The Real Reason MSU Lost
When the Spartans took to the court last night, they easily had 90% of the crowd behind them. North Carolina had solid representation, but it is hard to have a crowd advantage when the opponent’s school is just 90 miles away.
Unless, of course, the home crowd does something like have a “White Out”, which effectively takes away home court advantage.
The reasons to hate the “White Out” movement are many. First, it is called “White Out”. The name fits, because just like the erasing fluid, a “White Out” erases the fans. White is a stupid color for sports fans, if you can even call it a color. If you were going to list the most intimidating colors, white wouldn’t even make the list.
Nothing white is even scary. Pillsbury Doughboy? Frosty the Snowman? I mean, the last scary white thing was the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man and that was over 25 years ago.
See? Even in a sailor suit he is scary!
Furthermore, the only people that wear that much white are very old, very retired people from South Beach, Florida. There is a reason for this. It is because white is very, very boring. It isn’t just to reflect away the heat, they also wear it because it is boring.
North Carolina was the home team, technically, in this game. This means that they wore white. Not to mention their other color is, and I got this from their official Web site so I wouldn’t get it wrong, “Really Wussy Powder Baby Blue”. It is such a light blue that it is almost white. It wouldn’t take much for a UNC player to imagine that the crowd was, in fact, behind them. Though it would have been confusing as to why the crowd got so quiet after the first minute of play.
I hate “White Outs” in almost all cases. Whenever I see a fan base doing this, I find it exceptionally lame. The only time I ever found it even remotely cool was the first time I had ever seen it done. It was several years back when the old NHL Winnipeg Jets did a white out during the playoffs. It was quite the sight to see. The whole crowd was white (and not just their clothes). The stadium was white. The ice was, of course, white. If I had been a player on the opposing team, upon seeing this crowd, I would have thought, “WOW! How did they get all these old people to come up here from South Beach, Florida? This is spooky!” I wouldn’t have been intimidated so much as disconcerted.
The only time I can think of when a “White Out” is ok is if the team involved had colors of white on white. It would be a horrible color scheme to be sure, but at least then all of the fans wearing white would make sense.
Now I know MSU has two school colors – Green and White. But the white exists to give the green just that much more POP. It wouldn’t work all by itself. It needs the green.
As a side-note, when I am at an MSU game of any kind, I am always vaguely disappointed if I am on the side of the area/stadium that has to say “Go White” as opposed to “Go Green”. Green is just that much cooler.
Now, imagine Ford Field if it had been 90% green. It would have been a sea of green. UNC would have no doubts as to who the fans in the crowd were supporting. The green is dark enough that the whole atmosphere of Ford Field would have changed. It would have seemed that much darker, that much more sinister for the visiting team. Instead of the lights being reflected back, the green would have absorbed the light. It would have been an impressive and actually intimidating sight. If the Spartan fans in attendance had done this, if they had worn the Green than I firmly believe that the game would have gone differently.
The Spartans might have lasted 2 minutes into the game instead of 1.
Wow North Carolina is good.
