This Week In Schadenfreude: Down On The Farm

Published: October 8, 2007, 11:15 am

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Filed under: Clemson Football, Georgia Football, Texas Football, UCLA Football, USC Football, Featured Stories scha·den·freu·de / dn fr d / -noun satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune. [Origin: 1890-95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy] Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, (C) Random House, Inc. 2006. 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 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. College football followed up a tumultous weekend in which half of the top ten lost, mostly to unranked teams, with perhaps the biggest upset in the history of point spreads:

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