Michigan-Michigan State is what’s affectionately known as a House Divided Rivalry. Most of us live and work with people who swear allegiance to one of the two schools. I wrote in August that the Notre Dame rivalry is the more dignified of Michigan’s three main rivalries. The rivalry with Michigan State is the unruly relative drunkenly dancing on the table pounding a 40-ounce, with a lampshade on his or her head and a path of destruction on the ground behind them. And that’s putting it in G-rated terms.
For many years, a perfectly-fine Michigan State fan sat behind where my parents’ season tickets are in Michigan Stadium.