01/08/2024

I heard my momma cry, "The Nigh Chicago Died" - totally weird start to a paragraph unless you've been unemployed and weird shit enters your mind more furiously than you're used to. Ok, so why did this song come to mind after seeing the Huskies lose to the Wolverines on this National Championship Night?

Hate me. I'm not a Penix fan. Wait, I'm not a Penix Jr. fan, I'm sure his seniors are upstanding fellows/fellas, and so is Michael Jr. but this night, the last few weeks? It seemed he was a little off. This is gonna sound mightier than I am, most things are, but you can see it in the eyes and the mechanics - overthrow, underthrow, missed targets, and the progression of reads, ugh. But something this bandwagon fan / recent Penix viewer / and overrated <cough> author has to say is; I didn't respect him.

Ouch! Right? Who the F am I? Unemployed nobody would be the obvious answer, but let's dig a little deeper... But not too much because I'm not about "working."

Why does he bury his head in the shoebox at the end of a game he helped win? Not this game, tonight, but other games. Please, disclaimer: I haven't seen more than 3 games from this stellar athlete and I'm just posting for attention - who isn't? I was upset as the fans from the Husky stadium rushed the field to blend with the excited players and this guy was escorted under towel out of the stadium. Why wouldn't he indulge and help build this following, this Husky Nation?

Gonna get a lot of haters on this, understandable, considering I don't have a lot of viewing history. But I don't think I'm remarkably singular in this. I went to UDub, might have even graduated if I weren't so lazy. But I just haven't seen 'national champion' in this guy. Unfortunately, the nation saw the same thing.

Again, OUCH! Who the F am I??? Listen <he said, arguing and defending himself>, maybe it was the stage jitters, maybe it was the biggest moment of his life and he just didn't live up to it. Receivers had some drops, but mostly errant throws. I've been there, had the jitters, but for me it was at a urinal betwixt two amazing fellows, not on a national stage! This is not a puff piece, I genuinely watched and could see a difference in his obvious exceptional skill and his ability to perform under pressure. There it is.

This doesn't account for Michagan's or is it Missachens? I can't remember how to spell it, nobody does -- it's the mitten looking thing on the map. This article doesn't account for their superiority as they truly dominated and were able to close. I'm just another frustrated Seattle sports fan who almost graduated from the University of Washington and wanted a title that wasn't shared (1991).

Please let me know what you think and am I WAY off on this guy?