Hello and welcome one and all to pre-game at Northwestern against Illinois. My last football game (unless the Cats go to a bowl ... fingers crossed) and the last football game ever for the Memorial Stadium Honorary Ang Lee Press Box. I totally made the name up, but interesting Illini alumnus, no?
I get the distinct feeling that I've been transported to the mid-1990s. Not only is this Illinois-NU tilt actually a meaningful game for the first time in a while, but the songs wafting over the P.A. system are less the Soulja Boys and Frays of today, but the R.E.M.s and Spin Doctors of mid-90s, university alt-rock.
In football news, a win and NU all but has a bowl bid locked up. A loss and, well, a .500 record sure looks nice to recruits? The Illini are still in the clouds after the win over Ohio State, and they could have their minds on Florida bowl destinations instead of playing this wildly erratic Wildcat team on a day that can only be described as having all the trappings of, in coach Fitzgerald's words, "Big Ten football weather."
Sit back, relax and enjoy the blogging. All 13 of you (and that's a generous estimate.)
I may not have Microsoft Paint to enhance my efforts today (like a certain other outlet did for a certain other sport), but I feel confident my words can paint an adequate picture. I am a writer after all.
It's what we're supposed to do.
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