No Pain, No Gain

As my 7 longtime readers know, I am a graduate of Indiana University. Historically, our football team has been, well, poo. So bad, in fact, other teams have given us 5 downs instead of 4, to no avail.

But, we now have a new coach who is turning the program around. IU fans for the first time since I became a Hoosier, are actually excited about the sport that we previously referred to vaguely as that which happens before basketball season.

So, this weekend we are hosting Ohio State. I'm not so much of a homer that I think the Hoosiers have a chance in this game, however, for the first time in a long time, Indiana fans will outnumber Buckeye fans in our home stadium. It is really embarrassing to admit this, but we do the same thing to Northwestern fans in basketball.

I'm reading an article about this fact today from my favorite Hoosier reporter, Terry Hutchens of the Indianapolis Star. He was referring to the overflow parking logistics and made a comment that, mostly, those who live in a city can really laugh at:

There will be overflow parking lots available. One of those, at the business school, can accommodate 600 cars. The downside is the six-block walk to the stadium.

Six-blocks! Holy crap! Someone call Mayor Nagin to get those abandoned buses down there to pick those people up, or, for God-sakes, someone might burn a calorie or two with the walk there and back!

Anyway, I'll be walking my usually 21-blocks, up-and-down (or uphill bothways) the San Francisco hills to get home from work tonight.

Go Hoosiers!