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Have you ever seen such a breathtaking composition as this?

Red and orange have never made such beautiful music together.  It's called "Ohio's Soul," and it was snapped by Spencer Hall -- Orson Swindle, himself -- on the way to the tailgate yesterday.  We were lucky enough to spend a good bit of time with him in Columbus, a delight not just because he's a refined gentleman, but because he knows metric-sh*t-tons about football.  Especially NCAA football.  Case in point, he was steadfast in warning us against picking Notre Dame yesterday, something about how the Irish only run three different plays on offense.  And by gum, he was right . . . draw . . . screen . . . throw deep!  Much of the rest we weren't able to follow, other than that we knew it made metric-sh*t-tons of sense.  Hope we have a chance to watch football with this guy again soon.  (Happy Valley, Swindle.  Do it!). 

Of course, not following his sage advice re: Michigan didn't ruin our day. Fine show by the Bucks with the home town cover, to be sure, but how did they lose like that again?  Can we fire Tressel now?

Some choice Tweets from Swindle, an apt summary (you'll want to see the rest as well, especially the video of the Georgia State Troopers fist bumping behind Spurrier): 

Jim Tressel thinks that CD sounds like a fine investment at 3.5%.

Jim Tressel thinks you people are crazy for getting in those lifeboats. The Titanic is UNSINKABLE.

Does Ohio State have a quarterbacks coach? If so, why isn't he being beaten with tire irons right now?

Think of Pryor in OSU's system vs. him with Rodriguez, Kelly, or Meyer. Minting platinum into pennies, Tressel is.

Ack!  He's right again!  But enough about that, now.  It's time to wake Vince and Biki up and head back to the Lake.  Sorry, C-bus, but yesterday confirmed for us, yet again, that there just aren't fans like Cleveland Browns fans.  We can hardly wait to be back with them soon. 

The weekend's adventures don't leave us much time to focus on much else today, so we're just going to stick with what we know, and what we've already explained: 

Browns +4 over the Vikings (10 units); Texans -4.5 over the Jets. (2 units).

Columbus, we hardly knew ye.  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!