OT: Happy Sparty Bob Tuesday
There's an extra second today to keep astronomical time in confluence with atomic time.
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-june-30-leap-second…
I will root for Michigan State.
It's good for us and Harbaugh's national recruiting strategy to have the Big Ten East be thought of in the same light as the SEC West - a glamour destination division.
Besides, we have our big boy pants on now. We'll take care of Sparty ourselves. We don't need Donald Duck to do it for us.
rooting for sparty
As a downriver resident, I would like to point out that technically the term only refers to those communities in Wayne County which are south-southwest of Detroit. Once you get south of the Huron River's outlet into the lake, it's just Monroe County and the descent into Ohio. That being said though, about the most extreme thing to ever happen downriver was that it served as one of the larger inbound port facilities for bootlegging during Prohibition. Several homes from Ecorse down to Wyandotte still have false basements and the remains of docking facilities.
I laughed out loud: "descent into Ohio." That's exactly what it feels like - a Heart of Darkness vibe.
I grew up in Monroe County. I can confirm it feels like a tunnel to hell.
I think the reason that MSU fans are that way towards Harbaugh is because of what they have to lose. Ohio State is always going to be good regardless of Harbaugh since they just won a title and reside in a completely different state by themselves. Harbaugh has already stolen the spotlight from Dantonio. If he puts a string of wins together against their best coach in 50 years, that's pretty much a worst case scenerio. It's a lot easier to go out and call Harbaugh an attention whore who can't win than look at his career record.
And many other Michigan fans' parades...But numerous media outlets, the Big 10 Conference, (including the the conference's coordinator of officiating) have all intensely scrutinized the play in question and reached the same conclusion. There's no proof that something untoward occurred.
The nature of many stadium clocks, at the time (and to this day actually) was such that the display method during the countdown wasn't always represented consistently (additionally stadium clocks that displayed time remaining to the nearest hundredth of a second were incredibly rare), causing some stadium clocks to display a game that still had .99 seconds on it as ':00'...Now that's not the case in that 2001 game. Those investigations or reviews of the play said that the time simply hadn't expired yet.
The incident changed the rule to keeping time on the field.
What made that finish even worse, as we later found out, was the massive holding on that game winning play that the refs decided to ignore. Larry Stevens would have sacked Smoker immediately but MSU's Steve Stewart was allowed to hold his arm and basically rip his jersey off in order to protect his QB.
To eliminate any appearances of impropriety. Smart move, IMO. Doesn't change the facts on the clock investigation.
I always find these penalty discussions a bit tedious (particularly when they revolve around holding calls - let alone fuzzy still frame photos of holding calls...), because an MSU fan could rightfully counter with the fact that they should have had one additional timeout, after an on-field officiating miscue that didn't stop the clock after one of Michigan's penalties down the stretch.
Obvious troll is trolling.
they don't change rules and procedures for an entire conference for nothing. The home team no longer ran the clock. WTF?
Sparty Bob has been convicted, and there is no appeal.