I'm Nervous. Hold me!

Hugs up!   Feel like I’ve wasted most of a good weekend burning nervous energy.   Really wish this game was on a Saturday.  

Maaaaaan, I'm right there with you. Just get it done, gentlemen. Take what's yours with violence and authority. I'm so fucking excited for this game 

Right there with ya! Gonna be worthless at work tomorrow and Tuesday!

We have the better team. It’s a veteran team that has been through it.

UW is one dimensional with a suspect defense.

Play a clean game and we are good. 

I didn't start watching football until 2002-2003 when I was 12 or 13ish. I've seen so many disappointing Michigan teams. This is something I know we've all been waiting for and deserve. Recently the bball team lost 2 NCs and so did hockey, the football team can break that curse. I've never seen a Michigan football team with so much desire to win, the old Michigan teams would've lost to Alabama last weekend

It’s only a game relax.         /s. I’m losing my shit and can’t concentrate on anything. 

Try to lean into it and appreciate that your team is playing for all the marbles.

There's at least a 50-50 chance they'll win.

And when the worst-case scenario is a 14-1 season with wins over Ohio and Alabama, a conference championship, and an all-time gut-check victory at PSU, that's not so bad.

Believe. They Do.

I enjoy the sentiment, but if you started waiting for this since the mid nineties, hopefully you were conscious in the late nineties on 1/1/98

I wrote out a new thread before the Rose Bowl that was titled something like "I am not looking forward to the game".  I decided not to post it - too negative.  These games have become literally painful for me to watch.   I'm old enough to have watched the Fab Five lose two national championship games.   And the great Beilein loses two national championship games.  And then the College World Series.  And how many hockey disappointments?  

So I find myself once again not looking forward to the game.  Oh, I will be watching.  I have confidence in the boys.   Isaiah Thomas said the the pain of losing a championship was greater to him than the joy of winning one.  

Let's win one so we don't have to test that theory. 

I plan to get zero (0) work done tomorrow. I’ll have to do something I guess but in reality my mind will be in Houston. I got permission from my boss to break dress code and break out the maize n blue hoodie tomorrow, so I have that at least. If we win, I might extend that into a multi-day thing.

I’m extremely nervous, but mostly excited. I get to share this with my kids, who have now watched us lose multiple championship games/semifinals in multiple sports, and have zero idea what a Michigan Champion looks like. My first sports memory was the Rose Bowl in 97 (on the TV, unfortunately). I would love for us to win for myself, but mostly I want Michigan to win so they can experience that joy with me. If I’m lucky, it’ll turn into a core memory for them like 97 was for me.