MGoCocktail: Rutgers 2023
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I interacted with last week’s game in the best way possible. I was checking the score between songs at a concert. Scheduling the concert, not thinking Bowling Green would be a night game. I assumed it would be a very boring game and felt no guilt just watching on the DVR. After my MSU grad friend messed with me by saying we were losing in the 1st half. Then I was trying to figure out what the hell was going on until the game was 21-6.
Even on the DVR, knowing the outcome of the game it was just an annoying game. Now McCarthy’s picks weren’t so bad when you know the outcome, but that game was a slog from start to finish. It is extremely bad even with the function of the skip button, I was getting annoyed with the frequency and timing of commercials. It was inane, despite two unfortunate major injures, which they filled with ads, they still ‘needed’ to cut to commercial on the Big Ten network after 10:30.
It's as if the executives must think if they don’t place a commercial in between every possession change, the views will be lost. Wait so one team kicked and the other team caught it, and that changes possession? How would I know without hearing about Progressive?
On to the next game, Big Ten season starts now. And with Michigan starting with their 2nd best home opponent as the Fox game of the week. The preseason is over, its time to get ready for (checks schedule)….Rutgers..
Close enough for Rutgers
God bless you season ticket holders, I don’t know how you do it.
Rutgers is the penalty for the Big Ten money cannon that allowed them to tear apart the Pac-10. We take our medicine one last time, hopefully for a while. I’m sure there is future where the Big Ten realizes Rutgers served its purpose and is discarded. 
The Boss
With all due respect to Jabril Peppers and Rashan Gary, as my friend put it, Bruce Springsteen is the only good thing to come out of New Jersey. And if you say the birthplace of college football, it was more like the birthplace of tackle keep away.
Before last week JJ McCarthey was saying “I’m on Fire.” Now Blake Corum is Born to Run, despite everyone Dancing in the dark with the new lights last week. We all hope this season leads us to the glory days of 1997.
That’s enough, make your own dad puns.
Ingredients
2 oz bourbon
1 oz amaretto
orange for garnish
Put the liquid ingredients in a mixing glass. Stir to mix. Pour over a large ice cube or two. I’m using a cockcicle whiskey ice mold that makes a triangle wedge of ice, it’s great for Manhattans or spirits on the rocks.
September 20th, 2023 at 12:42 PM ^
Jealous you have Eagle Rare. I cannot get it here in Fort Wayne. As to us season ticket holders, it is fairly easy to sell my tickets at face value or better these days, and the Bowling Green game was made for newbies. I will only attend 4 of 7 games this year for the first time ever. And I've had season tickets since 1980. Yikes. Go Blue, beat the Scarlet Knights!
September 20th, 2023 at 2:06 PM ^
Eagle Rare was fantastic before pandemic at its price point, Around here about $35. Then the secret got out.
A store around here had a bottle of Blanton's and 10 of Eagle last year. So I grabbed one of each which got me a dirty look from the counter.
So I went in the next day, they replaced the bottle of Blanton's, so again 1 of each.
Went in 5 days later.. Still had Eagle....Talk about being a sucker
September 20th, 2023 at 3:41 PM ^
Best Simpsons Princeton joke.
Sideshow Bob to his brother Cecil: "You've always been jealous of me! You even went to that clown college!"
Cecil: "I'll thank you not to talk about Princeton that way!"
Best defenses of Rutgers:
1) It allows Brian to diss Staee by calling them "Green Rutgers," which might be the fiercest college football burn I have ever heard in my life.
2) Now that they're not the worst team in the Big 10, maybe we should be trying to relegate someone else.
Cocktail notes: Thanks, and I'll give it a try. I've been super popular since I discovered the Revolver (rye, kahlua and orange bitters), and this looks like it might be a cousin.
September 20th, 2023 at 4:18 PM ^
I dont watch much pro football and too much college football so Monday night when there was a time out in the MNF game and no commercial appeared, I was astounded. I started to pay attention after that and there are significantly less commercials in the pro game than college this year. Anyone else notice this?
September 20th, 2023 at 5:16 PM ^
No the difference is stark. With the time rule changes, the only difference in NFL and college game is the time of halftime 20 vs 12.
NFL games not on national TV usually over in 3 hours or less
September 20th, 2023 at 6:00 PM ^
I love college football, so I will keep watching, particularly this year if Michigan is contending, but they have done their best to make college football a really bad watch. It cannot continue to be this bad of a television/streaming product or there will be an eventual reckoning. I already do not watch some games I otherwise would this year. The clock change has had a really disproportionate impact compared to their assumptions, I think. It is… not good right now. I have been astounded at how much better the pro game is to watch this year.
September 21st, 2023 at 12:43 PM ^
I feel like the Jersey Turnpike cocktail should be the only cocktail ever featured for Rutgers in this series. For those unaware, a Joisey Turnpike "cocktail" is merely grabbing the mat from the drink-making station and dumping it into a shitty glass and serving it once enough liquid has been collected. You can add bitters if you like for added Joisey accuracy. Cheers!
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