Would you give up sex for a Nat'l Championship
With all the talk of the same ole subjects, I thought I'd mix it up with something new. ESPN does a survey of this like once a year and I'm always surprised at how many people say yes. So I'm just curious what kind of people I mingle with in this community.
Would you give up sex for a year, for Michigan to win the BCS National Championship next year? In order to say yes, you have to actually have a realistic chance of having sex a decent amount of times in the next year. I for one, would not. I love me some Michigan football, but I love me some ladies too. Plus, we may still win even if I do have sex. Not having sex would just guarantee it.
Now the next question is, what if the only way we win a National Championship in any one year is that you give up sex for that year? Now if that's the case, I would give up sex every other year.
(P.S. this includes giving any form of sex, including with yourself. You have become celibate in every way.)
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:57 PM ^
If I was a player, maybe. As a fan, no way in hell.
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:03 PM ^
perhaps he took this offer to win those 2 BCS Championships.
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:58 PM ^
Um... yeah.... Give Up.......
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:00 PM ^
I'm all for it, especially with the economy and all.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:01 PM ^
Probably, seeing as my wife also probably would. Would make things much easier.
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:08 PM ^
if you give up sex for a year and your wife doesn't; how exactly do things get easier?
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:01 PM ^
Asking the MGoBoard whether it would give up sex for a year in order to win the national championship is like asking the Red Cedar Message Board whether it would forgo visits to the dentist in exchange for a Big 10 championship...
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:12 PM ^
I don't get this analogy. I would say Red Cedar Message Board whether it would give up fucking sheep for for a year in exchange for a BigTen Championship.
Giving up dentist visits is too easy of choice, I'd forgo a dentist for a year to get almost anything of real value. Giving up sex for a year, as only a fan, I don't think I'd give up sex, especially if it's only for one national championship. A BCS title would not be better than a year of sex.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:38 PM ^
>I would say Red Cedar Message Board whether it would give up fucking sheep for for a year in exchange for a BigTen Championship.
+1,000,000,000
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:02 PM ^
Could you cheat with animals? Totally hypothetical.
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:10 PM ^
nittany lions, gophers, badgers, wildcats and anything Irish would definitely be off limits.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:03 PM ^
Does sex with hands count? or fruit? also hypothetical my friend wants to know not me........ Miss Michigan and Palmala handerson would get lonely
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:04 PM ^
This is the real question. If hands don't count, I gave up sex long ago. Where's my national championship!!?
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:10 PM ^
Trust me.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:03 PM ^
Can most of us actually answer the question based on your stipulation of reasonably likely to have a lot of sex? I'm married, so I can't answer--maybe when I was single.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:04 PM ^
I would gladly dump my GF right now if it meant MEEEEEEECHIGAN wins the NC.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:11 PM ^
...that was the question
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:13 PM ^
But isn't it? Isn't it? What girl is going to stay without the sex?
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:16 PM ^
I think here is where my gut instinct would be to put up a, "but we just want to be heldddddd!" comment, but I don't think that's entirely accurate.
Well played, FA.
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:38 PM ^
I mean once you told your girlfriend no sex for a year, wouldn't life suddenly become one big Temptation Island?
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:23 PM ^
That was the first thing I thought of. Like the movie 40 days and 40 nights except w/o the religious overtones and crappy Josh Hartnett acting
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:42 PM ^
I'm pretty sure it would be game over. Girls are crazy though, I'm sure they'd find a secret way to manipulate the poor guy into giving it up.
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:15 PM ^
Truth: Both sexes like sex. Girls aren't any different from guys in this respect; a guy would manipulate a prude girl into sex. See any Freddie Prinze Jr movie.
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:54 PM ^
"I'm sure they'd find a secret way to manipulate the poor guy into giving it up."
There's no secret. Before she got out "Do you wann...." the guy would be on her leg like a dog in heat and have forgotten all about football for a good minute or two.
But then the guilt of a loss would be overwhelming.
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:09 PM ^
Reverse psychology in hyper-drive. If I told my girl now sex, I'd all the sudden be getting laid like daily, well... maybe once a week?
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:40 PM ^
They are perfectly capable of staying together and having no sex. I have already tried this experiment, and it doesn't work people. We went 5-7. Now, if only I had volunteered for the experiment....
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:47 PM ^
He did say GF, which I would assume isn't married. Just to stipulate.
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:13 PM ^
W-87, then we would have gone 12-0 and beaten Florida for the NC. How selfish. You probably knew ahead of time that a year on the sofa was possible. All you would have had to do is volunteer! But noooooooooo. And we go 5-7. We expect more forethought on your part next year.
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:51 PM ^
Guess you could date a nun
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:04 PM ^
I go after the wife like a crazy man after a sexless week...so no, couldn't do it.
I will qualify this with the following: I will give up sex for a year when I am 80 for a national championship next year. Will you take that trade?
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:40 PM ^
science would have improved our lives so that our 80's is the new 40's...
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:04 PM ^
I'll sit back and watch. Continue, good sirs (and ladies).
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:04 PM ^
The problem is, I'd do it if it meant an NC. But the best part of your team winning an NC, the Super Bowl, etc., is that you don't know it's coming. If it were a foregone conclusion, and there was no suspense, I wouldn't give up anything, because what's the point if everything is preordained.
So in a world where I would give up sex AND get a surprise NC, I'd do it, but there are some real logical issues there (as even if I could forget that they were going to win, I'd start saying "why the hell am I not having sex?" etc.).
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:07 PM ^
Excellent point CWoodson. A better question would be would you give up sex the following year of a BCS Championship win?
Unfortunately for myself I fall into that category of not enough sex to answer...not being in college anymore
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:22 PM ^
At that point, once they've won, I'd chance the karma and have sex all year anyway. Preferably while watching a replay of the national championship game repeatedly.
Now if it meant that you had to not have sex for a year or your karma penalty was that they could never win AGAIN, that would be a harder call.
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:17 PM ^
*All year*?!
Hats off to you, Charles Woodson.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:43 PM ^
Given that it's all a ridiculous hypo, we can create a situation to make this work.
Imagine Morpheus comes to you tomorrow and offers you two pills. Take the red one and you won't get laid for a year but Michigan wins the NC. Take the blue one and you continue to get laid at your typical frequency, but no guarantee of an NC. Whichever pill you choose you wake up the next morning forgetting it ever happened.
Note that it isn't that you opt not to have sex for the next year, it's that you simply won't get laid no matter how hard you try (Given that Morpheus can arrange a predestined NC, we'll assume he can control this as well). That way you don't wonder why you aren't having sex, you simply get frustrated.
Admittedly this scenario allows for masturbation but I think it's still an interesting question (and you could always tweak the red pill to be super-anti-viagra so that masturbation doesn't even work if you want to answer that question...although this would probably lead to some odd doctor's visits).
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:05 PM ^
Ask anyone married over 10 yrs: How much sacrifice would it be?
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:07 PM ^
but only for a year and a half. We still hump like rabbits
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:06 PM ^
Then I thought, "Do you mean with my wife or with someone else?"
Like there's even a remote chance.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:07 PM ^
Already tried this during my stint at the School of Engineering.
Or does that not count since the lack of sex revolved around me being an engineering student?
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:14 PM ^
Same thing happened to me - although we did get an outright Big Ten title and a shared one so I guess that's something, right???
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:21 PM ^
Take what you can get right? That's my policy too. But I do have a policy on fatties... no fatties
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:09 PM ^
Probably not.
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:42 PM ^
Probably...not!!
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:10 PM ^
I think thats been done before.
Heard in bama thats what was done...the bad news was that the gerbil sales got so bad that two pet stores went out of business.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:10 PM ^
Would you have sex with someone you wouldn't ordinarily have sex with in order to secure a NC?
Take one for the team!
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:13 PM ^
You mean with the same sex or opposite sex?
Opposite sex, most definitely anyone, including Betty White.
Same sex? Would need to be a really really good looking guy that treats me right.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:14 PM ^
If you throw in a steak dinner i'd consider it.
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:17 PM ^
I bet Betty's a wildcat in bed...
I mean, you're just thinking old...I'm sure there's something more fat and disgusting that would turn you off more.