{"id":2494,"date":"2012-09-01T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/et-tu-brutus.html"},"modified":"2012-09-01T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T15:44:00","slug":"et-tu-brutus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/et-tu-brutus.html","title":{"rendered":"Et tu Brutus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: right;margin-left: 1em;text-align: right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-lzJWtQY2BLA\/UEJkxjZIYxI\/AAAAAAAABRs\/w6U6Dw37lmg\/s1600\/Brutus-the-Buckeye.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-lzJWtQY2BLA\/UEJkxjZIYxI\/AAAAAAAABRs\/w6U6Dw37lmg\/s400\/Brutus-the-Buckeye.jpg\" width=\"280\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">Perhaps this year, Brutus will have something to cheer about<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Yes, as a matter of fact.\u00a0 And much to the probable dismay of Brandon Hanning, Mr. Buckeye-on-my-head had to do quite a few push ups today, because Ohio State came out and looked like they wanted to make a statement.\u00a0 After a shaky start, they seemed to find their groove, with Braxton Miller dominating as a rushing quarterback, and Urban Meyer showing there was not going to be any of this sitting on the ball in the third quarter because we\u2019re four points ahead style of playing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it doesn\u2019t really mean anything this year.\u00a0 Because of the horrific scandal involving tattoos for memorabilia that brought down Jim Tressel and turned the football program upside down, we can\u2019t go to the championship anyway.\u00a0 Still, it\u2019s nice to see them try.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see the changes.\u00a0 Perhaps those who didn\u2019t buy tickets will regret it.\u00a0 Of all years, this year they\u2019ve been offering OSU tickets when we don\u2019t have the funds to get them.\u00a0 Hopefully things will turn around for us, but if they turn around for OSU, that means I\u2019ll be back to the old one game a year looking down at the Goodyear Blimp.\u00a0 Oh well, if it brings a little pride back to the program and the school, maybe it will be worth it.\u00a0 And maybe, just maybe, the school won\u2019t feel the need to throw the poor fans under the bus next time we\u2019re doing well \u2013 but that\u2019s for some other post.\u00a0 For today, well done Bucks.\u00a0 Keep up the good work. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps this year, Brutus will have something to cheer about Yes, as a matter of fact.\u00a0 And much to the probable dismay of Brandon Hanning, Mr. Buckeye-on-my-head had to do quite a few push ups today, because Ohio State came out and looked like they wanted to make a statement.\u00a0 After a shaky start, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Et tu Brutus?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Perhaps this year, Brutus will have something to cheer aboutYes, as a matter of fact.&nbsp; 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