Only 300 Wolverine animals left in Continental America

That's actually true:  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080804133628AAYEwp1

Only 300 Wolverines and still only 1 "Fuck Lion"...sad times in the animal Kingdom.

For those that don't know what a Fuck Lion is...just google for Michigan DT Marques Slocum and Lion.

And I agree, there is no way Wolverines can be OT on a Michigan Blog, not to mention a University of Michigan Football blog. We really don't have a state animal, we have a state mammal. I suggest that the Wolverine can be the state animal, the spartans will get over it, at about the same time they get over Mike Hart.

we can all calm down now. Group hug!!

but it's not like I thought you actually had a wolverine in a bag. I wasn't insulting you or anything. Thank you for serving.

has a poster of a Wolverine in his bedroom.

Also, unfortunately due to incorrect academic stereotypes and that God-awful movie, people seem to think that spartans were elite soldiers. They really weren't as big of badasses as history seems to record. I can't remember who said it but an individual Greek soldier was not very deadly individually but the hoplite provided a coordinated group effort elevating the potency of the Greek warriors. Basically a bunch of soldiers would deck out heavily in bronze armor, grab a big shield and spear, and smash into enemy formations. This worked well at Thermopylae since they could hide in a canyon (literally sit in a small pass and force the more lightly armed Persians to attack) and weather the Persian attacks by eliminating the Persian superior mobility and missile weaponry. This is how Greece won any battle against Persian (until Alexander who was Macedonian). Marathon and Plataea, the two bigger battles and actual Greek victories provided the Greeks the ability to corner the Persians against the sea and limit the mobility. Additionally, there were thousands of other Greeks at Thermopylae. When the Greeks learned of the Persian maneuver around the pass, the Greeks retreated, except the Spartans who did bravely offer to hold off the Persian advance and the Thebans who stayed because they were going to defect toe Persian (those other guys in 300). Also, the Persians didn't have millions of soldiers. Herodotus lied. The final number of the Persian army was the better part of 5 million, including woman and artisans etc. Imagine trying to move 5 million people across Persian, through modern day Bulgaria and Macedonia, and into Greece. Logistical nightmare. Experts estimate only 40,000ish Persian soldiers.

Furthermore the Spartans never really beat anyone of significance. After conquering the Peloponnese, the enslaved other Greeks to farm and work as slaves for them, which allowed them to train there children as soldiers. As a consequence, they were always hesitant to send their army from the Peloponnese, since the other Greeks would revolt and kill everyone in Sparta, one of the reasons they only sent 300 to Thermopylae. They actually tended to avoid fights and really just talked a big game. The significant victories over Persian where Marathon (by Athens) in the first war and Salamis (where the Athenian navy destroyed the entire Persian navy) in the second war. Plataea was the final victory where a Greek army destroyed the remaining Persian army who were left behind as Xerxes (Persian king) had already retreated. Basically Sparta didn't defeat Persia. Next Spartans will claim, hey they beat the Athenians in the Pelopponnesian War, which is semi-true. Yes, they did win, but Athens lost mainly due to infighting admidst themselves and an incrediblely ill-concieved and fatal mission to Sicily. Basically Athenian corruption, a plague, and the fact that Athens mounted a whol expedition to Sicily who promptly destroyed the enire Athenian army and navy, led them to lose the war. Sparta did destroy a subsequent Athenian navy which was impressive, but that was a sea battle. Sparta wins almost by default and in less than 40 years, after a few mediocre victories over eh opponents, gets their ass kicked by Thebes and they fall back into mediocrity for the rest of time.

Conclusion: I would take 300 Wolverines over 300 spartans any day (all you do is feign a frontal assault and manuever half the Wolverines to the flank of the spartan hoplite and then a massacre happens - tough to run away with heavy bronze armor). Ironically the history of Athens and Sparta somewhat resembles that of the past couple years...

Wow...nice puns

Why don't you actually read what groups like the National Academy of Sciences say about climate change