
scha·den·freu·de
-noun
satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune. |
[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.
I don't think a winning team has ever pulled down the Tears of Unfathomable Sadness award, but we have history this week. LSU fell behind against the Troy Trojans of Troy (We're From Troy!) 31-3, causing a mass exodus from Death Valley and a truly epic message board war. This is the nuclear bomb:
At this point LSU fans just need to STFU. We are largely irrelevant, living off past glory, full of self-congratulatory bluster. Even now, some tard (sorry PJ) is on my radio talking about Nick Saban. Saban ? We don't believe in our team, we don't believe in our coaches, it's not important to us anymore to even stay at the stadium. We have made second-guessing an art form and have a juvenile view of reality. We bitched our way through a National Freaking Championship and now we are sniveling through a 9/10 win season. THAT IS WHO WE ARE. Snivelers. Whiners. Crybabies. With a ridiculous sense of entitlement.
I'm not blaming us or even asking for change, I'm just acknowleding the Truth.
Uh. Wow. And then you've got the first response:
It was either leave or kill the wife to stop the whining and there were too many witnesses to do the right thing.
Yes, what they say about LSU fans is true: they smell like corndogs and are complete lunatics. (Just kidding LSU fans! Please don't dip me in batter and fry me!) The rest of the week in spleen after the jump.
BIG TEN |
Michigan, well... at this point Michigan fans are mostly numb after the events of the season and if they weren't numb already they definitely were after sitting outside in 35 degree sleet watching their team lose against Northwestern. The Wolverine Liberation Army is actually encouraged by this turn of events but post tags are the window to the soul:
Coincidentally, I saw "post tags are the window to the soul" in a Mexican fortune cookie, too. |
Notre Dame didn't actually lose, but they really tried to, fumbling on the four up 27-7 and proceeding to let Navy score a touchdown, recover an onside kick, score another touchdown, and recover another onside kick before finally recovering and preventing the Middies from really, truly murdering the Weis era. Rakes of Mallow goes with the all caps:
Actually, of all the indefensible things Charlie Weis has done in an effort to prove he's smarter than the world, isn't yanking the starters up 27-7 with the ball and nine minutes on the clock way down the list? I mean, if the fourth-string running back doesn't fumble we're not even having this conversation. |
PAC 10 |
"Man, you look like your dog died" is something Washington State fans have probably heard all year. The Cougars are 1-10, winless against I-A competition. They've been shut out three times and lost to Stanford by 58. They may be the worst Pac-10 team in history. So... yeah, that's bad. But this just happened to Sedihawk, the lead guy on the only consistently updated Washington State football blog out there and therefore possibly the biggest Coug fan among us:
His dog actually died. That's rough. |
SEC |
There's not much to say when you're South Carolina and get smashed 56-6, except maybe "Verne Lundquist I hate you":
Dude, Verne Lundquist? Of all people? Verne Lundquist is like the nicest man on the planet. I'll give you Danielson, I guess. I actually have a theory on him: CBS has instructed him to praise everything that has ever happened in an SEC game. I've seen him praise the defense for causing false starts, praise a quarterback throwing it directly at four linebackers, praise a fumbled snap. Every fumbled snap he announces is magnificent because it is an ESS EEE CEE(!) fumbled snap. |
BIG EAST |
Syracuse 14, UConn 39. Cue the crying child: ![]()
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Last year's Schadenfreude-man-an award made up for the "This Year In Schadenfreude" wrap up post-was new Louisville head coach Steve Kragthorpe, who immediately cratered Bobby Petrino's program and was tossed around as a guy who might get fired after one year. He did not, but he's not exactly off the hot seat:
Agro-Krag's antics are no longer meeting with approval (and by "no longer" I mean "never did but continue to get more annoying"):
Louisville fans with hope for the future are now comparing Kragthorpe to... Rich Brooks?
I'm with that guy. When your best case scenario is Rich Brooks, you have erred. Repair your err. |
BIG TWELVE |
Texas A&M may be angrier at Mike Sherman than they ever were at Dennis Franchione, and that's saying something. Check it, and mind the [sic]:
And then there's this variation on the FRANKLIN=DEATH meme:
I think we're decided on this. 2008=DEATH. Finally, I don't even know what this is about:
This man's username is "RedassAustinSawHorn60," FWIW. Of course it is. |
ACC |
Last week I surveyed the ACC, found it boring, and declared that Florida State needed to get hammered. Check and mate, it's rantin' time at Tomahawk Nation (emphasis mine):
Usually I'd chop something that long down, but that is one nasty, blunt paragraph right there. The comments to it are about the same, and we get bonus Why Did I Do This To My Body schadenfreude:
Also, I have no idea what this feels like:
Nope, not at all. No idea whatsoever. (Help me I have to watch the Ohio State game next week someone send morphine please morphine morphine morphine.) |
This Week In Schadenfreude: LSU Descends Into a Maelstrom of Self-Hatred originally appeared on NCAA Football FanHouse on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:44:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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