I always get a flu shot. Well, not always, but at least going back to when I was a student at Creighton, I've got flu shots every fall. And I've not had the flu once during that span. This year, the flu shot caravan came to my office while I was on vacation in Denver, and I just never got around to getting one on my own.
So it only stands to reason that I would then contract the flu virus on the weekend of the Southern Illinois game, a game preceded by College Gameday and broadcast in HD by ESPN's "Saturday Night Primetime" crew. Of all the weekends to come down with a temporarily debilitating virus, it had to be THIS one. I had planned all sorts of pre-game Gameday previews, a live-blog of College Gameday, and I had even figured on keeping a notepad beside me during the telecast to keep track of the number of times ESPN's crew made me upset with their ignorance or arrogance. Alas, none of this came to pass.
But, I didn't come here to complain. Honest! God works in mysterious ways sometimes, and perhaps he felt that watching that 12-minute field goal drought to end the game was more than I could take...
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One paragraph of thoughts now that the psychedelia-like haze of OTC drugs is beginning to wear off. Bear in mind this is my perspective based on watching the game through eyes glazed in NyQuil and Chicken Noodle Soup.
Wasn't this game a microcosm of the season? Stretches where they look absolutely fantastic, stretches where they look absolutely terrible. But to me, the fact that we're sitting here gnashing our teeth over the stretches where they play horribly shows just how fantastic they are at other times. That's something we're losing sight of here, I think. A team led for the most part by underclassmen is going to struggle to find itself ocassionally. Give it time.
OK, I lied. Two paragraphs.
Would it kill you to make free throws? If they make free throws, they likely beat Drake. If they make free throws, they likely beat SIU. Arrrgh. I'm off to catch up on what my DVR recorded for me while I was hibernating all weekend. I'll be back tomorrow with a recap of all the silly things ESPN said about the MVC over the weekend.
You bet.
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