“Polly wants to kill himself.”
Since a Buckeye is really not as cute as a cock-a-poo, the Big Ten website has just started posting pictures of Big Ten graduates’ pets strutting around in apparel from their owners’ alma maters. What we’ve learned from the site: Apparently, graduates of Northwestern (my alma mater) don’t like animals too much, or perhaps have something against putting football helmets on small animals. Also: football fans are weird. — Rebecca Meiser
This article appears in Oct 24-30, 2007.