Bliss

Submitted by michengin87 on December 5th, 2023 at 10:01 AM

Now that we've won the Big Ten Championship and The Game, it's especially delicious to relive each.  I recommend the following if you have a little time one evening this week.

1.  Watch the following link of Jim Tressel recently talking about how succeeding in The Game creates a warm feeling that lasts for a long time.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRsDKqWiTxs

2.  Pour yourself a good Bourbon.  I personally prefer Elijah Craig.

3.  Watch one of the last 3 editions of The Game.  I've got these taped.  Here are highlights from the 2023 edition.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVKMnZ6qodE

Rinse and Repeat.

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Booted Blue in PA

December 5th, 2023 at 10:12 AM ^

I'd rather have a Weller 12 year over a blantons as well.... the catch is, Blantons is difficult to get (they're available regularly but sold out in minutes) Weller 12 requires connections or paying secondary prices.

Since we were fortunate enough to be in Indy for the win, I didn't imbibe immediately after the victory...   I will watch a replay of The Game as well as the Championship at my next opportunity and i'll toast with a glass of William Larue Weller, the king of bourbon (imo).  Saving the Pappy 15 year for the NC celebration.

 

GO BLUE

 

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chrisu

December 5th, 2023 at 12:29 PM ^

HMK10yr BIB is a great bottle for the dollar, and can be found in the wild. Blanton's was a fun quest (collected all the toppers and had them mounted to a stave for display), but I am on to a new quest - attaining all 10 recipes from Four Roses in their single barrel distillers select bottles, but I digress. For the overall value, it is tough to beat Russels 10yr. Found in tax-light states for low $30's, and drinks well neat, or mixed in your favorite cocktail.

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mgolund

December 5th, 2023 at 10:30 AM ^

Fair points. Blanton's (down here at least) you will end up paying over $140 if you are lucky enough to be at the store when it arrives. IMO, while a good bourbon, it is not worth the price.

I got my Weller 12 as a gift (my parents bought it at MSRP through state lottery in OH). I would not pay $300 for it, but I don't think I'd pay that for any drink.

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mgobleu

December 5th, 2023 at 12:16 PM ^

Funny, I was talking to my brother in law just this weekend about the “whiskey culture”.

I have always been a whiskey fan, but I go for the “good” whiskeys. $50/bottle and available everyday is my wheelhouse. This underground, high end black market bottle trade however, is another thing.

My BIL does it because he has a rich friend who is a fanatic and a snob, so he can make money off him by peddling a bottle here and there, but apparently there is this whole seedy underbelly of guys bribing store managers, back room dealing, politics, manipulation and collusion that I had no idea existed. Basically a bunch of middle-aged married white dudes are creating their own booze-based economy behind their wives’ backs like prisoners with cigarettes.

I think it’s hilarious.

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goblu330

December 5th, 2023 at 10:08 AM ^

About 5 years ago or so, somebody drunk posted a thread with the title "Overtaking ass" without any context.  I have no recollection of what the actual thread was about, but it was not about overtaking any form of ass, I don't believe.  Maybe search it.  I don't think it was taken down.

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bassclefstef

December 5th, 2023 at 10:09 AM ^

I'm gonna save the re-watches and bourbon for after my holiday gig maelstrom is over- I've got either a rehearsal or a concert every night from now till the 18th. I might have to dip into the podcast archives and re-listen to the 2021 The Game episode though for one or two of the drives.

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The Mad Hatter

December 5th, 2023 at 10:14 AM ^

I haven't rewatched this year's Game yet, just highlights, but I find myself putting the 2021 Game on for background noise on a regular basis.  As good as 2022 and 2023 felt, 2021 was really something special.

I'm just glad to be living through another golden age of Michigan football.  Things were dicey there for a minute.  And by minute I mean about 15 years.

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Billy Ray Valentine

December 5th, 2023 at 10:16 AM ^

Tressel gets it. Day wishes he could get it. As time passes, my respect for Tressel grows (Tatoo-gate seems so piddly). As time passes, my respect for Ryan Day evaporates. 

May we only be so lucky that Ohio State fans continue to endlessly search for excuses. 

Ryan Day forever!

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goblu330

December 5th, 2023 at 10:21 AM ^

I think Day gets it, I just don't think he can communicate it.  Frankly I think that is part of his frustration (we're tough, etc.).  The problem is that OSU is still just recruiting guys who are stopping by before the NFL.  At this point they have to rebuild the brand philosophy if they are going to take the rivalry back from Michigan.

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UgLi Eric

December 5th, 2023 at 1:35 PM ^

My take on Ryan Day is that he's a great coach, but he is trying too hard to prove it to everyone. So he is in turn coaching to prove that he is (fill in the blank, random media or Michigan critique) instead of coaching to what he stands for. He is coaching to prove people wrong, but inspiring a team culture is all about positivity. He won't get that. 

He is told he's not tough, so he ignores what is his best asset and proves he's tough. Well done. OSU is a.mucu better and tougher team this year. They probably are the second or third best team in the nation. But he won't get that credit due to all his whining. So at least there is that. 

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Medic

December 5th, 2023 at 10:32 AM ^

My brother in Christ if you believe that Tressel's sins were limited to Tatoo-gate may I suggest you hop on the Google machine and do some light reading this weekend?

Tressel deserves nothing and there's a good reason he was given a show cause. What he was doing very clearly created distance between Ohio State and every other program trying to compete with them day in and day out. Everyone else in the conference (Wisconsin shoe-gate notiwthstanding) was trying to follow the rules.

Everything he achieved was a lie. 

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Billy Ray Valentine

December 5th, 2023 at 10:44 AM ^

My brother.

I hear you. I'm just not with you anymore. I understand your point, and I respect it. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm trying to hard to revise history. 

Even assuming Tressel was breaking "rules" with impunity, his Ohio State teams were juggernauts. They played us without fear.

I see how ridiculously pathetic it is to search out every imaginable excuse when my team loses repeatedly to its rival. I also see how ridiculously pathetic it is to argue against players being reimbursed for their talents, sacrifices, and value. With time, and now with Ryan Day, Tressel is still a vallian in my mind, but a respected one. 

Ryan Day forever!

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Ernis

December 5th, 2023 at 10:56 AM ^

Tressel was a sleaze.  Sure, on the face of it tattoo gate doesn't seem like much, but it was just the tip of the iceberg. The guy ran a program sans conséquence - bereft of integrity and accountability. His roster was loaded with ineligible players year after year. He left a trail of infractions at YSU and skipped town when accountability started to rear its ugly head. Not an admirable person.

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Bo Harbaugh

December 5th, 2023 at 12:04 PM ^

Everyone "cheats" if we are talking NCAA infractions.

OSU took football and the rivalry more seriously and broke more NCAA rules than anyone in the B1G over the past 25 years.  

We can cry about it or accept that reality.  That said, you can cheat your ass off and still lose - See Miami Hurricanes and Texas A&M the past decade. Tressell cut corners, so did Meyer the scumbage, but both were also great college coaches.  Day has top 2 talent on the team every year and still chokes in the biggest moments.

What's most infuriating about "sign gate", however, is that it's nowhere near the advantage or difference maker as say buying loaded rosters like Bama and OSU have been doing for 2 decades before NIL.  The entire thing is faux outrage.

Let them cry.

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Team 101

December 5th, 2023 at 10:19 AM ^

Nothing is better as a re-watch than the 2022 Game.  It's a game that will be talked about for years long after I'm gone.  I was at the Game and I've watched it many it many times.  It is much better to watch in the full version than in the 60 minute edited version because the commentary and the photography between plays can be as good as the game.

My favorite parts are Klatt's commentary right before Edwards goes off on the 75 yard run, every shot of Third Base during the second half and the studio host commentary (before the Game, at halftime and after the Game).

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