We've all been there. Waking up in the morning after a nighttime rendezvous, in a bed that's not ours, trying to figure out what our next move should be.
We find ourselves in a similar quandary the morning after a Northwestern football game. That night of sleep between then and now should help illuminate things a little bit more.
So was it as satisfying as we thought yesterday? Or should we have just said no and moved on with our lives?
Luckily there's a scale to help us gauge things a bit from best to worst:
5. Ready for a second round right now.
4. I'll at least stay for breakfast and see what happens from there.
3. Saying goodbye in person, but bolting immediately
thereafter.
2. I guess leaving a note would be polite.
1. Who cares if I don't have my clothes? I'm getting out of
here.
Any guesses where last night's game ranks? Find out if you've got me figured out by clicking the jump.
For the perfect summation of how I feel this morning watch this video. You'll be able to figure out who represents Purdue and who is the symbolic Northwestern pretty easily.
So yeah, pretty much games like last night's and mornings like today are the reason option 1 - "Who cares if I don't have my clothes? I'm getting out of
here." - was invented.
No, one game of shooting yourself in the foot so many times that I can't believe NU has any feet left isn't the end of the world. But neither is waking up to a person who is absolutely disgusting and knowing that what happened the night before cannot be undone.
We can't just pretend like last night's game didn't take place - those bad play calls, drive-killing penalties, missed field goals, special teams muffs, and inability to stop the zone-read were all 100 percent real. Believe me I've tried, but that pit of sadness still sits in my sick stomach.
What we can do is know that good teams rebound, eventually nailing someone that may be slightly out of their league. I keep telling myself that last year the 'Cats lost to Minnesota at home, won ugly in other early Big Ten games and then took down teams like Iowa and Wisconsin to sweep the month of November. That team and that coaching staff responded to adversity, and I see no reason why it can't happen again.
Let's just hope these "weeds" aren't the kind that are immune to Fitz's pesticides and/or we never play a home night game again (as @NUArchives pointed out ion Twitter Northwestern nighttime futility dates back to the first-ever under the lights contest that NU lost to Purdue 7-0 in 1935.) Otherwise more figurative hookups with obese, dirty people who are missing teeth (i.e. Iowa fans) are on the way.
Filed under: Football
Tags: bad losses, Northwestern Wildcats, Purdue, The Morning After
