I'm going against the grain; I'll be rooting for Sparty
Call me a traitorous bastard. Neg me to Bolivia. For today..... I will be pulling for Sparty.
I had no intentions to cross the line prior to the start of bowl season. Our friends in green have no understanding of the term "winning graciously" and I don't look forward to listening to them boast about their accomplishments all off season. Nor do I have a lot of faith that it's going to happen as I put Sparty losing as my #1 confidence in the bowl picks.
But then Iowa, Illinois, and Notre Dame took care of their business and I started to think....... Maybe all 8 of Michigan's opponents in bowl games can emerge with victories.
It wouldn't necessarily shine a rosier light on our horrific defensive performance during the season, but maybe it would remind everyone that we did have a challenging schedule and, prior to the start of the season, how most of us would have welcomed a 7-5 record and a new Year's Day bowl game.
So, for this bowl season, Go Sparty.... and PSU, OSU, Wisconsin, and UConn (lol?)
January 1st, 2011 at 10:46 AM ^
Terrorist
Traiter
Drunk
Good Night
January 1st, 2011 at 11:28 AM ^
BLASPHEMY!
January 1st, 2011 at 12:07 PM ^
TERRIST!
January 1st, 2011 at 10:49 AM ^
I am rooting for the plague to infest that stadium.
January 1st, 2011 at 10:49 AM ^
There's nothing wrong with most of what you said. There's only two things wrong with that last sentence:
So, for this bowl season, Go Sparty.... and PSU, OSU, Wisconsin, and UConn (lol?)
Never root for OSU. Please refrain from the dreaded "self-lol".
January 1st, 2011 at 10:56 AM ^
Ditto. It's okay (I suppose) to support Sparty in a contemptuous little-brotherish sort of way. But there are no circumstances that warrant support for tOSU. If it was tOSU vs. The End of the World, I would root for nuclear holocaust.
January 1st, 2011 at 12:23 PM ^
would match up pretty well against the Bucks with Posey, Herron, Pryor and co. out. Double digit spread, maybe.
January 1st, 2011 at 10:50 AM ^
Whoever wins that game, at least one of them loses.
January 1st, 2011 at 10:50 AM ^
Traitorous bastard.
January 1st, 2011 at 10:50 AM ^
Die Sparty. Die die die die die.
DIE YOU ABOMINATION!!!
January 1st, 2011 at 10:51 AM ^
That's a meteor game if I've ever seen one. Or at least a very localized one to take out the coaches.
January 1st, 2011 at 10:51 AM ^
Hey, I'm pulling for UM today, too. Nothing messes up a good firing like an unexpected win.
Go Blue!
January 1st, 2011 at 10:54 AM ^
MSU (ytMSU) loses by >14 points. Mwahaha.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:06 AM ^
Sparty is jerking it to Michigan...said so himself.
January 1st, 2011 at 10:53 AM ^
January 1st, 2011 at 10:54 AM ^
It not ok to root for MSU unless you don the ski mask and watch it.
January 1st, 2011 at 10:55 AM ^
Cheer for Sparty? Let me channel my inner Mike Singletary here... "can't do it"
January 1st, 2011 at 11:00 AM ^
Having just watched Bielema on College Gameday and being reminded of what a smug @*$$# he is, I am about ready to move Wisconsin into the ultimate hatred status as long as he is coach there. You should have heard him boast about how "we don't have those kinds of problems here," when referring to tOSU, etc.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:04 AM ^
Let's see how smug he is when he loses 15 or so fifth year seniors next year.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:12 AM ^
Right. That stuff never happens at Wisconsin.
Under the "great" Barry Alvarez, 26 players were suspended for 4 games for accepting free shoes and other gifts during the 2000 season. How would Bielema feel about that?
Anyway, back on topic. I have no respect for Nick Saban and the SEC. With that said, GO BAMA! Conference loyalty goes out the window with MSU and OSU. Screw them both.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:18 AM ^
Their players don't have any memorabilia that is worth buying.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:57 AM ^
I drove by his house one day. It's made of glass and he was just getting out of the shower. Yes I am now partially blind.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:06 AM ^
Things I'd rather have happen than a Sparty victory today:
all-day shopping with my wife
my annual physical (including that)
an IRS audit
a DUI
my dog dying
and.......
sharing an intimate moment with my 84 year old mother in law
January 1st, 2011 at 11:06 AM ^
I'll reciprocate and say I'm rooting for M.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:07 AM ^
The reputation of the conference is far less important than the ongoing recruiting battles. We should be rooting against our principal rivals for the future of the program.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:10 AM ^
The OP makes good points about the perceived strength of Michigan's football. Still, I'm hoping that Sparty gets crushed and humiliated today. Their treatment by the press has often seemed to be the inverse of what Michigan has experienced. Remember that "Little Giants" play? ESPN recently had it in the Top 5 plays of the year for ANY sport. Crazy.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:18 AM ^
You mean that play where time ran out on the clock? Yes that was a great play.....by the Sparty loving time clock god.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:37 AM ^
Isn't that the play Bell ran over the only ND defender and didn't get flagged for it.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:47 AM ^
Sparty can fornicate themselves with an iron stick.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:12 AM ^
... Saban is a massive wad, Dantonio a humorless prig.
Still, I very much want (expect) Sparty to be outed by Alabama. I see an Iowa-type performance by the Cons on the Cedar River.
Watching Dantonio on the sidelines during this epic fail will be worth the price of admission.
Roll Tide!
January 1st, 2011 at 11:14 AM ^
I am still crushed the 1973 Rose Bowl vote; piss on Sparty forever. As the commercials proclaim, Roll Tide.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:42 AM ^
Ahh, yes. That was several years before I was born but Don Canham wrote detailed accounts of it in his book. MSU's decision to vote against us was not because they truly thought OSU would have a better chance of beating a very weak USC team in Pasadena. It was because their president ordered the athletic director to vote against us because the MSU players did not want to see us play in the Rose Bowl yet again.
We also beat them 31-0 in East Lansing a few weeks prior in a rain storm and they were still smarting from that.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:14 AM ^
cheer for them all you want, they are still going to get slaughtered
January 1st, 2011 at 11:17 AM ^
I'll be rooting for sinkhole
January 1st, 2011 at 11:21 AM ^
...to get hammered into oblivion and exposed for the entire country to see on national TV. Does that count?
January 1st, 2011 at 11:23 AM ^
Roll Tide? Roll Tide....too sober and hung over this am to post anthing witty, can't wait for the games to start!!
January 1st, 2011 at 11:28 AM ^
doesn't benefit UofM in any way, Roll Tide!
January 1st, 2011 at 11:30 AM ^
I always root for Sparty when they aren't playing us.
Also, Sparty's coach is a dick, while Bama's coach is a dick who ruins kids' lives.
January 1st, 2011 at 12:21 PM ^
It is possible to root against both teams, you know. It makes for a grumpy, but oddly satsifying viewing experience. You are guaranteed the joy of one side's defeat, at least.
Good point about Saban, though. I wasn't suggesting we actually root for him when stoking our obligatory hatred for Sparty.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:36 AM ^
I just have a feeling all the rooting we do isn't going to help them today. Unless Alabama is sort of flat footed and indifferent like the Utah game a couple years.
I just don't see State moving the ball on them much or stopping them enough.
January 1st, 2011 at 11:37 AM ^
TROLL!!!!!
January 1st, 2011 at 11:50 AM ^
No, really, f*ck that whole team.
January 1st, 2011 at 12:00 PM ^
Dude, the other coach is the personification of Satan.
January 1st, 2011 at 12:01 PM ^
If ytMSU was playing the forces of Hell, I would root for the forces of Hell.
January 1st, 2011 at 12:19 PM ^
I disagree with Frieze without qualification. There is no team - professional, collegiate, club, or otherwise - about whom I'd say something like this (or other comments).
Even your biggest rival has players who are good kids from good families.
18-22 year olds playing a game. Context; perspective.
January 1st, 2011 at 1:21 PM ^
I think it was kind of a joke, man.
January 1st, 2011 at 1:40 PM ^
F*ck Sparty. No, really, f*ck that whole team.
My construction of this statement is that it is serious. The "[n]o, really" is the basis for said construction. I interpret this to mean "this could be taken as a joke (or some other unserious colloquial phrase), but I really mean it." What other construction could be given to "really" in this instance?
January 1st, 2011 at 12:01 PM ^
I 'm sure they feel the same way about us. Go Blue
January 1st, 2011 at 12:06 PM ^
I hope Bama rolls them.