Four years under Fitz, three losses to the Michigan State Spartans.
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore! The only NU victory in the Fitz era came in 2007 when CJ Bacher turned in the
greatest performance I've ever seen from a quarterback. Even that win took overtime as the NU kicker (no, not Demos) missed the potential game-winner in regulation. The other three games have been painful losses to say the least. But it's not just the devastating defeats. No, there's much more to why I hate the Michigan State Spartans and you can find out more after the jump.
Last year I wrote that I don't hate the Spartans.
Boy, that's changed. I guess it all started with the revelation that their players are
a bunch of thugs. They're not thugs on the level of say the Iowa Squawkeyes or the Auburn Tigers. But they aren't exactly holding up the MSU program as an example of what college football should be all about. A Google search of "Michigan State football arrests" nets nearly 2,000,000 hits. That's not very scientific, but quite frankly I don't give a rat's ass. You know when the
Huffington Post takes time away from bitching about Republicans to write about you...you have a problem.
The 300 thing is getting old.
Last week the Big Ten Network's beautiful Charissa Thompson (who hails from Seattle by the way, but I digress) was at the Spartans' game for homecoming. Guess who else was there and got serious face time with Thompson? Gerard Butler. Gerard Butler? Isn't that the guy who was in the terrible films "The Bounty Hunter", "The Ugly Truth", "Law Abiding Citizen", "Gamer", "Nim's Island" and the God forsaken "P.S. I Love You" in recent years?
Well, yes, he is. But MSU fans love him because he starred in "300." Now, I loved that film too. But it came out three years ago. When I went to East Lansing in 2007, they blared "Spartans, what is your profession?!" on third downs. The crowd responded with a series of grunts. This was cool then...it was not so cool last year. "300" had its day in the sun...now it's time for it to go back in the shade. No one cares anymore. Gerard Butler should not be a guest during a broadcast of your football game. Just knock it off.
(By the way, all the Spartans die in the end you morons.)
They stole our (lone) tradition!
Does this
look familiar? Only one school can have a Rock they paint and that's us damnit! A quick
fact check actually reveals that they had their rock before NU did, but facts don't matter to us bloggers so f*ck that. If I want to sit in my parents' basement and complain about Michigan State stealing our only tradition at Northwestern then so be it. (And no, jingling our keys is not a tradition, it's just dumb. Even dumber is the morons who yell "state school" but I digress.)
Easy on the hype machine.
Their mascot is overexposed.
Look, I like Sparty, but when you start appearing on the covers of video games, it's gone a bit too far. It's just some loser who wishes he could play football (like us bloggers!) in a freaking costume. I've never understood the appeal of mascots to begin with, so Sparty getting on the cover of a video game (even if it is the awful Nintendo Wii) really pisses me off. When more people know about your mascot than your football team, that probably explains why Northwestern has won three Big Ten titles since the last time you won one. I will say this for Sparty...at least he's not Nebraska's mascot. Seriously, we're letting that punk into our conference? Unreal. Sparty would beat the living corn out of him.
Need I say more? Let's f*cking beat their asses.
I think you mean October 21, 2006.
Noted and corrected! The lesson as always, never trust bloggers!
Ha! No worries. I just remember that day quite vividly. Oh how I hate Michigan State.
(sorry about the multiple posts. I don't think the ChicagoNow system likes me)
And here is Michael Moore wearing a Northwestern Cap..how does that change your opinion of NU or Michael Moore?
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