This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Michigan Football 2026
Sep
9
2026
I go to usually one Michigan football game a year, with whichever children want to go. Now that the older two are at their own colleges, it was just me and Gamma this year. We happened to choose the Western Michigan game.
It was not a good game. It had a fantastic finish, but before then it was not good, unless you were a WMU fan.
The consensus among the UM fans in the section of the stadium where we were was that UM was not getting its money’s worth out of the NIL they are paying the QB.
My favorite quote, from some annoyed fan during a play in which the QB was scrambling around and looking like he was running out of time: “Throw the ball!” and then he did throw the ball but, since he was flinging it out of desperation and not on purpose, it fell incomplete, and then that same fan quickly followed up with “No, TO someone!”
That, along with various other grumblings, inspired me to slightly modify a photo of said quarterback, with a more appropriate name on his jersey.
All day long my dishonor is before me and my humiliation has overwhelmed me
Psalm 44:15
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:36 am and has been carefully placed in the Sports category.
