Rivalry ribbing and trivia!

Submitted by Go Blue TC on

I need some help!

This Saturday our local Michigan Alumni club, along with the local MSU Alumni club, will be hosting a game time party. Unfortunately (for me) our entire board of directors and a large part of our club is going to the game, leaving me as the lone voice to defend the Maize-N-Blue! Now don't get me wrong I can generally hold my own when it comes to verbal sparring, however the MSU Alumni spokemen has been doing this event for several years and will undoubtly be throwing out the one liners left and right. Not wanting to dissapoint I figured this would be a great place to turn to, to find the latest and greatest one line zingers, rebutles, and just all around good natured MSU rib ticklers! So... lets hear them! Also any good Trivia tid bits, and or awesome Stats that I can use as filler during comercial breaks will be more than welcomed!

Thanks for all your help! 

 

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Chrisgocomment

October 23rd, 2008 at 11:15 AM ^

When all else fails, Michigan is by far the better educational institution.  You always have that.  Also, MSU is at it's core a farming college.  My cousin went there to learn how to be a landscaper.  I'm not joking.

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Yinka Double Dare

October 23rd, 2008 at 11:45 AM ^

Wait, you actually need a groundskeeper for a fake field?  This isn't baseball where there's dirt and a mound to groom, the whole thing is fake grass.  What do they have to do to it, other than plow it if it snows?

And if it was an MSU grad back when we still had the grass, that explains a lot.  3 foot long merkins of grass flying up into the air on a regular basis because the field was so crappy.

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baleedat

October 23rd, 2008 at 12:32 PM ^

No, you're right. The field turf requires constant maintenance. The coaches will check it a day or two before game day and if it isn't to their liking the groundskeeper will tweak it (how I don't know). UM's head groundskeeper is an MSU grad.  A year or two after accepting the position at UM, MSU offered her the same job and she turned them down.

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Yinka Double Dare

October 23rd, 2008 at 12:47 PM ^

I would be curious as to what they can do to a FieldTurf playing surface as far as tweaking it.  It's a known fact that baseball teams do this to their grass surfaces (for example, years where they had insanely long infield grass at Wrigley, the White Sox turning the dirt area in front of the plate into a mud bog and supposedly tilting the dirt ever so slightly by the lines to make bunts on the line go foul, etc).

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Eric

October 23rd, 2008 at 11:15 AM ^

One of the spartans will certainly bring up the fact that wolverines don't even live in Michigan. They apparently firmly believe that Spartans are of Michigan origin. I still can't figure that one out.

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Eric

October 23rd, 2008 at 11:51 AM ^

Q: When was the last time an MSU player won the Heisman? A: Never Q: The last MSU national championship in football? A: 1966 (they split with Notre Dame, because I'm sure they'll say something about our 1997 championship being a CO-Championship) MSU did not have a player win a national award in the 1990's. Michigan players won 9. Michigan players have won 5 awards in this decade to MSU's 1 (Charles Rogers won the Biletnikoff in 02) Michigan has had a player receive Heisman votes every decade since the 1930's. UM has been in the top 5 in directors cup standings 7 out of the last 10 years. MSU has never placed in the top 5. Michigan leads the series 34-19-2. Michigan earned their 20th win in the series in 1988.

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GCS

October 23rd, 2008 at 12:02 PM ^

Wha? That's not close to correct. I'm sure I'm going to get some grief for using cfbdatawarehouse instead of stassen, but they have it at 67-28-5. Was that the record 30 years ago or something?

EDIT: Now that I think about it, is that the record since MSU joined the Big Ten, or changed their name from MAC or something similar?

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bouje

October 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 AM ^

Back in the day there were 3 cities battling it out for the state capital, Ann Arbor, Lansing and Jackson.  Jackson because it was the worst location got a state prison instead.  AND WE ALL KNOW WHO GOT THE UNIVERSITY!

 

ZING!

 

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BleedingBlue

October 23rd, 2008 at 12:24 PM ^

so....did you hear about that library that burned down on Moo-u's campus?

"no!"

yeah...I heard the football team was really upset because both books were lost and they weren't even colored yet!

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anup414

October 23rd, 2008 at 3:02 PM ^

In the 1920s near the end of Fielding Yost's legendary coaching career at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor was coined as the "Athens of America" by the media. Around the same time in 1925, Michigan State's name was Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science (lol) and were known as the "Aggies". They wanted to move past their agricultural background (never) so they changed their names to the "Staters". (lolol) Then someone said, "Hey, if Ann Arbor is the Athens of America, then lets become call ourselves their Spartan rivals who defeated them!" The Michigan State Spartans, clearly better than Aggies or Staters but nonetheless only created because Big Brother was and always will be superior. The will deny to truth to this story, but I read it in Don Canhams book, From the Inside - it's true.

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