On Wednesday, October 28 there were lots of questions floating throughout the UA campus. Some were talking about homecoming queen; who did or won what, so on and so forth. But, the one question that most were asking was "If our opponent for the game Saturday forfeited, then who are we playing?!" (Enter shriek here)
For the UA, an SEC D-1 school, football is a religion. And with the most popular and biggest event of the year being homecoming, everyone was scurrying to pick up that week's Arkansas Traveler to get the scoop on homecoming court and pointers on the upcoming game. But no one was expecting there to be an article about E. Michigan's horrible record and attitude about playing Arkansas.
With the headline reading "Eastern Michigan: 'You know what, we're just gonna stay home'"most did not take the time to read more and instantly began their freak out. But those that did, still remained completely confused.
"We're going to take the gas money from the Arkansas trip and just take the guys out to Golden Corral," the article stated a faux-quote from E. Michigan coach Ron English.
The phones were ringing off the hook in the Traveler office and the editors' inboxes began filling with inquiries about what was going on! And their questions were answed with, "it was just a joke."
In the line directly above the title read "Satire" for all to see in bright red.
This is an example of how much people don't read newspapers. Or at least opinion columns. It was obvious that the game was not cancelled for there was no formal press-release or any thing. and With quotes like, "we're gonna dress up [for halloween] and play like a real team for once" and "one of the lindebackers just got the box set of Saw DVDs, so we've been watching those instead of game film everday" you'd think that people would not take this article seriously.
Although, the media is all around us. At some point, you have to not let it control your thoughts.
-R.
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