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The story of the "Liar Liar" billboards.

By Section 1 — May 3rd, 2011 at 4:01 PM — 83 comments

Well, most of you know the basic story.  There is this billboard on eastbound I-94, near Wayne Road (that's in the neighborhood of Detroit Metro Airport):

There is another one, I am told, in the Grand Rapids area.  Chime in if you know of any others.

So, naturally, this provocative billboard is seen, and photographed by somebody using a cellphone camera (see grainy photo above) and sent to a Twitter account, where it quickly finds its way to a blog (Kegs 'n Eggs) and from there...

A current Google search of "LIAR LIAR VEST ON FIRE" turns up 15,500 hits as of right now.  An even better search is "LIAR LIAR VEST ON FIRE" + "michigan fans".  Because that search gets to the heart of the matter.

You see, the whole freaking world presumes that "Michigan fans" have created this billboard.  SBNation.  DrSaturday.  ElevenWarriors.  Local tv in Cleveland.  Big Ten Illustrated.  CollegeSportsNation.com.  Huskerboard.com.  Why?  Well it is certainly not because anybody has really reported that fact.  It is just one of those social media level presumptions that has taken on the status of "well I saw it on the internet, so..."

The assertion -- that "Michigan fans" created this signage -- might just be true.  But it probably isn't.  Here's why.

Many of you remember that southeast- and west-Michigan had some similar billboards back in late 2010, around the time of the bowl season.  They looked like this:

And naturally, the local media wanted the back story on that endeavor, which definitively did not involve "Michigan fans."  What was the real story?  Well, it was kind of interesting:

Asked who is responsible for the boards, Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis responded in a text, "Not me ... know nothing about it."

The idea actually came from a Michigan State alum, who also happens to be the local sales manager for CBS Outdoor advertising.

About 10-12 of the boards are expected to be put up around the state, most with sponsor names on them.

Two are already in place -- on northbound I-75, north of I-94, and another in Grand Rapids. There's also one coming to the Lansing area, and the rest will be located in metro-Detroit.

"I have several State alumni and State fans that work for me," said Tom Carroll, vice president of the Michigan Region for CBS Outdoor. "The billboard is our response to Michigan State getting snubbed."

The following e-mail was sent to potential sponsors: "MSU fans are wondering how their football team can 'convincingly' trounce Wisconsin 34-24 during the regular season, tie with Wisconsin for the Big Ten Championship, and still not receive the prestigious invitation to the annual Rose Bowl.

"CBS Outdoor has designed the attached billboard that lays out all the pertinent facts. We are offering a very special chance for you to ask the world 'what's going on?' ... Go Spartans!!!"

Credit Carroll's sales man, Bob Brown, for hatching the idea.

"As a MSU alum, I kind of felt some of the frustration," Brown said. "I thought there's probably other people out there like me, that own businesses, that would like to participate."

http://www.foxsportsdetroit.com/12/13/10/Freeway-billboards-tout-Spartans-Rose-Bo/landing.html?blockID=372417

So what did your old buddy Section 1 do?  I called Bob Brown, who is a friendly and agreeable chap.  I asked Bob who was behind the "Liar Liar" billboards.  "That's an Anonyomous purchaser," was Bob's answer.  Gosh, I replied, had he been asked about this before?  Because half the college sportsnews outlets in the country were running with the unfounded story that "Michigan fans" were behind this billboard.  "That's kind of funny, " Bob replied.  He continued, "Really?  Because we've only had a couple -- well maybe a few -- media inquiries."   "Bob," I asked, "You haven't told anybody in the media that 'Michigan fans' put up the billboard, have you?"  "No," he said.  "We're not commenting on that."

This is a funny, wonderful case-study in how social media can promote an inaccuracy, isn't it?  I actually urged Bob to make this second act public, as a marker of the power of a catchy billboard.  What strikes me is that I don't think that this was any form of intentional sock-puppetry by a Saprtan alum.  I don't think that they wanted to put up a "fake Michigan-fan" billboard.  No; I think the subliminal message was, hey MSU should have gone to the Rose Bowl for the way we hammered Wisconsin, and MSU should definitely have gone to the Rose Bowl if the Buckeyes had all of their 2010 wins vacated.  Uh, ya know? 

The strange part is that the whole world skipped right over Sparty, and presumed that "Michigan" (like, the Buckeyes' one true rival of any consequence?!?) must have been repsonsible for this public act of Tressel-hate. 

I don't think so.
 

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:17 PM
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This is sheer nonsense.

This is sheer nonsense.

First, you haven't "found" anything. You've merely confirmed that the news sources couldn't have found out from the guy who sold the billboard. That doesn't mean it's not Michigan fans, nor does it mean he's the only potential source.

Second, your theory that MSU fans would buy the board to make Michigan fans look stupid is...absurd.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:30 PM
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That's NOT my theory.

I did NOT suggest that the motive for the billboard was to make Michigan look bad in a sock-puppety way.  I specifically said that.

I didn't even conclude who the real proponent was.  It's only my presumption that the Spartan faithful in the CBS Outdoor office arranged these billboards the same way that they did the MSU boards.

And, I wondered where the whole world was getting the "Michigan fans did this" angle.  The answer to the last point seems to be, "It was made up."

And you just locked down the failure-end of the curve for today's reading comprehension.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 8:16 PM
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Section 1, while I can sypathize with your issues with

the MSM, this post provided no information that we did not know before. What do really know now that wasn't known before? This was total conjecture. You have no idea what questions he was asked, let alone whether he denied them or not, or the context.

Just what substantive did you find out, and thus motivate you, to post?

Nothing, that is what.

Did a Michigan fan put up the billboards? You do not know.

Did an MSU put up the billboards? You do not know.

Do you know what the motivation of the person who put up the billboard? No.

Just what the hell did you learn with this intensive investigation? That the MSM did not see to it that, perhaps, it wasn't necessarily a UM fan (but is still could be) didn't put up the billboard. Wow, stunning. That's front page stuff.

This post was tantamount to essentially a conversation with your wife where she never denied that you wore her undies (including tampex) to all Michigan home games. Never mind that we don't know if she was ever directly asked such a question, or if the question was totally none of anyone's business (as is my business or my private life with my wife) and was not given the any respect of a response. You have no idea what conversations the owner of the billboard really had.

You have nothing.

Section 1, while I have appreciated your posts in the past, and have some sympathy with your problems with the MSM, you have become what you hate, you are the Free Press.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 9:19 PM
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First, thanks for the appreciation, in the last paragraph.

As to your complaints:

  • Interestingly, I didn't really complain about the "Mainstream Media" this time.  Here's a kicker:  Mark Snyder got this story right!  He never once inferred that "Michigan fans" put up the billboards.  He referred to it purely as an "anti-Tressel billboard."  (But he supplied virtually no other information.)
  • The very lovely and charming Angelique Chengelis got it mostly right, sort of.  (Angelique really does try to be fair and does a good job most of the time.  I respect her.)  She reported, I found out after starting this, that indeed "a reliable source" told her that the billboard's lessor was "anonymous."  But she did nothing to clear that up any further, and the story appeared in her Wolverines blog.  (Why not in the Spartan blog, Angelique?  The clear implication, by virtue of it being her story, along with other Michigan news, was that it was a "Michigan fan" story.)
  • It was the "new media" that fucked up this story; the bloggers went wild with this one, and if I could, it might be nice to re-title this NEW MEDIA FAIL.  The leader in the clubhouse for the presumptuous fuckup award on this story -- Dr. Saturday a/k/a Matt Hinton, with this runaway freight-train of a headline:  Michigan finally declares victory over Jim Tressel, via billboard:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Headlinin-8217-Michigan-finally-declares-vict?urn=ncaaf-wp1129

  • Kids, we are not the front end of the horse costume in that particular joke.
  • I am not aware of anyone, anywhere on the 'net, who has put the backstory on the late-2010 MSU-Wisconsin billboards together with the current billboards, as I did.  I am not aware of anyone who quoted Bob Brown.  I was apparently only one of a small handful of people who even bothered to ask Bob Brown.  Who knows; maybe this post will shake loose some more information.  As always, nobody has to read it if they'd rather not.  You could always involve yourself in Mario Ojemudia's Tweet.
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May 3rd, 2011 at 9:25 PM
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I guess I must be stupid, because I stll don't understand

what I should have learned from the OP and your response.

Snyder never implied (I assume rather than inferred) that Michigan fans didn't put up the billboard. Am I correct that he also never implied that aliens from planet 9 also didn't put up the billboard as well. Are we now better informed?

"Angelique Chengelis... reported... that the billboard's lessor was "anonymous." This is news worthy? The exposure of an a source as being anonymous is newsworthy?

I just don't get this. What is the big deal when you don't know who put up the billboard, their motivations, and exactly to what extent then media investigated this.

Section 1, I do think you have strong motivations in finding out who put up the billboard and why, and will ultimately do so. I hope (and think) that, even if the billboard was posted it due to pro-UM reasons, that you would still expose it as such.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 9:45 PM
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Here:

Mark Snyder:  It was an "anti-Tressel" billboard.  (Accurate, not very informative.)

Angelique Chengelis:  The billboard was initiated by an "anonymous" individual, according to a "reliable source."  (Also accurate; not much more informative.)

Dr. Saturday (Matt Hinton):  "Michigan fans" put up the billboard.  (Unfounded; probably false; wholly misleading.)

Section 1:  The guy who knows about the billboard is Bob Brown, of CBS Outdoor.  Bob knows who put it up, but says it is "Anonymous."  He has NOT told anyone that "Michigan fans" put it up, so any of those reports would be false.  Moreover, there may be reason to think that Bob put it up himself!  Because he and the guys at CBS Outdoor have a history of doing that, ("34-24") and Bob has certain ideas about how the Big Ten Championship might have been resolved if OSU had been sanctioned/forfeited/vacated/whatever last year.  In 'cop parlance,' Bob Brown had motive and means, and it fit his m.o.!

Now I never claimed to have a definitive answer; unless Bob Brown talks, it won't be known.  But I'd say my version was the best of all...

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:52 PM
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You're correct that this

You're correct that this doesn't mean it isn't Michigan fans who sprung for the billboard.  However, the point is that everyone "reporting" that the buyers definitely ARE Michigan fans have no source for that assertion.  

They could have written "probably Michigan fans" and the entire Section would be happy.  As it is, all the stories I've read state rather conclusively that it is Michigan fans.  

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:06 PM
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Uh, his "theory" is the opposite

He says he doesn't think that.

Otherwise, yeah, the person who paid for them wants to stay anonymous. Not surprising, that.

True that the fact MSU fans used some of the same locations in December proves nothing. If you ask Bob where would be a good place to put up a football-related billboard, those spots are what he's going to recommend. Could easily be a Michigan fan.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:24 PM
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Probably, just...

places that are unleased for a couple of months.  Better, for CBS Outdoor, to put something up rather than nothing.  And who knows better which boards are available, than Bob Brown and Tom Carroll at CBS Outdoor?

As I told Bob, this is actually a very interesting case-study in the intersection of billboards and social media, and might make for a good luncheon speech for the Adcrafters.  (Is there still an Adcrafters Club?).

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:15 PM
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Interesting sleuthing, Section

Interesting sleuthing, Section 1.

To be honest, I have absolutely no problem with the fact that when a football-related event occurs and it happens to take place in the state of Michigan, the minds of most people in country jump to the University of Michigan rather than Michigan State.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 9:21 PM
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I think you make a fair point. I tried to make it myself.

But when it is an essentially negative/sarcastic story, and they leapfrog any consideration of MSU, to get to Michigan, then that's another matter.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:16 PM
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Uhhhhh

Who cares?

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:24 PM
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For the record, my sentiments are much the same as Brian Cook's:

Except Brian seems to have been sucked in (who could blame him) on the idea that "Michigan fans" put this up.  As I say, that might be true.  But I'm betting not.  So there just might be no reason for Brian to worry about too much derpishness:

We have done derped. We have lost our superiority when it comes to not erecting embarrassing billboards:

Liar-Liar-Vest-On-Fire

One: Paul Reiser probably came up with the text. Two: it's on I-94, which goes from Canada to Indiana without even brushing up against Ohio. Three: it's derp enough to put up a billboard after you win something. It's extra super derp to do so after not winning since 2003. Five derps out of five.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:26 PM
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And my thought was "Who

And my thought was "Who cares?" when Brian mentioned it. But at least his mention made fun of Paul Reiser.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:21 PM
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Good God.

You are the champion of causes that nobody should give a shit about.  Who cares who put up the billboards?  

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:35 PM
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Hmmm.

I guess there are two sorts of Michgan fans.

One group thinks the billboard rawks; that it's funny and tO$U has had it all coming.  And so they'd be, like, happy, dude, to take credit for it.

As for me, and our host/proprietor, it is a bit of an embarassment to get into the fan-billboard game.  And that it is especially confounding to be, uh, 'credited' with this idea if it didn't originate with "Michigan fans" at all.

Hell, you'd be right about one thing; the owndership of this idea belongs to no one but some unconnected fan in any event.  Mark Hollis didn't put up the MSU-Wisconsin billboards, and David Brandon didn't put up these current ones.

I just look at all of the flaming sent Michigan's way over this matter, and it seems to me that some basic reporting might be something like, "It is not known who, if anyone, paid for the message."  As I say, I don't think that anybody paid for these boards.  The guys in CBS Outdoor probably get a pretty good discount on their own billboards.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:45 PM
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There is a clearly a third group

that thinks the billboard is stupid and couldn't possibly give less of a shit about who put it up whether it is attributed to UM fan or not. 

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:46 PM
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You forget the third group, including many of the posters above

The "Who Cares?" group, who might not have done it themselves, or might find it mildly amusing, or just don't get their panties in a bunch over it one way or another. Because it's just a freakin' billboard. People have spent money on stupider things.

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Just like Luke Skywalker

I care.

 

Well, okay. Not really. But I thought of that scene in The Empire Strikes Back when ... Oh, never mind.

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Just remember

He cared about making out with his sister.



Just sayin'.

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absence

The absence of data is not the same as data of absence.  Section 1, do you have any data, other than Bob doesn't know what's going on?

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:28 PM
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Bob knows.

And Bob won't say.  And he hasn't told the media "It was Michigan fans."  And, there are the nearly-identical string of billboards put up by the MSU-grad guys who happen to run the CBS Outdoor office for metro Detroit.  Get it?

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:37 PM
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How is a billboard of the

How is a billboard of the scoreboard of the MSU/Wisconsin game identical to this?

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:44 PM
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Same company (CBS Outdoor)

Same number of billboards (give or take, probably depending on whether they can sell any real, paying contracts for any of them), in exactly the same locations.  Even the same type-font?  I dunno, maybe.  In any event, the exact same cryptic messaging.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:49 PM
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Wait, the first one is up at I-94 and Wayne

And there was never any MSU billboard there, even when they beat us.  So how is it the same locations?

I think you're doing the same assuming that you accuse everyone else of, but for more convoluted and less likely reasons. The most simple answer is that a Michigan fan did it. While there's nothing to PROVE that, there's nothing to prove an MSU fan did it, and it takes a lot more convoluted logic to come to that premise.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:00 PM
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?

The most simple answer is that a Michigan fan did it.

Why? Why would you presume that?

I'd bet that the Liar Liar billboard was put up in precisely the same way as the MSU billboards. But I don't know how we'd ever settle the bet, unless we had the cooperation of CBS Outdoor.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 6:14 PM
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Let's see

Ohio State's arch rival is Michigan. The first billboard was put up not by Lansing or Columbus, but in route to Ann Arbor. There's just as much circumstantial and logical evidence to support the reasonable thought a Michigan fan did it. You're right, that doesn't prove it. But there would have been merit to the post if you had actually gotten the guy to say a Michigan fan DIDN'T put it up (even without identifying who did). As it is he's just playing coy to create interest which really doesn't support your assumption anymore than it refutes anyone else's.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:19 PM
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Yeah... kind of agree with

Yeah... kind of agree with Section 1 on this one. He sort of did get "data of absence" by having Bob tell him (data) that they have not told anyone who the anonymous party was (absence).

That being said, Bob's not the only one who's in the know. The next time I buy a billboard for fun, I'm DEFINITELY telling all my friends.

I agree with the basic premise though: social media has a propensity to self-verify "facts".

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May 3rd, 2011 at 6:11 PM
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But we don't care about Bob

Yes, we got data about Bob.  But we have no new information on the motivation for the billboards. The people who reported the billboards were from Michigan fans may have the story right and this post doesn't address that - all it really says is Bob didn't tell them (or rather Bob told Section1 that Bob didn't tell them.)

I'd like to know the motivation for both the billboards, but I don't see this thread getting us any closer.  

(And I'm suspicious of my comments helping much, besides perpetuating a pedantic discussion.)

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May 3rd, 2011 at 6:16 PM
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HEY! Where would the Internet be

Without pedantic discussion?



Just porn, mostly.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 6:17 PM
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Oh

And UFRs.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 9:37 PM
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UFRs of porn?  I've found my

UFRs of porn?  I've found my new calling.

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May 4th, 2011 at 1:20 AM
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I bet Magnus would post it

And I know I'd read it.



As long as it didn't feature Obi.



Though it probably would have Mike Cox.

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May 4th, 2011 at 8:42 AM
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Why, God, why?

Why did you let Shavodrick Beaver decommit?

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:27 PM
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This post is a pathetic waste

This post is a pathetic waste of time.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:04 PM
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Disagreed completely...

I disagree completely that this post is a waste of time. I think there are several reasons why this subject merits a post.

  • This is about those damn stupid billboards that are being associated with our university. Whether you care about them or not is not the question as other people clearly do. I hate that we are being associated with some stupid slogan that isn't really funny in the first place and looks like Michigan fans are bragging that, although we haven't won since 2003 and recently had a humiliating episode of our own with the NCAA, Jim Tressel lies, which was obvious to anyone that semi-follows OSU football. If I'm going to be an arrogant Michigan fan I can't be erecting stupid billboards when we beat OSU, let alone when we're on an all-time losing streak.
  • Strongly worded reason #2
  • We have been suffering a dearth of new MGoBoard material lately. I mean, seriously, it's extremely slow. We had that damn Bin Laden post up at the top of the board for an entire day (I realize I'll probably be negged for this but they don't count and I stand by my statement that it was left up WAYYYY too long on the MGoBoard). If someone wants to post a conspiracy-theory story about the billboards, more power to them. I thought the South Park over-the-top hard-hitting investigation style post about such a trivial subject was actually pretty funny.
  • I believe that MSU fans paid for the billboard in a dual-purpose attempt to shame Tressel and make us look like a buncha foos. I also believe in Santa Claus, that Nebraska deserves the '97 title, and an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
  • See how it wasn't a waste of time? I've spent my wait at the train station typing out a response to your Section 1 hatin' when instead I would've just been making unsubstantiated wild guesses about passersby as I peoplewatch on the platform. Writing this post was slightly more constructive, IMO. Was it still a waste of time?...maybe...
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May 4th, 2011 at 4:44 PM
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Noo....

No, I don't think Nebraska deserved the national title. I think they got the coaches' vote because Osborne was retiring...

...my goal was to say that I don't believe in Santa Claus (which would be the obvious identifier), then you would know I don't believe Nebraska deserved the title, and also that the apple a day thing is just silly (although I love apples).

After I re-read my post today, I realized I just got on a roll screwing around yesterday and it probably wasn't that clear....

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May 3rd, 2011 at 7:57 PM
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posted from iPhone

You eat... APPLES?!?! Ack! my kryptonite! *dies*

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:12 PM
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Get the fuck off my diary, jg2112.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:28 PM
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A for

Effort

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:40 PM
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Of course the other possibility is....

CBS Outdoor created and paid for the billboard to build a lot of social media buzz to get more advertising $$$$.  See their logo prominently at the bottom of the billboard?  That could also explain Bob Brown being so evasive about the "anonymous" purchaser.   Just a possibility.  I'd imagine the billboard ad business is pretty slow these days, especially in the midwest.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:43 PM
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Give the OP a break, guys...

Wow you guys are being tough on OP. I take this as more of a shot at social media's unwillingness (or inability) to do research into these things, as OP did speaking to who put them up. I don't think he was addressing Who put them up as much as 'why do people assume it was us? '

That being said, this may have been more fitting as a diary topic, but regardless, thanks for this. I, for one, see the interest in this post.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:46 PM
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Um, it IS a diary topic.

Right?  Until Brian puts it on the home page.  ;-)

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:55 PM
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Meant forum. My bad. And that's not an insult or a shot at the post, just a statement of opinion. Which on the Internet means everything, right? /s

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May 3rd, 2011 at 6:08 PM
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You might have been right and not know it

It's in the forum on my App now. Did it bumped down? I mean, was it diary worthy to begin with?

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May 3rd, 2011 at 9:10 PM
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I thumped. Reasoning above in

I thumped. Reasoning above in comments.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:45 PM
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I'm confident

this post is a major NCAA violation.  I mean, I don't actually know that it is, but nobody will tell me it isn't, so I'm betting it is.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:58 PM
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Homer:  Well, there's not a

Homer:  Well, there's not a bear in sight.  The Bear Patrol is sure doing its job.

Lisa:  That's specious reasioning, Dad.

Homer:  Thank you, sweetie.

Lisa:  Dad, what if I were to tell you that this rock keeps away tigers.

Homer:  Uh-huh, and how does it work?

Lisa:  It doesn't work.  It's just a stupid rock.

Homer:  I see.

Lisa:  But you don't see any tigers around, do you?

Homer:  Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock.

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May 4th, 2011 at 7:09 AM
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and the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdBn5G7Y2RA

 

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May 3rd, 2011 at 4:57 PM
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in my opinion

the pulldown menu should change from 'Redundant' to 'Section1' as an option of scoring

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May 3rd, 2011 at 6:19 PM
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Isn't that Redundant?

Or what it was created for?

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:08 PM
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MSU = Big Ten Champs?

So, if OSUs wins from last year end up being erassed from the record books due to the whole saga, that would leave a tie between UW and MSU for the big ten champ, in which MSU holds the tiebreaker. Will that make MSU the big ten champion last year?

Just a thought.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:16 PM
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Nich21 goes to the head of the class.

So, you might wanta ask Bob Brown about that.  Wait, I already did.  He laughed; and he said, "Yeah, how about that!  How many people do you suppose are thinking about that?"

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:26 PM
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My understanding is that

My understanding is that vacating wins is not that same as forfeiting games. Obviously TSIO would no longer be considered B1G champs, but would it mean that the UW  or MSU situation changes at all?

Someone in the know should throw down.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:47 PM
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I don't know; it almost certainly doesn't matter.

Because the December MSU-Wisconsin billboards were merely "protest."  They weren't going to change the bowl assignments.  I think this too is merely protest and angry denunciation.

Honest to God, guys -- Do any of you really think that anybody paid for these billboards?  I think NOBODY paid for them.  "Nobody," that is, in the form of Bob Brown and the Detroit CBS Outdoor office.  Because they are their own billboards!  Bob, I expect, is having HUGE green-and-white fun as this progresses...

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:30 PM
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Incorrect. MSU and Wisconsin

Incorrect. MSU and Wisconsin would still have tied for the B10 title. The only difference is, MSU would have been prison raped by TCU rather than Alabama.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 6:28 PM
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Correct. Co-Champs still.

For the final year. It's not like they cut the Championship Trophy in half instead of 3 pieces. So after the bowls have been played, it would mean basically nothing to MSU. Which actually strengthens Section 1's argument because I could see a Sparty do that.



Where it would have become interesting is if they had played OSU and that was their only or second loss. Then there could have been some interesting, if equally futile, complaints.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:13 PM
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more interesting

Is the fact that back in the 1970's someone (who was never identified) was going around with a chainsaw or hatchet or whatever and cutting down the billboards on I-94 (or maybe it was US 23) to return the countryside to its natural state--well, aside from the highway running through it.  Power to the people!

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:58 PM
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Thanks for the research

Thanks for the research Section 1. If you can find out who actually was behind it that might be diary-worthy. However I think what you have right now isn't a smoking gun, just a phone call and a lot of editorial around it.

It's worth being on the board. But like I said, find out who actually put it up and leave a paper trail. You have the highest standard of anybody I know for other peoples' reporting; apply that standard to yourself and really do a job here and you'll be on the front page.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 5:59 PM
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I want to put up a board

with an Iowa 37, MSU 6 score and a Rose running throught it billboard

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May 3rd, 2011 at 6:14 PM
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Coaching staffs

first great purchase from their new contracts.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 6:18 PM
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please tell me again...

...why we care who paid for it?

I swear, Section 1, I think pretty soon you're going to be calling for reporters to have sidenotes explaining the etymology of every polysyllabic word they use.  

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May 3rd, 2011 at 6:26 PM
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Because, Magnus, some of us (Brian apparently included)

think it is something of an embarassment, and would like to not be associated with it.  Not even in an ultra-generic "Michigan fans..." way.

That really wasn't so hard, was it?

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May 3rd, 2011 at 6:53 PM
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Why do you keep invoking

Why do you keep invoking Brian's name into your argument? I don't recall the part where he said "I don't think anyone paid for this billboard!" or "I bet Michigan fans weren't involved!" This mission to out the billboard as a CBS venture or a Spartan plant is yours and yours alone. It's pretty clear that no one else cares.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 7:34 PM
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Brian Cook wrote about it before I ever did.

He gave the billboard "five derps out of five."  I agree.  His view counts, even more than mine.  This is his blog.  He is, rightfully, the lead opinionator.

Brian seemed bothered at the prospect that Michigan fans (as had been reported, all over the 'net) did this.  I thought it might be a nice idea to ease Brian's mind on that.  There is zero evidence that "Michigan fans" did this, and at least some evidence that "Spartan fans" did, insofar as a Spartan fan runs the metro Detroit sales office of CBS Outdoor billboards, and by his own account, he did something very, very similar with the 34-24 billboards, just a few months ago.

I see lots of topic-titles that I might not care about.  For me, that's easy; I just don't click on them.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 7:37 PM
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Hmm...

I thought it might be a nice idea to ease Brian's mind on that.

Were you looking for a wedding invitation or something? Swap stories over a few beers at Ashley's? What?

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May 3rd, 2011 at 9:52 PM
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I do think it's good

that you shared this. It does make things better. Even though I know my ideals of m fandom are delusional. Thanks nonetheless.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 6:52 PM
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The Sparty nonsense aside,

The Sparty nonsense aside, this whole thing can be boiled down to two sentences:

The Internet assumed that Michigan fans paid for the sign. It's a reasonable assumption, though 100% unsubstantiated by actual facts, so all the places that say Michigan fans did it should qualify it with allegedly/supposedly/likely. 

That is all. If the OP had said that, it would have been worthwhile and interesting. Otherwise, it is mostly speculative, probably incorrect drivel. Which, to be fair, is a lot of stuff on the MGoBoard, and most of the stuff on the message boards of other schools.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 6:56 PM
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Big brother

Whats most important is that everyone automatically thinks uom did it, no one bothers to suspect little brother

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May 18th, 2011 at 4:09 PM
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Sweet.

Hindsight is a real bitch, now, isn't it?

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May 3rd, 2011 at 7:38 PM
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Well this thread certainly

Well this thread certainly cleared the air.  I'll sleep better tonight.

 

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May 3rd, 2011 at 7:56 PM
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What I've got to say

I'm sayin' with a meme...

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May 3rd, 2011 at 8:09 PM
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maybe it's just clever

maybe it's just clever marketing be it purposeful or not.  that picture has been bandied about on several media sources and has been seen by far more eyes than have driven by it.

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May 3rd, 2011 at 9:50 PM
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Unoffically

Section 1 has 23/64 current replies.... About the same as the Who Cares? Contingency...

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May 3rd, 2011 at 10:32 PM
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What would your billboard look like?

I was listening to a sports talk show on the way in to work today.  The hosts were talking about this billboard and asked the listeners to call in with their ideas for a billboard.  Very few people called in, but I thought it would be fun to hear from my MgoBlog friends.

I cannot start a thread, but perhaps someone else wants to use this idea to start a thread.

My billboard would be located on the Michigan/Ohio boarder and would be visible to those who are leaving Ohio and entering the beautiful state of Michigan.  It would be a blue backgroud with maize letters.  It would have a nicely proportioned block M and a picture of Brady Hoke.  The writing would read, "This is Michigan!" (as taken from his press conference when he was introduced as our new head football coach).

What would your billboard look like?

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May 4th, 2011 at 7:45 AM
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I dont Care

Who put it up....the world needs to be reminded what a Liar and Cheat

Jim Tressel and the OH-Lie-O $tate BuckLies are...

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