i keep hearing everywhere for MI people not to display maize & blue outside the stadium, and not to drive their cars down there with MI license plates. It's a football game guys; not a war.
Why not grow up and and display some respect on Saturday.
2006-11-16 13:44:59 · 16 answers · asked by Joe Somebody 6 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
To both sides it is like a war, but it is much more intense in regards to the OSU fans. They can be very rude and disrespectful not only in Columbus but all over the state of Ohio. These immature and vulgar fans carry an animosity towards not only the University of Michigan but the entire state and it's populus as well.
I wore my Michigan sweatshirt one time when we had to stay in Dayton and we ate in a restaurant near the hotel and everyone was glaring hatefully at me and I could hear "f***king Michigan people." As I passed. I was just 10 at the time. Yeah, very classy. Needless to say I didn't eat my dinner for fear they put something in it.
I have seen people with OSU sweatshirts in Michigan and I don't say anything. I refuse to stoop to such an asinine level as that. I don't need to break into a fit worthy of someone with Tourette's to show my support for my team by trashing another's.
OSU is a very good football team. But Michigan is a good team, too. Their offense doesn't score as much, but they play a different style. It's a possession type of style. With drives lasting 5-8 minutes. You don't usually score a lot of points that way, but your opponent gets less time to work with. A great bonus to winning a game. And the Michigan defense is very aggressive and very physical. They are leaner and faster. I am a Michigan fan and do believe they will win because it's been a while and almost no sportscaster is picking them to win. I love my team being the underdog.
Now, if you want some proof as to OSU fan bad behavior read this article from today's Detriot News:
Behind enemy lines
U-M fans find it's not easy living in Columbus
Francis X. Donnelly / The Detroit News
Michigan fans will be attending a football game Saturday or a mugging.
An Ohio State administrator wrote a column in the school paper Wednesday asking students not to assault Michiganians, vandalize cars, set fires or riot like they did the last time their school played in such a big game.
If Ohio's version of Baghdad is this difficult to visit for a few hours, what about Michigan fans who have to live here year-round?
They say the abuse is constant, has grown worse this year and won't peak until game time. In other words, players shouldn't be the only ones wearing helmets for protection this weekend.
"They almost hate Michigan more than they like Ohio State," said Matt Stout, 35, a Columbus attorney whose "GOMBLUE" license plate was once folded in half by vandals.
A tour of the sprawling Ohio State campus this week found that the tame anti-Michigan T-shirts offered by bookstores are easily outsold by the profanity-laced ones hawked by sidewalk vendors.
A pep rally Monday ended with a song that sounded sweet until one made out the words: "We don't give a d---n about the whole state of Michigan ..."
The city and school announced they're removing the things that students set ablaze after the Michigan game in 2002 and after a Texas game in September: full garbage bins, front porch couches and cars.
It sounded like they were stripping a criminal of his weapons.
OSU: Mind your P's and Q's
Beat Michigan Week kicked off with a press conference as school and city officials implored students to behave themselves.
It used to be called Michigan Week but the school added "Beat," as in "defeat," not "strike repeatedly."
Michigan fans planning to attend the Ohio State game in this football-crazed city received a school e-mail warning them about traveling alone, calling attention to themselves or driving cars with Michigan license plates.
But Ohio State's student Sportsmanship Council, which was restarted last year, is encouraging good behavior with newspaper ads, posters, banners, billboards and public service announcements on TV and radio.
"Our rivals are not our enemies," according to the group's mission statement.
Part of the campaign was an e-mail and newspaper column written by Rich Hollingsworth, the school's vice president of student affairs.
He warned students about "throwing objects, setting fires, disorderly conduct, vandalizing cars, assaults, rioting, resisting arrest, and impeding safety officials in their duties."
"Are you going to be a fan or are you going to be a jerk?" he wrote. "Jerks insult, abuse and berate our opponent."
Hollingsworth told a reporter that, after the September fires, he was horrified to hear a student explain that that was how Ohio State students honor the team: "This is what we do."
"I want to say this is not what we do," the administrator said.
The city of Columbus also is taking precautions by increasing its police presence, limiting parking on some streets, frequently emptying trash containers, and enforcing laws against open alcohol containers and couches on front porches.
Michigan fan Dana Arnold had known little about Ohio State's rabid football following before coming here, but learned quickly.
As a high school student from Holland, Mich., she toured the campus during Beat Michigan Week two years ago, spying anti-Michigan obscenities on signs outside fraternities.
"I thought it was crazy," the Ohio State sophomore said. "Little did I know that everyone thought that way."
The abuse got more personal last month when someone carved an "M" and crude symbol on a block of Styrofoam she was using for an architecture project.
"They take it to an ungodly extreme," she said. "I feel like I'm living in enemy territory."
It's a war of words
As the game grows closer, the number of sidewalk peddlers is proliferating on campus.
Across the street from the Ohio Union student building, three vendors in three blocks sold obscene anti-Michigan T-shirts Wednesday morning before a cold rain began to fall. The shirts came in four colors: white, red, gray or pink.
Saleswoman Randa Layman, 47, of Columbus said she wouldn't wear them herself.
"They're a little too much," she said. "I have kids."
Ohio State fan Rob Miller said Michigan boosters are just as coarse in Ann Arbor.
After hearing about the U-M e-mail warning fans about visiting Columbus, Miller said the school must think all Ohioans are barbarians.
"It makes it sound like Michigan is visiting a 17th century Mongolian village," he said. " 'Don't look the animals in the eye and don't bang on the glass.' "
While the trash bins on campus will be frequently emptied to prevent them from being set ablaze, trash talking is alive and well.
Miller, 31, a Columbus attorney, couldn't resist taking a few digs at his rival, saying they're "busy soaking in their self-made superiority complex" while attending games played in "that hole in the ground you call a stadium."
Brittany Sabo has heard all the insults.
She lived in the Columbus suburb of Pickerington during her high school years, which are tough enough without being a Michigan fan.
She was popular with teachers but even they wouldn't talk to or call on her whenever she wore Michigan colors.
"It didn't matter whether it was football season," said Sabo, 19, now a freshman at Eastern Michigan University. "To them, football is every day."
During the war of words, she thought poetry might be the best weapon.
In high school, she was given an assignment to satirize whatever she wanted and she picked the state's sacred cow, Ohio State football.
"They still stomp around in their 2002 championship gear," she wrote. "Do they even realize it isn't even close to that year?"
The class hooted and hollered as she read the poem aloud but the teacher quickly shushed them.
Then, with a gesture sorely lacking in this hostile Wolverine-averse territory, she gave Sabo an "A."
2006-11-16 17:53:15 · answer #1 · answered by James II 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
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2016-12-29 03:26:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is people from Michigan telling them that. It is not OSU students making threats. That just goes to show the level of ignorance, in that state up north. The best part of that state is under water!
2006-11-16 23:37:23 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I always say that it's because some people have so little. You wouldn't believe what those dirty smelly hippies from U of O try to get away with...but then the Drunkies at OSU aren't exactly upstanding citizens either. GO BEAVS
2006-11-16 13:49:43 · answer #4 · answered by alwaysmoose 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
its like that other places to. Like in Oklahoma i wear my nebraska and if looks could kill. What ever happened to the love of the game not rudeness.
2006-11-16 14:35:24 · answer #5 · answered by bj 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's mutual though. Michigan fans are some of the most obnoxious people I've ever met.
2006-11-16 13:47:04 · answer #6 · answered by Js_5 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
How many Ohio State players does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Just one.......but he gets 12 credit hours for doing it.
2006-11-16 17:04:14 · answer #7 · answered by foghat77 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I hear the meatchicken fans are no better when the game is in Ann Arbor.
2006-11-16 16:01:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Im a big osu fan and a few years ago when they played michiagn i rmeber him telling me about how crazy it got like cars fliped over and stuff right down his block. i hope they go and kick michigans ***, then they can go party, but not go insane
2006-11-16 13:58:18 · answer #9 · answered by Derek 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Finally someone that realizes this is not WWIII. Seriously guys and gals, its a football game not a war.
2006-11-16 14:25:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I agree. Arrogance leads to temporary insanity. I went there once for a road trip and don't care to ever return. (And I am not a Michigan fan).
2006-11-16 14:09:13 · answer #11 · answered by The Count 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋