On This Week In Schadenfreude we explore the sputtering rage, gibbering condemnation, and resigned ennui of the college football fan who has recently undergone humiliating defeat. Because even in your darkest hour, someone else is suffering too, and probably worse than you. Unless you are a Michigan fan who has just finished watching the Appalachian State game.scha·den·freu·deDictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
–noun
satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Last week on TWIS, we noted that LSU "lost its shot" at a national championship by dropping a triple OT game against Arkansas, because everyone knew that West Virginia was going to pound Pitt. The Mountaineers were four touchdown favorites. One Pat White injury and three turnovers later, LSU is back in the national championship game and West Virginia fans have a decision to make: self-immolation on the 50 yard line or on the university president's lawn?
Yes, West Virginia takes this week's Tears of Unfathomable Sadness, and many of the tears can be found right here at the Fanhouse, on Brian Stouffer's post. A winning entry:
This was the last straw. I am a 1984 grad of WVu and grew up 15 minutes from Morgantown in Preston County. I will never cheer for the Mountaineers again. Not ever. I hope they lose every freeking game they ever play from now on.
This guy has an idea how to make his newfound desire a reality that's almost as stellar as his WVU education. That, and the week in spleen, after the jump.
