HEY MICHIGAN FANS: WAS THAT A "GIFT" FROM MINNESOTA AT THE END OF THE GAME?

So many chUMps, so little time. What was the UM crowd saying about the MSU-UM football game the past two weeks? Didn't they carry on about how their team "gave a gift victory" to the Spartans, on the grounds that their coach and punt-team mis-handled the final play? They implied that Mark Dantonio had nothing to do with the win, and his players deserved no credit for coming out on top for the 12 consecutive game, including three in a row against Michigan?

Okay, now isn't the shoe on the other foot?

Didn't Minnesota just "gift you a victory" by the way

their coach and players mishandled the final sequence?

Will ESPN now calculate the "odds" of Minnesota losing the game once they got the ball on the one-foot-line with 19 seconds to go and a timeout, trailing by three points? I'd really like to know what the "chances" were of UM winning from that point forward. Guessing it was like 1-in-1000?

Any team could have kicked the field-goal to force overtime, and it seems like both teams had even odds from that point. But Minnesota had at least three (if not all four) plays to get the ball into the end zone in that situation. The Gopher Interim Coach blew that situation beyond all reasonable explanation.

The Quarterback Sneak should have been immediate on first down. If they score, they win. If not, call timeout. With 10-15 seconds left, they get two or three more passes to the end zone, and they can try a run-pass option on the last play. Instead, they inexplicably spent 17 seconds to throw incomplete, then ran the most unlikely-play-to-succeed at the end, the QB-sneak.

Will we hear Wolverine Nation "congratulating" Minnesota

on the "victory" and thanking them for "the gift" all week long?

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FEEDING THE chUMps THEIR OWN WORDS

There were so many words thrown around before the MSU-UM football game that they have cluttered the local atmosphere and they must be removed. The best way to get rid of them is to feed them back to their original owners, so we have been offering an all-they-can-eat word buffet for chUMps.

Hope Terry didn't have to "Welsh" on any of his bets.

Who is "dreaming of the old days" now, Terry?

Congrats, John, you covered both possibilities in your "prediction".
Then you excused your team in advance for losing.
Got it. Standard operating procedure.

Are you enjoying your college years in Kalamazoo, Steve?
Who would be "little brother" to WMU?

You're right, David, the game was "one for history".
Speaking of; shouldn't you be in history class right now?

The chUMp comments posted above were taken from various articles from the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, as they both use Facebook systems for users to post their responses to what they read. So the names you see below have not been changed to protect the guilty; rather, they are being presented as an extension of their original appearance in the days before the 27-23 MSU win over UM.

Time For chUMps to Eat Their Own Words

The chUMps-on-Parade Word-Eating Tour

Word-Eating Festival, chUMp-Style

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WORD-EATING FESTIVAL, chUMp-STYLE

Those darn chUMps...you try washing them out, scrubbing them out, flushing them away, even beating them on the field of play for seven out of the last eight years, and you just can't make 'em go away. "Be Gone, chUMps!" (See, that didn't work, either.)

As long as they're here, we may as well enjoy them. And the only way to do that is to laugh at them and their silly antics. The latest chapter in chUMp-mania came last week, during the buildup to the annual football game between Michigan State and Michigan. Or, as they liked to preview it, "The Beatdown at the Big House". They were so sure that "Sparty's little run is over" and so forth, that they just let it fly for everybody to see.

Now that they've been put back into their place, let's take a look back at what some of these nincompoops had to say about MSU before they settled back down on the last play of the game.

Hey Allen: Does 27-23 "ring a Bell"?

Sherri, Baby: Have you been dancing for the past week, darling?

Jim, the "OSU" game WAS "better" for UM.
(Oregon State University)

Was your day, by any chance, "miserable", Jim?

We enjoyed the view in the bleachers after the game, Mike!
How about you? Did you blow out your sister after the game?

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THE "chUMps-on-Parade" WORD-EATING TOUR

The Wolverines have been sitting on their hands for a week now, still wondering what hit them at the end of their home game against the Spartans. While they work on figuring that one out, we take a look back at what their fan-base was saying in the days before the showdown in Ann Arbor.

THIS IS FUNNY STUFF! Hard to believe that chUMp NatiOn can be this stupid, but...there is a reason we have this web site:

Ohio is not on the UM schedule, Augie. But MSU was. Oops!

More than 700 yards passing in the last two games.
Interesting definition of "disaster"!
(Who is the "morn" now?)

Right, Jacob, it was interesting, especially at the very end!

Watch what I tell you, Patrick: Everybody agrees it was "shocking".

Very good, David, you were within 20 points of the final score!

The chUMp comments posted above were taken from various articles from the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, as they both use Facebook systems for users to post their responses to what they read. So the names you see below have not been changed to protect the guilty; rather, they are being presented as an extension of their original appearance in the days before the 27-23 MSU win over UM.

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