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The View From Beyond The Shoe: Michigan Fans, Know your Role and Learn how to Troll
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Unless you live under a rock, you know the NFL season kicks off this weekend. Prior to the final cuts, there were 48 former Buckeyes on NFL rosters (not counting guys like Noah Spence, who did not finish their college career in Columbus). Via OhioStateBuckeyes.com 8/19/16.
“Dateline: Aug 29, 2016 11:38 AM – The Denver Broncos have announced Trevor Siemian will be their starting quarterback”
Who is Trevor Siemian? He is the 7th round draft pick quarterback Denver selected in the 2015 draft out of Northwestern. Why am I telling you this? I am not a Broncos fan. I clearly am not a Northwestern fan.
I bring this up because I saw this news along with a tidbit from a Walmart Wolverine that “Northwestern now has more starting QBs in the NFL than Ohio State”. That got me thinking…not about if the statement was true, but if it was relevant.
It’s not.
But that lead me to another thought. I know this #GoBlow fan was trying to stir the crap pot, but was this a good insult. Was he able to put his 3rd grade education to work enough to make people made. Did his troll job catch any fish?
I looked. He didn’t.
So why do I love college football? The passion? The pageantry? The excitement? The history? All of the above and then some? Yes, every answer is correct. I love everything about college football, and even more so, everything about the Buckeyes. But in today’s society, where people can use social media to post things they wouldn’t have the guts to say in person, the trolls have come to the forefront.
And I LOVE it.
Now, let me make sure to point out, I am not saying you need to resort to things being sad in bad taste. I am not talking about crossing lines that can not and should not ever be crossed. I am talking about the zing that burns someone up inside, but still allows you to speak to your own mother.
The thing about insulting a rival fan is this: there are good insults that work, but there are way more that don’t. Either they don’t make sense anymore, they are tired and worn out, or they lack best part, the intelligence.
We have heard them all, haven’t we? Nerdwestern. Free Shoes University. Barners. Calling Miami the “Convicts”. My personal favorite for the Rolling Tide (alaBama, because that’s how they emphasize it). Calling Texas A&M “aTm”. It goes from coast to coast, and every rivalry has some form of a derogatory name they use to describe the lowlifes that play for/root for/support their biggest rivals.
There are a few classics we tend to use for Michigan: scUM, TTUN, TSUN, Walmart Wolverines, #GoBlow. We’ve heard them about Ohio State: O-H-N-O, OhHowIHateOhioState, simply calling OSU “Ohio”. (PS: if anyone can explain why that one is an insult, I would love to know. It never made sense to me.)
There is a recipe for a good troll job, a good insult, or a good burn. It has to be intelligent enough that it makes sense. It has to cut deep enough it is more than a throwaway comment. It needs to be relevant and timely. The FSU one above is not timely, in case you needed an example.
Hey Michigan fans, How did this impeccable throwing form not make it in the NFL? (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)
What does this all have to do with Trevor Siemian? The “School X has more starters in the NFL than School Y” statement is used a lot. But it doesn’t pass the test laid out above. In fact, it misses on all accounts. Michigan fans like to hang their hat on Tom Brady…but they forget that for every 1 Brady, they have 10 Drew Hensons, Devin Gardners, and Denard Robinsons. The math here is simple: Lacking intelligence, lacking relevance, doesn’t really hurt anything = a bad troll job.
You see, the NFL and NCAA are completely different brands of football. 2 of the greatest college players of the last 20 years, Tim Tebow and Vince Young, couldn’t cut it in the NFL. Add in that these men are ending up on other teams, and now you look like a bandwagon fan. Look, I loved EZE in Columbus. I live in Texas. You could pay me all the oil money in the state, I am not rooting for the Cowboys. So telling me that your school has more starting RBs than anyone else means nothing to me.
I am not saying we need to stop the trash talk. In fact, I say keep it up.
I am just suggesting that you use a little thought in what you are saying before you do. Otherwise, you end up sounding like an idiot. And as George Carlin taught us all, “Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
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Mike Meals via our good friends at Buckeye Battle Cry
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Unless you live under a rock, you know the NFL season kicks off this weekend. Prior to the final cuts, there were 48 former Buckeyes on NFL rosters (not counting guys like Noah Spence, who did not finish their college career in Columbus). Via OhioStateBuckeyes.com 8/19/16.
“Dateline: Aug 29, 2016 11:38 AM – The Denver Broncos have announced Trevor Siemian will be their starting quarterback”
Who is Trevor Siemian? He is the 7th round draft pick quarterback Denver selected in the 2015 draft out of Northwestern. Why am I telling you this? I am not a Broncos fan. I clearly am not a Northwestern fan.
I bring this up because I saw this news along with a tidbit from a Walmart Wolverine that “Northwestern now has more starting QBs in the NFL than Ohio State”. That got me thinking…not about if the statement was true, but if it was relevant.
It’s not.
But that lead me to another thought. I know this #GoBlow fan was trying to stir the crap pot, but was this a good insult. Was he able to put his 3rd grade education to work enough to make people made. Did his troll job catch any fish?
I looked. He didn’t.
So why do I love college football? The passion? The pageantry? The excitement? The history? All of the above and then some? Yes, every answer is correct. I love everything about college football, and even more so, everything about the Buckeyes. But in today’s society, where people can use social media to post things they wouldn’t have the guts to say in person, the trolls have come to the forefront.
And I LOVE it.
Now, let me make sure to point out, I am not saying you need to resort to things being sad in bad taste. I am not talking about crossing lines that can not and should not ever be crossed. I am talking about the zing that burns someone up inside, but still allows you to speak to your own mother.
The thing about insulting a rival fan is this: there are good insults that work, but there are way more that don’t. Either they don’t make sense anymore, they are tired and worn out, or they lack best part, the intelligence.
We have heard them all, haven’t we? Nerdwestern. Free Shoes University. Barners. Calling Miami the “Convicts”. My personal favorite for the Rolling Tide (alaBama, because that’s how they emphasize it). Calling Texas A&M “aTm”. It goes from coast to coast, and every rivalry has some form of a derogatory name they use to describe the lowlifes that play for/root for/support their biggest rivals.
There are a few classics we tend to use for Michigan: scUM, TTUN, TSUN, Walmart Wolverines, #GoBlow. We’ve heard them about Ohio State: O-H-N-O, OhHowIHateOhioState, simply calling OSU “Ohio”. (PS: if anyone can explain why that one is an insult, I would love to know. It never made sense to me.)
There is a recipe for a good troll job, a good insult, or a good burn. It has to be intelligent enough that it makes sense. It has to cut deep enough it is more than a throwaway comment. It needs to be relevant and timely. The FSU one above is not timely, in case you needed an example.
Hey Michigan fans, How did this impeccable throwing form not make it in the NFL? (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)
What does this all have to do with Trevor Siemian? The “School X has more starters in the NFL than School Y” statement is used a lot. But it doesn’t pass the test laid out above. In fact, it misses on all accounts. Michigan fans like to hang their hat on Tom Brady…but they forget that for every 1 Brady, they have 10 Drew Hensons, Devin Gardners, and Denard Robinsons. The math here is simple: Lacking intelligence, lacking relevance, doesn’t really hurt anything = a bad troll job.
You see, the NFL and NCAA are completely different brands of football. 2 of the greatest college players of the last 20 years, Tim Tebow and Vince Young, couldn’t cut it in the NFL. Add in that these men are ending up on other teams, and now you look like a bandwagon fan. Look, I loved EZE in Columbus. I live in Texas. You could pay me all the oil money in the state, I am not rooting for the Cowboys. So telling me that your school has more starting RBs than anyone else means nothing to me.
I am not saying we need to stop the trash talk. In fact, I say keep it up.
I am just suggesting that you use a little thought in what you are saying before you do. Otherwise, you end up sounding like an idiot. And as George Carlin taught us all, “Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
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