Any other wolverines live in hostile territory?

I live in the state that local press tells me is now dominated by Michigan State.

Does that qualify?

Hostile may not be the right word. Dismissive of all things Big Ten might be a better description. Although, UT fans are still pissed Woodson won the Heisman.

I go to ND law school, I'm sitting in a class right now wearing a Michigan hoodie so yea, I'm in hostile territory and yea I take crap for it. Try sitting in the ND student section last year for the Michigan game wearing a Michigan jersey. Had a few beers tossed my way.

I go to school at Michigan, but I'm from Toledo, OH. It's really interesting because there is a 50/50 split between Michigan and OSU fans. There is even a successful chain of stores that sells both Michigan and OSU products. Sadly I feel like I live in Columbus because 90% of my friends and family are OSU fans (and the worst- some are fair weather fans [mom]) so yeah, the last few years have been great for me.

Although hostile probably isn't the word for it. Aside from the actual game week, people are pretty cool about it. They've certainly enjoyed our fall from grace but most took it pretty easy on me. I think there's still a healthy fear after the owning we had on 'em up until last year.

I've got PSU neighbors all around me and they're pretty respectful about it, probably because they know I'm loyal. They've been through their own dark age when paw-print car magnets were nowhere to be seen and lesser fans kept their Nittany Lion gear in the back of the closet.

Probably the biggest gripe they've had over the last 10 years is that Lloyd got all the calls when the game was on the line. "Give us back our two seconds, etc." Oh, and they still hate Mario Manningham.

I live near ND but on the Michigan side of the line. It is probably 70:30 ND to Michigan ratio here but as you head north the ND effect quickly fades.
The only thing I get when wearing Michigan gear is friendly ribbing. I did catch some crap last year wearing a "Michigan Dad" shirt to the ND/Purdue game.

but my Dad is from South Bend, and is a huge ND fan, as is his whole side of the family. My mom's side of the family are MSU trolls. So yeah, guess who's not looking forward to Thanksgiving.

And in typical OH-IO fashion, even though there are three colleges within 45 min of the city, including 2 within city limits, everyone is a friggin' OSU fan. The true OSU grads who I work with on base at Wright-Patt AFB are fine, it's the Dollar General Buckeyes who you see at the gas station at 6am before work who all claim to be a cousin of Brandon Saine or Katzenmoyer (and who knows, it is Ohio, it maybe true) that give you the most shit for your UM license plate holder, or the UM polo yo umay be wearing to work. I'm in a private subdivision now on the outskirts of one of the small towns surrounding Dayton, but when I first moved down here, my condo with the small UM flag would get egged every OSU-UM Sat like leaves falling off a tree. I've become quite proficient in the garden hose wash-off now.

I live in Pittsburgh with 3 PSU grads, play on a hockey team with 4 OSU grads, and my old manager was a MSU grad (new one is Wisconsin).

I also live in ACC/SEC country(Greenville, SC). Running into Buckeyes around here is a very unique experience. You are so far away physically from MI/OH that you feel somewhat detached. You would think this would calm nerves down but in my experiences, it has made things worse.

I run into Buckeye fans pretty frequently downtown or when I visit Charleston and it typically ends in shouting. I am a born and raised South Carolinian(...but the biggest Wolverine you will ever meet), so my usual response is telling Buckeyes to "Go back to America's asshole. South Carolina hates the Buckeyes". They usually end up telling me I'm not a real fan since I'm not from Michigan.

and the whole eastern bloc is buckeye land. it's brutal.

It appears we have a few folks from the South Bend In. / Niles Mi. neck of the woods. Drive right past ND twice a day to go to work and then back home.

I'm in Dayton too.

When I moved back here from A^2 in 2000 you would see about as many people wearing Michigan as tOSU gear.

Then last Saturday I go to Wright State's graduation. A couple of the grads had GO BUCKS written on their hats, and some wore Buckeye necklaces.

When they got on stage I booed them. Just a little bit.

I live in North Central Ohio (as a M season ticket holder) and I believe that there's something wrong with you.
All of the opponents fan bases around here are very cordial, especially the Buckeye fans. For instance, Every time I don a magnet or flag on an automobile, they promptly remove it to protect the exterior finish and increase my aerodynamics.
The fixation of auto finishes doesn't stop there. Every time I wear my shirts/coats out in public they graciously offer to use it as a rag to wash their own vehicles.
They also seem to care a great deal about landscaping. Whenever I place a object in the front lawn,(flag, stepping stone, etc.) they quickly remove it to decrease insect infestation and to ease my "curb appeal" maintenance.
My continuing education is at the top of their list as they are constantly reviewing with me the correct spelling of O-H-I-O.
One would think that these behaviors only take place during peak times, such as football season, but nooo. These fans work feverishly throughout the year to keep me updated on all the negative things going on in Ann Arbor and all the positive things going on in Columbus.
I'm not sure what I would do without them.

Try living in Columbus.

I wore the wolverine chasing a susaphone player shirt here in town and my waiter was like wait, what does your shirt say? Didn't you lose the last 6 years in a row?

But at least he was man enough to admit the shirt was creative. Said if OSU had anything similar he'd buy it too.

I plan to wear that shirt every time I can this year, just probably not on Lane Avenue.

I live just outside of Columbus, Ohio, I am forced to listen to the local sports talk stations everywhere I go. Every year someone buys me something that represents what bowl OSU is going to. This year I had a Rose on my desk at work, for a few years I got to enjoy some Tostitos Chips, was hoping for more of those this year lol.

I actually don't have a lot of bad things happen to me when I wear my Michigan stuff out, it's only around the Mich-OSU game that it becomes a little dicey wearing that stuff in public. Other than that it's mostly just friendly barbs traded with OSU fans that I know, people that don't know me rarely say anything to me when I have Michigan stuff on.

I'm in Cincinnati and there is a pretty good mix of Big 10 grads down here so it isn't bad at all. All the Buckeye fans I work with are all pretty reasonable.

I live in a small town in Southern Ohio, everyone is either an OSU or WVU fan. People yell random curse words at me when i drive around.

I live in Kingsport, Tn. (about 15 mins. from where Lloyd Carr was born in Church Hill, Tn.) Like DamnYankee said above the people here are under some illusion that Peyton Manning walked on water and deserved the Heisman just because he returned for his senior season. Never mind he never beat Florida and lost to Memphis in Knoxville in 1997. I had my block M flag stolen off my porch, other than that when they start the Peyton should have won the heisman crap (believe me I've heard it roughly a billion times) I just say look again the vote wasn't even close and I think Ryan Leaf was evry bit as good as Manning. This usually sends them spinning off in diff. directions. Then I counter with if he was so damn good how'd he lose to Memphis, who'd Michgigan lose to, that's right nobody because they won the National Championship. That usually ends it if not I come back with if he was so great why did they win the championship in 1998 after he was gone. Game over !!!!!!!

and now I'm back in Philly.

PSU fans are pretty bad since most of my friends and family are fans/former students there. They make sure the let me know how bad Michigan is when I wear my hat etc.

South Florida wasn't too bad actually I don't think anyone said a thing to me about Michigan since we beat Florida.

Anyone who lives in Ohio and is a Michigan fan gets my respect. I grew up 5 hours from Ohio so I didn't see or hear too many Buckeye fans growing up.

Now I'm getting married to a girl who is from Western PA and her mom's side of the family is all from Ohio and they are huge Buckeye fans so Thanksgiving is going to suck for me again this year + her family is huge Stiller fans so that is pretty bad in my book as well.

Badger fans can be assholes, especially after that game 2 Saturday's ago. They hate Michigan, unless we're playing OSU...then half of them want us to win, and the other half wants both teams to kill each other. Thankfully, I'm in Milwaukee. If I was in Madison my car would probably get vandalized. But on the bright side, at least I don't live in Ohio. I would rather be stuck in between Charlie Weiss and Mark Mangino on a flight to Australia.

South Bend resident. Notre Dame Law student.

The nice thing is that Notre Dame crapped the bed so badly this year that no one has had the heart to make fun of Michigan football.

Last year was painful, though. I drank many beers.

I live in Jim Tressels pool house. It isn't much, but his wife is pretty decent and he works long hours, so it has its perks. My mother always taught me all you need in life is a roof over your head and some sustenance. I have found comfort in sleeping on floatation noodles and damp towels.

LSU country. Generally, I get crap about how bad Michigan and the Big Ten are. It's been a different story this week though. People around here are praying that we fire RRod and bring in Les Miles. My friends who are LSU fans are saying that they'd gladly chip in to pay Les' buyout. I guess they're not very happy about the call to spike the ball with :01 left...

I'd live somewhere between Rhun and Khand - about 120 miles northeast of Mordor; Northfield, oh, in current times. A couple things I have learned while living amongst the red: Do not have the license plate "60 BLUE" if you value your car and flying a Michigan flag outside your house will earn you free toilet paper, eggs and other lawn ornaments.

I live about a half hour east of Columbus and avoid, for the most part, any OSU sports, the exception being when they lose. Then I read the Columbus Dispatch on-line and enjoy sharing the loss with the multitudes as they wallow in their misery.

There is a very interesting dichotomy around here. Most grads/students of OSU are reasonable and you can often have semi-rational football discussions. Then there is everyone else. This subset I refer to as the neanderthals. They often have large beer bellies and large foreheads. As Brian aptly pointed out in his great story from 2002, intelligent discussion with the apes is normally limited to two words, namely "fuck Michigan".

I was wearing a Michigan T-shirt one day and stopped to get gas. A guy with an OSU shirt, an obvious neanderthal, standing behind me in line asked why I would wear a Michigan shirt around here. I said I went to school there as did my sons. He looked at me and asked why? I said we couldn't get into OSU because we weren't smart enough. That made him happy.

(a.k.a. East Lansing)

To make matters worse, I live in the shadow of the campus...Once I went walking on campus in my Michigan sweatshirt during Michigan week, and someone attempted to run me down as I crossed the street (in the crosswalk with the right of way).

On the flip side, I've stood next to sparty in my Michigan gear. Next time, I'll have to take a picture. If I'm really brave, I'll try to give it a noogie.