This Week In Schadenfreude: It's Chemical Burn Time in Ann Arbor
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scha·den·freu·de
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satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune. </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> [Origin: 1890-95; < G, equiv. to
Schaden harm +
Freude joy]
On This Week In Schadenfreude we explore the sputtering rage, gibbering condemnation, and resigned ennui of the college football fan who has recently undergone humiliating defeat. Because even in your darkest hour, someone else is suffering too, and probably worse than you. Unless you are a Michigan fan who has just finished watching the Appalachian State game.
It was sort of like The Horror last year: Michigan takes on a ridiculously overmatched opponent, finds itself trailing late, gets a last-second chip-shot field goal to redeem themselves, and blows it. Also bloggers started posting
mushroom clouds.
But they didn't stop there. The
Hoover Street Rag busted out
this scene from Fight Club:
What is this?
This is a chemical burn. It will hurt more than you have ever been burned, and you will have a scar.
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Uh... yeah.
Michigan, you are the
Tears of Unfathomable Sadness award recipient.
The rest of the week in spleen after the jump.
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Michigan. I guess I should mention the chaos and strife going on on the homefront: MGoBlog currently has a Civil War painting foremost, describes the Wolverine-on-Wolverine violence currently engulfing the Michigan internets, and then
perpetrates some of its own:
I assure you that every Michigan fan was angry on Saturday, and every one had second thoughts about this New Era thing. Some of them chose to swallow that anger, and some chose to give it to someone else. What's the adult thing to do? What would those people in hats have done in 1935?
They would have sucked it up. So suck it up, you pansies. It hurts. Act like a man about it.
Elsewhere, Genuinely Sarcastic calls Michigan fans "
gutless" and
Varsity Blue declares M fans to "
really really really really suck."
I expect a minor ethnic cleansing in the next six weeks.
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PAC 10</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> Washington, mercifully, had an off week, so we must turn our attention elsewhere. How about 2-4
Arizona State, fresh off a 28-0 loss to USC? The mood on the ASU boards is
decidedly mean:
Any more Rudy apologists out there???
<hr> He is a an absolute joke. All talk, no play. Don't even try to blame the line, no pressure and he throws is right to a defender.
I can't believe he is going to be the statisical leader of ASU's Qb's. He has no place anywhere near Jake, Danny White, hell even Andrew Walter.
Nothing like a random dude on the internet calling a starting D-I college quarterback a "joke." Unless that's Sam Keller, that's probably unwarranted.
Actually... is that Sam Keller? If I was him I'd certainly run around Arizona State message boards posting "lolcarpenter" as fast as humanly possible.
Also: there is a thread titled "
hyper-obsessed rat loser," which immediately became a popular name to bestow on your
Rock Band outfit.
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UCLA, losers to Oregon. Bruins Nation,
what say you?
And no matter the result, I'd take that [a surprise onside kick Oregon recovered] over a coach that called plays even a 6 year old could've predicted.
Aw, hamburgers. I miss Karl Dorrell.
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Auburn fired its offensive coordinator midway through his first season and then lost to Arkansas after losing to Vanderbilt and beating Mississippi State 3-2, at which point the
Joe Cribbs Car Wash had a
bonafide psychotic break:
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When I get around to writing my book
Ways In Which Football Bloggers Deal With Humiliating Defeat, "pretend you're living someone else's life and post a picture of a hot chick/kitten" will get its own chapter.
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LSU lost to Florida, prompting completely reasonable things on LSU message boards like "
Saban's players gone=Mediocrity" and "
We shouldn't be happy with Mediocre." What is it with LSU fans and big-m Mediocrity? I don't know. I do know this, uh...
I love Les Miles... with that said we should not be happy with thrashings like that of saturday. We should not be happy with 9-3 seasons. Yes it wasnt too long ago that we were 3-9 but i lived through the nineties and was diehard lsu even then, but it hurts to see a schalacking like saturday. We deserve better as fans than to witness the lack of spunk and discipline that is a staple to LSU defenses for the last several years.
...is... uh. YOU WON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP LAST YEAR. SHUT UP. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP.
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BIG EAST</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align: top;">
Syracuse 6, West Virginia 17. Cue the
crying child:
Later, rinse, repeat.
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Oklahoma boards are mostly filled with anti-schadenfreude backlash instead of the actual stuff. The best item was from some guy on Soonerfans with a kickin'
bald eagle/american flag icon
giving it to the whiners. This is also a variety of reverse schadenfreude:
Much to the happiness of a few of you losers, this is my last post in this place. Too many whiney *** losers here. You cry like little babies and make all kinds of excuses for why OU loses a game. ...
So have fun playing with yourselves. Some day, you'll have to step out from behind the keyboard. And then someone will throat punch you little babies back into oblivion.
Throat punch!
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Tell me you haven't wanted to do that to people on the internet. If there was a throat-punching virus you could install on people's computers that would be rad.
We've also got some examples of schaden
feud, wherein the anger is directed at some incompetent media hack. In this case it's the Oklahoman's
near-illiterate Berry Tramel:
One of the first lines in the "article" was: "This was an historic game from which you couldn't avert your eyes."
Is it just me or does this sound like the opening line of a 10th graders english exam about his favorite sports team. ...
They have the nerve to even video this guy...I dont want a guy that looks like he just rolled out of a dumpster after taking a bong hit representing Oklahoma.
Dude, I'm
with you on that one.
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Ding, dong, the freude is dead at
Clemson, as the Tigers have just sacked Tommy Bowden halfway through the season. Reliable TWIS feature blog
Block C will presumably be taking the rest of the year off and speculating wildly about who will take over.
But let's get
one for the road, huh?
I think it's sort of like pissing yourself and being all angry and confused at first and then just settling into resigned melancholy, being like "Hey, yeah, I pissed myself. Oh, well. Here I am, all pissy and smelling vaguely of popcorn. Aw, now it's starting to get cold. Well, here I am."
Thanks, Block C. Your service to the cause has been appreciated, and good luck with whoever the next guy is.
Oh, what the hell, let's do
one more, this from
Sporting Gnomes:
Me: How would you like to suck my balls?
Tommy Bowden: What did you say?
Me: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Actually, what I said was...
[picks up a megaphone]
Me: HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUCK MY BALLS, TOMMY BOWDEN?
Bowden's new answer is "somewhat, depending on how much you'll pay him."
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