Apparently, the Big House is the land where time stands still, where clocks melt like a Salvador Dalí painting and Deloreans wind back the minute hand just enough for the home team to get another chance.
It’s where games end but somehow continue, where football takes 60 minutes and one second and days are 24 hours and one second. Where teams already afforded every advantage are now given the gift of imaginary time.
That is the real travesty in Western Michigan’s 13-12 “loss” to Michigan.
The Broncos seemed to have pulled off the biggest win in school history only for the official to add one second back on the clock for one last play, in which Michigan completed a Hail Mary pass for the win.
This entire offseason has felt like a protracted exercise in gluttony. The conferences, schools, players and coaches who already have so much still want more, and when they can’t get it, they go to court to get their way.
