11:27: I scramble to start my laundry in the basement of my building before TC arrives and questions my commitment to watching this game and starting this blog, both of which we thought of and agreed to not more than an hour earlier.
11:31: I get back to my apartment, no word from TC. The intro video is playing; it seems ESPN wants us to know we are in for some intense heavy-hitting action, otherwise they wouldn’t have set the guitars to “Axle Rose”.
