So How Will You Handle the Sparty's You Meet This Week?

Laugh at them for losing to Rutgers.

Smirk. That is all.

Don't feed the trolls. It'll make it 10000 times sweeter after a victory.

And no Sparties.

...yet, the powers that be only seem to hire from western and central Michigan.  So there are more Spartys employed than people from A2.  Most of them, however, don't appear to be football fans.   The one that is, has gotten hugely preferential treatment even though he basically doesn't do anything.  He couldn't get a job in E. Lansing, where he lives.  Still, he has nothing but scorn for Ann Arbor, where he drives every day to work.   Last year, he was smugness personnified about his team.  I don't really plan to say much to him during the week, and if we kick their ass like I hope we will... won't say much then either.

Rubber gloves and disinfectant. Same as always.

I can't wait! It's the truth. Bring it, Staee. We're going to own them a week from today. Edit: and oh, just wait until you see Peppers on offense. It's coming, Sparty.

Cook is the best QB we have seen this year.

The "Signature Win" no longer has a winning record as they just lost at home to Washington State.

Same way I treat them every week. hand them a dollar and thank them for cleaning my windshield.

Silence, and perhaps a faint smile.

Every single one of them.

Well all I work with is "Spartisans."

And whilst they have had their dark days of revelrous debauchery, the end approaches for them and their filthy hoards.

I plan to be still and defer to their maniacal ravings of superiority for a short while longer.

Then, when the sun of Michigan Football tradition pierces their skies of gloom next Saturday, I shall rise up to crush them in their despair.

Or perhaps I will just say good game and await the defeat of OSU before I gloat.

By the way I have been drinking heavily.

The thing is, as long as they beat Rutgers the situation will be this: If we beat them, it's obviously bad for them. But if they somehow beat us, that was simply expected. So they're really in a no-win situation. And at some point Dantonio is going to need to explain the Harbaugh factor to his players and pay it credence. "Guys, uh ... things are different this year."

Holding my fire, but remembering everything my loud-mouth Sparty friends have said.  Then on Saturday night have I'll have a big smile whilst I begineth a year-long campaign of retribution.

I'm gonna give em my cat that swallowed the canary grin.

I have some. I will just say Rutgers copied your Mascot and you got that going for you. And walk away with a smile.

I say nothing to avoid Karma. I have a few big mouths. They've been quiet. I suspect the same this week.

I think any but the most irrational Sparty fan knows what's probably going to happen next Saturday. They can barely beat Purdue, their defining win now looks like utter trash, and they might lose to Rutgers tonight.

They know.

My gf goes to MSU and when I drive to her dorm to pick her up, I look at all those kids walking around and I think, "at one time, everyone of these kids had that Ralph Wiggum moment where they exclaimed, 'I'm going to Bovine University!'"

My best buddy (MSU alumnus) and I (UM alumnus) always go to blows throughout this week. Subtle jabs tend to escalate quickly. Should be interesting this week considering I have a little more ammo than years prior.

We are already in their heads.

The fear is almost palpable.

Show them what it means to act like you been there before...;)

With humble heart. 

I work with a shit ton of em. They were complete asshats after Utah, but with each passing week, they have been saying less and less. As of Friday, they were extremely concerned. Can't wait until Monday when I see them in full paranoia. I usually keep my mouth shut, but if we win next Saturday, let's just say, I will clown those fools like no other.

If Sparty loses this Rutgers game, I will answer everything with "you just lost though."

They're struggling to beat Rutgers, it's tied 24-24  late in the 4th. 

MSU's offensive line can't protect Cook, and Rutgers is running the ball on them. 

MSU has been moving the ball via acrobatic catches thrown at the last second by an under pressure QB.

The more of this game I watch, the more I like what I see.

MSU is vulnerable and no way are they #4 in the nation.

 

 

I always try to play it low key. To me you can compete and win with class, even against a bitter rival. And I'm a 42 year old pudgy guy. I'd look a little lame acting all hard.

Most of the Sparties I work with are all good guys too.

The ones that have pi$$ed me off the past 8 years who have been dick$? Well, my talking smack isn't going to make any difference one way or the other. If we win it won't make them feel worse. If we lose, they'll have less ammunition.

In the end, I just want to see our team go out there and level some righteous hits against Sparty. And I'd love to see Dantonio leave the game with a sour look on his face, and the thought in the back of his mind 'Oh. There's the threat.'

To hell with Michigan State, Notre Dame, Ohio State and whoever else we play.

Gotta just lie in weeds I think.. er..um
Honestly. I hope we skull f*ck those sh*tbags and their dbag coach next week on national television.
I wouldn't mind them grabbing Connor Cooks face mask and twisting it like they did to Denards a few years back. Sparty got it common' yo...

Unlike the Sparties and the Buckeyes, I will handle them with class and distinction, my friends.

My father and wife are both Sparties so.... I'll be slapping and punching both of 'em whilst I scream HARBAUGH HARBAUGH HARBAUGH HARBAUGH HARBAUGH HARBAUGH!

Luckily where I live sparties are rare, like the spotted owl.

It's always better to proceed with humility and resist the urge to turn into the type of fan bases most people cannot stand

Our office? I thought you were a farmer. You must be a busy man. I have long since lost touch with any Sparty I ever knew. I stopped attending my high school reunions.

I deal with them 24/7...since I live in Lansing, my stepson is a rabid cocky fan, my group of Michigan fans deal with some of the worst MSU fans ever. I came back from the game against NW last night (by the way there was a Sparty sitting near us at the game in full Sparty gear) to go out for a drink with my wife to a dive bar in Lansing to watch them play Rutgers. My Sparty friends who were down at that moment when we arrived started running their mouths to me, I told them run your mouth if you beat is next week...you guys can't even blow out the bottom feeders in the B1G. The other fans there were acting like rabid fans screaming and acting fools anytime they had a positive play and shout out stuff about Michigan. I go to the store minding my own business and I pretty much get into it with asshole Sparty fans all the time.....they are the worst fan base I've ever encountered and I've lived in NC and NJ close to Philly before. Sparty can kiss my ass!

Be polite, nod in sympathy, express how it should be a great game but inwardly I'm screaming WE'RE GOING TO RIP SPARTY'S HEART OUT.

them and tell them how great it is for the Big Ten that they are on top of their game. Then in a condescending way I tell them that their brief stint in the drivers seat has forced the big boys to step back up and play like they are supposed to.. I then wish them well in the future. They hate it..... absolutely hate it when you look on their recent success as a speed bump on the road of life.