OT: Rooting for Sparty this week?

I hope they lose and lose big.  I want them to be beaten and bruised both physically and emotionally.  I want to walk in to work and not hear a single peep about Saturday because of the embarrassment laid at their fans' collective feet.

So, to answer your question specifically, no.  I will not be rooting for Sparty on Saturday.

Absolutely not. Sparty will never be rooted for. Unless its a non BCS bowl game versus a SEC team or USC and in which Sparty is 6-6 or 7-5 entering the game.

but -

the guy's a dead beat with an arrest record and when he comes over he drinks all of my beer and ruins my couches.

So my support is limited to a yearly Christmas card. (I usually mail this to Ford Field c/o Little Ceasers Pizza Bowl)

I normally root for the B10 team.  When Iowa was playing Arizona, I was rooting for Iowa.  But I'll never root for MSU or OSU.  During the MSU - ND game, I was rooting for ND.  Screw MSU and OSU.

FWIW I think Wisconsin is going to beat Sparty this weekend.

in years past i probably would have ahd sympathy and figured that by them beating wisky the chances of wisky and sparty both ending up with worse records than us was increased (due to typical sparty downward season spiral), but they have grown so obbnoxious that i now hope they lose every game.

yakkity sax on both sides in a game that leaves them both defeated and flat, questioning their abilities and unsure of the future.

Ideal scenario for me would be an MSU 'win' with a score of 14-12 (yes, MSU safety in there) where they only win b/c Wisconsin whiffs an easy field goal to end the game.

In short, i want them to play like sh*t and escape with a win and come into the M game all kinds of paranoid about which MSU team is going to show up before giving us all a lot of 'NOOOO, SPARTY!!!'

Never.

Rooting for MSU?  Over Wisconsin?  Ummm...Yeah.  I'm also rooting to get in a car accident and, when I finally heal up and return from the hospital, I sure hope a strange woman shows up on my doorstep with a ten-year kid that looks just like me.

The only time I root for Sparty is when they play Notre Dame.  And even then, I don't feel good about it. 

beats them soundly. Think there's a possibility that will happen.

...Go Wisconsin... Raise your banners high!

Sparty.  That is all.

Go Illini!

I want MSU to win tomorow because it will make beating a top-20, undefeated team next week a little sweeter.

Exception being overt tanigble benefit for us if they win (see MSU/Wiscy 2004)

I guess if they were playing against Space Nazis I'd root for them. 

that Michigan State fans aren't obnoxious? they are just as if not more obnoxious then Wisky fans. especially the last 2 years.

they expect to make it to the rose bowl this year, "experts" have them in the top 3 of B10 b/c they don't play osu, time for some ego check.

the high school teen movie. Here we invite the unattractive dorky chick to the homecoming. Tell her she was a write in candidate for homecoming queen, get her hopes up, then TOTALLY embarrass her and point and laugh. Next week Sparty talks themselves into being relevant and ascending to the heights of non-mediocrity and then we get to send them crashing down to earth....all that being said most important for us is taking care of Indiana

http://michiganmessenger.com/42253/msu-sexual-assault

Seriously, what is it about MSU athletics that makes the players think this shit is okay?  Beating up engineers, frat boys, now THIS?

Man, fuck sparty.

like there is any other answer than F No! I would be perfectly happy to see Sparty lose every game every year from now till the end of time.  Why would I ever want them to win?

There's another football team in the state of Michigan?

I root for Sparty in out of conference games. Other than that I really don't care whether they win or lose. As long as Michigan wins, it's fine with me.

Hell fuck no.

Lloyd Brady would be ashamed of me if I rooted for Sparty.

NEVA!!!!!!

Actually, yes, I am rooting for Sparty, although I won't be too broke up if they lose.  But I'd like them to win.  Next week's slate of games + undefeated Michigan + undefeated Sparty + rivalry game = maybe College Gameday in Ann Arbor, for one thing.  Even if not it'll make for a big, big stage.  And then the beatdown Sparty hopefully receives will be even sweeter, like pouring chocolate milk and powdered Quik on Cocoa Puffs.

Unlike Sparty, who not only roots for us to lose, but to suffer serious injuries, I just don't want them to win.  As a matter of fact, the more heart breaking the loss, the wider I smile.

I've never heard that before.  Is that a relatively new thing?  I graduated in '95 and we always got along better with Wisc than any other school.  Great campus, strong academics, solid sports.  I'd root for them against anyone but us.  

Without doubt I'm hoping they teach MSU that beating ND, at home, on a trick play (plus wins over Boca Raton High and Montana Central Tech) does not make one a giant of the football universe.

I don't want to face an unbeaten team.  I'd much rather face a team soul-searching after a tough loss. 

You all profess to hate Sparty, yet you would decline a chance to beat a 5-0 and highly-ranked MSU team with delusions of grandeur, instead favoring a win over a 4-1 team that has just dropped several spots in the polls.

By that logic, you're all still disappointed that the undefeated John Cooper teams that we beat under Lloyd weren't 4-6 coming into our games with them. That certainly would have made our victories more noteworthy.

There are 3 things I can't do in life:

1. Win the lottery

2. Go to a Michigan game where I remember the first quarter

3. Ever root for OSU, ND or MSU

Apathy - MSU wants us to want them to lose - they want to be on equal footing with OSU in the hate department. I think we should just ignore them and treat them winning/losing with absolutely nothing.  They win - don't care, they lose - don't care.  It will piss them off so much more if we treat them like Minnesota as opposed to tOSU :)

Is when their players make the news or when they are playing against Michigan.  Too early for me to have a rooting interest one way or the other where they are concerned.

I really don't care as we play both teams eventually.  A Sparty win would set up our game next week nicely though.

Non-conference - Yes, because duh.

Bowl game - Yes, because duh.

Conference game against crappy teams - Yes, so they won't be seen as a total loser of a team when they play Michigan, just perpetually mediocre.

Conference game against good teams - No, because it's Sparty and we never want them to have any real success.  

Conference game against Michigan - If you have to ask...

Note: When I say "root for MSU" in the context of bowl/OOC games, I really mean "root for that team that happens to be in our conference."  

My schedule shows that MSU is playing Wisconsin.  However, you have asked whether I am rooting for Sparty.  That must mean that they are playing the University of Nazi-Terrorist-Klansmen-Child Molesters.  I didn't realize that U of NTKCM was on their schedule this year.  As that apears to be the case, I'll probably root for Sparty.  After all, they are playing child molesting Klansmen who are also Nazis and terrorists.  However, if, by chance, the Wisconisn Badgers show up, I'll probably have to go with the Badgers.  Yeah, that's what I'll do.

In an ideal world we could beat all of our rivals at their highest respective rankings of the season.  I draw the line at rooting for Sparty in a bowl game or in some situation where it can make the Big 10 look good. For now, do whatever you want Sparty, cause you're going to get beat by us next week.  

Not like it's going to happen this year, but who do you guys root for when Sparty plays OSU?