Dear Spartan Fans,

You’re having a rough season, I can dig it, I went through it last year and the story remains to be told for me this year. So I can understand completely why you’ve been fussy lately. This is exactly why I have chosen to bow out every time one of you has tried to bait me into a flamewar after a tough Spartan loss. Each and every time I have taken my leave, and reminded you that during football you are our rival for but one week, and that at the moment it was not your week.

Congratulations, it is now your week. Keeping with the spirit, I would like to respond to a couple recurring themes I have noticed coming out of Sparty land over the last few weeks:

1.) You are not our top rival, Ohio State is, get over it. I only root against you the week we play each other, and the last week of the Big Ten season if your loss helps us. Other than that, I would prefer you to win, especially during non-conference play. It’s good for the state we share, and good for the Big Ten as a whole. You can continue to send your hate my way,  I don’t care. You only matter to me when we play each other, you can still play the crazy stalkerish unrequited lover the rest of the season while I tune you out.

2.) Stop complaining about Michigan not taking you seriously. Winning forces people to take you seriously, thus for now we take you seriously, as you won last year. For that matter, the only reason anyone fails to take you seriously is because Sparty fans do not take Sparty seriously. When you lost to CMU, I heard and/or saw at least 30 Sparty fans claim that it didn’t matter because Michigan would lose later that day to ND anyways. I was speechless when I saw that, because I don’t understand how that matters. Shouldn’t your goal be to win every game, regardless of what we do? When we lose, if Ohio St. loses as well, it doesn’t somehow make it all better, a loss is a loss. every loss should be unacceptable to fans of a program. Believe me, I’ve sat through the pain of enough of them the last couple years. You want us to take you seriously? Start taking yourself seriously. Oh, and mix in a win against a Div 1-FBS team somewhere this year. That would help too.

There you go, it’s your week. To quote the incessant southwest commercials that I have been forced to sit through during this weekend of football, “Grab your bag, It’s on!”

Love,
Wolverine Fan

Having a monster of a day. Crushed it right out of the gate at the gym this morning. Blew past a cop at waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over the speed limit without getting pulled over. Went to work. Killed the Grimace. Worked through an awkward lunch. Pulled a Titus and told my ex at said lunch to “Climb down off your cross, use the wood to build a bridge and GET OVER IT!” Got the cleaning done and now I need some sleep. Been a very productive Sunday.

More experimenting:

Ingredients;

• Green Tea – 1 cup
• Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein (French Vanilla Creme) – 1 Scoop
• Lowfat Plain Yogurt – 1/4 cup
• Raw Almonds – 1/4 cup
• Kiwi – 1 cup
• Strawberries – 1 cup

Put green tea and protein powder in blender and mix with a spoon into a slurry. Add the remaining ingredients and blend until smooth.

Like before, I buy the fruit fresh and freeze it. I skin and slice the kiwi prior to freezing. This is a particularly high charged blend. The ingredients list will make a rather large smoothie. I like them bigger as they are a meal replacement for me rather than an after workout snack. As I snack I would use half the ingredients for a smaller smoothie. Also, skipping the almonds would remove 160 calories, 6g carbs, 14g fat and 6g protein.

Poison Oak is a Bitch…