College Football Week 12

“The Picture is Clearing up”

The BCS Championship is starting to come into focus, and I can say with glee, Ohio State WILL NOT be invited to the party (they don’t deserve it). Sadly, the Big Ten will once again not win the big dance. Ohio State and Michigan will battle to see who plays in the Rose Bowl this weekend. Don’t get me wrong, I was raised a Big Ten fan by ABC. I learned to hate Florida State and Miami from all the exposure they got in upstate NY, and I was still trying to figure out where the hell South Bend, Indiana was when forming my earliest sports hatreds (besides the Red Sox, Eagles and Cowboys).

UB-uffalo isn’t all bad – Miami Edition

Something about drinking way more than one should with overweight men sporting strange facial hair and questionable looking women while spontaneously breaking into the Buffalo Bills fight song makes me homesick. So begins my weekend in Miami with some college buddies and our women for the annual slaughter of the (now 0-9) Miami Dolphins. The weekend started out with dinner and overpriced drinks at the Buffalo Invasion. About 500 Bills fans were in attendance and we drank with Baby Joe Mesi and Buffalo’s own Tom Sartori (the rest of Buffalo’s celebrities were playing in the game the next day).