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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

VIDEO: SPARTANS TAKE SHOT IN THE NUTS - GET FRAMED FOR CRIME. click here...

Just minutes after Derrick Nix crumbled to the floor after taking a groin shot from Zeller (Nix could hardly walk), Nix took over the game. He completely turned the momentum in the Spartans favor, taking the lead on 4 consecutive points and The Brez was at a fever pitch with the floor slapping defense. Referee Ted Valentine, halted play due to what appeared to be a retaliation fist to the balls by Nix on Zeller. The accusations flew on ESPN about the NIX cheap shot and lack of sportsmanship. The incident stopped play for 5-minutes and more importantly for Indiana, stopped the Spartans charge and caused MSU to take it's foot off their throat. It was a game changer. Izzo held Nix out of the game after the stoppage in play.

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Here is the play when Zeller laid Nix out (watch the slow motion portion - sick):


Here is the play when Zeller framed Nix for the crime:


Zeller has got to be the craftiest player I've ever seen. I'm sure you can come up with other adjectives and colorful phrases. I am now so looking forward to meeting them in the B1G Championship game - gotta get there. Let's BEAT chUMps on the way there, then beat Indiana's chump in the last game before the big dance.

Bring it.

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Friday, February 15, 2013

DUMP the chUMps SHIRTS INVADE THE IZZONE ON ESPN!

2500 DUMP the chUMps stickers flooded the Izzone:

DUMP the chUMps stickers were seen all around Breslin:

DUMP the chUMps shirts - Now this was interesting. We had 15 shirts in the front row and ESPN just happened to miss them all game long - except for a few "accidents" like the photo below. Am I suggesting they purposely tried to keep the DUMP the chUMps phrase off the TV screen? YES. You see, several years ago Spartanman82 and I wore the No-Michigan shirt (shown in the DUMP the chUMps store) to a MSU vs. Ann Arbor game on ESPN. We were in the front row right by the hand-held camera. The camera operator told us we will never get on TV in those shirts because the people making the decisions on which camera shots get on TV are Michigan grads. When I watched the recording of last Tuesday's game, each sweep of the front row either began just after where our shirts were or stopped just before they were to appear on the screen - or it went right over the heads of the guys wearing the shirts. Also a couple guys wearing the shirts were not on TV at all during the first half, but when they changed to their Izzone shirts in the second half they were on ESPN multiple times. The shots below were pulled from 0.10 - 0.30 second "mistakes" when the shirts got past the censors. The guy below had to raise his shirt up to get it in view of the camera and ESPN immediately changed cameras. The guy to his left (off screen and two people to his right) each had DUMP the chUMps shirts on, but the camera is purposely high as it was all game long. How petty. This is really making me fired up for next year. We will study that tape and will not be denied in 2014.

 

Look where these guys are - with all the camera work on the Izzone, this 0.10 second shot is the only time they show up? All game? No. They show up - but just their faces, but mostly the rows behind them get face time.

(Special thanks to Bucknell Spartan for the donation of stickers - it was awesome and so fun!)


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NOT ALL MICHIGAN FANS ARE chUMps

We must all resist the temptation to label every fan of the University of Michigan as a "chUMp". Some of them are decent, respectable, fair-minded sports fans. A few of them even attended U-of-M.

{See WHY WE CALL THEM chUMps}

One Michigan Fan who stood out to me in the aftermath of the weasel whipping session on Tuesday night works as a crossing guard at my child's school. This is a guy who wears the navy blue and yellow coats and shirts and hats on a regular basis. He's been known to parrot the "go blew" slogan at times. He looks like a prime candidate for chUMp status.

As I approached him on Wednesday morning, I considered saying something to him about the game, not in a nasty way, but just as a reminder of what happened the night before. Since he's generally a nice guy (and a very good crossing guard), I decided to not say anything at all.

As I walked up to his post, he beat me to the punch by saying what a great game my team played against his team, extending his hand to shake mine in congratulations. I told him it was nice of him to say so as we shook hands together in front of the school.

There is no reason to consider this guy a "chUMp". There was no need to rub any parts of Reality in his face, nor to make fun of him or try to make him feel bad. This guy may be a UM fan, but he exhibited none of the characteristics of a "chUMp".

This web site and our movement are not directed at all Michigan fans just because they support our main rival. We reserve our mocking disdain for those members of the weasel fan base who truly deserve it, and there are many thousands who have earned the title. It's important as Spartans to give everybody a chance to earn our disrespect before we hand them the label of "chUMp".

That said, we saw more than a few young chUMps parading around the Breslin concourse BEFORE the game, crowing and shouting and carrying on about how great they were. They were mostly ignored by our own fans, probably because most of us know that post-game is more important than pre-game. When the game was over, those chUMps were nowhere to be found.

If you meet any Michigan fans like our school crossing guard, be sure to match their respect with sportsmanship of your own. Even as our teams do well, we are bound to lose to UM at least once in awhile, and we should also be civil in defeat as we are in victory.




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Thursday, February 14, 2013

BRADY HOKE, SPARTY STALKER

Just hours before the epic blowout at Breslin on Tuesday night, a strange story appeared in the sports media. A surprise visitor was planning to attend the big game, and he wanted everybody to know he would be there.

It was Brady Hoke, who works as Michigan Football Coach for his day job. Hoke sat behind their bench with his new BFF Lloyd Carr, both apparently under the delusion that the Wolverines would waltz onto the MSU campus firing three-pointers like the t-shirt cannon they shoot during timeouts.

Instead, the football coaches trapped themselves a few rows away from the IZZONE on a night they were said to have been their most powerful in a decade. The evening was capped by the memorable chant of "Little Sisters" cascading around them during the historic "white-out".

Most Spartan insiders know that Hoke has a crush on Sparty. Hoke has been trying to get closer to Sparty ever since his return from San Diego. One of the draws for taking his current position was the increased proximity to the famous Spartan Warrior, just an hour's drive away from his office. Hence, the road trip.

When Mark Dantonio heard that Hoke was on the way, he offered to host the Brady Bunch in a Breslin suite, but Hoke declined, saying he wanted to sit "closer to the action". Most of the "action" that Hoke was interested in wears a battle-kilt and boots and watches games from the sideline.

Hoke spent most of half-time standing up and saying nothing, a routine he also uses during football games. He seemed to be posing like a statue, trying to attract Sparty's attention. But Hoke failed to gain a first down, and had to sit through the second half of a very successful weasel hunt.

As you can see in the video below, Sparty prefers blondes, so maybe Brady should change his hairstyle. (Or to begin with, just get a hairstyle.)





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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

"DUMP the chUMps" 101

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Here are some pointers:

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We have fun with rivalry - we don't "hate":
Brady Hoke Loves Spartans!

We share our personal stories:
I didn't mind the Ann Arbor team until I figured out their "legend" was a chUMp.

We discuss long "lost" FACTS:
chUMps claim wins against high school teams - MSU back to back National Champs on video

We defend the Spartans in the media:
Readers debate Spartans future on M-Live

We take a deeper look at results
The offense (Andrew Maxwell) is an eco-system

We get you prepared the game:
Today's media guide - game notes.

Have fun tonight!
Go Green
#DUMP the chUMps (Tweet it!)
Go White

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Monday, February 11, 2013

VIDEO HERE: Izzo on chUMps, "Do I like 'em? Not one bit"...

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

WHY WE CALL THEM "chUMps"

It was several years after graduating from MSU that I began to see the problem with U-of-M. Give credit to Glenn Shembechler for my period of enlightenment. It was his behavior that began to open my eyes. Rick Leach and Antoine Joubert deserve an assist on the play.

I grew up in Spartan Country, yet never heard about the University of Michigan on a daily basis. I literally didn't know about them. They meant nothing to me, so I never cared about them. I noticed that fans at Spartan Stadium would cheer when they were losing and boo when they were winning, and it only made me wonder why others cared about UM.

But I gradually became aware of the recent (at that time) history between MSU and UM, and how the Michigan Machine tried in every way possible to deny my school entrance into the Big Ten. Even as I learned about their opposition to us, I didn't really care, since we made it into the conference and had done quite well.

Some friends headed down there after high school, and I visited often, always for non-academic activities. I learned that the epicenter of non-academic activities was the University of Michigan. I learned that UM was the ultimate "party school". I learned that you could do ANYTHING down there, especially of a non-academic nature.

So it became somewhat amusing to hear Michigan people carry on so much about their "academic tradition", as I knew firsthand that there was a lot more than "academics" going down on the UM campus. Still, no reason to hold them in disregard.

I did notice that MSU had a devil of a time beating UM in football and basketball during the 1970's, so I began to treasure any wins we could get against them in sports, but that was no reason to hate them. Just because some other team is good is no reason to hate; there would have to be some other behavior(s) to warrant that level of emotion.

So I was pleased to be invited to attend the MSU-UM football game in 1984 by a friend, even knowing that he would be rooting for his team and I would be rooting for my team. During pre-game introductions at that game, I conspicuously rose from my seat when Coach Slumbuckler was introduced and gave him a personal standing ovation. This drew funny looks from the UM fans in my vicinity, but I wanted to express my respect for a tough opponent.


MSU won that ball game, which was a surprising and very pleasing outcome to me. I eagerly awaited the newspaper reports on Sunday, as I wanted to read what the great Blow Scumsucker was going to say about my victorious Spartans. After reading every single article about the game that I could find, I was still looking for his comments about the team and the players who just beat him in the Pig House. There were none. He had nothing to say about Michigan State. He only had bad things to say about his own team and players. This was disappointing, as I had developed great respect for George Perles when he congratulated the opponent after they beat him on the field. Coach Perles always said good things about the other team.

As time passed that season and beyond, I started looking for the Miami Man's comments after losing a game. Turns out he NEVER had anything nice to say about a team that beat him, only bad things to say about his own team. This gradually diminished my respect for the man who fired Ernie Harwell. It also made me pay more attention to the relationship between the two schools.

Rick Leach spit on MSU fans at a baseball game. Antoine Joubert mouthed off against Scott Skiles and was double-dipped in 1986. Ed Martin became a household name. It gradually became clear that there really was a "Michigan Difference", though it was a sharply negative distinction. What makes them "different" is that they are self-absorbed narcissists with a supremacy-complex; they actually believe they are better than everybody else. They claim to be better, but they actually lie/cheat/steal and misbehave at a rate equal to or greater than most. And they own the mass media.

Once I noticed how the media worshipped UM, the problem really started to get under my skin. You would have thought the men's basketball scandal would have turned the tide, but it was largely ignored by the media in order to perpetuate the positive stereotype. I also noticed how some people called them "scUM" and wore shirts that say "Muck Fichigan" and "Ann Arbor is a Whore". I found these to be amusing, but maybe just a eentsy-weentsy bit too harsh.

Quick note about Ann Arbor. Not only is she not a "whore", she's a pretty nice city. Lots of good things about that city. Biggest problem is the stink-hole right in the middle of town. But I digress.

It gradually occurred to me that we needed another name for these fools, because just calling them "fools" was not a good enough description. So we call them "chUMps".

"Chump" is a derogatory slang word to describe a person who is displeasing and/or stupid. The word also denotes a person who "tries to act cool, but is really a fool and tries to act tough, but really isn't". It may sound bad, but it never made George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" list. It's definitely a put-down, and definitely well-deserved, but it's not profane.

Some Michigan fans don't deserve to be called chUMps, but for most, it's about right. It's important to give people the benefit of the doubt when learning they root for Michigan, but their fan-base on the whole is comprised of many thousands (or even millions) of bona-fide chUMps.

Remember: You can't spell "chump" without UM.




Also see: "NOT ALL MICHIGAN FANS ARE chUMps"

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Monday, February 4, 2013

Spartans win 12th straight over Ann Arbor

Michigan State women win 12th straight over rival Ann Arbor

From The Detroit News



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