Have to watch The Game from ohio

Submitted by 608Monroe on

Couldn't even make this up.  

The health of my marriage necessitates my spending Thanksgiving weekend with her horrible family in the Dayton area.  The only positive I could extract out of this hellish situation is the absolute necessity around watching The Game at a bar, albeit with my mustard-stained, ohio brother in law.  On a side note, I've decided every person named Greg is a douche.

Checked the locator and saw in Miamisburg there's apparently a bar called Bullwinkles which is supposedly Michigan-friendly.  It needs to be, because I'm already showing up with a bad attitude, my maize/blue gear, along with douchebag greg and his buckeye crap -- this despite his having gone to bowling green, where he majored in communications and horitculture.  He belongs in Perrysurg, or wherever he's from.

Anyway, don't need anything from the board other than your sympathy, and your assurance that anywhere is a good place to watch this game.  Even Miamisburg, ohio.  Even in my circumstances where a good result may end with a Michigan win, and my brother in law being silent (for the first time since he got his face punched in high school) on the way back to the house.

EDIT:  This was intended to be a little light satire on a Friday afternoon, nothing more.  Glad to see some of you took it for how it was meant.  Hopefully, it made you snicker a little.  GO BLUE!

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HollandSeaOfBlue

November 20th, 2015 at 12:58 PM ^

I think Hoke has changed the tide on the rivalry. Hell people in Ohio are starting to believe him. Never in a million years I would have thought that. Selling Michigan jerseys is a good start.

 

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CoMisch

November 20th, 2015 at 1:09 PM ^

I lived in Dayton, next to Miamisburg actual. Bullwinkles is a fine place and you'll find a large contingency of Michigan fans in the Dayton area due to the old auto industry. In the past they had many transplants from Detroit (including my family, my Dad a GM'er for 40 years). Next to Toledo, you're in the best Ohio city for Michigan. Carry on.



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M-Dog

November 20th, 2015 at 1:31 PM ^

I lived there for 7 years and wanted to get out the whole time.  It is even worse now because they lost a lot of industry and even NCR.

I was actually a member of the Miamisburg Jaycees for a while.  We had our meetings at Bullwinkels.  It's a decent enough place.

One thing that was fun is that I was living in Dayton (a very pro-Ohio State area only 90 mi from Columbus) when Michigan absolutely owned Ohio State.  

I walked around that place constantly in my Michigan attire, grinning like the Cheshire Cat the whole time.  The sight of the winged helmet absolutely freaked them out.

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Moe

November 20th, 2015 at 1:26 PM ^

I'm pretty sure you could make all of this up.  This scenario isn't that hard.  I mean did it just dawn on you that her family was from Ohio?  

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His Dudeness

November 20th, 2015 at 1:44 PM ^

Man tries with all his might to craft a story in order to communicate how awful it would be to have to watch the game in a bar in Ohio with his wifes family, but he can't make one up.

Man heads to mgoblog to post a very poorly worded and hard to understand story about how he couldn't quite make up a story about a man who has to watch a football game in an Ohio bar with his wifes family.

Congrats, we did it.

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608Monroe

November 20th, 2015 at 1:29 PM ^

LOL, seriously -- why would I make this up?  And of course I knew the family was from ohio.  Having to travel there during The Game -- THAT I didn't know about.

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His Dudeness

November 20th, 2015 at 1:32 PM ^

I thought you said you had to travel to Ohio well in advance of the game. So far in advance, in fact,  that you would be able to travel once more to a bar in order to watch the game.

I'm trying to get the details accurate for my story. Your imagination is both awful and apparently cloudy with the details.

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His Dudeness

November 20th, 2015 at 1:49 PM ^

OK I am willing to accept the blame here.

Two scenarios to choose from

A) You have to travel to Ohio during the Michigan - Ohio State game and will miss it, then you have to go to a bar in Ohio to watch a replay of the game with your brother in law who spilled mustard on his shirt and hasnt stopped talking since he was punched in the face in high school

 

OR

 

B) You have to drive to Ohio BEFORE the Michigan - Ohio State game where you will arrive at your wifes families house and pick up her brother who spilled mustard on his shiort and hasnt shut up since gettting punched in the face in high school and then you can drive to a local bar (In Dayton?) to watch the game as it happens.

All of this while also not being able to make up a story about the things that are actually happening to you.

A or B ?

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charblue.

November 20th, 2015 at 2:18 PM ^

scenario to understand the dilemma of familial relations in a rivalry setting. Been there, done that. But never as part of The Game retelling.

I live with a Sparty wife whose Sparty love is without doubt but who never evidenced this passion until it became absolutely undeniable with the success of Dantonio. I can't imagine what manner of sexual satisfaction it takes to bridge the gap between family feuds over Michigan-Ohio State. But then, Ohio girls were always tempting.

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Moe

November 20th, 2015 at 1:35 PM ^

I don't know anyone who is married that starts a sentence with LOL, especially when the sentence that you replied to was not meant to be funny.  Also, there are thousands of people who are Michigan fans that will have to spend The Game watching from Ohio visiting their in-laws.   

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UMForLife

November 20th, 2015 at 2:02 PM ^

Won't be that bad actually. Not for you. We are going to win and you can grin all day at their insults because we are winning. Were you expecting to lose? Another tip: Just use big words. They won't understand. They are from Ohio after all. Just make sure to show your Michigan Arrogance so that they will never invite you back. Problem solved. Be a douche my friend and you will not be invited back.

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Clevebrownie

November 20th, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^

I have to be in Ohio too with my Buckeye brother in law. Really hoping to be able to celebrate in the front yard after to annoy the neighbors. And what's wrong with people named Greg. I'm feeling very self conscious now.

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