East Lansing firefighters and police responded to three couch fires and a dumpter fire between 10-11 p.m. Tuesday night in the Cedar Village area, including on Cedar Street.
The fires were reported after the MSU men’s basketball team lost to No. 1 Indiana, 72-68...
http://statenews.com/article/2013/02/couch-burnings-reported-tuesday-after-msu-loss
The fire chief knows the score...
Sparty students are getting soft
I gotta believe the 1980s students would of braved the cold.
Ha! I see what you did
Ha! I see what you did there.
Kids today (and even back in the 80s) are so tame. I won't even tell you what we allegedly used to do back in my college days!
Yes, THAT Craig James. Allegedly.
I'm thinking
Donkeys may have been harmed.
Is donkey another name for a
Is donkey another name for a hooker?
"There will be blood on the field and it won't be mine." -KK
-WHO THE FUCK TOLD YOU THAT
Yes, plus Sparty Bob and other
assorted thugs were seen.
Go Blue !!!
Dave Brandon: Detailed and thorough investigation proves that Freep report was intentionally misleading.
Speaking if Sparty Bob...
did anyone else suspect he was running the clock near the end of last night's game?
"I promise you we would have walked to the University of Michigan." - Brady Hoke
I said that exact thing to
I said that exact thing to the two sparty fans I was with, and I got really dirty looks.
I don't know who's hair is better, John Stamos circa Full House or Denard
GO BLUE
Mike Tirico brought up
Mike Tirico brought up Spartan Bob while broadcasting the game. That was pretty cool.
Go Blue! Always!
No doubt about it
On two separate plays, the clock failed to advance forcing the refs to waste everyone's time by watching the replay to figure out how much time to take off the clocks. Some things never change.
"You owe it to every man, woman, and child in the State of Michigan to beat the Buckeyes and silence their fans! Now go out there and make it happen!"
- Bo Schembechler (Result: U-M 22 OSU 0)
Pure coincidence that it was at the
end of the game and MSU was behind.
"I hate losing more than I like winning." - Zack
I was at the Spartan Bob game
Can we never mention that again?
/still holding that grudge
"Nobody cares what you think!"
That was the first Michigan
That was the first Michigan game I ever attended. I still can't believe it.
Just do it!
Even MORE amazing
is the unyielding denial of any wrongdoing by Sparty fans.
Oh, and the holding against Larry what's-his-name (Stevens?) on the final play was also magnificent.
"I promise you we would have walked to the University of Michigan." - Brady Hoke
It would be news if...
It would be news if there weren't couch burnings in East Lansing.
"To hell with Notre Dame."
"You're my boy Lloyd!"
A couch fire
becomes a dumpster fire if they throw their Arby's cups into the mix.
I love Greg Mattison
Hey now
Those are collectible.
or
if it spreads to the porch.
I guess this disproves my theory
about the intellect of a Spartan student. They have indeed evolved to the point of harnessing fire, although like the caveman, they still don't understand it. Has anyone checked the status of all area Taco Bell locations yet?
Sparty gonna Spart!
Great
I think it's great that they keep the stereotype alive.
Walmart Wolverines are OK in my book!
Personally, I think it is a
Personally, I think it is a great way to redecorate your porch and you get to roast marshmellows at the same time!!
Butterfly Effect
Truly shows how intertwined and circumstantial things really are. The outcome of one event leading to other events. I mean, imagine if they would have won, how different things would be. Your post would read...
BILG
Over a regular season loss?
Burning couches over a regular season loss? I can't imagine what they're going to do when they fail their math 100 quiz this morning because they weren't studying instead?
We're not teaching them about sports, we're teaching them about life!
LOLSparty
Spartan undergrads take math courses.....{uproarious laughter}....no man, what else you got?
"...what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
"Fix the cigarette lighter."
Reminds me of a joke involving math classes at Staee
Math 102: Subtraction, addition's tricky friend.
"Coach, if you need one yard, I'll get you three yards. If you need five yards, I'll get you three yards." -Leroy Hoard
so...it was just another
so...it was just another tuesday night in EL?
It's good to see...
in this crazy world we live in, some things never change. Except the name. They used to be called "Davenports". Now they are "couches".
funny
i remember about 20 years ago a minny gopher WR named Couch from Davenport, Iowa. no kidding.
My wife worked in furniture for a number of years.....
..... and she tells me that if you bought yours from say, Gardner White its a couch. If you purchased it from a high end place its a sofa.
The only thing you learn from history is that you never learn from history.
Spontaneous combustible death reported in Tulsa.
All kinds of strange things are happening.
Going a little off-topic here
Going a little off-topic here but does anyone get the sense when watching MSU games, that the Izzone has the biggest bunch of d-bags that are in their student section. They all try so hard to impress the camera and think they're all rock-stars or something. It made me root hard for IU last night. Ya just don't get that when watching the Maize Rage. I realize I am incredibly biased.
We're not teaching them about sports, we're teaching them about life!
Agree
I think the same thing, but I don't think the Izzone kids we see on TV are at all representative of the students there (or even the Izzone as a whole, for that matter). The kids they show are ridiculous.
.
Usually the kids who get to the front of any student section are always trying way too hard to get noticed on TV
If you're doing nothing, how do you know when you're finished?
Exactly
Those kids skipped class all day to get front row. I mean that's great, but I'm at Michigan to get an education, not just for sports games, those are just an added bonus.
Don't pay attention to our
Don't pay attention to our student section then. For the OSU game they had people lining up the night before, and after getting kicked out by police, they went back around 7:30am
If you're doing nothing, how do you know when you're finished?
The Izzone is just Spartan
The Izzone is just Spartan students' lame attempt at imitating the Cameron Crazies without the cleverness, which shouldn't surprise anyone because we're talking about Spartan students.
What I always find amusing about the Izzone and Sparty's pride in it, is how the name itself highlights the fact that MSU has no real history in college basketball prior to Tom Izzo ascending to the head coaching position. For all Sparty's chiding Michigan fans lately about "acting like a champion" or "acting like you've been there"; the most passionate faction of their fanbase has adopted a name that confirms MSU basketball history started only 15 or so years ago.
"...what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
"Fix the cigarette lighter."
no history?
you're kidding right? so Jud Heathcoate's 20 years there and the nat'l title with kelser and magic wasn't historic? Jud also won 3 big ten titles and had numerous tourny appearances. but you probably weren't born yet, but hey.
Still would be considered "New Money"
Your rebutal of 3 conference titles in 20 years kinda helps prove the point. Prior to Heathcote, they had nothing. They want to compare themselves to the traditional elite in both hoops and football, but it's garbage. You can't claim to be a historical team with no national presence prior to 30-35 years ago (and even though Heathcote made the tourney and was even a one seed once, they weren't Duke, Kansas, UCLA or anyone else "historic" from the early 80's to the middle 90's). I hear the argument all the time from Sparty fans that their basketball is like our football. But, they aren't anywhere near the top 5 in wins, winning percentage, national titles, tournament appearances or even (all-time) conference titles.
Their claim to fame is the decade from 1999-2009 where they won a bunch of tournament games, a national title and like 5 Final Fours. UCLA had a decade where they won 10 national titles.
Don't get me wrong, they have an impressive program and something to be proud of, but (respectfully) get outta here with "historic."
"Coach, if you need one yard, I'll get you three yards. If you need five yards, I'll get you three yards." -Leroy Hoard
I was born then and no I'm
I was born then and no I'm not kidding. Having one moment where fate smiled upon you to allow you to be top of the heap doesn't credibly allow you to claim yourself as part of basketball royalty. Indiana and Michigan have much richer basketball histories in the Big 10, yet Sparty would have you believe that they are the North Carolina of the midwest.
My point is that despite all their bravado, the fact that the most passionate faction identifies themselves with the coach and not the school is a subtle acknowledgement that their status as an "elite" program ends with Izzo's retirement and may have already ended with the rise of Michigan and Indiana back to prominence in conference.
"...what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
"Fix the cigarette lighter."
Blanket stereotypes suck.
Blanket stereotypes suck. Yeah, Michigan State has some hard-partying meathead students. So does Michigan. I just don't think we need to be so hard on some college students who are passionate about their basketball team and just trying to have a good time.
So...
..you saw the kids on TV and that made you root hard for IU last night? All it took for me was to look at the schedule listing: "IU vs. msu"
The Team, The Team, The Team
I was surprised to learn
That this was the first IU win at E Lansing since 1991.
Has anyone here tried to burn
Has anyone here tried to burn a couch? Without lighter fluid? It's actually quite a challenge. You need a solid base of heat - multiple pallets or a robust dumpster blaze.
Soooo, MSU students have
Soooo, MSU students have acquired skills on par with these guys?
Color me unimpressed.
"...what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
"Fix the cigarette lighter."
Is that a picture of MSU
Is that a picture of MSU students after the game?
Not sure
I Google Imaged "MSU Couch Burrning" and this is the first image that popped up....
[OK, not really....but it's still possible]
"...what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
"Fix the cigarette lighter."
And this
is a picture taken around 3am after the streets had cleared
The Team, The Team, The Team
Is that Manti Te'o on the bottom right corner?
He has magnificient breasts.
I have a feeling..
Those couches were gonna be a' blazing either way.
'East Lansing fire Capt. Greg Baker said it was “too cold” to draw huge crowds...'
'“I have to imagine if the weather was better and it was a weekend, things would have been different,” Baker said.'
Heh.