Sparty NOments Quiz
Someone managed to combine two of my favorite things (Sporcle and Schadenfruede) into a fantastic test on your knowledge of the biggest Sparty NO moments (Sparty NOments) since 2000: http://www.sporcle.com/games/schnoxl/sparty_no
December 4th, 2011 at 4:55 PM ^
God I love sporcle. Cures my sunday football watching ADD.
December 4th, 2011 at 4:58 PM ^
Well, I got them all right. Don't know what that says about me.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:02 PM ^
I struggled with them, I got like 50%, which is awful considering half of them were Michigan or Notre Dame.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:38 PM ^
The only thing about sporcle is that it doesn't punish wrong answers. So when I got one wrong or didn't know the answer, I just cycled through B1G teams and Notre Dame. There were only a couple OOC games listed, and I was able to remember the the names of the players and who they played for.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:00 PM ^
With this Msu stuff?? They beat us 4 in a row
December 4th, 2011 at 5:03 PM ^
and their reward is 3 Capitol One Bowl losses in 4 years!
December 5th, 2011 at 3:11 AM ^
Two Capitol One Bowl losses, but close enough. Penn State got the nod in '09 (MSU got the Alamo Bowl).
December 4th, 2011 at 5:04 PM ^
Stop being a downer, this is actually a good post, sporcle is an awesome quiz website and regardless this is a funny topic. No one said we are a better team than them right now, lighten up.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:06 PM ^
People always comment how MSU is obsessed with Michigan, but anytime something happens to State there are 100000 threads about it here.
December 4th, 2011 at 6:01 PM ^
BUT NOTRE DAME IS STILL MORE IMPORTANT
December 4th, 2011 at 5:11 PM ^
It's fun and all to make fun of them, but more so when Michigan is winning. I would have taken MSU's season with Michigan beating MSU than what Michigan situation currently is. Don't get me wrong, I'm estatic for what Michigan has the opportunity to accomplish this year, but Michigan needs to beat State before us as Michigan fans can go "LOL Sparty NO!" without looking like MSU fans for the better part of the last 50 years.
There is a good portion of this fan base that is turning in to what we despised in MSU fans for forever (a bit obsessed, a bunch of threads about them, just as into our rival losing than us winning, etc.). It may never get that bad (and probably won't), but it's not going in the right direction either. I take more pride in Michigan's accomplishments over MSU than Sparty NO!, so I think we probably need to chill with all these threads.
December 4th, 2011 at 6:47 PM ^
Yes. Thank you. A healthy rivalry is influenced by this behavior. It just is annoying when you see MGO users saying this stuff, then making fun of MSU fans for the same behavior. Also, I wish I could impliment a rule saying that anyone who posts in these threads is not allowed to comment how MSU isn't one of our rivals. Obviously this behavior and those statements do not compute.
December 4th, 2011 at 6:53 PM ^
I agree with this 100%.
As an aside, last night was crushing, but it was not a SpartyNo. Our kids played a great game and had a great season. No reason to hang their heads at all.
As the poster above said, I would not trade UM's season for ours.
Congrats on the Sugar (sincerely), but MSU will not be mourning.
I honestly don't really have any desire to play K-State in the Sugar Bowl. Being that close to the Rose Bowl, everything else feels like a let down.
Also, I will be pulling for the B1G Ten in bowl games. We need to represent.....
December 4th, 2011 at 8:18 PM ^
I'm sorry, but when you've stopped the other team with 1:30 left, when you have a hot offense, AND the return gets brought back to the goalline? And that all gets wiped out because a guy ran into the punter? That's a SpartyNO! moment if there ever was one.
And while you specifically may not be mourning/bitter, the comments by Cousins and the majority of Spartan Nation shows otherwise
December 4th, 2011 at 9:16 PM ^
Yeah man. So bitter
December 4th, 2011 at 9:31 PM ^
if he didn't have a history of mouthing off to the media about what grinds Kirk's gears and why the world should be different.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:21 PM ^
1) Sparty NO is more than 4 years old, so it's not like this is a new trend indicating our fanbase's growing obsession.
2) This is a funny quiz aimed at one of our rivals. I would have posted it when I found it whether we had won or lost this year.
December 4th, 2011 at 10:03 PM ^
Yeah, but you still don't get it. You wouldn't make this for Purdue or Penn State. Just mentioning them (especially in the frequency they have been recently) on this board is recognizing their worth and that we might care. Message to all mods. PLEASE DELETE ALL POSTS regarding that second rate, garbage junior college. This is MGoBlog, please keep the posts about MICHIGAN!!!!
They are not our rival, they are not on our radar, the two schools are not even comparable, stop, no more.
December 5th, 2011 at 12:51 AM ^
They definitely are a rival. Just not our biggest.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:05 PM ^
I just hope they don't make one of some of our BCS failures. You know that's what they would come with. This is clever either way.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:26 PM ^
Oh no, I would be so afraid of being made fun of for what happens in a bowl by a fan of a team that hasn't won a bowl game since 2001 and that was against Fresno State in the mighty and traditional Silicon Valley Bowl.... err, "Football Classic." Sparty making fun of us for BCS losses is like a Lions fans laughing that the Colts always fold in the playoffs.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:38 PM ^
It's scary!!!!
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December 4th, 2011 at 5:24 PM ^
Enough State threads please. Let's actually beat them, and then we can enjoy mass amounts of Schadenfruede.
December 4th, 2011 at 6:09 PM ^
Agreed, this board is starting to get embarrasing. Since when do we care about state?? We are Michigan, we need not mention them, this is ridiculous.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:25 PM ^
I have been waiting two loooong years to update this quiz, which I originally wrote in the leadup to the 2009 MSU game. At that time MSU had beaten U-M precisely once in a row. To give MSU their props, I am impressed that it did take them almost three full seasons between blowing leads in the 4th quarter.
If you don't like gloating over Sparty until we beat them next fall, play this quiz instead: http://www.sporcle.com/games/schnoxl/michigan_opponents and name every college Michigan has ever played in football.
Also read my stuff at the Hoover Street Rag: http://hooverstreetrag.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-wish-there-was-some-word-…
December 4th, 2011 at 5:33 PM ^
Correcting an error: I wrote before the 2010 game, not the 2009 one. Still, we had only lost to them twice in a row, and I thought had a good chance of winning that one. :(
December 4th, 2011 at 5:42 PM ^
Oh Boy, I'm licking my chops at this one.
December 4th, 2011 at 5:31 PM ^
this is great. i tweeted it to all my sparty friends and im sure they will get a kick out of it too!
December 9th, 2011 at 12:31 PM ^
Thanks - that was fun. I was a little surprised at the hostility directed towards Delaney, though - does anybody know what that's about, from the Spartan side? Are they really sore about Tom G's half-assed partial suspension, or do they think the conference somehow intentionally influences the BCS to disrespect them, or what?