This is one of the best articles I have read in a long time. Carson Palmer, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback, discussed his hatred respect for the Ohio State Buckeyes and their football program. The quote of the day:

I cannot stand the Buckeyes. It’s amazing to hear what those guys think about that university and what they think about that football program and Tressel and all the crap I gotta put up with being back there.

I just can’t wait for two years from now when SC comes to the ‘Shoe and hopefully we’ll have a home game that weekend, and I can go up there and watch us pound on them in their own turf.

I’m really getting sick of it, and I just can’t wait for this game to get here so they can come out to the Coliseum and experience LA and get an old-fashioned Pac-10 butt-whoopin’ and go back to the Big Ten.

Yes Palmer attended USC, but now plays in Cincy, close enough to Ohio State to smell the wretched Buckeyes. Ok he did later soft-retract the statement, saying that like a good fan, he might have got a little too fired up. Translation: “Yeah, I meant what I said, but the team/league/school wants me to pretend that I don’t.”

I can completely relate to Palmer. I am Detroit born and raised. I went to school at the prestigious and beautiful University of Michigan. Now I live in Ohio, surrounded by pungent Buckeye fans. (Yeah Michigan and Ohio State fans do not play well together, especially when drinking, trust me.) So much to the disapproval of my neighbors, I fly my maize and blue whenever possible. My giant M flag hangs from my roof year round and I even have a couple of customized pieces, say for instance my “Fuck Them Bucks!” T-shirt. After all, who is afraid of a set of hairless nuts anyways???