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I have misplaced my pants.
I could pile on, and maybe I will. But I have a question for you. What is a "noob Buckeye fan"? I mean, how does one old enough to join a message board become a Buckeye fan? Personally, I learned to say "Go Buckeyes" before I knew what a football was. I was 4 years old (maybe younger) running around being a jerk, probably, to my younger brother, and my parents, grand parents, older brother, etc. were in there watching this stupid sport called "football" that didn't make any more sense to me than "doing taxes" did, but I knew I'd get cheers if I said "GO BUCKEYES!" And that's how it was for most of my friends growing up. And that's how my kids and nieces and nephews all think about Ohio State.
So what's your story? New to Ohio? New to Ohio State? New to dating someone who is an Ohio State fan?
Maybe those are personal questions and if you don't answer I'll probably forget asking. Just something you made me curious about.
That second line also seems weird to me. "I was never a fan" - fair enough, "and now even more so" - you're even more not a fan? Or you're even more so a fan than zero?
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which is completely fine in my book
some of us are born to the greatness of being a Buckeye, some have it thrust upon them by fate. Either way, we are all Buckeyes.
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LovelandBuckeye
You never lose to those pricks. Ever. Ever. - UFM
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I believe it reads as he was never a fan of Michigan before....even less of a fan of them now.
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There is one entire category of TTUN hate that, unless I missed it, hasn't been mentioned yet. Our individual experiences with TTUN fans.
Most of us grew up in Ohio, many in areas with a large number of Ohio State fans. Being a Buckeye is a bigger part of family than grandma's biscuits and mom's apple pie.
The first experience of TTUN fans for many of us are the kind of jackwagons that choose the rival BECAUSE it's the rival. They WANT to be THAT guy. They choose TTUN because they are contrarian bitchtards whose only contribution to anything is to improve it with their departure. Brady Hoke is exhibit A.
For some of the younger BP members (some of whom are in their 40s by now) the group mentioned above actually overlaps with the second major group of TTUN fans; 1990s bandwagon riders. Many of us that were in the working world for that entire decade, regardless of where it was across North America (I was an applications engineer in the telecom industry for much of that decade, so I was in literally every major city on the continent), ran into a metric butt ton of people who claimed to be TTUN fans, and who seemed to believe that TTUN's ownership of John Cooper somehow reflected on their relationship with us.
Another irksome group of TTUN fans, one that overlaps substantially with both of the above, is the Academic Smack Talk DoucheDonut. These guys seem to think that the accident of geography that landed you at Ohio State makes you somehow intellectually inferior to them. Some of these scUM-bags were among the worst engineers I've ever known; some of them couldn't count to my IQ. My upbringing was such that it truly did not matter how smart I was, going to the state school that was geographically convenient was the best I was ever going to be able to do for myself. Add to that the fact that some of the best engineers I've known were completely self-taught, no formal education at all, and you get a recipe for less than zero respect for academic smack talk. And 80% of it that I've heard has come from TTUN fans. The other 20% is from Notre Dame fans who have never been in South Bend and cultists who flunked out of Ped State, but both of those groups are topics for different threads.
Finally, the group that wraps up all of the other sub-headings of TTUN-fan into a giant, seething vortex of stupid is the sense of entitlement that at once makes them insufferable and also renders them the Dumbest Fan Base In America (DFBIA). They (every one of them that I've met anyway) think that Fielding Yost's many wins, using ringers against teams that they'd just taught to play the game, somehow entitles them to permanent Blue Blood status. They truly believe, until October proves otherwise, that THIS YEAR is the return to glory that they so richly deserve, just for being fans of the Harvard of the Midwest. They believe that cheering for a team that has more wins than any other somehow makes thembetter... no... supERiOr to other people. While every fan base has those fans who attach too much of their own self esteem to the team's comings and goings (looking at you, Bama man), the appalling lack of self-awareness of TTUN-Man to be so much more arrogant about wins from before his grandfather was born than any other fan is about the win from last Saturday... it is no longer surprising, but it never fails to amaze.
In short: We hate them because they objectively deserve to be hated.
UTQTMFS
Most of us grew up in Ohio, many in areas with a large number of Ohio State fans. Being a Buckeye is a bigger part of family than grandma's biscuits and mom's apple pie.
The first experience of TTUN fans for many of us are the kind of jackwagons that choose the rival BECAUSE it's the rival. They WANT to be THAT guy. They choose TTUN because they are contrarian bitchtards whose only contribution to anything is to improve it with their departure. Brady Hoke is exhibit A.
For some of the younger BP members (some of whom are in their 40s by now) the group mentioned above actually overlaps with the second major group of TTUN fans; 1990s bandwagon riders. Many of us that were in the working world for that entire decade, regardless of where it was across North America (I was an applications engineer in the telecom industry for much of that decade, so I was in literally every major city on the continent), ran into a metric butt ton of people who claimed to be TTUN fans, and who seemed to believe that TTUN's ownership of John Cooper somehow reflected on their relationship with us.
Another irksome group of TTUN fans, one that overlaps substantially with both of the above, is the Academic Smack Talk DoucheDonut. These guys seem to think that the accident of geography that landed you at Ohio State makes you somehow intellectually inferior to them. Some of these scUM-bags were among the worst engineers I've ever known; some of them couldn't count to my IQ. My upbringing was such that it truly did not matter how smart I was, going to the state school that was geographically convenient was the best I was ever going to be able to do for myself. Add to that the fact that some of the best engineers I've known were completely self-taught, no formal education at all, and you get a recipe for less than zero respect for academic smack talk. And 80% of it that I've heard has come from TTUN fans. The other 20% is from Notre Dame fans who have never been in South Bend and cultists who flunked out of Ped State, but both of those groups are topics for different threads.
Finally, the group that wraps up all of the other sub-headings of TTUN-fan into a giant, seething vortex of stupid is the sense of entitlement that at once makes them insufferable and also renders them the Dumbest Fan Base In America (DFBIA). They (every one of them that I've met anyway) think that Fielding Yost's many wins, using ringers against teams that they'd just taught to play the game, somehow entitles them to permanent Blue Blood status. They truly believe, until October proves otherwise, that THIS YEAR is the return to glory that they so richly deserve, just for being fans of the Harvard of the Midwest. They believe that cheering for a team that has more wins than any other somehow makes them
In short: We hate them because they objectively deserve to be hated.
UTQTMFS
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LovelandBuckeye
You never lose to those pricks. Ever. Ever. - UFM
Absolutely nails it. Born in '77 and from burbs of Cincinnati so was surrounded by ND and TTUN fans that chose because they are Catholic or because they wanted to ride the bandwagon and be "different". Most of the latter switched to Buckeye "fans" around 2006. Fuck anyone that ever rooted for those cocksuckers up north.
Geezus! They couldn't even count to 23?
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
A particulary annoying subset of the academic smackers are those overcompensating for having been rejected by eight or nine private colleges before ending up in AA. This group didn't grow up in Michigan. They're from very affluent areas of the Northeast and Chicago suburbs and went to competitive high schools. Despite all the advantages of birth, they couldn't make the cut for an Ivy or Duke or Middlebury or even Colby. They end up at tsun and then spend the rest of their lives trying to convince everyone that it really is the same as the schools that rejected them while often denigrating any school that they view beneath them.
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1926Buckeyes
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The hilarious thing to me is that even the OSU haters didn't care nearly enough about TTUN to choose them when I was in middle and high school. The biggest thing I remember were douchebags getting MSU gear because of '98. Glad they wasted their money. Otherwise, they jumped bandwagons from Florida to FSU to Miami, then back to Florida or Boise State. Not a lot of Nebraska or USC fans interestingly enough. Legend has it they all single handedly supplied the homeless with shirts for several years.
The vast majority of OSU haters I now know are UC, BGSU, & Miami (OH) alums who are also Bengals fans. I hate them almost as much as TTUN because their teams blow ass and they only raise their heads out of the sewers when OSU loses to sneer and laugh. Then they immediately disappear to sulk because they know they'll never have any sort of true sports joy. If you lash out and talk shit they cry because they think they're David fighting Goliath.
I also know some big ND fans who hate OSU, but I at least respect them because ND has been in their family for decades. But still annoying at times.
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