11 Reasons Why the Loss is Good for Michigan Fans

by Simon, SimonOnSports

Let's face it, I'm depressed. The loss was both shocking and heart breaking for myself and forced me to do a rage filled post as soon as I could put one out. You could find a similar post at just about every single other Michigan fans blog or message board, it was as if anyone in Maize and Blue lost a little bit of their soul. But after a few days I'm going to attempt to find the good in all of this. Otherwise I may continue to break my remote controls and this is the last spare I have left and I'm too lazy to get my ass off the sofa and change the channel on my own. So here goes, some positive thinking:

11. Michigan made the lives of all of the Athletes at Appalachian St. For the rest of their lives they will look back at that day as the best of their lives. And the student body even tore down their own goal posts, which is pretty cool.

10. For everyone in the country outside ourselves as Michigan Fans, it was the coolest opening to a college season in history. So maybe we should just think about it as giving back to the College Football Community for all they have given us. Kind of like Charity Work. You're Welcome.

9. Maybe by losing to Appalachian St. we've gotten all of our choking out in one single game. Losing to Ohio St. and getting trounced in the Rose Bowl is choking but to App St. thats pretty much the choke of all chokes. They've got to either be dead or have coughed it up right?

8. Notre Dame is still much worse this season. And at least we have them on our schedule.

7. The University of Michigan now holds a few records and records are good. So what if they are first AP ranked team to lose to a Football Championship Subdivision, or whatever garbage they are calling it, team as well as largest drop in the AP poll ever. They're still records. And we're in the books.

6. Mike Hart rushed for 188 yards and 3 touchdowns. You know who those stats are better than? Steve Slaton, Darren McFadden and Ray Rice. Bring on the Heisman Trophy.

5. Over the course of the rest of our lives we will never have a loss in which we were more shocked. We've gotten that out of the way now we can look forward to the future.

4. This is Chad Henne's last season at Quarterback. Which Means that Ryan Mallett, the #4 rated player in all of High School Football by Rivals.com last year, will soon be the Quarterback. He even has a #1 fan site already, though they should ease up on the John Navarre comparisons those aren't very flattering.

3. For every single team we beat this season we can make Appalachian St. references. For instance man beating Notre Dame was easy, Appalachian St. would throttle them. Appalachian St. is coached much better than Penn St.

2. Now I know that Appalachian St. is HOT HOT HOT even when its COLD COLD COLD.

1. Maybe just maybe this will be such a hard season for Lloyd Carr that he will retire, so we no longer have to endure his inadequacies during big games and his inability to prepare his ball club in September.

Alright who am I kidding, they have a team with Seniors around the board on offense and brought back their number #1 receiver. There's no f'n way they should have lost that game. Lloyd Carr should probably pull off what this guy did for his sins. Ya he should go that far.