Written by Bart Doan at Bloguin
There are always those moments when you’re a kid on a trip with your parents to see family, and your folks decide to take a drive through the town where one or both of them grew up.
They carry on for about 15 minutes about how everything has changed, point out all the vacant buildings or chain store joints that used to be charming Mom and Pop places, and reminisce about how “back in the day” there weren’t so many gosh damned McDonald’s or Burger Kings.
You come to scratching your head about it all until you get older and you find yourself doing the same stinking thing. It’s the cycle of life, and ageism, I suppose.
At any rate, there’s comfort in that old place, with fewer stores, where you can name the silly moments from your youth and discuss who lived where and who has passed away, since you’ve shoved off and moved on as people tend to do.
For Michigan and Michigan State, probably earlier than you’d imagine, they’re back home again. They’re driving through Rivalry Town with a little mist in the eyes, patting junior on the knee saying, “It’s good to be back here again, even after so much has changed.”
The time away has been better to the Spartans than the Wolverines.
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