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14 Philosophically Midwestern Universities Attempt to Play Football. You Won't Believe What Happens Next!

Bring Your Champions, They're Our Meat | August 14, 2015

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Oh it is coming. August is the first ripple in the water glass, next is the coaches goldblumically cackling their way through press conferences, then a goat is dismembered, a lawyer flees to a toilet, and college football season comes stomping out of its paddock, bellowing its blood-curdling roar.

Across the country, college football teams are baking in the sun, running into blocking sleds, and getting screamed at by crew-cut wearing millionaires. The Northwestern Wildcats are in Kenosha, trying to figure out who will be the quarterback. Defending national champions Ohio State (good grief) are

turning their training camp into a reality show called "Scarlet and Gray Days," which, stunningly, is not a turgid nineteenth century Southern Gothic epic.

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