Eleven Warriors · Oct 15, 2025
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Ohio State Buckeyes running back Bo Jackson (25) scores a touchdown over Illinois Fighting Illini defensive back Matthew Bailey (7) during the first half of the NCAA football game at Gies Memorial Stadium in Champaign on Oct. 11, 2025.None of us would have survived the early 20th century as passionate and dedicated college football fans.
That era would have eaten us alive. But chances are we would have died from a necrotizing infection of sort before Saturdays killed us, because that was how humanity rolled back then. Modern sanitation, disinfection and big bad pharma hadn't yet hatched their respective schemes to get rich off of keeping us from getting sepsis whenever the wind blew.
