What : University of Houston men’s basketball back in action Who : Xavier University (in Cincinnati, Ohio) men’s basketball team Where : The Cintas Center in Bad Chili, Ohio When : Friday, December 1st at 5:30PM Central / 3:30 PM Pacific
This game will be part of the Big East-Big 12 Battle
THE VERDICT:
There isn’t a large gap separating the abilities of these two squads. Xavier will put up a fight, but Houston gets the win. Houston 69.34, Xavier 64.71.
Xavier results so far this season…
Also…sidenote…if you’d like to get a glimpse of Xavier, they play Oakland tonight at 5:30 Central on FS1.
“The only thing “chili” about it is the shiver that goes down your spine when you watch Ohio sports fans shoveling it into their maws on television and are forced to reckon with the cold reality that, for as desperately as you might cling to faltering notions of community and universality, ultimately your fellow human beings are as foreign and unknowable to you as the surface of Pluto, and you are alone and always have been and will die alone, a world unto yourself unmarked and unmapped and totally, hopelessly isolated,”* he wrote.
Thank you, FunkMaster, for finding this delightful piece. I’ve seen the disgusting masses in a Dayton mall eating this stuff by the snowshovelfull. Couldn’t hold anything down for a week.
Food reviews are so naturally subjective that they don’t tend to matter. But when you have this many people warning you about something it must be repulsive.
From the Good News Journal:
“Folks, I’ve lowered my admiration for Midwesterners. Anyone who champions this stuff as “chili” are simply panty-waist simpletons who have no taste for real chili. Anyone west of the Mississippi would laugh at Midwestern palates who savor this crap. Especially offensive is a lack of tomato, or even a hint of peppery and spicy goodness that we in the west expect in a respectable chili.”
When we played Cinci at the Dynamo Stadium I, basically, had seats at the end of Cinci’s bench… Like I was a part of their team; that’s how close I was…
I yelled at a big ole lineman benchwarmer… “Spaghetti with chili-cheese on it AIN’T CHILI!!!”
It is interesting to watch all the other games. No one seems to play D like us, not even Tennessee or other touted D programs. Our aggressive attacking defense is abnormal, off the charts, compared to everything I have seen so far.
I was visiting my brother in Berea Kentucky and there was a Gold Star Chili restaurant. So I tried it. It wasn’t anything like real chili and was closer to a clove/cinnamon/nutmeg laden hamburger spaghetti sauce. I didn’t get sick or anything but it wasn’t something I’d try again.
