The Lesser of Two Evils

Tonight was a very tough game for me to watch. I really don't like either team. I'll start first with the winners:

Florida
I was not a fan of Urban Meyers campaigning to get in the big game. Lets not forget that he lost to a three loss Auburn team and almost lost to South Carolina at home. Most people will now forgive his campaign because of the dominate win he put on the Buckeyes who had almost everyone in the nation on their bandwagon. Everybody but me.

Buckeyes
My hatred of the Buckeyes can be traced to the moment of its first inception. Since I grew up in the central plains of South Dakota, the Michigan-Ohio State Rivalry meant very little to me. But what I observed as a sophomore at Indiana, makes he hate the Buckeyes to the core of my soul. In the Fall of 1996, the Big Bad Buckeyes came to Bloomington to play Indiana, like most Indiana Football games it was a blowout. The Buckeyes were in mass attendance because of the close proximity to their campus, about 4 hours, and the availability of tickets, IU Football never sells out. But this game had special meaning, if the Buckeyes won they clinched the Rose Bowl for New Years 1997.
Well not to build up any suspense, they killed us. The few IU fans left in the stadium got to witness the following event. The Buckeye fans rushed the field and tore down our Goal Posts. Let me repeat that, a team that was probably was a three touchdown favorite playing a team with 4 wins had their own Goal Posts ripped down. It was the most classless act I have ever witnessed. It must be the little league good game ritual, high school wrestler in me, but when you just pinned a kid in the first 30 seconds of a match, you don't rub it in their face, you go to the center of the mat shake their hand and walk off. So Congratulations Florida tonight you helped bring equilibrium to the world and busted the Buckeyes.

I have three Favorite Teams. IU everything, whoever is playing Purdue in basketball, and who ever is playing Ohio State in Football. Also a quick update, the casinos probably made a fortune tonight, Ohio State was a 7 1/2 favorite and the money line was Ohio State minus 300, Florida plus 250. I will report the Casino win later in the week when the Nevada Gaming Commission reports the figures.