Very OT: What are the lamest sports moments/feats that other fanbases think are huge?
Since we're in the slowest part of the year, I was thinking back to a conversation with some Rutgers fans where they kept talking about "the Upset", as if I was supposed to know what that was. When I finally asked, they were referring to when they beat us in 2014 during the Brady Hoke farewell/GTFO tour. They legitimately acted as if this was a big deal and talked about how it was a wakeup call to all the Big Ten that Rutgers was for real. There was even a big banner this past season on the side of the arena commemorating it.
It made me proud to root for a team that has actual accomplishments that people outside of the fanbase are actually aware of.
Any other stories of lame accomplishments?
If an 8-5 Rutgers team beating a 5-7 Michigan team at home by 2 points is an "upset" I'll let them have it.
Everybody beat us that year and all that game showed was that Michigan was broken, not that Rutgers had arrived.
That loss to Rutgers was one of the great moments of the last few years for Michigan since it was the final nail in the Hoke coffin.
So....thanks Rutgers!
Eh, I'd say the Minnesota game before it was the one that sealed the deal. Losing is bad enough, but when you are so inept that you choose to send a clearly concussed and injured kid back out there rather than call a timeout or, you know, have the backup prepared, you might as well freshen up that resume.
I mean, I'm still genuinely surprised we didn't fire him a any point during that week following the game.
Eh, I'd say the Minnesota game before it was the one that sealed the deal. Losing is bad enough, but when you are so inept that you choose to send a clearly concussed and injured kid back out there rather than call a timeout or, you know, have the backup prepared, you might as well freshen up that resume.
I mean, I'm still genuinely surprised we didn't fire him a any point during that week following the game.
Except that he not only wasn't "clearly concussed," he may nnot have been concussed at all. His problem was his ankle (that's why he staggered around, according to him), and he still wanted to play.
The concussion covfefe was caused by Hoke not seeming to know what Morris's status was during and after the game.
Do you have eyeballs?
I want to know how you came to this conclusion. All reputable sources confirmed a concussion. Even the disreputable sources initially claiming it wasn't a concussion eventually relented, and admitted there was.
I too wobble my head and lose any ability to maintain balance when I hurt my ankle.
We know it's you!
In a similar vein, Penn State still views their 2013 white out win over a 7-6 Hoke led Michigan team as a bellwether game.
Is that the game that resulted in Stribling's ass being tattooed on that guy's arm? If so, that's definitely on this list.
Best third place team in the East.
They lucked into this last year - not in 2017!!
It's two years in a row that the team that won the Big Ten was the third best team in the east.
a bellwether of what? A bellwether that they would lose by 7 touchdowns to Ohio State in their very next game?
The 2013 PSU win over U-M was just like the 2010 win. A game that was entertaining in a way given it was a good crowd, good atmosphere, and competitive game with quite a few points scored.
But ultimately a win by an average team over an equally average team.
Now, all the 409th victory and 400th victory and those "milestones" from the 2010-2011 era. THOSE are overrated by much of the PSU fanbase.
This board loves to disparage all PSU fans because of the really shitty Paterno history. Some of my best friends went to PSU and, having lived in Philadelphia, I was acquaintances and coworkers with a lot. None of them that I have met fit the mold described by this board.
I think Spartan football fans touting their "streak" of five 11 win seasons in six years, in an era of 13-14 game seasons that only extends back about 10-15 years is pretty stupid.
It is the championships and playing in the BTC.
As a M fan, I would sure as shit be touting that stuff if Michigan had it in the last decade.
That's the part upon which they SHOULD focus; but I can't tell you how many times I've heard or read Spartan fans proclaiming their winning a minimum of 11 games 5 out of 6 seasons, something Michigan's never done, being an accomplishment in and of itself. A boast which ignores the changing arithmetic of the college football season in the 21st century.
Rutgers being allowed to have home games every season.
Rutgers ever beating Michigan is a goddamn shame. Indiana hasn't beaten us in 30 years! so yea we can beat them 78-0 for the next 20 years but they still did something indiana couldn't
Harbaugh agrees with you. It's why he hasn't yet shown mercy each time he's faced them. He's gone for 2 while up at least 4 possessions in both games.
Ohio State fans think it was just punishment to have to live through a year kf Fickell between Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer.
I was just about to post "any lions playoff appearance".
HELLO!
I'm not even a Lions fan and those banners make me cringe.
Feels like hanging up a participation trophy.....
Yeah, I'd never seen those banners before and I just gasped. Wow.
Those banners are far more embarrassing than just not having any banners hanging at all.
Rudy Ruettiger. He played a down and was offsides.
Working at Notre Dame makes it even worse.
This had got to be the most egregious example. Full length feature about a future convicted con artist that sucked at football
Some Sparty fans wrote an entire book about the final play of the 2015 game.
It was a coloring book.
they made the movie way before he was a convicted con-artist but still.
Also, he played in 3 plays. A kickoff, an incomplete pass, and his movie and career making 1 sack.
While that's true, he was always a shameless self promoter and by all accounts an asshole. The character they created in the movie was a complete farce.
have less of an issue with them propping up the character ("Norman Dale," was a 24 year old second year coach with almost no coaching history in real life and was hired without much fan fare or interest, good or bad) than I do with Sean Astin's portrayel of him. He seriously took every steretype of a Notre Dame superfan and combined them into the most unrealistic, punchable character ever played in a movie, and never came close to believable as a football player, even a bad one. Despite my general disgust for Notre Dame football, there was a good movie in Rudy somewhere, but Astin played the role like he was in a cartoon.
Since we are now Inside the Actors Studio, curious as to why you think it never came close to believeable as a football player? The true Norman Dale sounds more unbelieveable than the actual Hoosiers story, as you mentioned, so how is Astin's portreyal more unbelievable?
was played as basically a flawless human being, devoid of any pure self-interest. The idea that this kid did everything he did "for Notre Dame" is not believable on its face. There were no layers to the character. He functioned as little more than a prop. Ok, "like a football player" was probably a misguided criticism, but did you ever get the feeling that you were watching an actual person in that movie? Not me. It could be writing as much as acting, but he certainly was not the guy to turn that into a character remotely interesting to anybody but the most die hard ND fan, and it is probably stretching it for most of them as well.
The best part is that Rutgers might have to vacate that win against us because Kyle Flood played ineligible players. Yes I know our loss doesn't go away, but goodbye to their crowning achievement.
I respect the counterarguments. But the consecutive games played streak never really impressed me much.
have you not missed a day of work in the past 7 years?
Try 16 years
If I got six months per year off, and if my job was playing baseball, then yeah--I think I could manage to show up every day.
With no broken bones, sore throats, blisters, or swollen testicles? Good luck with that.
That would make the task a bit easier.
I was referring to the actual calendar duration of the streak.
I missed a week of work from just 1 softball game. Can't imagine playing 2,632 in a row without ever missing a day.