DON'T ACT LIKE FOOLS ON SATURDAY

Lots of UM folks at our motel this weekend, and I’ve spent some time with different groups of them. All very nice. Pointed out on their maps where everything is, best way to get there, and places to avoid (south side of stadium, natch).

I’ve told them to please disregard any drunken d-bags, as we’re happy to have them here. They all knew what I meant.

Interestingly (but off topic), none I’ve spoken to are very pleased with Rich Rod, and it’s not anything related to the on-field performance. Apparently, he refuses to regularly attend the Monday M-Club meetings as his predecessors have done, and seems to be channeling Saban (“I don’t have time for this sh*t”). Traditions are ignored, and they feel he’s more interested in stamping his own signature on every aspect of the program, instead of embracing them and concentrating on team performance. I’m senseing what we all thought would be coming: buyer’s remorse. What a shocker, eh? They’re also all expecting to get thrashed today.

Anyway – these people love their team enough to travel here, so show them the respect they deserve.

Thanks for the reminder, Millz.

It’s real simple: treat visitors to Happy Valley the way you would like to be treated at their place.

Viva la Golden Rule!!

All it will prove is that you can be as big a jerk as you think he is. Who wins? You certainly don’t win because you just acted like a jerk the same as him. You certainly won’t be defending PSU because you’ll be making the rest of us look bad because you “gave him a dose.”

Please just learn to ignore ignorance instead of returning it with more!

Me too. It’s sooo freakin easy. And truthfully can be as much fun as The Taunt.

Our seats all the years growing up have been in WJ, so ever since we were tiny tots, the climb to our seats never began til we watched the visiting team come out the tunnel onto the field. {in old man voice}… I’ve seen some great players come through there, classy and not—both kinds. I remember being in awe as a ten year old at how big Bill Fralic was, which during those years is mostly just about all I did—stand there in awe looking up at those giants. But I remember the other PSU fans always clapping for them, whichever team was visiting, and cheering them on—wishing them good luck and ‘have a nice game.’

So even when I was college-age and the hated (and generally classless) Hurricanes came to town, I cheered the same way. You all might remember that game, ‘92 or so. They somehow managed to get Public Enemy playing through our sound system during their warmups, and Shut Em Down was blaring on our walk to the stadium. And they had three of the baddest ass linebackers ever to play together on the same team: Jesse Armstead, Darrin Smith & Michael freakin Barrow. I’ve never seen anybody before or since come out the tunnel like those dudes did: half the team went out, then a ten yard space, then the three LBs, then ten more yards before the rest of the team and coaches filed out, all in a sloooow and confident walk. My gawd, if ever any visiting players deserved our vitriol, these cats did.

But I kept it classy. And poured my heart and passion into yelling it. ‘GOOD LUCK BOYS’ ‘GOT YOURSELF A TOUGH ONE OUT THERE TODAY.’ Screamed my freakin face off and clapped my hands to soreness. And you know what?

It felt just as good as cursing.

hasn’t he been an Ohio State lean the whole time? If I were him looking at the Buckeyes with a young QB and two pretty average looking wide receivers I would think my chances of playing early there were pretty good.

We really appreciated the fact that OSU was willing to travel East and play us and we REALLY appreciated the fact that you handed USC an L!!!!! If we run the table then we’ll have OSU partly thank!!

You guys travel incredibly well- I was rather impressed. There was more orange in the stadium that week than Illinois brought.

From the stuff posted in the papers and such, you would think we were the only fans that did this. I think it was the Illinois game where there was a Collegian article where they talked about “fearing for their lives” while being in the student section. We should never try to be like OSU and Mich., but this is proof that it does happen at a lot of big time programs.

We should be setting the example on how to treat opposing fans, I do believe in that.

Boo, logical thinking!

Hooray for night games!

I had a similar guy sitting right in front of me. At halftime he called some friend and was like, “listen to how quiet the stadium is” (which is stupid, first off, since it is halftime, and no one is “cheering” and drowning out the blue band), but I made a point to get as close to his mouthpiece as possible and yell as loud as I could…nobody insults the BIGGER house!

The guy also was making some smarmy comment about continuing the streak. I said that they’d be lucky to get another FG on us. Well you guys know the rest.

In all honesty the guy was a pretty nice guy, and he and I chatted and joked about a lot of things. He left around the end of the 3rd quarter and shook my hand goodbye.

I mean, dude has the right to taunt us.

to watch the de facto Big Ten championship game. I wish Michigan State would have kept on winning to make Gameday come see us play MSU but at this point it just might not be that big of a game. I’m not sure if Gameday tries to avoid seeing the same team twice in that short of a time (although they did just follow Texas for their last two slugfests).