- It's been called the greatest rivalry in all of sports.
Two of the most legendary teams in college football,
Ohio State and Michigan, known simply as, The Game.
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Welcome to College Game Day, I'm Dandy Dip,
with me as always is Chuck Puber.
Chuck, what can we expect to see this afternoon?
- Dandy, I'll be honest with you, I clicked a link
last night, and ended up spending about five hours
reading articles on how bad football is for the body.
I tried to get out of doing the show today
based on my moral revulsion, but the producers said
I had to come in.
- Well we see all that, but what can we expect
to see from the game?
That's what our viewers want to know.
- Brutality Dandy, what else?
These boys, so, so young, don't yet realize
the terrible toll this game will take on their minds,
their bodies, and their futures.
- Well, that's a bit of an overstatement there Chuck--
- Is it?
- We all--
- I don't think so.
- We all acknowledge that college football is a
rough sport, but it's one with a proud history--
- Says you.
- Yeah sure, Ohio State and Michigan have played
each other for over 100 years.
- We've been doing all sorts of horrible things
for more than 100 years.
American history is a labyrinth of nightmares--
- Not a fair parallel--
- I wanna show you a piece of footage.
This is a clip from the movie "Concussion"--
- Chuck we certainly don't have the rights
to show that at all--
- I don't care!
Movie blows this whole thing wide open,
did people just not see this?
Will Smith was in it!
- Hey, let's move on, thank you very much Chuck.
For a look at the starting match ups, here's Mike Bike.
Mike, will the Wolverines be able
to overcome Dwayne Haskins' passing game, what do you think?
- Dandy, Chuck emailed me an article about brain
injuries of dead football players, and ...
- Sure did.
- I can't seem to think about anything else.
- We don't need to, Mike--
- Take a look at this.
When a football player makes a headfirst hit,
his brain, suspended in fluid, keeps moving
until it makes impact with the skull.
Football turns a boy's own bones, into weapons.
- If we just get back--
- Mike I got a question for you, can you believe
how young these boys are?
- I know Chuck.
- They look like men, but they're really just boys.
- Heartbreaking.
- These athletes chose to play football, this is a game!
They enjoy playing this game, no one forced them into it.
- I believe it was Anatole France who once said that,
"The law and it's majestic equality forbids
"the rich and poor alike from sleeping under
"bridges, stealing loaves of bread and begging in
"the streets," his point there being that choice
is part of a social construct.
Social pressure can be subtle,
but it is in fact, impossibly strong.
- God that must have been one hell of a Wikipedia
hole you went down so--
- I'm awake and I'm not going back to sleep.
- And is the choice between abject poverty
and bodily harm, really any choice at all?
- Okay, you know, look at the coaching strategy for today,
let's go down to the field, talk to Gina Jeans,
Gina, how do things look in the shoe?
- Dandy, this is a beautiful stadium,
and was recently renovated to fit 105,000 fans.
- God, what a beaut, right?
- Think of all the ways a school, a school!
Could've used that money.
- Gina, did Chuck email you? - Chuck email me? Yes he did.
- Well, we wanna go back to talking to the coaches--
- Absolutely!
Ohio State's coach Urban Meyer is paid
over 6 million dollars a year!
His opponent today, Jim Harbaugh, is paid nine million.
Picture that the next time you see students
who can't afford textbooks.
Also, Urban knew, he knew the whole time.
- Folks, I'm just gonna go ahead and say
we need to get this back on track.
We're here to talk about the game.
- Gina, in Matthew 19:24, we are told by Christ
that it is easier for a camel to pass through
the eye of a needle, than for a rich man
to enter the kingdom of Heaven.
Given that, do you think these two coaches
are gonna get sucked straight into Hell when they die?
Or is it more likely, given all the injustice
in the world, that there is no God?
- We could talk about this some other time Chuck--
- Better question, how are they handling the fact
that those boys are getting paid what, exactly, Gina?
- They don't see a penny, Chuck.
- They make nothing, insanity!
- We'll talk about this on a very special episode--
- The owning class in this country,
only profits at the expense of the working class.
- Look, everyone, this is a fun,
this is a fun rivalry, right?
College football ...
Okay, yes Chuck, college football isn't perfect, right?
But it's a good 100% all-American tradition.
- Absolutely, Dandy.
Wealthy people profiting off the physical misery
of mostly minorities, what could be more
all-American than that?
- Why do you have such a problem
staring into the demons that have plagued this country--
- I like it, okay?
I like football!
It's mine, and I like it, and I'm not about
to just give it up because ...
What, what did you, did you write CTE on my face?
What is that?
- You bet I did, Dandy.
It's the brain disease that almost every
dead football player has.
It literally drives them insane.
- Okay. - Horrifying.
- No, you know what, I think it's time,
we, we're gonna go to commercial here.
So, we'll be right back with
an evening preview of Penn State.
- Penn State, oh, talk about boys--