# Insulting phrases about sports teams

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 21, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402 "2012-09-21T15:34:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/81 "2012-09-30T15:35:31Z")

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Saw this one on a T-shirt…  
Detroit Lions-Rebuilding since 1955

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/82 "2012-09-30T18:35:39Z")

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> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> Ann Arbor is a slut (University of Michigan)

I’ve also heard the Wolverines referred to as the Weasels.

_I’m going to Ann Arbor I’ll be on more horse’s ass  
I used to be intelligent but that’s all in the past.  
So pin a tail on my nose and point me toward the grass,  
I’m going to Ann Arbor I’ll be one more horse’s ass._

The above ditty was heard on a radio station in East Lansing, Michigan, home of the Michigan State Spartans

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/83 "2012-10-01T05:06:07Z")

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> [@Hamlet](#):
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> Northwestern is a great academic school … but by and large pretty lousy at football. I always kinda admired the cheers they did when they were losing … again.
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> “That’s alright!  
> That’s OK  
> You’re going to work  
> For us some day.”
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> They also charged the field and chanted “We’re the worst” when the broke the Division 1 record for consecutive losses.

The cheer was, as I remember it, “that’s alright, that’s okay, you’ll all work for us some day.” Fits the meter better. That said, Northwestern hasn’t been lousy at football for quite a few years now. Yes, they’ve still to win a bowl game since 1949, but they’re not the pushovers they were before the mid-90s. (And, yeah, they were _bad_.) I was there during the Rose Bowl and Citrus Bowl years in the mid-90s, and they fielded some damned good teams, especially that Rose Bowl one that beat Notre Dame and Michigan at home, and went into the Rose Bowl ranked #3, only to lose to USC, and ended up #8 for the season.

And the “safety school” chant was just simply “state school” at NU games during the suck years.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insulting-phrases-about-sports-teams/635402/84 "2012-10-01T14:51:00Z")

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Growing up in Columbus, I never heard the real lyrics to the Michigan fight song, only, um, alternative ones. Nothing really imaginative, though, mostly revolving around the fortuitous rhyme of “cocksuckers” and “motherfuckers”.

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