Roxbury Fleet gets ready for the Big Bowl Games

"What happened, coach?" This was the first thing Roxbury Fleet said to Rodriguez the milk-toast scourge. "I mean what happened! All that spreading, all the coaching, the Dick Jane and Spot thing..helping me get through high school.. what happened?"

"Predicated... Coach, predicated. I been studyin just like you said. One big word a day..that's one you don't know coach. Predicated.. my attendance at Michigan.. where are the bowl games? I was reading today, coach, and there are seven big ten teams playing in bowl games, coach...seven.. Your team is in the dumpster coach..the big un.."

The college bowl games were announced on Sunday as 7 Big Ten teams will be bowling to conclude the 2008 college football season. Headlines by the two BCS Bowl teams, Penn State & Ohio State, Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern & Wisconsin will join the co-Big Ten Champions in bowl games. Here’s a look at each bowl match-up featuring Big Ten football teams.
- Rose Bowl - Penn State vs USC
- Fiesta Bowl - Ohio State vs Texas
- Capital One Bowl - Michigan State vs Georgia
- Outback Bowl - Iowa vs South Carolina
- Insight Bowl - Minnesota vs Kansas
- Alamo Bowl - Northwestern vs Missouri
- Champs Sports Bowl - Wisconsin vs Florida State

"AND COACH, YOU BUM, YOU LIAR... MICHIGAN IS NOT EVEN PLAYING...YOU DID NOT EVEN MAKE THE INSIGHT BOWL!!

"Ohio State, coach, I've been invited. I'm going to that Nacho bowl, coach.. munch, munch... Coach..what happened? There flying me coach..recruiting."

"Thanks for the offer of the free trip to Cancun coach... but I play football!"

Posts to come

Well there has been a hiatus, a reckoning a reconnoiter here at the Haunted Site.. What to do and why? Michigan 2008, oh never mind! But over the next few months as we limp through winter, struggle through spring and swelter through the summer Haunted suggests you stop by weekly for updates on the Life and Times of Roxbury Fleet. A tale to bring a smile to the face, and send sadness packing.

Don't Forget even as Michigan Football Founders..ROXBURY LIVES!!

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

From Deeply Imbedded

Before The Spanish Scourge There Was Hope...Now There's Only Hope a Dope

And before Rodriguez, When Loyd Carr, with his storied knowledge of Michigan and his appreciation and understanding of Michigan Football, was coach, years ago...

Haunted wrote this.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE
FOR A WOLVERINE
TO LOSE A CONTEST
WITH A BEAN

Now it appears, that sadly, Michigan,the boys in yellow, the men in blue?, will be defeated by a legume. Yes, thanks to the mess the new coach, Rodriguez, has brought to old Ann Arbor Town there will be woe and sadness this final Saturday of this terrible, miserable season. Thanks to the Spanish Scourge A Bean Will Defeat a Wolverine.

And what do we hear of Roxbury Fleet, our once fine hope to win this game? Roxbury is not playing anywhere but he is dining in Columbus this weekend. Perhaps if Michigan possessed a different Coach, a coach more like Loyd Carr, Roxbury and Jenny Swindle would be with the Boys in Blue this weekend. Sadly, with only the Scourge and his great Spread.. The Cyclops appears to be moving on, and probably to our hated rival The Beans.

However nothing is set in the sod yet... and maybe if Michigan sends a surrogate recruiter, perhaps if The Scourge tosses his remaining meager ethics to the wind, he may yet score with Roxbury. Perhaps if they send Loyd Carr? Don't count on it!

What you can count on is that Michigan will end the season with the worst record in its 129 year football history, and the Men in Blue ( we will give them that for this final sentence) will forever be known as the worst team in the Michigan lexicon.

But oh never mind. It is certain. Michigan will lose the game and probably Roxbury Fleet too.

Rodriguez on a Rail...Anyone?

Ohio State 42
Michigan 13

NOW GO BACK TO THE TOP OF THE PAGE AND WATCH FIELDS OF GLORY AND REMEMBER WHEN

Wet with Woe?

The weather says wet, and in the town of Two Anns no one knows what will happen. Will the Scourge win at home, will he crumble, will he rant and shout? Will Roxbury Fleet come back into the Michigan fold.. or will he continue talking to Ohio State?
All of these questions may be answered on Saturday. Beware.

The game seems to be a toss up, but do you have any idea what Michigan team will show up? Haunted sure does not. Statistics would say it is more likely that the Boys in Blue-Yellow will show up confused and lonesome for another victory, and that last weekend was a simple fluke.

It would be fitting, end the home season in mud, bedraggled, wet, and full of shame.
The coach, the Scourge shooting his rage, kicked out of the game for bad sportsmanship.. It would be fitting.

But perhaps the boys will pull of a victory, a triumph.

Meanwhile- Roxbury Fleet is held now by only a single thread. His Michigan dreams fading-faded. He wanted a team with victories, after all he listened to the song. And, let down by Rodriguez, his mentor turned moron, let down be tradition, let down.. and looking. It may be time for the Scourge to get to Jenny Swindle, promise her the world if she can deliver Roxbury. Who knows?

Haunted Waits.

Northwestern 24

Michigan 17

It's Good To Eat Cake

Encroyable as the French would say. The Boys have grown a smidgen in stature. They Won!

It appears the Scourge should have picked a different quarterback from the beginning.
Meanwhile this may be just enough to make our man Roxbury re-think his plans. Now would be a good time to send him that new Cadillac SUV, I mean send his father... I bet you can get one cheap from that center for auto motive studies.

And Don't Forget

YOU MAY WIN ONE GAME
AND THAT'S OK
BUT NEXT WEEK, SURE
YOU'LL BE BLOWN AWAY.

Throw That Dam Banister Ball

Little Brown Jug
Whoop de do
A win for us and
A loss for you.

Yes folks, this is the ditty one hears in Minnesota today, tonight, tomorrow. And sadly it is probably true.

Unless the Michigan team learns to spread and respond to thuggish shouting; it seems unlikely that any more victories will come to the town of Two Anns this year. Haunted loses track. Have there been any at all? Well, certainly non worth mentioning....oh yea, Wisconsin...never mind...

And more to the point, this season has been so dismal, so bad, so demeaning and tragic, that even a win against Ohio State two weeks from now will not be enough to even raise a shout. Hell, this program is right in step with the USA, and Ann Arbor has no minor league Obama to save its football team.

Had Roxbury made it, perhaps. But he did not, and he may not be making it next year either. Disgusted with the Coach, the mentor turned moron, plagued by Jenny Swindle and wooed by greater programs. It is going to be a tough sell to get him to show up ever. Still, Ann Arbor can hope... perhaps we can tell him a fib.. Rodriguez is history. There will be a new coach and, well forget about it, Gomer Pyle would be better, just tell him Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, The Wolverine... anything. Sarah Palin.

Still, we can all hum Little Brown Jug... and think of Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed and some future Wonderful Life. Hell if Haunted had it, he would toss that dam banister ball of Jimmy Stewart's as far as he could throw it, which isn't very far.

Michigan 10
Minnesota 35