Classless Ohio State Fan
This weekend I drove to North Carolina for a business meeting and passing through Ohio something interesting happened. My car has a huge Michigan decal on the back window and going through Ohio some Ohio state fan threw a glass bottle at my window. He missed but this was still a huge shock to me. I was pissed and wanted to get back but then decided to just pull up next to him and just gave him a thumbs up sign. Then as I passed him an undercover cop pulled him over and told me on the radio to pull over too. I didnt stick around to find out what happened to him since I was on a tight schedule but this incident really shocked me.
August 17th, 2009 at 6:26 PM ^
Classless and Ohio State fan in the same sentence? I have never heard such a thing.
August 17th, 2009 at 10:09 PM ^
You mean there's just one?
August 17th, 2009 at 6:26 PM ^
Redundant title.
August 17th, 2009 at 6:26 PM ^
Was it a bottle of Makers Mark?
August 17th, 2009 at 6:29 PM ^
It was probably Grey Goose. Buckeyes love that stuff, just ask Maurice Clarett.
August 17th, 2009 at 6:34 PM ^
Grey Goose: Most overrated vodka. Belvedere is where its at.
August 17th, 2009 at 7:01 PM ^
I'll have to try it. Kettle One is also very good.
August 17th, 2009 at 7:09 PM ^
Did you know that $13 Smirnoff actually wins virtually every blind taste test with Belvedere, Goose, and Ketel One?
August 17th, 2009 at 7:54 PM ^
take this from a soviet, if you've never had Russian Standard Platinum, you've never had good vodka.
And if you mix it with anything, you should be shot.
Chilled shots with good friends and food only please.
http://www.russianstandardvodka.com/#/en/
August 17th, 2009 at 9:13 PM ^
Dill pickles and vodka shots are the way to go.
August 17th, 2009 at 10:38 PM ^
to go with the black bread, pickles and vodka shots.
Otlichno!
Yvgeni, otkuda vyi?
Ya zanimalcya russkim yazikom b universitetye michigana i ya rabotal v moskvye.
That said, I've not spoken regularly in a while and my vocab's evaporated.
August 18th, 2009 at 9:15 PM ^
nailed it! you my friend, have obviously partied Soviet style.
Ya iz Kieva. Ya tozhe vsyo zabil. I bolshe vopshye negovaru pa Ruskye.
And I suck at writing in Russian phonetically even more.
August 19th, 2009 at 6:45 AM ^
Hey, cut that out -- how do we know you guys aren't planning a Communist Revolution or something?
August 19th, 2009 at 11:07 AM ^
Stop speaking fucking Sputnik. I'm sure you're all just talkin about pierogi's and snow and shit like that, but knock it off.
J/K of course, I love pierogi's.
August 17th, 2009 at 11:50 PM ^
drinking bottles of perfume (because it's cheaper) on the steps and dying of cirrhosis at the age of 40. Ahh, I love to drink Russian-style! Na zdorovje!
August 18th, 2009 at 1:29 AM ^
Eh, I'll stick to bourbon and Scotch.
August 17th, 2009 at 8:44 PM ^
I'm just not a big Smirnoff fan. But it has been a few years... Guess I'll just have to by a lot of vodka and drink untill I figure this one out.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:27 AM ^
ive had to many poor nights with smirnoff that its almost hard to drink
August 18th, 2009 at 1:39 AM ^
This makes me sad.
August 18th, 2009 at 11:31 PM ^
maybe, but if you drink more than a shot or two, it's definitely worth it to spend a little more because smirnoff hangover >>>> belve/goose/ketel hangover.
August 17th, 2009 at 9:11 PM ^
is the best
either that or Popov
August 18th, 2009 at 4:16 PM ^
Is that you?
August 17th, 2009 at 10:12 PM ^
There is an excellent vodka from Ukraine called Nemiroff. It's terrific, especially Nemiroff Premium. I highly recommend it if you can find it. It is sold in some places in the US.
August 18th, 2009 at 12:46 AM ^
Gentlemen, please. Finlandia Vodka or nothing, I say!
August 17th, 2009 at 6:33 PM ^
Did you just keep going or did you stop to talk to the officer and then leave? Seriously, I would be worried that an Ohio cop would ticket me for causing the other guy to throw the bottle.
August 17th, 2009 at 6:36 PM ^
i talked to the cop but did not stick around much after that. The guy had a record for something else so the copped called for back up. I could not stick around
August 17th, 2009 at 7:00 PM ^
If you could have stayed, would you have? If the cop needs backup, I say its time to leave!
August 17th, 2009 at 6:37 PM ^
A few years back I actually had to make monthly visits to one of our manufacturing facilities that was south of CBus 30 minutes. One trip was during the time as the shootings on the belt line, maybe I-270?
Anyway I remember being so paranoid about driving an M plate through that state and around the CBus area that I actually rented a car for two days that had some random state license plate. I still think it was the right decision.
August 17th, 2009 at 6:40 PM ^
You hear stories like that but never think it will happen to you and then it does. I've heard a lot of stories about those kind of things happening. On the flip side has anyone seen or heard of a Michigan fan doing that to an opposing fan?
I have one that I enjoy reminiscing about from time to time. While walking to the Big House for the Michigan Notre Dame game in 2003 my sister and I happened to walk by a frat house. There was a group of Notre Dame fans walking in front of us and while passing the frat's front yard a guy grabbed the hose and sprayed them. The Notre Dame fans confronted him but his back was covered by many of the people in the front yard. He once again sprayed them and said something I will never forger, "GO BLUE OR GO HOME". Good times.
August 17th, 2009 at 6:44 PM ^
Thats pretty funny. Aside from them getting wet nothing too bad happened but this was close to costing me a couple hundred to replace a window
August 17th, 2009 at 7:00 PM ^
Your lucky he forget to aim for the car in the middle.
August 17th, 2009 at 7:57 PM ^
I once heard a Michigan fan make a clever aside once to an opposing fan.
Really. This opposing fan was walking by this Michigan fan's house after Michigan had just defeated his (the opposing fan's) team handily, and the Michigan fan, without warning or anything, called out a clever, witty comment that was totally germane and insightful to the current situations of both teams, while still giving respectful deference to past victories of the current fallen and the likelihood of the same in the future, while also being short and memorable and making good use of metaphor.
I bet that opposing fan felt pretty awful afterward, having his (0-3) team so thoroughly yet tactfully and succinctly shown its inferiority through use of high rhetoric. I bet next time he'll think twice about supporting his team in our city now that he knows someone may say something so utterly irrefutable and funny that he has no choice but to laugh and agree, thus minimizing his (the opposing fan's) true loyalty to his team.
August 17th, 2009 at 8:57 PM ^
Hurrah!
August 17th, 2009 at 7:08 PM ^
That wasn't Terrell Pryor throwing that bottle. I hear
he can't hit nothing either. Go Blue !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 17th, 2009 at 7:13 PM ^
This isn't Scout or MLive.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:32 AM ^
It's funny 'cuz he can't pass, despite what that 60%+ completion percentage last year says.
August 17th, 2009 at 7:16 PM ^
I'm just wondering why you have a huge Michigan decal on your back window. I generally feel that if someone had the same decal in Ann Arbor that they would have a similar experience... especially if Tater was in town.
August 17th, 2009 at 10:33 PM ^
Why would i have such a decal on my window? is this really a question seriously? Its because i like to show people where my loyalty lies. Ive been a Michigan fan ever since i can remember this is just one of the ways a fan shows off his loyalty
August 17th, 2009 at 10:54 PM ^
I'm confused by what you mean by window, actually. Are you referring to a window on either the drivers or passengers side or to your back windshield? It was not a question of why you'd want a Michigan decal (I had UM plates when I lived in Michigan)
August 18th, 2009 at 7:51 AM ^
i have one covering the whole back windshield. its the one with little square holes in it so you can see through it. and i have 1 on each side of the rear door windows
August 17th, 2009 at 10:48 PM ^
No bottle throwing from Tater, even at the most vile OSU fan. My supraspinatus has about as many cells left as your cerebrum; it doesn't make for a very stable overhand throwing motion anymore.
August 17th, 2009 at 7:32 PM ^
driving to the 2007 osu game some osu fan stuck his fat ass out the window at my uncle. he just flipped him off and sped up.
August 17th, 2009 at 8:22 PM ^
I have a magnetic M decal on the back of my car, but since I work in C-bus I take it off during the week and put it back on during the weekend. Everytime I have left it on my car I come back to find it gone. Really annoying actually.
August 17th, 2009 at 10:04 PM ^
Where can I find one? I don't use adhesive bumper stickers because they never come off but magnets are good.
August 18th, 2009 at 2:29 AM ^
Someone bought me the one I have on my car currently, I'm not sure where they purchased it. When I buy them, I usually go Ebay.
August 18th, 2009 at 7:18 AM ^
I've seen them at MDen, among other places.
August 18th, 2009 at 6:49 PM ^
It was only after spending my hard earned coin on a fabulous MGoBlue magnet and waiting till after the 4 hour drive home from AA that I found out the hatch on my Suburban is aluminum [great for weight reduction, bad for sticking magnets]...so I have this massive magnet stuck to my fridge...now my kids insist that the cheer is not "Go Blue!" but "M Go Blue!" as per the ever present fridge magnet [have you ever tried to disuade a five year old from something they already know...]
August 17th, 2009 at 9:53 PM ^
I would probably be in the pen.