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12-27-2007, 06:43 PM
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JohnLSU, have you been to a game at Michigan Stadium? The gameday experience is nothing like what you'd expect from books & television.
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12-27-2007, 06:48 PM
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JohnLSU, have you been to a game at Michigan Stadium? The gameday experience is nothing like what you'd expect from books & television.
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After going to Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night, there is nothing else to experience...
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"Welcome to Death Valley", most schools wouldn't even put up such a name. Others would just say, "Death Valley" and leave it at that. But not LSU. Here, it's "Welcome to Death Valley." That's beautiful. It's like descending into Hell and finding a sign that reads, "Satan Invites You to Enjoy Eternal Damnation."
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12-27-2007, 06:48 PM
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These were some other cool facts in those articles about the OSU/MI game:
The Ohio State Alma Mater ?Carmen Ohio? was written on the train ride home to Columbus following the 1902 contest, which saw Ohio State losing to Michigan 86-0.
When Ohio Stadium (Ohio State's stadium) first opened, the first game they scheduled there was Michigan (Michigan won 19-0).
When Michigan Stadium first opened, the first game they scheduled there was Ohio State (Michigan won 21-0).
In 1970, a local judge in Columbus dismissed a charge of obscenity against a defendant arrested for wearing a T-shirt that said, "F--- Michigan" because the message "accurately expressed" local feelings about the university and the state. |
12-27-2007, 06:49 PM
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Half the distance to the goal
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After going to Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night, there is nothing else to experience...
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12-27-2007, 06:50 PM
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Thank God time for football
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Another interesting thing in those articles was all this about Toledo:
During 1835-36, the State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory engaged in a brief and bloodless border dispute known as the Toledo War. Some have proposed that the football rivalry is a modern manifestation of this historical tension.
The brainwashing of anti-Ohio sentiments starts early on in Michigan: beginning in fourth grade and highlighted in the required Michigan History Class and its chapter on the Toledo War. Michigan may have walked away with the Upper Peninsula and the wolverine nickname, but 171 years later, harsh feelings from the bloodless war still live on, only now on the football field.
I?ll admit to being biased towards Michigan. Even with my love of Cedar Point and the fancy three pointers of LeBron James, it still does not outweigh the fact that Ohio stole Toledo.
As long as Granholm still requires every fourth grader to take their Michigan history class, the value of the rivalry will not diminish anytime soon.
Anyone care to explain this whole Toledo thing?
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A portion of Ohio that includes Toledo both staes thought they owned it. When we drew up the lines we took it. Michigan was not happy. Both had millitias staring each other down. Not a shot fired we kept it.
From what
I can remember at least. Apprently it is not taught in Ohio schools like it is in scUM land 
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12-27-2007, 06:51 PM
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If you're going to stir up the pot, you might want to read and follow along first. That line makes no sense here...
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12-27-2007, 06:52 PM
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