Denard Calls State Little Brother

Jimmies were rustled.

somewhere in EL

LANDED ON THE MOON. 

The writer of that article starts off by trolling MSU, but by the end he's trolling Michigan.  He's looking to stir the pot...he just wants page views.

Tastes great.

http://youtu.be/nehhH9rfnaw

It was much better in Mike Hart's case because he was undefeated against MSU.

I'm sure the usual 'other fanbase' is taking this all calmly and in the spirit of competition that Denard intended.

Kind of souldn't have said that when you go 1-3 against MSU and were a field goal from 0-4.

Every Michigan man deserves the right to call State little brother. Until the rivalry switches favors. A four year run is not determinate.

of this. Love me some Denard, but we need some clever new ways to troll. 

Well, they are.

"We take the rivalry from the corrupt! The Big Bro! The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with coaches slapping themselves and 49-0 beatdowns, and we give it back to you... the Sparties. MSU is yours. None shall interfere. Do as you please. Start by storming Spartan Stadium, and freeing the oppressed! Step forward those who would serve. For Beer Bongs will be raised. The powerful will be ripped from their decadent dorms, and cast out into the cold world that we know and endure. Couches will be burned. Rioting will be enjoyed. Blood will be shed. The police will survive, as they run out of tear gas. This great campus... it will endure. Sparty will survive!"

Just when I thought it wasn't possible to love Denard any more...

"little brother" they are the little brother that grows up really fast and then kind of works the "big brother" over in games of one on one in the driveway.  This angle on Staee is played.  It also brought about years of wrath against everything Michigan the first time it was said.  Let it go.  Start beating them regularly and then we can just go back to not thinking about them at all.

as I love Denard, coffee is for closers.  When you're 1-3 against them this is a bit of a stretch.

However, despite that - it's still true.  Until the end of time, they will always measure their success against how they do compared to us & against UM.

My logic when dealing with Sparty. They don't ackowledge Bobby Williams/John L. I don't acknowledge RRod. We are 1-1 right now. Well 2-1 if you count Lloyd vs Mark.

I likes listening to Valenti and Foster talk about this. My favorite part was how they (yet again) were suggesting that Michigan fans are a bunch of trolling meatheads and all Sparties are rational and reasonable. And then Valentine says all the time "come on Michigan fans why aren't you calling in?" I wonder...

Michigan is still transitioning into a pro-style offense. Gardner is a great athlete, but not a pro QB. Have to beat State and have to beat Ohio. Bottom line.

I love how 'Little Brother' gets MSU fans all worked up, when it is their own coaches fault that it has taken on a life of their own. If Dantonio would have taken the high road than Mike Hart's little brother comment probably would have been a one or two weekend bit.

Hart's little brother comment? Nevermind I don't want to think about it.

Not to be "that guy" but isn't Denard 1-3 against State?

It's funny because they always get so mad about it.

but I can't help but smirk whenever it happens because you and I both know it pisses them off to no end

Denard has no right to call State little brother.  He was 1-3 against them and was just plain terrible when they played.  Mike Hart knows what its like to be little brother, he was 0-4 against Ohio State.  Pathetic.  Its time for us to stop talking and start winning!

MSU owned Denard so there is that

But the old saying does apply here. "He how laughs last, laughs the loudest."

When Sparty beats Michigan, that is typically their biggest accomplishment.



When Michigan beats Sparty, we laugh and tell them, "Better luck next year."



Arguably, Dantonio's greatest years came on the back of Michigan's worst. And even though he shared a conference championship with Wisconsin in 2010, they didn't go to the Rose Bowl, or a BCS bowl for that matter. However, in 2011, we LOST to Sparty, didn't win the conference, and went to the Sugar Bowl anyway. Whether or not we deserved to be there is irrelevant. The Bowl committee thought we were worthy, and not Sparty.



No matter what, the success of Sparty is always measured to the might of Michigan. As Michigan and Ohio State compete for conference titles, Rose Bowls, and National Championships every year, Sparty competes for...whatever the former two left behind in their pursuit of success.



So, even though Denard didn't win more than 1 game against Sparty, he is right - our important games rank OSU and ND before Sparty, therefore, they are the perennial little brother.

What the author wrote is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on the internet is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

This may be the unpopular opinion but Denard being 1-3 against Staee is irrelevant, IMO. Staee isn't little brother to certain players who were successful against them, they're little brother to the University of Michigan. Unless that changes, any M player has the right to view/refer to them as such. Backing it up on the field does better reinforce the idea, though.

1-3.

...talking smack with his eligibility over.  Pretty weak sauce, IMO.

And count me in with the sect that loves Denard but thinks a 1-2 record doesn't leave much room for him to rag on Sparty.

Now, if he wants to call ND "little brother"...I'll sign onto that all day long.  What does a big brother do with a little brother?  Teaches him to play a game...and then beats the pants off him at that game until he runs off crying and doesn't want to play anymore.

Plus Denard was 2-1 against ND, so...yeah.

I kind of wish this meme would die.  I love Denard, but this stuff drives me crazy because of its total irrelevance.

As much as I liked Denard, he did not win a single Big Ten title... rare for a Michigan QB who started so long... plus, MSU beat him and good.... so he should really shut up, and should NOT have said that.    There is NOTHING more unifying than a common enemy... and when Hart called MSU that, it did help bring them together....

was 1-3, while true isn't exactly accurate. He basically had no influence on the game in 2009 meeting. Not to mention the whole lack of actual defense helping him and the offense out in the 2010 game.

I thought Tom Brady said it best when he talked about the guys wearing the helmets and playing now represent not only themselves and their team mates but every man that has ever worn that helmet through the years.....In some of the darkest days of the Maize and Blue, he and his smile and his magic brought the few rare smiles and moments of joy experienced by Michigan Men and Women throughout the Universe.  Let us remember he did not win or lose those games all by his little lonesome....THE TEAM BOYS, IT IS ABOUT THE TEAM....