SPORTS
The top left corner of the Spartan backdrop peels behind MSU head coach Bobby Williams, who stood before the media fielding questions in a press conference after Saturday’s loss, serving as a reminder that even the duct tape has given up on the football program here in the land split by the Red Cedar.
No spin could distract from the four pieces of gray tape that couldn’t hold on Saturday - neither could a hundred green-and-white gridders.
If duct tape can’t keep the Spartan football program together, don’t expect this team to fix itself, as duct tape can fix anything - so my father once told me.
My father, a skilled man, never coached this football team.
The green-and-white paper folded and so did the program marred by poor play and scandal.
“This is the most disappointed I’ve ever been as a coach,” Williams says.
Put up or give up.
The fans, the alumni and, seemingly, the players have given up on a season of fumbled football - a few team members have at least given up on team rules.
They’d throw in the towel if it wasn’t likely to be intercepted.
As Saturday night’s glowing lights illuminated a Spartan Stadium tomb, the last of the 75,507 grains of sand slide out of the bleachers before all time had run out.
Standing there in the cool crosswinds, only a few fans remain - clad in MSU mittens, winter caps, hooded sweatshirts and Spartan jackets - in section 13, usually dominated by students.
The bleachers here are mostly empty, littered with popcorn boxes and hot-dog wrappers.
“This year, I think the fans gave up before the football team,” elementary education sophomore Katie Neddermeyer says.
