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I gotta see this game!

Cleveland, Ohio -- Lots of basement rec rooms in this neck of the woods have scarlet and gray color schemes. Not too awfully long ago, Chief Wahoo was a popular tattoo. When LBJ was still an acceptable name to drop in mixed company, lots of Friday movie nights were rescheduled.

But Starting Blocks has to wonder: How many folks have gone as far as Major Hester? The 69-year-old retired office supply clerk from Detroit was supposed to have a pacemaker installed today. He had 'em put off the surgery so he could watch Saturday's showdown between No. 18 Michigan and No. 17 Michigan State, according to the Detroit News.

He postponed the surgery because he was worried something might happen during the operation that would prevent him from seeing the game.

“You never know,” he said, pacing back and forth in his living room. “It’s like going into combat. You may come home alive or you may come home dead.”

Of course, something might happen, sans pacemaker, during Saturday’s game against the University of Michigan.

Hester was willing to take the chance.

“Whatever happens, I want to see the game,” he said.

Now we acknowledge that sounds a little crazy, but Hester's not totally nuts: He's a Spartans man, not a Wolverines fan.

Starting Blocks wondered, though, what game would be enough for YOU to put off potential lifesaving surgery?