But within each matchup is a deep, dark, highly personal, nearly insane passion that has been built up and aged over many years like the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry, which will be renewed for the 104th time Saturday in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Tough week, huh? Let's lighten things up a bit before we get into exactly why that is, and take a gander at this highly inappropriate and insane "International Pro-Life Memorial" that's being planned in Wichita.
I realized quickly that what I used to think of as a bunch of meat slabs running around on a field is actually a highly nuanced competition, featuring insane nerds with an arsenal of some of the most athletically ridiculous people on Earth at their disposal.
Sitting down to talk with them has become a weekly ritual, which they seem to value highly even though it drove Marjorie insane several months ago and she ran off with an events planner who has no children.
If the movie were more ludicrous, more absurd, more insane, more melodramatic, it would be highly entertaining.
"Everything now is so highly documented and the speed of transmission is insane, so it's easy to be subconsciously influenced without even knowing it," said @diet_prada.
With rocks in the basement that glow in the dark and life-size wax figures of insane Siamese twins, the Bucharest Museum of Natural History is a highly educational place.
Conservative Christian commentator Rod Dreher has been highly critical of the website's "Conservative Bible Project", an ongoing retranslation of the Bible which Dreher attributes to "insane hubris" on the part of "right-wing ideologues".
He told highly convincing wee-hours bar stories that can't be printed but that had a way of involving "beautiful, insane" tourist women who nearly caused him to be late for work.
"It's insane, insane, insane, insane," one said cheerfully.
