Watch: Michigan Player Defaces Michigan State Logo During Pregame Warmup
A rivalry isn’t truly a rivalry until one side starts defacing what’s sacred to the opponent in the ultimate display of disrespect. That’s when it goes from friendly competition and may-the-best-men-win to the kind of blood feud where fans start wishing the biblical plagues upon the other team’s fanbase.
And if a few locusts and frogs show up in Ann Arbor this week, that’ll suit the people of East Lansing just fine.
The source of all this wrath? Michigan’s Devin Bush Jr. giving the business to the Michigan State Spartans’ logo at midfield.
That was just part of the pregame ugliness.
Michigan players stood like they were stopping a tank in Tiananmen Square when the Spartans did the rile-up-the-crowd march through the stadium that they do before every game.
Interesting way to start things today. Michigan players don’t move for MSU’s pregame walk. pic.twitter.com/zJPgVfgvTj
— Matt Wenzel (@mwenzel2) October 20, 2018
Unsurprisingly, some of the Spartan players got into a shoving match with the invaders from downstate.
Some of that shoving involved Bush, who had to be restrained by his own school’s people, but even they could not contain the wrath symbolized by his “Michigan Revenge Tour” corn-colored T-shirt.
Bush headed straight for midfield and unleashed his inner Gaiseric the Vandal on the Spartan logo with his cleats.
Just so everybody knows what today is about ??? Devin Bush pic.twitter.com/3KTbPyuCk3
— Devin McKenney (@DeeMac02) October 20, 2018
He tore up a few good lines through the paint, but after he was unpleasantly escorted from his artistic ministrations, the center logo got a fresh coat of paint for no net harm done.
It was Shakespearean in its way — a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Meanwhile, a Michigan spokesman issued both a statement on the proceedings and a damning indictment of the English faculty at his school:
#Michigan spokesman says MSU players were 10 minutes late to the field for their march, “close lined” Lawrence Marshall and ripped the head phones off Lavert Hill.
— Aaron McMann (@AaronMcMann) October 20, 2018
“Close” lined. Please tell me that’s an AutoCorrect fail.
At least the history department got some good run in the comments.
Can’t wait for the renactment of Sherman’s march to the sea in EL today, hope Bush scorches the earth just before they walk throught the tunnel victorious!
— Stephen B Ham (@Barwick_Stephen) October 20, 2018
The sixth-ranked Wolverines won the game 21-7 to boost their chances to make the College Football Playoff.
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