...why I like the Spartans...
They care more about our wins than we do?
March 11th, 2010 at 10:18 PM ^
They care more about our LOSSES than their WINS.
Their inferiority complex is hilarious.
This. It's funny when they want us to lose more than they want their team to win.
The Horror might have been their best win of the past decade.
Also:
300, brah.
HA-OOH!
A classic MSU joke I heard somewhere:
Of the top 10 moments in MSU sports history, four of them include the name Appalachian State.
you missed?
March 12th, 2010 at 12:20 PM ^
But the specific game isn't as entertaining as the story behind it.
I'll post a diary in the next few weeks to do the story justice.
A teaser: It had something to do with the President of the United States and Cal Ripken, Jr.
March 11th, 2010 at 10:20 PM ^
Didn't Brian post a link back in the day of their student sports section reminiscing on their favorite sports moments as Spartans and at least two of them had The Horror as their top moment?
...they think that we have a superiority complex or something.
If you really are superior.
They always put the lids back on the cans and keep the truck off the grass.
+1, b/c that it all I can do...
They totally know how to rage, brah.
They dispose of my old couches and the stupid kids I went to high school with.
They get excited over a two game winning streak.
They usually get my pizza to me in 30 minutes or less.
Because I hate women and engineers too!
Because if I had gotten a 12 on my ACT, I would have a place to call home.
I donate all of my old ski masks to their football team.
I think their complex was solidified forever when Dantonio said "Go Bucks" when UM played OSU in 2008. A Michigan win would have given them a shot at a Big Ten championship.
Or their "moment of silence".
They've got an octagon on campus named Rather Hall which is totally rad brah
Milk
San Jose State is a great school.
I have to point out the humor that you created a thread to make fun of how much MSU pays attention to us.
I could(n't) care less about MSU.
because Miller just scored a shorty for the wings!
Yessir, those retarded farmerjock bros up in East Lansing are so obsessed with Michigan sports. Let's start another thread about it. Or maybe about Dantonio. How about one making fun of the two schools' respective rankings in the US News and World Report? Or perhaps their 2009 endowments? Because they're poor and stupid, you see. The world needs to know how obsessed they are with us, dammit. The internets have not learned yet! It's our duty to tell them. We have to broadcast State's inferiority from the mighty peak of Mount MGoBlog at all times, lest those Spartan morons believe for a moment that we Michigan Men spend any time thinking about them. Because we surely don't.
March 11th, 2010 at 10:05 PM ^
Of course we spend time thinking about MSU and do not want them to do well. We're rivals. However, we have another rival who we hate more and we are sane enough to root for them when it benefits us. Furthermore, we have a history of dominating them in what is by far the most important collegiate sport and we are a far superior academic institution, which allows us to revel in our superiority and make snide jokes that are a) occasionally funny and b) give us an arrogant way to get comeuppance in any ongoing war of words between us and any MSU fans we know.
There is obviously an inherent hypocrisy about making jokes about how much MSU cares about us and we don't care about them. We're aware of it. However, the point is not to hold our nose in the air, but rather make jokes at MSU's expense, because it's occasionally amusing (to some of us anyway).
...not that we don't CARE what they do (because who hasn't had a good evening watching OSU, MSU, or ND choke one away), but we don't care MORE than what we do. It may amuse us, but if we lost that day, we're never "oh well, MSU lost too, so it's not so bad". And we don't take time from our victories to think about them (Moment of Silence after wins; rooting for our team to not have a shoot at the Big Ten title just to see them lose).
I know there are people out there who like to pretend we don't care at all about MSU...but if that were the case, they wouldn't be a rival, they'd be Indiana. So I never bought it...unless it's just done to get under a Sparty's skin. It's just the depth and obsession of their interest that's amusing.
March 11th, 2010 at 11:00 PM ^
It's time to admit it to the community...my lovely wife is an MSU grad.
But the absolutely coolest thing is that she would be THRILLED if our two daughters end up going to school at U-M!
i married a Sparty too
Me too. It's nice to know that I'm not alone.
My wife too would love for our kids to attend UM.
They never get my pizza to my apartment on time.
i dont.
March 11th, 2010 at 10:54 PM ^
They can go to hell...or dine there, if you will.
March 11th, 2010 at 11:20 PM ^
They always get my order right at McDonald's.
They are quick to shoot themselves in the leg (wazzup Plax)
You know the job is yours when the other guy is from State.
the football team had a quarterback named Gus Ornstein.
edit: i thought this was a pretty funny name at the time, but some googling found this: After his freshman year at Notre Dame, ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper was quoted as saying, “whenever Gus Ornstein chooses to come out of college he will be the first player selected in the NFL draft.”
An Ann Arbor family of Michigan Wolverine supporters head out one Saturday to do their Christmas shopping. While in the sports shop the son picks up a MSU Spartans jersey and says to his older sister, "I've decided to become a State fan and I would like this for Christmas".
His big sister is outraged by this and promptly whacks him round the head and says, "Go talk to mother".
Off goes the little lad with the State jersey in hand and finds his mother. "Mom?"
"Yes, son?"
"I've decided I'm going to be a State fan and I would like this jersey for Christmas".
The mother is outraged at this, promptly whacks him around the head and says, "Go talk to your father!"
Off he goes with the State jersey in hand and finds his father.
"Dad?"
"Yes, son?"
"I've decided I'm going to be a State fan and I would like this jersey for Christmas".
The father is outraged and promptly whacks his son around the head and says, "No son of mine is ever going to be seen in THAT!"
About half an hour later they're all back in the car and heading towards home.
The father turns to his son and says, "Son, I hope you've learned something today?"
The son says, "Yes, Dad, I have."
"Good son, what is it?"
To which the son replies, "I've only been a State fan for an hour and I already hate you Wolverine bastards."
Seriously, the Sparty bar in my Chicago neighborhood is called Plan B. Its motto: "You can always go to Plan B." Indeed.
March 12th, 2010 at 10:07 AM ^
our law enforcement agencies employed, even after they graduate. That's true dedication!
March 12th, 2010 at 12:52 PM ^
ahahahahah wow. I do appreciate threads like these. Really shows where Michigans football and basketball programs are headed...down
Who do you root for when MSU plays OSU or MSU plays ND ? I root for an earthquake .