WSJ writer continues homage to UM football
Like the weekly Michigan Monday posts, always entertaining reading WSJ sports writer Jason Gay's efforts to deal with a victorious Michigan team:
"For this grumpy, grudge-carrying Wisconsin graduate, the idea of Big Ten rivals Michigan and Ohio State winning their semifinals and then meeting Jan. 9 for a national championship is a bone-chilling nightmare.
The thought of my already insufferable Wolverine colleagues at the Journal crowing about beating the Buckeyes twice in one year.…I may need to watch Saturday’s semifinals sedated, inside a sealed plexiglass box filled with my favorite stuffed animals and childhood blanket."
Behind paywall:
December 30th, 2022 at 8:33 AM ^
He, and all the other semi-rational Big Ten team supporters should be thanking us for curb-stomping the Buckeyes after the years of beatdowns they've endured at OSU's hands.
December 30th, 2022 at 8:36 AM ^
They should be, but as we've seen with Rutgers "teaming up" with OSU, Michigan seems to be the more hated team among other B1G fan bases.
December 30th, 2022 at 8:46 AM ^
With all the success OSU has had over the last two decades I would venture that UM isn't the most hated in the B1G but a close second.
December 30th, 2022 at 10:34 AM ^
Wrong - we are the most hated.
December 30th, 2022 at 10:55 AM ^
It's fake, we the one they think they have a shot to beat so they come at us harder.
December 30th, 2022 at 1:10 PM ^
Wrong again - the hate is real and goes back much farther than that and goes beyond winning football games.
December 30th, 2022 at 2:26 PM ^
Yeah, I think many people think of Michigan in a way that we think about Notre Dame.
December 30th, 2022 at 10:09 PM ^
F the Irish!
December 30th, 2022 at 8:53 AM ^
That might have more to do with fact that the past two Rutgers head coaches are former Ohio State assistants.
December 30th, 2022 at 10:58 AM ^
My unscientific observation: more Big Ten teams want to claim Michigan as a rival, so they are obliged to hate us. But they actually dislike OSU (and especially OSU fans) more.
December 30th, 2022 at 11:02 AM ^
Completely anecdotal, but I feel like (outside of spartys who all not-so-secretly love osu) I meet FAR more people who hate osu, usually due to their fanbase.
December 30th, 2022 at 12:40 PM ^
Rutgers fans? Just smile, say "78 to nothing", and enjoy the silence. This never fails. 🙂
December 30th, 2022 at 10:25 AM ^
I was definitely happy/jealous for Wisconsin's Rose Bowl record.
December 30th, 2022 at 9:03 AM ^
In his defense, this is his third or fourth column on the Michigan football team starting pretty much with 42-27 and they have all been pretty humorous and good natured from another Big Ten 10 school alum’s perspective.
December 30th, 2022 at 12:57 PM ^
There was also this when he dressed up as JH in Ann Arbor during the coaching search.
https://btn.com/2014/12/24/photo-wsj-writer-goes-to-michigan-dressed-as-jim-harbaugh/
December 30th, 2022 at 9:28 AM ^
its great....
to be.....
a Michigan Wolverine!
December 30th, 2022 at 9:36 AM ^
FUCK OSU!
December 30th, 2022 at 10:22 AM ^
At first I wondered why he was worried only about "insufferable wolverine colleagues," then I realized the WSJ probably doesn't hire OSU grads.
December 30th, 2022 at 1:36 PM ^
OSU grads probably write and spell worse than staee grads!
December 30th, 2022 at 10:42 AM ^
To be candid, Michigan fans are insufferable. That's everyone else's problem though.
December 30th, 2022 at 10:56 AM ^
We're arrogant asses and we own it.
December 30th, 2022 at 3:41 PM ^
Being arrogant is WAY more fun than begging for respect and cooking up “blue wall” conspiracies. 👍
December 30th, 2022 at 10:59 AM ^
We're the same as pretty much every other fan base outside of Sparty, we are all shaped by what our teams do. If we are being honest, if UM football had performed the same as Sparty for the last 50 years, we would probably be no different then the freaks from RCMB.
December 30th, 2022 at 12:41 PM ^
The cultural differences between fanbases is one of the most interesting aspects of college football. You're missing out greatly if all you can see shaping that are the wins and losses. Might as well switch to the NFL (though even there, enduring culture can be found in fanbases - it's just a lesser extent than with college teams).
December 30th, 2022 at 11:27 AM ^
A little harsh but true. Sit with the Michigan fans at a road game and you'll quickly get the sense that there are lots of loose screws in the area.
December 30th, 2022 at 12:13 PM ^
Except that we're harder on our own team than the opposition.
December 30th, 2022 at 12:03 PM ^
Historically, almost every team at the top has gone through a significant valley, and some are still there. Think about it: Michigan, USC, Alabama, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Auburn, Penn State, Clemson, Miami, UCLA, Texas, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Stanford, Georgia, all of them have had significant "down" periods in the last 50 years. Some of the teams on the list are still there, and may never come back up to the heights of success they once enjoyed. Historically, there are yet other teams who have been "down" for a yet longer time. Minnesota, MSU, Rutgers, Army, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. If I am correct, OSU, is virtually the ONLY team that has NOT had a significant and prolonged down period in their teams success.
OSU is more than due to experience some real suffering. And, imhe, some of their fans are the most insufferable.
Michigan fans have also been pretty arrogant, but the last 20 years have temperred that, at least a bit. Be thankful for success when it comes, but don't let it make you a royal jerk.
December 30th, 2022 at 4:10 PM ^
You're exceptionally gracious to the Clemson fans to lump their team in with that historic group!