then cancel?
November 2nd, 2018 at 5:31 PM ^
youtube tv does with a gmail account
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:14 PM ^
Say you have violent, unexpected diarrhea and stay home.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:14 PM ^
Do what you want.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:14 PM ^
I see no dilemma here at all. Go to your cousin's game, period. You will feel bad about yourself if you watch the Michigan game, particularly when it's over.
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:17 PM ^
How is this a question? You go with family first, and always. There are a myriad of ways to watch the game afterwards...
But, uhh, how the hell do you not have a DVR? I thought those were standard issue, anymore?!!?
November 2nd, 2018 at 2:22 PM ^
Came here to post this. I rarely watch anything live anymore, the one exception being The Game. The rest of the season I let the game record for at least 30-45 mins before I start watching.
Commercials annoy the crap out of me.
November 2nd, 2018 at 3:47 PM ^
no DVR down on the farm.
could find a dusty VCR in the basement somewhere i think. a museum piece.