Tressel Billboard: Not Our Fault

At the time I thought nothing of it, other than that his dad was a Michigan fan.

Am I confused, or is this saying the opposite of what you're saying it is saying?

thing that wasn't a big deal still isn't a big deal.

Do you understand that the world does not revolve around you and your do whatever it takes, ruin as many people's lives, so long as you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose or people you leave dead and bloodied along the way, just so long so you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose or people you leave dead and bloodied and dying along the way?

I love this post. Great work to Section 1 and Brian..

EDIT: You guys that piss and moan about having to read this billboard/MGoBoard shit need to lighten up. I don't mind the trolling tag considering the people taking this too seriously will also be the people taking fake points too seriously.

If anyone else want to get in on putting up the same billboard just to piss off Section 1 and the Michigan fans who were so offended by the thought that this was done by a Michigan fan, feel free to let me know.

Off-topic: Lisa Byington (of WLNS Lansing), who is in that video, is far from perfect as a sports broadcaster, but I'm still surprised that she hasn't moved on to a bigger stage (for example, Tulsa or Syracuse) than Lansing.

I'm more interested in Sparty's billboard messages from 2008.  I had never seen those before.  Heh.  And they wonder why the little brother label fits them so well.

Who loses 6 straight games to a rival and then puts up a billboard taunting the rival when they finally beat them for the first time that decade?  And then to throw Toledo in there? 

Do you know how many times I've seen crappy teams beat up on MSU over the years?  I've seen them lose to Central 3 times.  I've seen them lose to Rutgers 3 times.  I've seen them get beat by under .500 Louisiana Tech, Louisville, Kansas.  I watched a GOD awful Indiana team beat the crap out of them in East Lansing several years back.   Do you know how many billboards we would have had to build just to sink to that level? 

And really?  Taunting us over our 34 year bowl streak coming to an end?  Do you know MSU's longest bowl streak in school history?  4 years.

Epic little brother.  Always and forever.

Order is restored. I was pretty worried there. That's a pretty lame billboard.

The reason Section 1's original post was on the boards and not the diaries is because I knocked it down there. My explanation:

Thanks for the research Section 1. If you can find out who actually was behind it that might be diary-worthy. However I think what you have right now isn't a smoking gun, just a phone call and a lot of editorial around it.

It's worth being on the board. But like I said, find out who actually put it up and leave a paper trail.

The Facebook snooping is that paper trail, so I stand by my editorial decision. But I wanted to put that out there for those of you now reading this for the first time who might have read it before had I not bounced it from the diaries.

Admission of bias: Personally I'm with the "don't give a damn" crowd. If Northwestern or Stanford calls to say "I'm disappointed ol' chap; that was quite against our standards," we can tell them our kid brother did it, but neither the target nor the national audience see the board as embarrassing -- they think all rivalry ribbing is cool.

makes me wish it was the middle of october right now.\

just want to take care of business and quietly walk off the field, restoring the natural order and thinking about the next game.

If the original post is indeed true, and I believe it is, I am glad a Michigan Fan wasn't responsible for the billboard. Just goes to show how having a major inferiority complex makes your team look tacky, tasteless and tormented. Hope we don't incur in this sort of behavior any time soon. Our Team should always do the real talking on the field.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell ya, to find out a Sparty was behind this.

I care because it is so utterly lame. 

If we wanted to put up a billboard, at least it would have to be more clever, right?
(your suggestion goes here)

"liar, liar, vest on fire" - to attribute that to Paul Reiser is cruel to Reiser. And Reiser has turned in some great performances, if you recall "Aliens". He almost got Ripley with one of those Alien things, you know, but then she kicked some ass. And Newt, too, don't forget Newt.

Anyhow, glad that this stupid thing is over, and that if anyone ever gives us credit for something so dumb and puerile, we can pass the buck to where it usually belongs: Sparty.
This is particularly useful to me as some relatives are Buckeyes, and some Spartans (neither by blood, I should point out).

I feel like Will Hunting, about to break down and weep with relief.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions on the original billboard post.  :)

I wish I had the free time others here do.

My first thought was that that billboard was a fake. 

Then I thought, with the video capabilities in some billboards, one could make a giff something like this: