If you don't attend the game
What is your preference to watch it? Alone, or with a few people, or at the bar with a large crowd? I prefer to watch alone with a few craft beers and a nice bourbon. I don't mind if my girl is there, but it's not a requirement. I don't mind a party for bowl games, but for a regular game, I would rather watch alone.
August 4th, 2016 at 12:07 PM ^
who's a coach and not a fan. I love that he expects refs to be just as accurate with their calls whether it be a 30 pt beating in the 3rd or a last minute play that could seal a game in the 4th.
Fans can chill on flipping out over every missed hole or block or call in a game. Just like you said, celebrate and go nuts on the big stuff. The rest should all just be talking points.
August 4th, 2016 at 10:43 AM ^
would come to my house & say: "I'm here to watch you watch the football game".
It was his fault anyway... he took me to "The Great Debate" Rotary Club event in Hamtramck when I was a kid.
August 4th, 2016 at 10:25 AM ^
August 4th, 2016 at 11:38 AM ^
Reacting to the play is alright. Overreacting is a problem. For example, I routinely watch at a viewing party any time we give up a 5 yard run it was Joe Bolden's fault. Didn't matter if a lineman had a free release to him or even if he was on the other side of the field, it was still Bolden's fault.
That's the type of guy you can't stand being around because it makes everyone dumber.
August 4th, 2016 at 10:13 AM ^
MGoHusband, is that you?
August 4th, 2016 at 12:28 PM ^
Usually just me and the fam at home (unless things are going badly, then just me b/c I can't hold back the swears) or maybe my brother-in-law or a few Michigan fan friends. Just a few, never a big group.
I learned awhile ago not to watch the game with people who don't care about football as 1) they are not a fan of my fluxuating mood, and 2) their relative nonchalance drives me batshit crazy. HOW CAN YOU NOT CARE ABOUT THE OUTCOME OF THIS GAME!?!?!?!?!?!?!
My ex-wife used to sit there and tell me "you know, in the grand scheme of things, this is completely meaningless"....It drove me fucking mental (in addition to the game that was obviously stressing me out).
Note I said my "ex" wife.
August 4th, 2016 at 10:00 AM ^
August 4th, 2016 at 10:02 AM ^
We're all just stardust.
August 4th, 2016 at 10:23 AM ^
We are golden
August 4th, 2016 at 10:08 AM ^
Way to be there to support your ex-wife through an existensial crisis.
/s
August 4th, 2016 at 10:02 AM ^
I'm actually pretty lucky. My wife does get it. Her fam is full of diehard football fans (mostly Michigan, thankfully) and she is herself (gulp) a pretty big Notre Dame fan (she roots for Michigan in every game except when the two play eachother).
When Michigan lost to MSU last year she let me go outside and walk around like an idiot in the middle of the road with my hands over my head while I said over and over (How did that just happen -- I'm not kidding).
However, she has said well after a game has concluded and my melodrama has subsided that I might want to tone it down a bit for the kid, which, yes she is right and I'm trying to not be such an idiot but HOW CAN YOU NOT CARE ABOUT THE OUTCOME OF THIS GAME!!!!????!
I pretty much do the same thing as you. I'm from MD, so I don't have any friends that are UM fans, so I would rather watch at home. I don't mind watching at a bar, but I like to be able to hear the broadcast and focus more on what's happening.
My local alumni association has a pretty good watch party which I'll attend for the smaller games. For the bigger rivalries I don't like people to see me hyperventilate and I watch them by myself with a pizza and a few Two-Hearteds (or something else by Bell's or Founder's).
Alone or with similiarly zealous friends.
My wife and daughter think I'm a huge idiot about it (which I am).
August 4th, 2016 at 12:26 PM ^
I'd like to watch with my brother, but he lives in Michigan and me in Virginia, so that isn't happening... So with that, I'll watch alone. My wife doesn't care about football, and likes to be sarcastic about it. She'll dress the kid in scarlet and grey and think my reaction to be funny. Makes me want to ring her little neck... Also, the boy has her personality, and hasn't caught on, yet, to the joys of football. Makes me want to ring his little neck...
Don't know where you are in VA but NoVa, Richmond, and Charlottesville all have very established watch parties for every game.
I don't mind if people are around. I don't like watching in large gatherings. I also don't like people talking about random things during the game.
I ever miss a game it would be with family only and maybe a couple of good friends that truly love CFB.
There aren't a whole lot of Michigan fans in Pittsburgh so it's usually alone. Additionally last year I had people over for both the Utah and OSU game (and was at the MSU game with many others), so this season I'm refusing to watch with others until there is a loss.
Reading these responses makes me feel a lot better about how I act during a game. My family and friends always give me shit, but it feels good to see other people are like me.
August 4th, 2016 at 10:06 AM ^
Totally agree!
True story. MGoSupportGroup.
I feel so much more "normal" now.
I watch with my dad. He's one of the few that understands the importance. I suppose he should as he taught me in the first place.
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August 4th, 2016 at 10:28 AM ^
If it's like Michigan vs. Hawai'i and we're expected to crush them then I can maybe stand people being around, but any competitive game it has to be me, along in my apartment. I can't handle watching it even with people who sort of know what they're talking about
"Why can't Michigan stop them from running it all the time"
"RYAN GLASGOW IS OUT AND THEIR SPECIFIC STYLE OF OFFENSE MAKES IT VERY HARD ON THE DEFENSE IN ADDITION TO THE PACE WEARING THEM OUT. OKAY?"
"Why can't Michigan stop them from running it all the time"
WTF is my wife doing at your house?
I will make an exception for my daughter, who just turned one. She is allowed to watch with daddy and ask all the questions she wants going forward.
August 4th, 2016 at 10:12 AM ^
August 4th, 2016 at 10:18 AM ^
Perhaps her and mommy can go somewhere else for three hours.
I prefer alone for most games, I actually skipped Easter at the in-laws for the Elite 8 Florida game, then I decided to drive there at half time because it was over. I live in Minnesota, so the Michigan hate, which is actually jealousy, runs deep. If I go to a bar people would cheer against us if we were playing communist Russia. So at home is the correct play, with or without the wife.
August 4th, 2016 at 11:02 AM ^
August 4th, 2016 at 11:59 AM ^
They seem so good natured that for some reason, I thought they just gladly accepted the beatings.
They accept the beatings, but like to cheer for others to do things they can't do. I find it really annoying, I will never forget sitting in the Metrodome watching us kick their ass up and down the field in 2008, and some dicks behind me started asking where our bowl game was this year (First richrod year, we lost our 7th game the week before), and I asked them why it mattered when we were ahead 29-6, and they just kept trying to get me going. It didn't matter to them that they couldn't compete with a soon to be 3-9 club, just that others could beat us. I'm sure they enjoyed their trip to the Insight or some other 12th tier bowl game. They got run out of the gym by Nick Sheridan.
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August 4th, 2016 at 10:18 AM ^
I prefer to watch the games with a few friends at a house. When you're at a bar it can be too distracting and you can't hear the commentary. When I watch alone I yell too much and look like a crazy person.
You seem to be a bit in the red with your MGoPoints.
August 4th, 2016 at 12:53 PM ^
It's a good time to buy
On my couch, sans pants.
Will you put pants on if UM beats MSU and OSU several times?