While we were at the cider mill Greg and his buddy Rich went for a bike ride. It was cold and wet, but they're trying to get some riding in before their big end of the year race in Traverse City in November. Unfortunately the wet roads were not Greg's friend on Saturday. The guys road their mountain bikes instead of their road bikes since it was raining. Greg thought this would be better with the wet pavement. However they came upon a big stick in the road and Rich was on one side of Greg and there were cars coming on the other side of Greg so he didn't have anywhere to go. He rode over the branch and ended up wiping out. The result was ripped bike pants, and three lovely scraped up wounds on his leg. Not a pretty site. Hopefully it will heal in time for the race in a couple of weeks!
Then came the game Saturday night. A night game which is pretty rare for MSU. It was a home game and we were playing the undefeated Iowa Hawkeyes. It had to be one of the most boring games I've watched in a long time. It went back and forth a field goal per quarter all the way until the end of the fourth quarter with just a couple minutes left, MSU pulls out one of the greatest trick plays of all time. This sets up MSU for a nice touchdown bringing the score to 13-9. It looked as if MSU was going to pull of a great upset. Unfortunately, it's happened way too many times this year and quite frankly I'm sick of it. MSU is always getting shit on by the refs and end up getting the short end of the stick. Think what you want, but this is my blog and I'm going to tell you how I feel. I don't care if you like MSU or not, and don't say it's because I'm a MSU fan. It's true, even if you're not a MSU fan because it's happening all too often in college football. I'm sick of football no matter who it is, whether it's the Big Ten, the SEC, the Pac-Ten, it doesn't matter, in too many cases it ends up being the refs who win the game for the team they want to see prevail, NOT the team winning the game. It happened to Indiana when they played Michigan, it happened to Michigan when they played Iowa, and it's happened way too many times for MSU, especially Saturday night.
Last time I checked football was a contact sport, yes refs CONTACT. Meaning one football player can touch another football player. It's not tennis and one guy is on this side and the other on that side. For crying out loud football is about running, sacking, hitting, tackling! Exactly what MSU did and what you the refs saw at the end of the fourth quarter until suddenly the guy was a little shook up and hurt and you the refs wait 30 SECONDS to throw a flag. Are you kidding me? As a professional in your job, you don't wait 30 seconds to throw a flag, you just don't! That led Iowa to getting three points with a field goal, which should of never happend. You're welcome Iowa, from the refs. Then heaven for bid an MSU player touches the oh so delicate pansy of an Iowa football player with seconds left in the game and MSU intercepts the ball. Game over. But wait, the Big Ten needs to have an undefeated team so the refs throw the flag and let Iowa have one more chance. Just like the damn ND-USC game a couple weeks ago, with the refs trying to give ND as many chances as they can. GIVE ME A BREAK! ENOUGH! Stay out of the the freakin' game and let the players win, not you the refs! Last time I checked it was one team versus another, NOT two teams and the refs on the schedule! So since the delicate pansy football player got touched, even though he is playing FOOTBALL, it's a penalty on MSU and the interception is taken away to give Iowa one more chance in which they score a touchdown with no time left. Those MSU players deserved that win and got cheated out of it AGAIN! I feel so bad for those players. My heart breaks for them. All the Iowa fans think it's sweet they win to stay undefeated, but it would've been just as sweet for MSU to mess up an undefeated season for Iowa like they did for UofM. All you Iowa fans think you're going to the Rose Bowl if you're undefeated at the end of the season, well guess what? If you're undefeated hello, you won't be going to the Rose Bowl. You'll more likely be playing in a bowl better than that. Here's to my MSU football players in saying no matter what, I will ALWAYS cheer for you!
Today brought about a nice relaxing day, and I was even able to sneak in an afternoon nap. It's been ages since I've taken a nap and it felt good. Then earlier this evening it was nice to spend some time with the girls for bunco. My friends Susan and Carla co-hosted bunco this month and we had some tasty eats and a fun time. I walked away with three bunco prizes- a candle, a fall leaf dish, and an appetizer cookbook. I'm adding to my collection of bunco cookbooks so now I've got the salad, soup, and appetizer cookbooks. I was told I'm going to have to have everyone over to try out some recipes! I think I need a drink book though to go with the others because some tasty drinks are a must with the eats! We ended up only playing one round of bunco because of all the baby news that was announced. Three of the ladies at bunco last night announced they were pregnant! It was so exciting. I knew about a couple of them, but one was a surprise. Congrats to Carmen, Carla, and Amy! They're all due in April so come spring, the neighborhood is going to be booming with babies! It was an early bunco night since it was on Sunday, but nonetheless it was a good time. A much needed girls night after such a depressing Saturday! Thanks Susan and Carla for the bunco invite!
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