It Appears Jim Harbaugh Has Finally Found His Excuse To Cancel The Ohio State Game For The 2nd Straight Year
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Oh my god, is this not textbook Jim Harbaugh? He knows he's got a 9-1 football team that has the once proud citizens of the state coming out of the woodworks to get their Wolverine shirts from Walmart again. He also knows that the only team he's played that had a pulse, and a very faint one if that, erased a 30-14 deficit in about 5 minutes to beat them. And he especially knows that Ryan Day has vowed, on the phone with Harbaugh, to "hang 100" on him. So with the Buckeyes coming to Ann Arbor next weekend, there's only one thing he can due to avoid humiliation in front of the home crowd and once again set the program back another decade: cancel the game. Can't lose if you don't play them.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: INFLUENZA IS ATTACKING THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN!!!
I haven't seen this move since.....last year.
Am I having Deja Vu? But now that covid appears to be under control, we've got to resort to blaming the flu. What's next? The University of Michigan has been hit hard by the common cold? The sniffles?
Call me insensitive. Call me an asshole. Call me whatever you want. But the fact of the matter is that last year, the Buckeyes were THIRTY POINT FAVORITES and the game got canceled on Michigan's accord. Even though Ohio State played the week before with like 11 total players, Michigan was hit so hard by like 6 cases that they couldn't find enough bodies from 100+ on the football team and the 50,000 students enrolled there to play the game. Very convenient. The Michigan Men of the world rejoiced!
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Last year was such bullshit that I'm not putting anything past Harbaugh right now. And if he were to cancel, the response would be the same this year. They know what's coming. And it's coming in Ann Arbor, in front of the home fans. I sure do hope the scoreboard can hit triple digits, because we're hanging 100.
I'm onto you, Jim Harbaugh. Trying to set the narrative this week, so next week it doesn't look so convenient when you cancel again. Not on my watch, Jimmy.