It's amazing how a dose of reality can sweep in and completely change the way we view things. When a famous person whom we "love" passes, it just seems to have such a different effect on us (collectively) than if it happens to a normal Jane or Joe that we might read about in the obits.

There were literally millions of people who got up yesterday morning and couldn't wait to get the day over with so that Saturday would roll around and they'd have that Michigan/Ohio St. game to watch and sort of get away from the real world. Then they hear the news of Bo's passing and all of a sudden the real world crashed the party, so to speak.

I think perhaps Oldfart summed it up perfectly, "Larger than life figures leave larger than life holes in our world."

RIP Bo, from one Hawkeye who is very grateful that you were ever here in the first place for all of us to enjoy.