Comments on: Toughest Venues: #6 Spartan Stadium

By: SpartanDan

SpartanDan — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:09:15 +0000

To be fair, that 1-3 ending in ‘03 came against Michigan, OSU, Wisconsin, and Penn State. That was more due to a back-loaded schedule than anything else. The others can’t be explained away so easily, though.

I was at that Notre Dame game … worst part was, everyone in the stadium saw it coming. I was sure of it with 10 minutes to go – still up big, but one sequence of plays went holding, timeout (to avoid delay of game), false start, timeout, holding, 2nd down and a mile and a half. You could hear the crowd thinking “oh shit, here we go again”. Best memory, though, has to be the Wisconsin ‘04 game – think we put up almost as many points in that game as they had allowed all season to that point (and this was in November).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:13:04 +0000

One time while walking down Albert Street in East Lansing I was called a “fucking Michigan faggot” while holding my girlfriend’s hand (she goes to MSU, I went to UM). I turned around and yelled “I’m walking with a girl and you’re hanging out with a bunch of guys. Who’s the faggot here?” He had no retort.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:34:58 +0000

Being a Michigan fan living in East Lansing, I have been to many a Michigan State game. Generally the fans are harmless as long as state is not playing Michigan, Notre Dame or Ohio State. If they are, watch out because they turn into douche bags real quick. This is only before the game though, since after they lose they all sober up real quick in order to go drink away their sorrows later. Also, their stadium is ugly inside and out but the addition is nice, just looks strange attached the way it is.

By: nate

nate — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:12:58 +0000

i agree about the stadium being an eyesore, however unfortunately many feel the same way about beaver stadium (that its a cumbersome piece of metal among cows). the fans seemed to be punked out, like that dork that tries to be cool, and although im prone to shooting my mouth off (almost regularly when it comes to football) they seemed easy to tame when you know your facts. OSU fans are just straight up assholes, so its hard to imagine anyone being worse. haha. cheers

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:57:38 +0000

Spartan fans are actually amongst the most vulgar in the nation. They try and emulate OSU fans but only come off as some of most low class and mystifyingly dumb in the conference. I was at their ‘06 loss to Illinois at home. Ten kids in the stands threatened physical harm to an Illinois fan who had the nerve to applaud his team’s on field performance. The police then came in and escorted the Illinois fan out of the stadium. I was sitting in a crowd of MSU fans and someone threw one of those plastic megaphones and hit a fellow spartan in face cutting them open. Tailgating with them is fun for the first few hours until they get full of their Busch Light and they start picking fights with people. Also Spartan Stadium is as ugly a venue as I’ve ever been to. Ryan Field at least has its castle looking structures surrounding it. To view Spartan Stadium from the outside hurts the eyes. Especially with venues like Beaver Stadium, Michigan Stadium and Ohio Stadium. It is a concrete monolith that’s ugliness is amplified by the addition that they put on one side that looks like it shot from the bowels of the earth. I’ll never attend another game at Spartan Stadium as long as I live because of their fans.

By: nate

nate — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:08:52 +0000

I also was out to E. Lansing in ‘05. First off i loved how the parking was intertwined with the campus, and the campus as well as downtown were within a stone’s throw. If you get a chance to go downtown go to a hoagie joint that is something like “jersey submarines” and boasts ‘the boss’… one of the best hoagies ive ever had (and they cut it into 4 samich sized pieces, so a family could easily eat only one with a bag of chips) The fans seemed okay at times, but loved to heckle PS about the basketball team (to which i responded, “um, we’re Penn State, basketball only exists because it fills the space between football seasons” and when confronted by a gaggle of hecklers, i simply held up 5 fingers and said “look, its your wins AND your losses” It shuts them up quick because they know its true. It was cold as a bastard, and i had a good jag of octoberfest and jim beam going, so the walk to was fuzzy and i actually didnt remember seeing certain landmarks on the way in, when we walked to the car, but the spartan statue was AWESOME. The crowd atmosphere is amazing,loud and raucous, the fans are very gracious inside (i snuggled upto a MILF when i started to shiver, how nice of her). I think the best part is that we won our big ten championship there, and every State fan stayed for a half hour after everyone was gone to celebrate.

By: JB

JB — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:19:02 +0000

I have never been to Spartan Stadium, however, I am a little jealous of all the new cheers lifted from 300. It is pretty sweet when the loudspeaker rumbles: “Spartans, what is your profession?” and the crowd roars its response and it’s audible on TV. Just awesome.