WD, was this your doing? (Spartan Statue vandalized)
Michigan State's Spartan statue vandalized this morning by Wolverines: (via @247Sports) pic.twitter.com/DMIJWy8wnB
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) April 16, 2015
April 16th, 2015 at 10:17 AM ^
Would have chewed right through it. Probably done by a drunk spartan that bought the wrong colors of spray paint.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:56 AM ^
Or one that misapplied their recent studies in color theory as part of their advanced Sparty curriculum.
"BLUE PLUS YELLOW EQUALS GREEN! DO PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS???"
Couldn't have been WD. They didn't use Nike's shade of Maize.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:19 AM ^
This just frustrates me. Why deface their campus? Let's just work on beating them on the field and hardwood before trying to vandalize something. It's no different from when they vandalize the M. It's just stupid.
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April 16th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
Cuz it's fun?
April 16th, 2015 at 10:24 AM ^
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
April 16th, 2015 at 10:32 AM ^
My first reaction was - "boy, I hope that's water based paint".
April 16th, 2015 at 10:51 AM ^
This is part of the college culture. If they cut his head off, sure, that's not cool. If they left hateful speech, sure, that's not cool. But all it's gonna take is a few hours work and some Graffiti Gone and it'll be fine. Go yell at some jaywalkers, grandpas.
EDIT: Meant for the 2 posts above yours, not your post. I'd hope it is fairly easy to remove as well.
April 16th, 2015 at 11:04 AM ^
I understand the college prank stuff and I'm cool with it. My point, which is not clear from my post, is that this makes us look like sparty from when we were beating their ass on a consisntent basis.
At the end of the day, not a big deal. Now get the hell off of my lawn.....s/
Which I believe was done this past fall?
Eh - what comes around goes around ... hope the kids had fun with it.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:44 AM ^
this has gone on since at least the mid 90s. we paint Sparty, they paint the diag. it's stupid, but it's college.
we painted their original Sparty so many times that it was starting to get damaged and they moved it inside spartan stadium. what got painted last night is the replica.
not saying it's right, just putting this in context, it has been going on for a long time, back when we dominated them.
goes further back. They did it in 1979. I'm not if they did that prior to then.
In the early 50's, my dad with his pledge class painted same statue to make it anatomically correct. They gave it blue ones. So this has been a thing since probably the statue went up way back when.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:45 AM ^
Yes let's all work on beating them.
Tbh with my personal experience with Sparties I would not put it past their students to do this to try and make our fans look foolish.
April 16th, 2015 at 11:15 AM ^
could have done something else to focus on beating them? such as? paint something else?
April 16th, 2015 at 11:25 AM ^
The comment I responded to said "let's just work on beating them." I am not sure what we, as fans, can do to work on beating them. Did my sarcasm go undetected?
April 16th, 2015 at 11:35 AM ^
Since Bo arrived at Michigan, Sparty's main modus operandi is to do whatever they can so that Michigan pays attention to them. They have been screaming to have Michigan take them as seriously as they take OSU. They vandalize the cars of Michigan fans who go to EL for the game. They troll every Michigan article on the internet. They can't even celebrate their own success without an inflammatory reference to "scUM."
It looks like they are finally getting some Michigan fans to pay attention and take them seriously. While I don't advocate rolling in the mud with a pig, this still looks like a case of "careful what you ask for..."
April 16th, 2015 at 11:44 AM ^
It's college kids having fun - this is not DB skywriting.
April 16th, 2015 at 11:46 AM ^
What? The only people who can "work on beating them" are players and coaches. It would stun me if this was done by players, and I will eat six lemons if it was done by coaches.
Students can do pranks. Pranks are fun. This is fun.
April 16th, 2015 at 11:46 AM ^
there's no need for that type of shit. Zero. Zilch. I hope whoever did it gets caught and figures out that it was not the smart thing to do. Rivalry is one thing, spirit is one thing, but causing damage and forcing someone else to spend money to fix whatever you did is another.
Just....dumb.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:20 AM ^
quick around here. I was just about to post this.
Timing seems odd though. No football or basketball going on.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:22 AM ^
Michigan Softball whipped their ass 10-0 in east lansing yesterday.
No-hit them, too.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:26 AM ^
of rabid and drunken softball fans did this then? Does such a person even exist?
April 16th, 2015 at 10:29 AM ^
My best friend and I were just that while we lived in Ann Arbor. Not many better things to do on a late spring afternoon than take in a ballgame and drink from a flask.
April 16th, 2015 at 11:48 AM ^
You've never played on a corporate SB team...
April 16th, 2015 at 10:27 AM ^
We are whiping out the maize and blue paint for softball domination? God bless the softball team but come on now.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:30 AM ^
This was my first thought too.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:20 AM ^
she has been wanting to do that ever since we moved to Lansing 30 years ago.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:35 AM ^
She didn't want to do it too soon after moving there, or would immediately be suspected. I think 30 years is safe.
April 16th, 2015 at 11:23 AM ^
Thank you. Her Michigan degree helps, but a lot of innate craftiness. We can't even drive by that statue, it makes her too furious. I know I must hate Ohio, and we do with a passion, but when you live among the Sparties it stokes those fires like you woudln't believe.
and you have no idea where or why? Hmmm.
I sleep very soundly. I'm pretty sure nothing happens while I sleep and that none of you people exist except when I see you. I am a lot like a dog.
I thought I was the only one who felt this way
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April 16th, 2015 at 10:21 AM ^
However, I can see him dressing up the statue with UM apparel.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:24 AM ^
BURN!!!
April 16th, 2015 at 10:24 AM ^
BURN!!!
April 16th, 2015 at 10:22 AM ^
Whoever it was did a pretty shitty job.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
Could be Izzo or Dantonio so that they could get the little brothers all riled up. Whoever did it, good job.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
DISRESPEKT
April 16th, 2015 at 10:45 AM ^
Izzo isn't tall enough to paint that M
April 16th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
Upvote: earned.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:24 AM ^
I'm guessing a Sparty did this.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:28 AM ^
Done by the coaching staff. They heard the young recruits love UNIFORMZ.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:29 AM ^
and OSU for that matter. But I agree with the article that rivalries are great but vandalism is bad.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:30 AM ^
Better head to the mattresses. It's good to have wars like this every few years. Gets rid of the bad blood.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:30 AM ^
Even the vandals can't get the fucking colors right.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:36 AM ^
Certainly rules out MGoBloggers, doesn't it?
April 16th, 2015 at 10:41 AM ^
we'd spend 2 hours arguing about the correct shade of maize to use