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Briggs: After Glass Bowl gimmick, Toledo settles score against Eastern Michigan

YPSILANTI, Mich. — The Toledo football team might not cry over spilled milk, but they do get mad over shattered glass.

A year ago, Eastern Michigan didn’t just make itself at home in Toledo in capturing its first win just down U.S. 23 since 1999. It turned the Rockets’ visiting locker room into a veritable frat house, with coach Chris Creighton playing the role of Blutarsky and raising a blue glass punch bowl above his head like a spoil of battle, then hurling it against the concrete wall.

“We shattered a glass bowl in the Glass Bowl!