Was this the Apex Sparty No! Weekend In Memory

EPIC - a game that clarified the teams and their respective institutions.  Very enjoyable to watch.   I wish Donovan was set prior to the snap at the end of the first half - and, was “more than half wondering” whether Harbaugh would go for two.

The only thing that could've made this season worse for Sparty is if Mel Tucker had jerked off to Hitler, and at this point that may not entirely be off the table.

In just football terms, I would say not.  The game that caused Valenti to absolutely lose his mind on air (Notre Dame 2006) was the ultimate Sparty No! game.

Doesn't take away from this week's and this years' most excellent Spartyfreude.

Does anyone remember smug Spartanwire writer Crowley Sullivan from Big Ten Media 2018? At the time Michigan was 1-5 against OSU and MSU after 3 seasons. His questioning of Harbaugh at the time, epitomized the Dantonio sparty cockiness. 

What about the president? I thought they didn't even have one? What did she do?

MSU fanbase before.

MSU fanbase after.

Is delete an option?

I honestly hope so. Growing up with the rivalry, I remember it before it was deliberately turned into peak toxicity. I sincerely hope a sustained lull will result in the hatred, derangement, and poor sportsmanship that we've witnessed over the last decade+ regressing more than a little.

Thank you for this post, I loved it. I’m literally sitting here giggling and laughing at their nearly impossible to believe circumstances.
I mean, nobody can be this dumb, right? Wrong. Somehow Sparty pulled it off.

Can you imagine if Harbaugh would have elected to go for to at the end just to hand 50 on 'em?

Obviously, if that sort of thing were the plan he could have made it so much uglier, much earlier.

I saw a picture of the Hitler question/scoreboard on the blog yesterday, and figured it was photoshopped for some weird humor thing.  Unbelievable that it actually happened.

I was surprised how inept MSU looked. I sort of thought they'd give UM a game for a quarter or so before fading but Jesus, no, they looked awful from the first kick off. 

I figure the Sparty faithful will only abandon their delusional fixation on Urban Meyer until after Bill Belichick gets fired and they decide he's the Moses to lead them out of the wilderness to the promised land.

Well, GREAT NEWS.

MSU BoT just issued a statement showing their "outrage" at the Hitler trivia board and then says: "MSU personnel must be accountable and held responsible for this disgusting display"

How about everyone but Bynum (the 1 person I do respect) resign and have The GOV replace them with 7 honest people. 

Seeing how few Spartys bolted to the portal, I do wonder what inducements they were promised.

Even for MSU, three 15-yard fouls to allow a drive to to their 11 for a one-play drive (TD pass to Barner) that allowed us to enter Tuttle Time was priceless. 

This program sold its sold to the devil when they let Mork transform them into the Evil Empire. They had a nice 8-year run (actually 2 of those eight were 6 or 7 loss seasons). 2013-15 = 36 wins will NEVER happen again for them as PSU, UM, Ohio, USC, UCLA, Oregon, Wash will mean 9 wins (one of those a bowl win) is a high mark for decades to come. 

Like many have mentioned before, if they had dominated us and displayed the classy respect for the rivalry that Tressel did for us when we crapped out, the schadenfreude wouldn't be so tasty. 

The picture of the MSU scoreboard showing a massive picture of Hitler with the caption "We never drop the ball!" under it while MSU gets destroyed 49-0 really was a piece of art that should be hung up in the MGoLouvre. 

Does anyone else here ever stop and think about the fact that we are witnessing - in real time -  legendary moments in Michigan football history that will be remembered forever? 

100 years from now the owner of MgoBlorg, Zorpatron Denard Robinson "JJ McCarthy" Cook, will post a UFR where he says "do you guys remember back in the days before laser teleportation was invented and before running the football was outlawed when Jim Harbaugh nuked East Lansing and Ohio State fired their coach because he kept losing to Michigan despite a 99% win percentage in all their other games? Check out this picture of Mike Sainristil batting away a pass that signaled the turning point in the 100 year war"

Come on... Let's be fair...

It's $95 million

I think so. Its going to be hard for them to top the last two months, but I sincerely hope they try.  I did not have "Coach fired for stroking off on the phone to the No Mean No lady" and "Ol' Number 88 Trivia Night" on my bingo card.

For me, MSU has become what they've been for a better part of my life... irrelevant. 

Somebody really needs to knock some sense into that whole program.  D'Antonio might have been a bastard who lived on rage and jealousy, but he at least knew how to channel it into beating an opponent.  Now all they do is take cheap shots, commit assault, and flip off everybody while losing.  They need someone to step in and get things under control, and that starts by playing clean and dialing the rage down to a level that allows them to focus on winning some football games.

I should be better than this kind of thing.

But I'm not.

Suck it, Spartoons.

I missed the point about the MSU player flipping off someone when he left the field or went to the sideline.

Any context???? Flipping off UM fans at the tunnel after the game??? Flipping off MSU fans mocking him for another outhouse performance???

Once Izzo leaves, that whole athletic department crashes down and you will hear things you won't believe.  

This actually felt like the glorious death of the Dantonio era.  Put it all together, all his stupid cheap shots over the years.  He was retired, done.  Yet enthusiastically returned to help out Harlon Barnett, made sure to state publicly he would only advise and wouldn't be on the sideline.  And yet there he was yesterday, right on the sideline, headphones on trolling the sidelines.

You can bet nearly everything that happened this week had Dantonio's hands all over it.  EVERYTHING!!!    It failed, so gloriously.  I even guarantee he had a hand in the gameplan and strategy. They even said it publicly "Dantonio secret to success against Michigan", players were saying to the press they were going to win.   This was Mark's one last chance to get back at Jim, who so clearly has changed the tide in the State of Michigan and sucked all the attention away from his programs rise. 

That one was for you Mark.

I will forever be mad at Jim Harbaugh for not grabbing that NBC microphone looking square in the camera and saying "where'd all the Spartans go"  drop that mic and walk away.   Its over Mark go enjoy South Carolina.