I just saw this as the lead story of Campus Clicks on SportsIllustrated.com today and I thought it deserved spotlighting. Yesterday the MSU OTR blogger Enlightened Spartan started talking shit about why coming to Ann Arbor sucks, and Ahor dutifully made his own response as to why Mr. Spartan is an idiot and the Big House rules. Well, SI caught wind of our little tussle and decided to spotlight it, so I think a round of applause is in order for both of them. *clap clap clap*

But I will admit selfish motives for writing this post because what I REALLY want to point out is that the guy in the photo repping Michigan fans is none other than my old roommate, Mr. Mike Anton. We spent every game last year with our faces painted (see my OTR picture) yelling into the ESPN cameras from our seats in the front row. Now I’m trying to calculate the odds that an OTR story would get picked up by Sports Illustrated, that it would be the lead story with a picture, that the story would be from the Michigan blog, and that the picture they decided to use would be one of my roommate, one where I’m literally the one holding the pom pom to the right of the page. I think I'd have a better shot of winning the lottery. Twice.

Crazy coincidences and national attention aside, the seriousness of the matter is upon us. We have to beat MSU tomorrow or else we’ll have nothing. NOTHING. We may lose every other game we play this season (which is entirely possible), but at least we’ll be able to say, “at least we beat Michigan State.” I’m getting nostalgic writing this because I really wish I was there for the game. One of my greatest college memories is when Braylon Edwards made that impossible triple overtime catch in the endzone against State oh so many years ago.

So I know we suck something awful this year, but I think the rivalry hype and lowered expectations could be enough to make us win. Yeah they’re 6-2 and we’re 2-5, but whatever, Michigan State will always be worse than us, no matter what.

Let's Go Blue