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In The Big House

GO BLUE!  WE. ARE. WOLVERINES! 
Today kicks off Blue's 2011 football season and I for one am excited!  Hailing from the great state of Michigan my family and I are loyal to U of M and their football team.  And lucky for me this year at work there is quite a "large" contingency of Wolverines, totally outnumbering the (hissssssss) Buckeyes!  :)  Haha, I love having fun with it.  In fact I wore my U of M tshirt to work yesterday and represented. 
So today's song is by a group called Pop Evil.  I have NO idea.  I have never heard of them, something tells me that I wouldn't be too keen on any of their other music.  The only reason I am featuring this song is because it is Michigan!  This year we are playing our first night game in OUR house against Notre Dame.  It promises to be a big match-up.  The Big House seats 120,000 and my friend at work, a fellow Wolverine thank you very much, told me that 150,000 tickets were requested!  That means about 30,000 are possibly sitting in the parking lot watching the game on TV just to be near the action!  And lest you be mistaken...our colors are NOT yellow and blue.  We are maize and blue - get it right.  :) 
Here's to College football - the only kind of football I like watching! 
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BBBBBBLLLLLLLLLLUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

In The Big House

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