MSU Did Not Deserve to Lose

by Buddy Light on Oct 26, 2009 10:42 PM CDT Comment 25 comments

[Bumped not because we endorse the headline--everyone who opposes the Hawkeyes must lose--but because this was hilarious.--OPS]

Michigan State did not deserve to lose on Saturday. But not because they played their hearts out (they did), not because they got jobbed by the officials (they didn't), not because the clock operator didn't shave two seconds off of the game somewhere in the second half (he didn't). The real reason that MSU didn't deserve their fate was because of their awesome halftime show.

Any team that has the Numa Numa guy conduct a part of their halftime show deserves to win everything. Congrats to the MSU Marching Band for putting together a great show. Well done ladies and gentlemen. (Also, big ups to the fans who danced along, drinks are on me. Well, no they're not, but hat tips all around.)

t/f/j: The Sporting Blog and Chris Littmann

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RETARDED.

This should be deleted…

by sfshilo on Oct 26, 2009 9:27 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Pish posh.

Do not ever take sports too seriously, sir. It’s an unhealthy way of life. This was funny.

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Oops Pow Surprise on Oct 26, 2009 10:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not just funny -

God-damned funny! I’ve never seen the Numa Numa guy before. Besides, MSU should have won, because, just like every other game we have played this year, we were fucked.

Hawks....yup, I like 'em

by Rozhawkfan on Oct 26, 2009 10:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

lol

touche salesman.

by sfshilo on Oct 27, 2009 1:10 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Do you have any joy in your life?

Because it seems like you really don’t.

I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.

by HoyaGoon on Oct 27, 2009 8:57 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

BADASS

Sparty just rose up a notch in my book.

(Which means they are no longer on the ground; they are now one notch up.)

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by Gatorpilot on Oct 26, 2009 10:56 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

MSU Band

After half a dozen trips to MSU games, I definitely know not to avail myself of the facilities (or go get nachos) when the band is coming up. Always good stuff. My favorite was their 1999 senior day show, which was infected with the “Y2K Bug” – they played music backwards, marched their formations in reverse, and brought a Spartan green 70’s VW onto the field. Best band show, for pure entertainment, I ever saw.

by IndianaLion on Oct 27, 2009 11:26 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I wonder if that's on You Tube somewhere

Because that sounds really fucking cool.

by Leftcoast Hawk on Oct 27, 2009 4:41 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I wonder.

How much they had to pay that guy to get out of his mother’s basement.

by Pain in the Sash on Oct 27, 2009 12:15 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

How Come Our Marching Band Sucks?

I’ve seen ’em in the 80s, and in 97 and 98, and our band just sucks. Seems like we are about 86 years behind the times in actually being ENTERTAINING… or is it just me?

by Leftcoast Hawk on Oct 27, 2009 1:16 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

... maybe it's our fans' taste that sucks?

But probably not. I’m tired of the “musical salutes to Journey” as well. I think maybe we need some fresh blood.

I was waiting in line at the Stadium and missed this. Just as well as I wouldn’t have enjoyed it. This game was too distracting even with both teams in the lockerroom.

I do wonder what would happen if the numa numa guy directed the band at the nom nom guy’s (charlie weis) stadium?

On Iowa

by keosahawkeye on Oct 27, 2009 4:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Isn't Steve Perry eligible for Social Security?

I mean, I like Journey and I’m a child of the 70s/80s, but I mean, I want to hear a marching band version of Puddle of Mudd’s “Control” or something cool that involves lyrics about bondage and domination and chicks with 6" heels they’re planting in your anus sans lubrication.

I’ve always wondered if Weis’ kind of gets a little gamey (great pun) about 2 minutes into the first quarter from sweating under all of that fat…

by Leftcoast Hawk on Oct 27, 2009 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Actually, its probably the uptight Iowa music department

One reason Dan Yoder left as jazz director after the 80s – and he was a good jazz director – was because the whole emphasis at Iowa is classical music and all that shit (UNI has a great jazz program – I know, because I went there my freshman year) – so I think he’s still at PSU.

I had a really loud fusion trio – guitar (me) bass drums – in 1983-84, and we practiced at the music building… and they turned out the lights on us a couple of nights because we were SO LOUD. LOL.

by Leftcoast Hawk on Oct 27, 2009 4:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

They really do suck

I’ve heard A SALUTE TO MULTIPLATINUM ALTERNATIVE ROCK BAND R.E.M. like three times this year.

And by hear I of course me that the announcer says that and the the band plays and I can’t hear a fucking thing, and so I just root for The Award Winning Golden Girl to somehow fuck up and hit herself in the head.

by NorseHawk on Oct 27, 2009 4:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

They don't let Award Winning Golden Girl juggle flaming batons anymore.

Apparently field turf is flamable.

Brunettes not fighter jets

by rockyh on Oct 27, 2009 4:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If she'd stop dropping the baton

this wouldn’t be an issue

It never gets to be easy

by chitownhawkeye on Oct 27, 2009 5:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

What award did this chick win, anway?

She’s been award winning since I was like 10 and first started going to games. Is it the same girl? Is there a new one every year, each as Award Winning as the last? Who votes on these awards? Is the ceremony televised? I feel like I need to know these things.

by NorseHawk on Oct 27, 2009 6:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Gold medal and two bronze medals at the world twirling championships, Miss Majorette, etc.

Pretty much every golden girl we’ve had in the past couple decades has been a world champion of some sort. One was also miss Iowa.

Iowa’s one of two schools that offer a full-ride scholarship for spinning a baton, so that’s how the award winners keep ending up here.

Brunettes not fighter jets

by rockyh on Oct 28, 2009 11:40 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

rockyh: official baton corespondent for BHGP

Anyway, thanks, I did not expect anyone to actually answer that. It seems like there has to be a better place to allocate scholarship funds than baton twirler. For example, they could have given that money to me.

by NorseHawk on Oct 28, 2009 1:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

She's the Drum Major's bodyguard

and she’ll stick her flaming baton up an assailant’s butt.

"You don't become a Hawkeye fan, You're born with Black and Gold in your veins." - Me

by BStylin Hawkye on Oct 28, 2009 1:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Kinky

It's not that I'm lazy, Bob, it's just that I don't care

by Colteyes on Oct 28, 2009 6:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The marching band at Iowa

You look at other marching bands around the big ten… tOSU, MSU, PSU, Michigan, and especially Wisconsin, Purdue, and Indiana, and you see what a college band SHOULD look and sound like. Iowa has no style, no presence, and no personality.

The HMB primarily a training ground for guys getting their masters degrees. The “entertaining a crowd” part is secondary. It all goes to the director and the school of music – they’re not interested in putting on a show or drawing revenue as a performing act themselves. It’s really sad.

Brunettes not fighter jets

by rockyh on Oct 27, 2009 5:01 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Far be it...

for me to drag USC into this, I mean I hate them and all but I was at a game last year and it was a spectacle. Before the team takes the field the place goes dark, lasers criss cross, white lights come on, ground fireworks explode, they got a squad of perfectly matched mid-tall big boobed blondes that just stand there looking pulchridudenous, some guy in a jock waving a plastic sword rides around astride a white steed, the whole time the PA cranking out M&M singing “Lose Yourself”, just as the tunnel explodes and Pete C and the boys take the field. And that was just the Oregon State game.

Tell me, do the Hawks still feature the Highlanders?

by Zulu on Oct 27, 2009 7:38 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs