Are you ready for some football (posts)?

In honor of what should be a pretty good game tonight, I cannot resist a few football-related posts today.  To begin, consider this article’s discussion of a creative sentencing order:

A judge has ordered 34 unruly football fans … to pick up litter and to perform other acts of community service Monday, the day Ohio State plays for the national championship.  The fans — a mix of students, locals and out-of-towners — admitted to underage drinking, disorderly conduct or both Nov. 18, when the top-ranked Buckeyes defeated rival Michigan.

Municipal Judge Julia Dorrian, an Ohio State alumna, said she scheduled the community service Monday to send a message. “What we have to remember is we have to abide by the law.  I picked this particular date for community service because it would help folks remember that,” Dorrian said.

While other fans will be gearing up for Ohio State’s showdown with No. 2 Florida in Glendale, Ariz., the 34 people who received the sentence are expected to spend the day sweeping cigarette butts out of parking lots, cleaning restrooms, picking up litter and pulling weeds at such places as the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and the state fairgrounds.