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scha·den·freu·de /ˈʃɑdnˌfrɔɪdə/

–noun

satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

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[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]

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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.

It's been a bang-up year in the laugh-at-your rivals department. As a fan, there's nothing more painful than seeing your team's shot at the ever-elusive mythical national championship go out the window because you can't beat some pissant like Stanford or Arkansas or Oregon State or Appalachian State or ... well ... not Oklahoma. But still. There was a large swath of the season in which unranked teams had a winning record over the #2 team. The most enormous upset in college football history was topped, then topped again* within a month of Appalachian State's blocked field goal.

And we tried to cover it all at the Fanhouse, at least after the two week period at the beginning of the season during which I huddled on the floor and tried really hard not to die. In the interregnum between the season and the bowls, then, let's review the year in pointing and laughing. Because the Motor City Bowl just isn't that interesting. After the jump: This Year in Schadenfreude.

*(in point spread terms, at least)

scha·den·freu·de /ˈʃɑdnˌfrɔɪdə/

–noun

satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

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[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
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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.

LSU lost its shot at the national championship this week, losing to Arkansas in triple overtime. Normally this would make them a slam dunk for this week's Tears of Unfathomable Sadness, but you know what? This happens every week. Some team, MNC game bid in hand, gacks it up against a markedly inferior opponent (or, I suppose, a markedly uh ... ferior opponent if you're Kansas. No offense, Jayhawks) and sends their fans into a tailspin of recrimination.

It's still fun to watch, but it's getting to be old hat in this season of infinite improbability. Anyone who was even a little surprised that Arkansas ran past LSU just hasn't been paying attention. So, how about something completely different?

OUTRAGE
Commodore Nation should be incensed right now. We didn't just get beat by Wake Forest, we got destroyed.

Commodore Nation? No. Surely it couldn't be ... it is! Ladies and gentlemen, Vanderbilt (Vanderbilt? Vanderbilt!) is your Tears of Unfathomable Sadness victor this week.

scha·den·freu·de /ˈʃɑdnˌfrɔɪdə/

–noun

satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

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[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
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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.

There is only one team in the state of Louisiana it is acceptable to lose to unless you are a Sun Belt team, and it's not Louisiana Monroe. Despite this, Nick Saban and his $4 million dollar contract managed to drop a game to a team with a nickname ("Warhawks") that sounds better suited for the Arena League than college football. The Capstone Report says don't blame Shula, blame everybody:

These players quit, won't fill assignments and won't accept responsibility for their actions. The players know it -- they are listless, without leadership and without pride. They don't know how to be champions, and what may be the most astounding thing I've ever seen, they don't seem to want to learn how to be champions.

Ouch. Alabama, you are the Tears of Unfathomable Sadness victor this week.

scha·den·freu·de /ˈʃɑdnˌfrɔɪdə/

–noun

satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

---

[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

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.

Ohio State, for blowing a national championship shot, you are the Tears of Unfathomable Sadness victor this week. Tressel remains a god to Buckeye fans, but some issues crop up when you yield an eight-minute game-killing drive:


More of the week in spleen after the jump.

scha·den·freu·de /ˈʃɑdnˌfrɔɪdə/

–noun

satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

---

[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

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 was at Spartan Stadium nervously contemplating a 24-14 Michigan deficit when our designated general-update text-messager-guy filed an odd report. His obviously garbled text message: "ND goes for it 4th and 8 on 25 stuffed going to OT."

We debated what this could possibly mean. Weis went for it on his own 25? No, that would likely have led to a Navy field goal try. Surely, not even certified super genius Charlie Weis could pass up a 42-yard field goal in favor of letting his crappy offense attempt to convert a fourth and long.

Surely ...


Oh my God. He did. (Please note that the original post above was taken down by the blog in question; it was reproduced on MGoBlog for posterity's sake.) More spleen after the jump.

scha·den·freu·de /ˈʃɑdnˌfrɔɪdə/

–noun

satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

---

[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

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.

Cal's season has officially collapsed. The reign of Troy seems truly and finally over, at least until the Mustain era begins. A top ten team lost to Mississippi State. And Nebraska still exists and is still "coached" by Bill Callahan. But nothing can top the woe of Orson Swindle, Florida fan par excellence and the sole, magnificent reason the Gators are this week's Tears of Unfathomable Sadness awardee.

His postgame catharsis can be excerpted in this profanity-free space in no way ... unless humorous cartoon punctuation substitues for most of it. Ready? Go!

Knowshon Moreno? [so far so good -ed] #$*&. Damn. God *#$@ing dammit. God #$*S#@*iing dammit. Holy #$&#$!$%*ing piss-#$*#$ing #$*(@#$*ing bull&*#$ $#%&#*@. Just $&#*ing god&*@ pisswad #$*#$ing Cleveland steamer *#$&!ing !&!$%-*#@ &*#$ing #*$&#*$&#ing #*#@head hellassed #$&!storm goddamn *#$%#@& #$&*wallah @#&*headed rectumweeping @!#$%*&ing #*&@master!

This is what masters of communication call "staying on message." A complete look at the week in spleen after the jump.

scha·den·freu·de /ˈʃɑdnˌfrɔɪdə/

–noun

satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

---

[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
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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 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.

The shooting gallery that is the top five this year claimed another victim, but it's really hard to get mad when you're USF and find yourself being upset in dramatic fashion. Also, there aren't really any USF blogs out there. So they are not our Tears of Unfathomable Sadness victor.

For that we turn to a nearly top-five team that finally succumbed to that big upset Vanderbilt's been threatening for a few years now: formerly #6 South Carolina, limp 17-6 losers to the commodores. Garnet And Black Attack:

I need a bucket of kittens.

A big bucket.

Why? Well, those kittens aren't going to kill themselves. More of the week in spleen after the jump.

scha·den·freu·de /ˈʃɑdnˌfrɔɪdə/

–noun

satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

---

[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

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 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.

College football, 2007, is basically the end of Dr. Strangelove every weekend. The last time #1 and #2 both lost on the same day, stegosaurus roamed Pangaea; normally one (or both) of the these teams would end up the Tears of Unfathomable Sadness victor, but Cal was rocking a possibly braindead backup quarterback and LSU went down to a ranked team in triple overtime; both still have good shots at the title game. No, this week we venture into the realms of offensively inept once-proud power programs done in by incompetent NFL refugees.

No, not Notre Dame. The big reveal after the jump.

scha·den·freu·de /ˈʃɑdnˌfrɔɪdə/

–noun

satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

---

[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

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 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.

College football followed up a tumultous weekend in which half of the top ten lost, mostly to unranked teams, with perhaps the biggest upset in the history of point spreads: Stanford 24, USC 23. And USC was at home. Playing the worst team in the Pac-10. That was starting its backup quarterback. Who converted a fourth and twenty on the game-winning drive. Yeah, USC, you are this week's Tears of Unfathomable Sadness "victor." Jonathan Tu, currently touring the country over at 82 Sluggo Win, is devastated:

Someone just ran over my puppy

His name is Jim Harbaugh. Not my puppy. My puppy is named Bonestorm. Jim Harbaugh ran over Bonestorm, the greatest puppy in the history of college football.

I think I might just drive straight back to California tomorrow and eat In 'n Out until I don't feel feelings anymore. Everything is dark and hopeless and devoid of meaning. I want a chocolate vanilla milkshake very badly right now. And two sausage McMuffin with egg sandwiches for two dollars. And heroin.

Of course, the real tragedy here is that the freude doesn't extend to the true Trojan menace: the legions of bandwagon Los Angeles "football" fans with a vague knowledge that the game is different than soccer who show up at the Rose Bowl drinking daiquiris and knowing who three players on each side of the ball are and invite their schleppy boyfriends to their seats at halftime despite there being four of them and only three seats and look back at anyone expressing even a slight interest in the game itself as if they had antennae growing out of their head and no, this isn't a personal experience, why do you ask?

scha·den·freu·de /ˈʃɑdnˌfrɔɪdə/

–noun

satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

---

[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

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 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.

So... yeah. Wow. How about that weekend? Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Oregon, Rutgers, Clemson, Alabama, and Penn State all take the pipe. There is no shortage of spleen on the internets this weekend. Who to pick? Whoever this guy roots for:



(HT: The MZone.) That would be Florida, this weeks' Tears of Unfathomable Sadness "victor." The full week in maladjusted fandom after the jump.