Michigan St fan, making his first trip to CR today:
- The UW students are 100x worse than ours as far as showing up on time. At kickoff I'd say only about 1/4 of the student section was in their seats. By the end of the 1st quarter though, the place was full.
- The students themselves were very vocal. I was sitting at the other end of the stadium, so I couldn't always make out what they were saying, but they were loud. Most of the profanity they threw was at each other (The **** you - eat **** was particularly high-class), but I didn't really hear much directed at MSU (besides a few "***-hole" chants at MSU students in the UW student section)
- The alumni there were just as reluctant as ours to get up on big plays, so I don't feel like we're so alone, especially after being at ND, where the fans get up for basically anything.
- The people we sat with were generally pretty nice (nice change from the pretentious ass bags I sat with in South Bend last weekend). Only problems we really had were some inebriated students after the game razzing us a little. Then I saw that they were wearing shirts that said "Bucky did your Mom" and I knew that I wasn't even close to the most pathetic person in that conversation.
- "Jump Around" is awesome. I wish the MSU students could get another song like that. Would be pretty sweet.
- "On Wisconsin" is an OK fight song - but the band breaks up into little groups in the second half and play it ALL AROUND the stadium, so it's ALWAYS being played. Wanted to go Van Gogh on my ears by the end of the game...
Anyway, looking forward to going to a couple more games during my time here. Still can't wait to make it back to State for a game.
Anyone else have impressions of the atmosphere today?