From Highs to Lows

This weekend has not been the greatest in the state of Michigan’s sports history. We suffered some close defeats and we suffered some humiliating, season ending defeats in the past two or three days. On the other hand though we did have some great victories by some of our favorite teams.

            The weekend go off to a great start when the dearly beloved Michigan State Spartans ruined Denard Robinson and Michigan’s undefeated record when the Spartans downed them twenty eight to fourteen. This was my favorite part of the weekend because the whole week was filled with Michigan fans raving how good their team is and how State was going to lose, to bad for them because now they just look bad. Michigan State sealed the deal with a pick six that put them up by fourteen in the fourth quarter and I was more than happy to brag to all the Michigan fans after the game, which they did not enjoy. People started saying “Oh! Denard got hurt!” or “State had home field advantage!” Who cares? We won, so do not come up with excuses and just live with the fact that you lost to the best team in the state of Michigan.

            Then it all came to an end for Tigers baseball fans. With a two to zero lead going into the third, a lot of people were excited in Mo Town and thought we might get to a game seven. Then the Texas Rangers bring in nine runs that inning and you could feel the disappointment throughout the state of Michigan when this happened. The Tigers did not stop there though as they let up six more scores by the end of the game as their chance at the World Series, and a little bit of their pride, had died.

            At the same time as the Tigers were being viciously man handled, the Red Wings won their game. You can always count on the Wings to come in night in and night out and give all they got and be a good team. So far this year they are not disappointing and I am even going to say that they WILL make it to the playoffs and right to the finals. I might even throw in that they will be the ones hoisting up Lord Stanley’s Cup at the end, but I wouldn’t count on it.

            The truly sad thing about this weekend was that the Lions lost their first game. This one was a heart breaker as we saw Matt Stafford get called for a couple of intentional groundings, the Lions getting a safety, and Stafford pump faking a ball straight into the ground, two feet in front of him. No one took this loss harder than Coach Schwartz who tried beating the poo out of San Francisco’s coach for being to excited. I know the Lions were not going undefeated this season but I was hoping to suffer our first loss to this year’s Super Bowl Champions, the Green Bay Packers.

            Even though this was not the greatest weekend for Michigan, we still have had a great year. I myself have not heard to many of those “The Michigan team didn’t win it, the other team lost it” line that all sport analysts seem to say every time we have a good team. So keep your head up sports fans, the Pistons will be back to save us in no time.