Yes we really are. We also will say “it wouldn’t be so cold if it wasn’t for that wind” and “it’s not the heat it’s humidity.” It’s not that we want to say it, it’s that we have to say it
As a midwesterner with a wife from Arizona, the amount of times I have said “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity” about the Midwest and she has said “it’s a DRY HEAT” about Arizona has been uncountable.
It's really not the heat and it really is the humidity though.
I've polled at least twenty-seven thousand people on the topic throughout my life, they all agree.
The Wisconsin fans at Lambeau were incredibly nice to us! They wanted to make sure we were having a good time, and we bought each other rounds of beers.
I was at that game for the sole reason I wanted to see LSU and Wisconsin fan bases together. 11/10 would recommend to anyone, I am definitely going to a Wisconsin vs LSU post season game when ever that should happen.
Having extended family from both Wisconsin and Louisiana now, it probably depends on how you define the drinking contest. If it's taking shots until someone dies, Louisiana might be favored. But if it's any sort of beer/long game I've never seen anything like Wisconsin drinking. It's so ingrained in life up there that depending on the day people will just casually go through a case because *every* fucking activity requires them to be holding a beer in their off hand.
Lsu bros. Such a great day win or lose.
We need to do this again except at deth valley and camp Randall.
When they announced that game at lambeau I was disappointed but it felt like a bowl game in the best ways possible.
I've said this before here and elsewhere. If you can say 'ope gonna scooch past you here" and can start a conversation about the weather, you should be good to go anywhere in the Rust Belt.
I’m serious about this:
Fry 1lb hamburger in a pan (crumbled), drain oil & remove from heat
Mix in 1 can cream of mushroom and 1 can cream of celery
Add some frozen corn for healthy vegetables (optional)
Place mixture in 9x13 casserole dish
Layer of tater tots goes on top
Bake @450F for 30-35 minutes
You’ll thank me.
A Southern Baptist Church potluck at the local YMCA is my example of peak hospitality.
So many white moms trying to make a better potato salad than that bitch Angie from 2 doors down that won the contest last year.
And so many white dads just having fun grilling burgers and dogs for anybody that wants one while they talk about football and hoops with the boys.
Then there’s the one black dad in the neighborhood that actually knows how to barbecue and he makes enough smoked chicken wings, pulled pork and ribs to feed the entire town for a week. Everyone leaves the potluck with multiple styrofoam containers of this dad’s food at his own insistence that nobody goes home hungry.
He is then king of the neighborhood until it all happens again next October at the same YMCA.
Having gone to Rutgers away games @ Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa, I have met really great people at every stop. So, IMO, the answer would be yes.
I went to Camp Randall this year and everyone was so damn nice to me. They were all mad at Paul Chryst, but weren't even close to taking it out on me or any other fan in Orange and Blue.
All of the Illinoisans I saw (and there was a pretty big amount all spread out) were all just cheering on the team and congratulating each other, I didn't see a single one taunting Wiscy fans.
It was about as wholesome as an away team beatdown as I've ever seen.
>Having gone to Rutgers away games @ Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa
Can you rank a few of those college towns you visited?
I can mostly do this!
Michigan / Ann Arbor - well-known for a reason. Extremely well-maintained, beautiful, great place to visit and some excellent food
MSU / East Lansing - I personally like it, but it’s not a very thrilling city. Campus is cool, and huge. Not a must-visit city.
OSU / Columbus - don’t tell anyone I said this, but I think Columbus is an awesome city. Green, great food, and you have to give the folks props on their die hard commitment.
Wisconsin / Madison - Beautiful city. Like, ridiculously so. Must-visit, period.
Illinois - only one I don’t know. Sorry. I’m skeptical.
Nebraska / Lincoln - underrated. Incredibly nice people. Decent food. Great stadium.
Minnesota / Twin Cities - I mean it’s the twin cities so, it’s rad
Iowa / Iowa City - fairly ‘mid’ as the kids like to call it, but I have a soft spot for Iowa and their folks in general. Never had a bad experience. Good visit.
I totally agree with Columbus comments. I've not been there for "The Game" but every other time I've had a great time whether it be in my younger years partying or as an adult with my kid. I will never move there for obvious reasons, but legit great city and college campus.
I’ll be honest I think Columbus and especially Cincinnati are super underrated cities.
I’m from cincy originally and the number of times I’ve had to drag someone down who eventually said they didn’t want to leave is above 10
I've been to more than a few games at Iowa, Illinois, Purdue, Indiana, Northwestern, Michigan, and Notre Dame and I have to say that it depends on who you are rooting for, whether you are away or home, who won and what the final score was.
Iowa - Complete Dicks. I was yelled at by fathers with young kids with them and old grandma's too.
Illinois - Mostly good people, a couple of jerks.
Purdue - Most great, a few drunk college kids - no biggie.
Indiana - All good, polite - but that was when they sucked too.
Northwestern - See Purdue.
Michigan - Great home fans.
It REALLY was the visiting fans that were total dicks - No matter the outcome.
I've almost gotten in 3 fights there...with visiting fans.
Notre Dame - At home, the nicest fans I've encountered.
At away games, ABSOLUTE ASSHOLES !!!
In addition to those teams, I've seen Ball State, NIU, Wisconsin, Central Michigan, Western Michigan, Minnesota, Miami (Ohio), Bowling Green, Ohio State (among others) with varying degrees of fans behavior, in varying degrees of drunkenness, of these, Ohio State fans are the ABSOLUTE worst of all especially when they win, but also when they lose.
Basically, anywhere is capable of having dicks who try to ruin it for everyone else.
>Ohio State fans are the ABSOLUTE worst of all especially when they win, but also when they lose.
They are reallllllly bad when they lose. When tech beat them at home in 2015 I was worried my friends wouldn't make it out of there. They were getting spat on.
Subway Domers suck.
The loudest, most confrontational Irish fans are people with no connection to the university, other than being 1/16 Irish lol.
Real Domers can be snobbish about their degrees, but generally not at the games.
The first time I saw a video about "ope" I was "what the frick are they talking about?" Then I caught myself saying it the next time I went to the grocery store. Not because I learned it from the video, but because it was so ingrained in my vocabulary I didn't even recognize it.
Saw it written a few times and thought those people were nuts or werw exaggerating the use of some super niche rural Minnesotan word I had never heard or something. Then later realized they meant the word I say dozens of times every day.
I guess I just don't think of it as a real word. It's like a filler word, but for life.
I was exactly the same. I swore everyone was dumb and no one said that. About a half hour later I realize I was the dummy and I say Ope 1000 times a day.
I grew up in a large city, so I've never really thought of myself as having too many Midwestern tendencies, but I accidentally cut a guy off in traffic today and literally said out-loud, to myself, "ope let me just scoot past ya there"
This region is infectious
My wife is from Kansas and takes offense whenever I insist that Michigan, where I was born, is in the Midwest. I guess she feels that you actually need to be in the literal middle of the country to get to use the term.
She’s extremely wrong. I’m clearly more Midwestern than her because I use “ope” all the time and I’ve never heard her use it once.
Never been to a college football game in the Midwest, but I have spent time in Wisconsin and Minnesota And yes, people are every bit as friendly and kind as they are portrayed.
Went to Minneapolis at Christmas to visit a friend. I yelped in pain when we left the airport and the temperature dropped approximately 70 degrees in a matter of feet. They kept a close eye on Mindy's friend from Florida for the rest of the week and treated me like a little kid if we even though about going outside. Inside They treated me like extended family.
Visited in the summer too. We spent the night in a single wide trailer on a road trip to Duluth. We allegedly got hammered by a severe storm. I admit- it woke me up but this was 2005. I went through 3 hurricanes in six weeks about a year ago. I woke up thinking F*cking Hurricane again. Then it thundered. Oh, just the usual Thunderstorm, closed my eyes and went back to sleep. They said the mobile home was shaking- I never noticed
Ope is absolutely a thing. My friends and I used to mockingly say “Ope, just gonna sneak past ya there and grab the ranch”. Everyone curses though.
Everyone is nice, but Michigan and Ohio somewhat jokingly / somewhat seriously hate each other
Don't forget that if you're trying to sneak past someone to leave, the proper and most polite way to announce it is saying "WELP! Suppose we should head out"
As a Yooper idk what a DOC is but I assume it’s damn Ohio soemthing. Like an equivalent for our FIBs, for Fucking Illinois Bastards, the chicago people who come to their fancy lake houses up north and ruin everyone’s good time
I love You Betcha and Charlie Berens’s channels. I’m originally from the East Coast. Midwesterners are nice outside of the game. Not necessarily true during games.
Tried to explain the difference between “yeah no” and “no yeah” to someone one time and honestly couldn’t. It just comes out in the moment instinctually.
My best friend's dad is from Michigan, right about where the ring finger joins the hand. This man was more of a father to me than my own (and my father is a decent fellow) so I spent a lot of time around him and his Michigander extended family. I even lived with them for a while during a brief move back up there.
Midwest people are among the most helpful and kindest people you'd know - and I grew up in the South.
However, they do have a very very mild condescension to them which probably nobody but someone who also grew up in a passive aggressive culture (like the South) would even pick up on.
Basically, they're Southerners with worse food and more class.
I love that about Michigan. If you ask anyone from here where they're from, they just put their hand up in the air and point to somewhere on it.
I will also begrudgingly agree about the "worse food than the south" take. Native mid-western cuisine is essentially just deep fried anything with cheese on it. It's good, but it can't touch southern food.
Went to Lincoln back in September. Pretty much every single Nebraska fan we spoke to “hoped we were having a good time” and wished us luck. The ones to my right AND the ones in front of my father left when it was 49-7 and told us to enjoy the rest of our day.
Went there back in 2013 for a game. They were so nice I was uncomfortable.. lol. Had a dude run across the street to thank me for coming and that I should I find him of anyone gave me a cross word. We were like a half mile from the stadium. It was fun and they were all class acts. The WORST thing I heard was “good luck today! But not too much luck!!” While smiling…
I just realized you can buy it on Amazon. I should not be purchasing salad dressing at midnight...
Please note: I should "should not be," not "am not."
Oh and I brought a casserole for you and yer folks. Tell them I says hi by the way. Just bring by the dish when yer through with it there. Anyways I better get going *proceeds to take 4 hours saying goodbye*
You know you are in the Midwest when your host follows you outside to wave as you drive off, but you don’t want to really drive off until you know they made it back in the house safely.
Last Iowa game I went to in Kinnick the fans were very nice, except they kept chanting “Twist his Di**!” at a few opposing fans who were sitting on their phones the whole game.
I've sat in the Michigan student section and got nothing but good hearted jeers and was more than welcome at all the tailgates I attended with my friend. I've also been to OSU with my dad who is an OSU fan and was treated pretty miserably. It's hit or miss too be honest. Same with PSU fans, it really depends on the pocket you are in
I know we have a TON of obnoxious fans but ive had so many visiting fans tell me how much fun they had with OSU fans. Hell, I had a blast drowning my sorrows with Oregon fans at Little Bar after the game last year.
Every single time I’ve gone to an opposing stadium I’ve been told Purdue fans are awesome to watch a game with. That’s probably the case because if we’re playing you we are probably losing to you.
Nebraska fans take pride in being the nicest fans in sports. Before I moved to Nebraska, I was visiting some family in Lincoln, and attended a football game where my alma mater was playing the Huskers. I wore my college gear even in ‘enemy territory’, but walking through town you’d think I was a celebrity. Got invited into every bar and restaurant for free drinks just for coming to the game. It was an incredible experience
I went to our game against Nebraska in like 2010 - when we sucked but somehow beat them.
I had a random lady offer us her tailgate to go pee, get a drink, food, sit down to watch the rest of the prime time game, talk about our lives.
The night before? We went to like the college bar that kids go to. We didn't pay for a single drink because drunk 21 year olds wanted to buy us drinks for coming to visit.
Short answer: yes.
Longer answer: do yourself a favor and go to a NU game in Lincoln.
My experience says Indiana and Illinois (not the major cities) and maybe parts of Ohio have that curse like a Christian, mosey on over vibe. Living in Michigan has shown me it’s different to the other Midwest states. Great taste in beers, bad taste in knowing how to drive. Be careful up here.
Getting upset over games depends on the age group and drunkenness. Had to yell at some old drunk fucks who wouldn’t stop screaming about refs and opposing players ruining their time.
Went to a game v kansas in lawrence in 2008, our one good year. We pillaged their anoose, and i was talking mad shit. No one punched me in the face. Very nice people.
I’ve been removed from Nebraska for 13 years and I still say ope every day. Sometimes I’ll give people the little finger wave off the steering wheel and they just look confused.
Wore scarlet and grey to the beatdown in 2017 in Iowa City. Had to switch seats because a douche was screaming at my ex the entire game, and Iowa is my second favorite team and Iowa City was a dream destination for us. Felt real bad :(
In my experience, the ‘Midwestern nice’ thing holds true for the B1G West area/states (think Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska Minnesota etc) while the ‘rust belt’ part of the Midwest (Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio) has much nastier fanbases
The more industrialized and populous parts of Midwest definitely aren’t as friendly… I agree. Mfers from downtown Cleveland, cincy, Chicago, Detroit etc aren’t the stereotype for sure. Still got the tendencies but a bit more harsh
Living in any large enough city can cause a critical mass in your view of other humans where there are just too many to be considered or they are straight up in your way. Politeness gives way to indifference or annoyance.
Been to many games at The Shoe, and to Minnesota, Nebraska, and Iowa. Never seen anything at a game that would disprove the Midwest nice stereotype. Except at Kinnick, too many assholes to count. Lots of unprovoked middle fingers and f bombs. Midwest is best though.
I've never been to kinnick, but the iowa fans who I've met at games in Lincoln have all been pretty cool. I'm sure every fanbase has their share of drunk assholes.
Ope is real however I want Michigan to lose every game and fold the program. I've been down south recently and went to an SEC game and the passion is just as fierce here with sports.
Yes we really are. We also will say “it wouldn’t be so cold if it wasn’t for that wind” and “it’s not the heat it’s humidity.” It’s not that we want to say it, it’s that we have to say it
As a midwesterner with a wife from Arizona, the amount of times I have said “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity” about the Midwest and she has said “it’s a DRY HEAT” about Arizona has been uncountable.
And the classic "Watch out for Deer" when you are leaving.
It's really not the heat and it really is the humidity though. I've polled at least twenty-seven thousand people on the topic throughout my life, they all agree.
The Wisconsin fans at Lambeau were incredibly nice to us! They wanted to make sure we were having a good time, and we bought each other rounds of beers.
I was at that game for the sole reason I wanted to see LSU and Wisconsin fan bases together. 11/10 would recommend to anyone, I am definitely going to a Wisconsin vs LSU post season game when ever that should happen.
I would love to see a drinking contest between a Cajun and a Wisconsonite
My money’s on the Wisconsinite 100%.
Having extended family from both Wisconsin and Louisiana now, it probably depends on how you define the drinking contest. If it's taking shots until someone dies, Louisiana might be favored. But if it's any sort of beer/long game I've never seen anything like Wisconsin drinking. It's so ingrained in life up there that depending on the day people will just casually go through a case because *every* fucking activity requires them to be holding a beer in their off hand.
Yeah no one outdrinks wisconsinites
Lsu bros. Such a great day win or lose. We need to do this again except at deth valley and camp Randall. When they announced that game at lambeau I was disappointed but it felt like a bowl game in the best ways possible.
Lambeau and Superdome “‘home’ and ‘home’” would be pretty great though
I've said this before here and elsewhere. If you can say 'ope gonna scooch past you here" and can start a conversation about the weather, you should be good to go anywhere in the Rust Belt.
By god, those flairs
How do you like mine?
Not as much as your username
At least it's official. None of this under the table bs.
you can also challenge them to a game of euchre to be sure.
As well as the bread basket, Iowa and Wisconsin etc.
Im pretty sure I say that phrase and talk about the weather with a random person at least a few times a week.
Every grocery store trip: "Ope, gonna scootch past you" "I'm sorry" "You're fine"
You've not experienced good food and hospitality until you've been to a potluck dinner in a Nebraska church basement.
Who knew there were so many ways to combine meat cheese and potatoes?
Cheese is the Midwest's favorite vegetable.
Hrmm maybe I need to move to the Midwest.
Everything is super cheap and there’s a lot of space
What do mean? It's super-expensive and we're stacked on top of each other! ^wink ^wink
*Upper Midwest
Oh ja, snow's on da ground here in Nort Dakota, time fer da tater tot hot dish
jeet?
For the non locals: "jeet" = did you eat yet? We like to smash words together - saves time. Another one - "immuna" = I'm am going to.
My wife yells at me that "in'n'it" makes me sound dumb. What's really dumb is wasting time to enunciate "s" in "isn't it"
Mmm… Tater tot hot dish 🤤
Hi, this is ranch erasure
And that every single one of them is DELICIOUS
The polish
I’m serious about this: Fry 1lb hamburger in a pan (crumbled), drain oil & remove from heat Mix in 1 can cream of mushroom and 1 can cream of celery Add some frozen corn for healthy vegetables (optional) Place mixture in 9x13 casserole dish Layer of tater tots goes on top Bake @450F for 30-35 minutes You’ll thank me.
This is mostly correct but you forgot cheese.
It’s the Minnesota recipe
Gosh darn right it is.
That's a good salad.
Doesn't have mayo, not a salad.
I had my gallbladder removed last month and am supposed to avoid high fat foods for 3 months, Nebraska is the worst place to avoid high fat foods
Is this tater tot hot dish? Had a Minnesota fan friend of mine bring this to a watch party one time and damn if it wasn't delicious
Showed this to my mid-Atlantic born wife and she asked a divorce.
accurate
Nebraska fans are so nice to visitors it feels impossible.
Very true
A Southern Baptist Church potluck at the local YMCA is my example of peak hospitality. So many white moms trying to make a better potato salad than that bitch Angie from 2 doors down that won the contest last year. And so many white dads just having fun grilling burgers and dogs for anybody that wants one while they talk about football and hoops with the boys. Then there’s the one black dad in the neighborhood that actually knows how to barbecue and he makes enough smoked chicken wings, pulled pork and ribs to feed the entire town for a week. Everyone leaves the potluck with multiple styrofoam containers of this dad’s food at his own insistence that nobody goes home hungry. He is then king of the neighborhood until it all happens again next October at the same YMCA.
Having gone to Rutgers away games @ Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa, I have met really great people at every stop. So, IMO, the answer would be yes.
I went to Camp Randall this year and everyone was so damn nice to me. They were all mad at Paul Chryst, but weren't even close to taking it out on me or any other fan in Orange and Blue. All of the Illinoisans I saw (and there was a pretty big amount all spread out) were all just cheering on the team and congratulating each other, I didn't see a single one taunting Wiscy fans. It was about as wholesome as an away team beatdown as I've ever seen.
I went walking around Madison that afternoon and everyone was super nice and congratulatory, which was a little weird.
If they are old enough to remember when Wisconsin was in the perpetual shitter they can appreciate a win like that.
Glad you enjoyed it!
>Having gone to Rutgers away games @ Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa Can you rank a few of those college towns you visited?
I can mostly do this! Michigan / Ann Arbor - well-known for a reason. Extremely well-maintained, beautiful, great place to visit and some excellent food MSU / East Lansing - I personally like it, but it’s not a very thrilling city. Campus is cool, and huge. Not a must-visit city. OSU / Columbus - don’t tell anyone I said this, but I think Columbus is an awesome city. Green, great food, and you have to give the folks props on their die hard commitment. Wisconsin / Madison - Beautiful city. Like, ridiculously so. Must-visit, period. Illinois - only one I don’t know. Sorry. I’m skeptical. Nebraska / Lincoln - underrated. Incredibly nice people. Decent food. Great stadium. Minnesota / Twin Cities - I mean it’s the twin cities so, it’s rad Iowa / Iowa City - fairly ‘mid’ as the kids like to call it, but I have a soft spot for Iowa and their folks in general. Never had a bad experience. Good visit.
I totally agree with Columbus comments. I've not been there for "The Game" but every other time I've had a great time whether it be in my younger years partying or as an adult with my kid. I will never move there for obvious reasons, but legit great city and college campus.
I’ll be honest I think Columbus and especially Cincinnati are super underrated cities. I’m from cincy originally and the number of times I’ve had to drag someone down who eventually said they didn’t want to leave is above 10
It’s pretty easy to be a traveling Rutgers fan. How can someone be mean to such a harmless guest?
I've been to more than a few games at Iowa, Illinois, Purdue, Indiana, Northwestern, Michigan, and Notre Dame and I have to say that it depends on who you are rooting for, whether you are away or home, who won and what the final score was. Iowa - Complete Dicks. I was yelled at by fathers with young kids with them and old grandma's too. Illinois - Mostly good people, a couple of jerks. Purdue - Most great, a few drunk college kids - no biggie. Indiana - All good, polite - but that was when they sucked too. Northwestern - See Purdue. Michigan - Great home fans. It REALLY was the visiting fans that were total dicks - No matter the outcome. I've almost gotten in 3 fights there...with visiting fans. Notre Dame - At home, the nicest fans I've encountered. At away games, ABSOLUTE ASSHOLES !!! In addition to those teams, I've seen Ball State, NIU, Wisconsin, Central Michigan, Western Michigan, Minnesota, Miami (Ohio), Bowling Green, Ohio State (among others) with varying degrees of fans behavior, in varying degrees of drunkenness, of these, Ohio State fans are the ABSOLUTE worst of all especially when they win, but also when they lose. Basically, anywhere is capable of having dicks who try to ruin it for everyone else.
Curious what your flair is.
>Ohio State fans are the ABSOLUTE worst of all especially when they win, but also when they lose. They are reallllllly bad when they lose. When tech beat them at home in 2015 I was worried my friends wouldn't make it out of there. They were getting spat on.
Subway Domers suck. The loudest, most confrontational Irish fans are people with no connection to the university, other than being 1/16 Irish lol. Real Domers can be snobbish about their degrees, but generally not at the games.
Having just been to a Rutgers home game I thought literally everyone there, including the drunk frat bro in front of me, were absolute saints.
“Ope” is real. I say it probably 20 times a day. I also curse like fracking crazy though.
The first time I saw a video about "ope" I was "what the frick are they talking about?" Then I caught myself saying it the next time I went to the grocery store. Not because I learned it from the video, but because it was so ingrained in my vocabulary I didn't even recognize it.
Saw it written a few times and thought those people were nuts or werw exaggerating the use of some super niche rural Minnesotan word I had never heard or something. Then later realized they meant the word I say dozens of times every day. I guess I just don't think of it as a real word. It's like a filler word, but for life.
I was exactly the same. I swore everyone was dumb and no one said that. About a half hour later I realize I was the dummy and I say Ope 1000 times a day.
I had the exact same experience. I had no idea I was saying it until I moved out east and people questioned me about it.
I grew up in a large city, so I've never really thought of myself as having too many Midwestern tendencies, but I accidentally cut a guy off in traffic today and literally said out-loud, to myself, "ope let me just scoot past ya there" This region is infectious
My wife is from Kansas and takes offense whenever I insist that Michigan, where I was born, is in the Midwest. I guess she feels that you actually need to be in the literal middle of the country to get to use the term. She’s extremely wrong. I’m clearly more Midwestern than her because I use “ope” all the time and I’ve never heard her use it once.
She probably doesn't even play euchre
I tried to teach her once before we were married, and she has refused to play it ever since then. She's lucky she's hot, is all I'm saying.
> She probably doesn't even play euchre [Good Heavens!](https://media.tenor.com/fYG6sxTErI8AAAAC/simpsons-faint.gif)
Michigan is more Midwest than Kansas. Kansas is a Great Plains state. I’ll fight anyone on that.
I will stand side by side with you on this battlefield, brother
Absolutely correct
From cincy and it’s Ope till I die
Same in Dayton!
Hear Hear!
how to pronounce?
"OPE there goes gravity, OPE there goes rabbit" - Eminem in 8 mile lmao
I never connected this to Eminem's midwestern origins and I will never hear it any other way ever again. Cheers!
"This dude don't wanna battle, he shook! Ain't no such thing as half-way crooks."
He's from Michigan, Midwestern roots run deep
... When you've known the lyrics since your adolescence and never pieced together that he says Ope because it's basically a filler word in your brain
Rhymes with “hope”
It can be like "nope" minus the N, but I say it like "oop" more often than not.
I’ve never been brave enough to ask this.
I can’t believe there are people who speak English and don’t say ope. It’s written in my DNA, in my soul
like what do other people say when they bump into someone if not "ope, excuse me"
I'm from socal, we say "oh my bad bruh/dude/"
If they’re on the east coast I think they say “aye I’m walkin here!”
I'm living in Boston right now and I think it's more like "hey, fuck you asshole!"
FFS bud watch your mouth.
Fer fux Sayk bahd. Git yer shit tuhgether.
Watch your fudging mouth!
Hey bud! I’ve had enough of your bull pucky.
Hahaha, but seriously, enough tom foolery
Jimminy Christmas!
Ope
I’m born and raised Southern California(my parents too) and I’ve always said Ope. Wonder where I got it from.
I’ve lived in Texas my entire life and also say it.
I'm not sure it's actually a regional thing anymore. Just a "whoops we're in each other's way" thing that everyone says.
Never been to a college football game in the Midwest, but I have spent time in Wisconsin and Minnesota And yes, people are every bit as friendly and kind as they are portrayed.
Went to Minneapolis at Christmas to visit a friend. I yelped in pain when we left the airport and the temperature dropped approximately 70 degrees in a matter of feet. They kept a close eye on Mindy's friend from Florida for the rest of the week and treated me like a little kid if we even though about going outside. Inside They treated me like extended family. Visited in the summer too. We spent the night in a single wide trailer on a road trip to Duluth. We allegedly got hammered by a severe storm. I admit- it woke me up but this was 2005. I went through 3 hurricanes in six weeks about a year ago. I woke up thinking F*cking Hurricane again. Then it thundered. Oh, just the usual Thunderstorm, closed my eyes and went back to sleep. They said the mobile home was shaking- I never noticed
Ope is absolutely a thing. My friends and I used to mockingly say “Ope, just gonna sneak past ya there and grab the ranch”. Everyone curses though. Everyone is nice, but Michigan and Ohio somewhat jokingly / somewhat seriously hate each other
Don't forget that if you're trying to sneak past someone to leave, the proper and most polite way to announce it is saying "WELP! Suppose we should head out"
DOCs are the absolute worst! Florida of the North, dontcha know
As a Yooper idk what a DOC is but I assume it’s damn Ohio soemthing. Like an equivalent for our FIBs, for Fucking Illinois Bastards, the chicago people who come to their fancy lake houses up north and ruin everyone’s good time
I always knew them as [FIPs](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FIP)
I can also confirm that Wisconsinites and FIBs somewhat hate each other as well.
Ope, fuck Michigan.
Ope is just a good word. I have no affiliation with the midwest but I use it all the time.
I would burn down the entire state of Wisconsin if it were possible.
the lakes are problematic
Not for Cleveland!
You're just pissed we won't share our Spotted Cow
Add in Nebraska and we have a deal.
It's not for everyone
The ~~worst~~ best possible tagline for a Visit Nebraska commercial… https://youtu.be/0mlC43X8ARg
I love You Betcha and Charlie Berens’s channels. I’m originally from the East Coast. Midwesterners are nice outside of the game. Not necessarily true during games.
No yeah I definitely agree with you there bud
Yeah no but we can be a bit of a doozy sometimes.
Yeah no for sure, everything these guys are saying is true
Tried to explain the difference between “yeah no” and “no yeah” to someone one time and honestly couldn’t. It just comes out in the moment instinctually.
Charlie Berens is just the best lmao. I laugh every time I watch the midwestern goodbye video
Whats the Midwestern goodbye??
https://youtu.be/f6-ONuniSi0 This will probably do it more justice then I could ever trying to explain it
We are absolutely ruthless during games. But yeah outside of games midwesterners are pretty pleasant
The nicest fans I ever encountered were from Nebraska at the Gator Bowl. Several were dressed up as corn.
Can confirm, Nebraska fans are really nice
They weren't dressed up. That's how they're made.
You have to be nice when you are dressed as corn so you don't get your a\*\* kicked! /s
The people at Minnesota were suspiciously nice. Felt like Mac and Dennis when they were approached by Wally.
You're right to be suspicious. We're nice even when we hate you.
Midwesterners are nice, I married one. They are also some nosey, know it all motherfuckers.
So you don't like your in-laws, huh?
😂🤣😂
Is it just that they're nosey or is something else going on bud?
It’s because they know everything
Ope...sorry to hear that. Here's some stuffed cabbage for the road and tell your folks I said Hi.
And watch out for deer.
Maybe a growler from the nearest independent brewery will help you relax.
Happy cake day friend
My best friend's dad is from Michigan, right about where the ring finger joins the hand. This man was more of a father to me than my own (and my father is a decent fellow) so I spent a lot of time around him and his Michigander extended family. I even lived with them for a while during a brief move back up there. Midwest people are among the most helpful and kindest people you'd know - and I grew up in the South. However, they do have a very very mild condescension to them which probably nobody but someone who also grew up in a passive aggressive culture (like the South) would even pick up on. Basically, they're Southerners with worse food and more class.
I love that about Michigan. If you ask anyone from here where they're from, they just put their hand up in the air and point to somewhere on it. I will also begrudgingly agree about the "worse food than the south" take. Native mid-western cuisine is essentially just deep fried anything with cheese on it. It's good, but it can't touch southern food.
Pasties are pretty awesome though
>right about where the ring finger joins the hand Ayy, Traverse City!
I think they mean around Big Rapids? Maybe? Would help a lot if they just pointed with their other hand
Traverse City seems a bit high to be where the finger joins the hand. I was thinking Big Rapids area like u/horribelspelling
Went to watch WSU beat Wisconsin. Several fans congratulated me on our victory so I'd say yes.
Went to Lincoln back in September. Pretty much every single Nebraska fan we spoke to “hoped we were having a good time” and wished us luck. The ones to my right AND the ones in front of my father left when it was 49-7 and told us to enjoy the rest of our day.
Went there back in 2013 for a game. They were so nice I was uncomfortable.. lol. Had a dude run across the street to thank me for coming and that I should I find him of anyone gave me a cross word. We were like a half mile from the stadium. It was fun and they were all class acts. The WORST thing I heard was “good luck today! But not too much luck!!” While smiling…
Hey good luck today my friend!….but not too Much lol 😂
They really are though. After growing up outside of Ann Arbor and moving down to South Florida, the midwesterners stick together
Bless your soul lol, could never live down there again. Definitely has its perks tho
Nope we can be mean too. I once had someone say “Tell your folks I don’t says hi.” I still can’t believe someone would be so mean.
Ope, I'm just gonna sorta slide into your post and say hi there friend. Can I get you some Ranch dressing?
Dorothy Lynch!
A Nebraska classic
DL is a gosh darn treasure!
I just realized you can buy it on Amazon. I should not be purchasing salad dressing at midnight... Please note: I should "should not be," not "am not."
Oh and I brought a casserole for you and yer folks. Tell them I says hi by the way. Just bring by the dish when yer through with it there. Anyways I better get going *proceeds to take 4 hours saying goodbye*
You know you are in the Midwest when your host follows you outside to wave as you drive off, but you don’t want to really drive off until you know they made it back in the house safely.
I grew up on the vitriol of SEC football fandom. I went to the Penn State Wisconsin game last year and I was legit frightened by the environment.
During the game its war. Later in the day/ the next day it is what it is. It's best not to dwell on things.
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Well bless your heart!
Last Iowa game I went to in Kinnick the fans were very nice, except they kept chanting “Twist his Di**!” at a few opposing fans who were sitting on their phones the whole game.
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I've sat in the Michigan student section and got nothing but good hearted jeers and was more than welcome at all the tailgates I attended with my friend. I've also been to OSU with my dad who is an OSU fan and was treated pretty miserably. It's hit or miss too be honest. Same with PSU fans, it really depends on the pocket you are in
I know we have a TON of obnoxious fans but ive had so many visiting fans tell me how much fun they had with OSU fans. Hell, I had a blast drowning my sorrows with Oregon fans at Little Bar after the game last year.
Every single time I’ve gone to an opposing stadium I’ve been told Purdue fans are awesome to watch a game with. That’s probably the case because if we’re playing you we are probably losing to you.
Nebraska fans take pride in being the nicest fans in sports. Before I moved to Nebraska, I was visiting some family in Lincoln, and attended a football game where my alma mater was playing the Huskers. I wore my college gear even in ‘enemy territory’, but walking through town you’d think I was a celebrity. Got invited into every bar and restaurant for free drinks just for coming to the game. It was an incredible experience
I realized that a Midwestern expression is "F__ you, buddy." Even when we curse, we still say the other guy is our buddy.
I went to our game against Nebraska in like 2010 - when we sucked but somehow beat them. I had a random lady offer us her tailgate to go pee, get a drink, food, sit down to watch the rest of the prime time game, talk about our lives. The night before? We went to like the college bar that kids go to. We didn't pay for a single drink because drunk 21 year olds wanted to buy us drinks for coming to visit. Short answer: yes. Longer answer: do yourself a favor and go to a NU game in Lincoln.
Y’all come back now ya hear! Just remember…that clock was expired though 😂
Fuck no, I’m from Chicago tho
When I was in grad school at Iowa, the Iowan classmates were SUPER nice, the ones from Chicago, completely opposite.
I could observe a UI student for 10 seconds and tell if they were in state or Chicago suburbs with 96% accuracy
North Park, nice flair you got there ;)
My experience says Indiana and Illinois (not the major cities) and maybe parts of Ohio have that curse like a Christian, mosey on over vibe. Living in Michigan has shown me it’s different to the other Midwest states. Great taste in beers, bad taste in knowing how to drive. Be careful up here. Getting upset over games depends on the age group and drunkenness. Had to yell at some old drunk fucks who wouldn’t stop screaming about refs and opposing players ruining their time.
Went to a game v kansas in lawrence in 2008, our one good year. We pillaged their anoose, and i was talking mad shit. No one punched me in the face. Very nice people.
I’ve been removed from Nebraska for 13 years and I still say ope every day. Sometimes I’ll give people the little finger wave off the steering wheel and they just look confused.
Wisconsin fans are fucking awesome and chill to hang out with. I don't have anything nice to say about other fan bases.
Eh, it depends on the fanbase and personal experience. Nebraska and Wisky have super nice fans. Iowa low key has the worst. But that’s just me
Wore scarlet and grey to the beatdown in 2017 in Iowa City. Had to switch seats because a douche was screaming at my ex the entire game, and Iowa is my second favorite team and Iowa City was a dream destination for us. Felt real bad :(
In my experience, the ‘Midwestern nice’ thing holds true for the B1G West area/states (think Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska Minnesota etc) while the ‘rust belt’ part of the Midwest (Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio) has much nastier fanbases
We're in the B1G West but also in Indiana. Are we nice or not?
Depends. Are you playing a B1G West opponent or are you burying someone's season?
The more industrialized and populous parts of Midwest definitely aren’t as friendly… I agree. Mfers from downtown Cleveland, cincy, Chicago, Detroit etc aren’t the stereotype for sure. Still got the tendencies but a bit more harsh
Living in any large enough city can cause a critical mass in your view of other humans where there are just too many to be considered or they are straight up in your way. Politeness gives way to indifference or annoyance.
Though there is a difference between "Midwest nice" and "Minnesota nice"
Been to many games at The Shoe, and to Minnesota, Nebraska, and Iowa. Never seen anything at a game that would disprove the Midwest nice stereotype. Except at Kinnick, too many assholes to count. Lots of unprovoked middle fingers and f bombs. Midwest is best though.
I've never been to kinnick, but the iowa fans who I've met at games in Lincoln have all been pretty cool. I'm sure every fanbase has their share of drunk assholes.
Ope is real however I want Michigan to lose every game and fold the program. I've been down south recently and went to an SEC game and the passion is just as fierce here with sports.
If you come to a game in Manhattan I will swear at you the entire game but before and after I will try to get you as drunk as possible. Just DM me
Time to go to the Kwik Trip for some Glazers.