O Fortuna

First things first.Congrats and a hearty "hell yeah!!" to the 25th ranked MSU mens Soccer team, who by virtue of a 1-0 victory over the 6th ranked Northwestern Wildcats,won the schools FIRST BIG TEN TITLE in Coach Joe Baums LAST regular season game.What a way for a solid soccer team to send off its skipper.Take pride Spartans, this title was a long time coming, and well deserved by these fine athletes and great coach.

With O Fortuna playing in our heads, Spartan nation sprang forth for a CRITICAL 3rd down stop.Wisconsin punts, leaving 1:19 on the clock.Score..MSU 22, Wisco 24.We need Brian Hoyer to engineer a game winning drive.Possibly, a true defining moment in his career as a Spartan.The very first time into battle this year, Hoyer came up short pushing MSU down the field as time expired in a losing effort against California.We've seen this scenario far to often, eh Spartans?
Let me take you back.2007 overtime loss to Iowa,Northwestern,Wisconsin.The "comeback" against UM.All games we had our chances in.Now we stand on the brink of another end of regulation nailbiter.Blair White comes up with two HUGE catches.BJ Cunningham, after getting mugged ALL DAY, adds 4 more in the middle to set up the howitzer that is Bret Swenson.18 seconds and counting as MSU desperately scrambles its field goal unit out on the field. At that point, Wisconisn coach Bret Bielema does the unthinkable. "time out Wisconsin" the official shouts. Time out??!!! Are you kidding me?? This guy is kicking a 44 yard field goal, not shooting free throws.We line up, set the line....."time out Wisconsin".Again , the badgers leader attempts to ice the kicker.With a pat on the back ,wink and nodd from Coach D, Swenson lines up.The snap is perfect, the ball is placed and ..... F' in BINGO.With our arms thrust over our heads and our faces turning red,Spartan nation erupts as the ball splits the uprights.Georgie and I just stood and riot screamed toward the field. Firmly pushed into the badgers side, Swenson broke that mother F'er off in Wisco's ass. Special game ball to Wisconsin coach Bret for not only giving us a composure timeout for free, earlier in the game, two players and Coach Beilema accounted for 35 yards in three seperate penalties to help set up a MSU score to make it 19-24 ad Wisco, without MSU so much as snapping the ball. The crowd was in good form, and the LSU Tigers fan (idiot) who sits two rows in front of me got his stupid ass up and left when we were down by 11 in the forth quarter.I NEVER hear him say anything positive about MSU, just comments on how stagnant the offense is , or what some player is doing wrong.If that bad hurricane blew his ass up here, I sure wish it would've carried him back home.There were several people around us that were saying, "we're done, same old spartans.." and sulking.I agree, same old spartan dead asses who sit quietly and golf clap,and sell their seat to the Ohio State game.George spoke up and said," wait..just wait and see.We're gonna win, we have a chance still...".No one really disagreed with him, but they all had doubts.I didnt have doubts, but I did feel like it was slipping away because I felt that we couldnt rely on Hoyer to WIN a game, just not to lose a game.Redeemed is Bobby Ho in my eyes.Hoyer is no superman,but he is solid.I have seen his mental game grow, and if I was to make any judgement at all, I'd say his physical game has gone as far as it will go.He's gotten smarter, but I havent seen him get any more athletic.For having a virus, Ringer put some great blocks on, and did a good job all around.Game balls to ALL THE DEFENSIVE PLAYERS.What a great effort.Wisconsin put up MONSTROUS yards on the ground, and only managed 24 points.The D showed up BIG time when we needed them on the forementioned 3rd down.Thats when O Fortuna came on either in our heads , or over the public address, or both.
" One more time D!!", I said. You know the rest.

O Fortuna played
asses was kicked
names was taken
fade to black........The great Satan is next.