OK, here's the thing though.
Purdue is going to win tonight.
I have documentable, incontrovertible proof.
This year, something is different. What, you may ask? New coach? New defensive system? Better facilities? Is Sagittarius in the seventh house along with the moon?
No, nothing like that.
You see, the wife and I were at the Wisconsin / Purdue game back in 2004. Orton's fumble. THAT game. The one that started this stupid curse.
My wife and I were in the south end-zone seats. The wife was pregnant at the time with our first son. We were seated right under the scoreboard, and every time Purdue scored, that big train whistle would blow.
My son did not appreciate the sound. He kicked every time it happened, apparently quite hard. He didn't like it. He couldn't do anything about it from where he was though, so instead he called upon the dark powers and he started the curse.
That's right Purdue fans. It's all his fault.
But you know what? It's over. My son is no longer living with us. He has taken his stuff, and more importantly, his football allegiances and moved to Ohio State. His voodoo is no longer affecting the Boilers for this game (and quite frankly, I fear for the OSU faithful that their first half struggles so far this year could be attributed to him....further evidence required).
Hopefully this is the beginning of 18 years of retribution. A cosmic rebalancing, so to speak.
Sorry Badger fans. It begins tonight.