Comments on: MEMO: TO MICHIGAN FANS

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:45:19 +0000

As a Buckeye fan (commenting on a Florida-fan run blog, oddly enough…. I’ll get to the I’m-not-worthies later.), I must mention that I’ve been to 7 different Big Ten stadiums, and 3 of them are some of the best venues in the country. I’m talking, of course, about Ohio Stadium, Camp Randall and Beaver Stadium. The Big House has never been what it’s cracked up to be, in large part because the student section is ridiculously apathetic consider the football program they have (or rather, once had). At Camp Randall, Ohio Stadium, and Beaver Stadium, the student sections are going absolutely nuts even when their team is down by forty. Though I’ll admit the teams playing in those stadiums rarely are, the student sections at perennial cellar dwellers like Indiana and Northwestern are just as crazy throughout most of the games. The student sections usually aren’t even half-empty until there are five minutes left in the game and there is literally no hope left. But at Michigan, it really doesn’t matter how the team is doing. It seems their fans want to keep the “tradition” of being “indifferent” to football success going because Michigan is such a “prestigious institution” that its “brilliant leaders of tomorrow” don’t get amped about college football the way those inbred imbeciles down at OSU, PSU, Wisky, Iowa, and every SEC school plus Texas, USC, Nebraska and Oklahoma do. Anyone that’s ever been to Ann Arbor knows that the snobbishness is ubiquitous whether you’re just visiting or you’re going to the football game.

Either way, I’ve been to three SEC stadiums: Jordan-Hare, Sanford Stadium, and Neyland Stadium, and the student sections there are superior to the Big Ten’s in every way. In the SEC, good football breeds great, if pompous, arrogant, and callous fans.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:28:14 +0000

Clearly, this blog is extremely uneducated as to how anatomy works. It is very possible to still make noise with your vocal chords while wiggling your hand around to shake keys. It’s called a tradition, and does not preclude one from screaming.

Get off our jock.

By: PJ from NU in SF

PJ from NU in SF — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:07:56 +0000

That itching must be horrible, kid, because it’s making you dumber by the second. We’ve won a few Big 10+1 championships recently. I refer you to 1995, 1996 and 2000.

I don’t claim that we have the greatest team in the land this year, or the best team north of Louisville, or even a contender for a late December bowl (yet). I root for my alma mater because it’s alma mater. I’m proud of my school and if you have a problem with that, too damn bad.

If Northwestern’s irrelevant, why are you so upset? Think about that while I go feed your mascot a peanut.

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:11:35 +0000

Here is what you fail to leave out, Northwestern is completely fucking irrelevent. I’m not sure that you’ve ever won the big 10 title, and the only time you’ve had a national sports headline is when your coach died while he was still coach. THATS IT. Your football team is a joke. You throw them a parade if they make a bowl game. We’ll be sure to call you though if we need a biography written or something like that.

By: PJ from NU in SF

PJ from NU in SF — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:44:40 +0000

#97 & 98 – You Bamaboys react because you know I’m right, and it scares you.

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:03:52 +0000

Awww…listen to the poor northwestern guy. He’s trying to play too…like his football team has ever been relevant. Isn’t that cute?

By: RIP Logan Young

RIP Logan Young — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:56:07 +0000

#88

What a dipshit.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:37:46 +0000

#87: Not true. Most Penn State home games (if not all of them by this point) call for white-outs in the student section, regardless of kickoff time. In fact, many students camp out for days to get good seats for the game, and State College can get very cold in the fall, too.

I attended a game in Ann Arbor two years ago, and given all of Michigan’s bragging about its unmatched tradition and number of victories, the relative quiet in their stadium — the nation’s largest, mind you — cannot be defended.

By: Jorgé the Bass Player

Jorgé the Bass Player — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:33:51 +0000

#48- Really, most tOSU folk are complete fucks. I am, too, but not when it comes to CFB.

Cute Bunny Abortions? Yeah, I’m a fuck.

By: Pants McPants

Pants McPants — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:00:46 +0000

Bravo, #74, Bra-freaking-vo…

I don’t even know where to begin…I mean, the way you took “Columbus” and switched it to “Columbutt”?!!! Oh,man, is my face red. I got nothing for smack like that…

And the way you refer to EDBS as a Florida blog, no kidding, why would OSU fans go anywhere like that? No other schools’ fans would go to a place like that. Crazy…But you didn’t evven say “Florida”, you used the “UF” and put a “kc” in front of it. OH MY GOD, IT FREAKING SPELLS FUCK BACKWARDS!!! I just got that. Holy crap. “Fuck”. Just brilliant…”Fuck”….

Even your handle “Mo Cee something something fordee” evidently referring to the timely topic of Maurice Clarett, last seen on the field in the 2002 season, and his propensity for alcoholic beverages…Even though it was well publicized he had Grey Goose in his vehicle when busted….But that doesn’t rhyme…

All in all, your post is some kind of superawesomeness…Like regular awesomeness, but with a snake tattoo…And the snake is wrapped around a dagger that has an imprint of an even meaner looking snake on it…
That’s the kind of superawesomeness I’m talking about…

By: Bill in Birmingham

Bill in Birmingham — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:54:04 +0000

One of my best friends who regularly takes me to Auburn games wants me to reciprocate and take him to Ann Arbor and I’ll have to intoduce him to key shaking. I love my alma mater and team (even when they suck), but key shaking? Help me Lord.

By: Flop

Flop — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:46:52 +0000

I seem to recall jingling keys AND screaming my head off. But apparently that’s tougher than rubbing ones stomach and patting ones head.

Although, to be fair, I hurt my larynx much more often at hockey games.

By: Jeff from LA

Jeff from LA — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:44:06 +0000

I only agree with the keys coming out when the game is a monstrous blow-out, and you are telling the other team (and its fans) that its just time to get into their vehicles and head home. I think I saw it once at the USC-UCLA game when we were up 66-19, and may have seen it at another huge blowout, (Arkansas ?), but I think those are the only times when its appropriate. And I can NEVER imagine taking out the keys when you are LOSING.

By: PJ from NU in SF

PJ from NU in SF — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:18:52 +0000

#88, congratulations. I mean that sincerely, because I respect Penn State, even if it belongs in the Big East. But I wasn’t talking to you, and pulling out one year’s rate for football doesn’t tell the rest of the story, does it?

I’m walking proof that NU flunks people whenever they deserve it. Even its cupcake majors require genuine effort. I understand grade inflation is a bigger problem now than it was in my day, but I also know the profs take their responsibilties seriously.

By: Der Schatten

Der Schatten — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:42:33 +0000

Very nice, PJ but, ummm Penn State graduates more than you do…thanks for playing.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/college/s_481980.html

In fairness, you did finish second in the Big Televen. But, having also attended a quasi-Ivy, you and I damned sure know that schools like NW aren’t failing anyone.