OT - My 5-year-old son likes to call them "The Rutgers"
Starting with the 3OT football game vs. Rutgers my 5-year-old calls the Knights "The Rutgers." Like last night he says "Dad, Michigan is playing The Rutgers." It makes me laugh every time. I have tried to correct him but he always goes back to the "The Rutgers." It always makes me think of "The Rutger"
https://mgoblog.com/content/introducing-rutger
Kids are fun.
February 19th, 2021 at 2:25 PM ^
Kids are fun. Kids are smart.
Though I enjoy Brian's usage, "The Cable Subscribers," I may switch to "The Rutgers."
February 19th, 2021 at 2:26 PM ^
My son does as well.
February 19th, 2021 at 3:08 PM ^
There must be something to this, as my son did the same thing when he was about that age. Good Luck Varsity offers a plausible explanation below.
February 19th, 2021 at 7:15 PM ^
Agree to all of these comments. My son started calling the The Rutgers around the age of 8. I stopped correcting him after about 2 years of it.
February 19th, 2021 at 9:25 PM ^
THE Wolverines
THE Buckeyes
THE Spartans
etc.
Not hard to see - My daughter is four and she don't like when logical things are not logical.
(And the poor thing is learning French and English).
February 19th, 2021 at 2:27 PM ^
I might adopt this.
February 19th, 2021 at 2:31 PM ^
Ohio States
February 19th, 2021 at 2:50 PM ^
When my youngest daughter was about 4 we had a state's map puzzle and she said that Ohio was the diaper state because of the way it's shaped. They are now and forever "The Diaper State" in our household.
February 19th, 2021 at 3:06 PM ^
Gauche to reply to my own reply but I had to add that I did tell her that we don't like the Buckeyes because they eat babies at one point too.
February 19th, 2021 at 2:33 PM ^
This is funny but it’s also actually pretty smart. The “s” at the end of “Rutgers” probably makes it sound like a plural term to your kid, more like “Buckeyes” or “Badgers” than a location or institution. And you’d never say, “Michigan is playing Buckeyes,” you’d say “Michigan is playing *the* Buckeyes.”
Meanwhile at my house, my wife just rolls her eyes as I break out the “more like BUTTgers, am I right?” joke for the 50 millionth time. I like your kid’s verbiage better.
February 19th, 2021 at 2:43 PM ^
You know you're an adult when you upvote a thread about cute things someone's kid says.
February 19th, 2021 at 2:45 PM ^
I like it! Since in my opinion they earned their S back I will now switch over.
February 19th, 2021 at 4:17 PM ^
What is this!? A positive comment where you're not acting like an arrogant assclown and shitting on everything?? What world am I living in!?
February 19th, 2021 at 6:24 PM ^
You're right I'll try to do better. Calling people assholes is a stellar example I will henceforth try to emulate.
February 19th, 2021 at 2:47 PM ^
By 5, my oldest son had named all of my real estate LLCs, as well as dreamed up gems like “wizardappeared” for when he can’t find something. He also called Henry Hugglemonster “Hayfoster” and dropped a few F bombs on us. Kids are amazing.
February 19th, 2021 at 5:57 PM ^
My niece was playing hide and seek with my mother once, when she (my niece) was four years old. She slammed a door to get away from my mother and screamed "Get away from me, bitch." That night, we had an intervention of sorts with my sister. She finally came clean that her husband was a verbally and physically abusive alcoholic. I used the money cannon to get both of them out of that situation. Now, at 14, she can laugh about screaming that at her grandma.
February 20th, 2021 at 5:21 AM ^
Thank you for stepping up in such a significant and impactful way!
February 19th, 2021 at 2:53 PM ^
My kids calls the Buckeyes "those fuckers" so maybe I should curb my language a bit around them a bit. But then again, they are 8 and 6 now so ya gotta grow up sometime
February 19th, 2021 at 3:22 PM ^
They're doing just fine. Don't change a thing
February 19th, 2021 at 4:16 PM ^
This guy gets it, and his kids do too. Keep up the good work
February 19th, 2021 at 8:03 PM ^
We had a nanny for my older kids when they were pre school aged who was an OSU fan. I told my kids that Ohio is filled with poop. They repeated this to her every freaking day.
February 19th, 2021 at 10:34 PM ^
I felt like my 5 yr old struck gold when he told me we should refer to them as “The Dumbs”.
February 19th, 2021 at 2:54 PM ^
If I had a 5 year old I'm pretty sure he'd refer to them as Buttgers.
February 19th, 2021 at 2:59 PM ^
I will try that on him tonight. We were playing an old Playstation 2 - 2008 NCAA March Madness and I said this Michigan basketball team sucks. Now when I pick Michigan he says don't they suck. Jerrett Smith and Udoh can only score so much.
February 19th, 2021 at 4:01 PM ^
This is how we roll in my household, except that my kids are 20 and 16. Those Scarlet Knights from Piscataway will forever be called "Buttgers" under my roof.
February 19th, 2021 at 2:57 PM ^
Raise em young, raise em right.
February 19th, 2021 at 3:00 PM ^
"The Rutgers" sounds like some medieval disease one might pick up in a house of ill-repute.
Seems appropriate.
February 19th, 2021 at 3:10 PM ^
I had a similar thought! Like that cow disease, the staggers.
February 19th, 2021 at 3:26 PM ^
I remember my son always saying, after seeing the commercial, "Dad, Michigan basketball is on at 8, 7 central."
Always made me chuckle, even after he was old enough to understand what that meant.
February 20th, 2021 at 11:01 AM ^
I always thought it was 87 central.
February 19th, 2021 at 4:17 PM ^
My son is 2 and doesn't know the other teams... he constantly says during the basketball games, " Where's Huntin" as he can't pronounce Hunter.
He also always requests "Hail to the Victors" when we get in the car... trying to raise him right!
February 19th, 2021 at 4:23 PM ^
the ruger, hauer?
February 19th, 2021 at 5:25 PM ^
My boys grew up saying “Crudtgers”.
A new generation looms and things have not changed much...
February 19th, 2021 at 5:51 PM ^
My kids say Buttgers and Ohio State Butt-guys haha
February 19th, 2021 at 10:17 PM ^
Somehow, in this house "Rutgers" became "The Situation and other turds". Admittedly, the muddled Jersey Shore reference is something the kids may have picked up from my wife and I.
February 20th, 2021 at 1:49 AM ^
That's funny. My 5-year-old son lives in Germany and he calls them "Die Rutgers"
February 20th, 2021 at 8:08 AM ^
When I was 4 years old I watched my mother kill a spider with a teacosy. Years later I realized it was not a spider. It was my Uncle Harold!
February 20th, 2021 at 10:54 PM ^
Oceans 12 reference. Did not expect to see that tonight.
February 21st, 2021 at 4:12 PM ^
Sounds like a disease