Michigan Football Celebrates On Twitter After Beating MSU

Michigan football finally got a victory over MSU on Saturday. Here are some of the best moments from during and after the game on Twitter.

There’s a frustrating expectation, especially in football, that once you win a game, you move on to focusing on the next one as quickly as possible.

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Maybe it’s because a subsection of fans/coaches/players (foolishly, ridiculously) understand the game as war, where savoring a victory just a bit too long could actually get you killed. Maybe it’s because the people who, ultimately, run the NCAA and the NFL are stodgy old dudes whose definition of fun and whose sense of propriety were probably both fully formed before most of the players on the field were born.

Maybe it’s because success and careers are so fleeting in this brutal sport that remembering to have fun or stopping to relish your good fortune are usually construed as tempting the football gods, who, in fairness, do seem pretty smite-happy.

Who knows.

What I do know is that Michigan football beat Michigan State on Saturday, something that hasn’t happened since 2012 and in seven of the last nine excruciating years.

It’s time to savor the win! It doesn’t matter if the Spartans are 2-6, it doesn’t matter if it wasn’t 78-0. Michigan is 8-0 and No. 2 in the country.

Here are some of the saltiest MSU takes and funniest Michigan takes that popped up over the weekend.

Hahahahahaha. There is approximately a zero point zero percent chance this happened. The Michigan defensive linemen O’Connor’s talking about are probably the same people voting in all those “online polls” that Donald Trump keeps claiming he’s winning.

Everything about this is so great: that O’Connor would think people would believe this; that he would say it in the first place; that he thinks it would make the loss less of a loss; that even though Michigan was the more physically dominant team for 95 percent of the game, this would somehow make U-M players seem like pansies.

Taco Charlton wasn’t having it:

https://twitter.com/TheSupremeTaco/status/792495021303955460

This team is fun.

O’Connor’s teammate Chris Frey Jr. was very excited for this game. So excited, in fact, that he tweeted this during the offseason:

https://twitter.com/Cfrey_23/status/756247458133504000

Well, first off, it seems like he and the rest of his team should have probably been a little more focused on the games that occurred in the 100 days leading up to Saturday. Secondly, something tells me that Michigan players had this tweet saved just for this occasion:

Oh my.

Oh boy.

https://twitter.com/MoeWays/status/792458792441110528

Oh no. Look at those time stamps! They were probably still in the locker room when they decided to rub a little more salt in the wound. Somebody check on Chris.

Dantonio tried to give his team a little boost before the game:

My new favorite picture of the season? De’Veon Smith trucking the snot out of human Four Loko (caffeinated version) Riley Bullough:

Bonus points for the incidental dab.

Peppers had some info for MSU fans:

Some of the venom spewed in Peppers’ direction in the week leading up to the game and the days after was astounding, so here’s more Peppers:

Out of all the photos with the Paul Bunyan Trophy, I think this was the best one:

Even Charles Woodson got in on the fun:

Finally, here’s my favorite thing, a gif that will hopefully be one of the lasting moving images from this year’s squad:

We should all love this team.

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Follow their example and take a second to savor a victory over a hated rival.