The 91st Crosstown Shootout that pits the Cincinnati Bearcats against the Xavier Musketeers in men's basketball was held on Saturday. This is such an anticipated event on the early winter sports calendar that it now has the purest of Cincinnati sponsors: Skyline Chili. Back in the day, when listening to clear-signal AM radio was a thing, I recall the wired-up Bill Cunningham talking about this .
StateStreetApostle
December 30th, 2020 at 9:04 AM
[Ed-Seth: Bumped from the board because this is the single greatest reader contribution in MGoHistory. Original thread.]
So some (ahem) 2.5 years ago, when Brian did McGrone s recruiting profile, he called him the very model of a modern Don Brown linebacker .
This immediately resulted in me taking a half-hour plus off work that afternoon to craft the entire rest of song ( The Major-General s Song, from G&S
The Pirates of Penzance) in a comment on said article (about which Brian then sagely tweeted something like the inevitable result of a passing Gilbert & Sullivan reference on a Michigan blog ).