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LOOK: Famous ‘Gruff Sparty’ logo will be used this season, but not by Michigan State
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We all know the gruff Sparty logo, right Michigan State fans?
It’s that old school look. Here you go:
What's your favorite throwback @bigten logo? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/yDR0NzBhkK
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) August 15, 2019
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Up at the top right of the tweet above is that gruff Sparty look. We’ve seen it before and we’ll see it again.
We’ll actually see it again this upcoming college football season. Michigan State fans may have an issue with this, though, because it won’t be the green and white team representing the logo.
It will be San Jose State:
𝚁𝚎𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙽𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝
𝚂𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚟𝚜 𝙽𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚘
𝚃𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚢, 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟸𝟿
𝙲𝙴𝙵𝙲𝚄 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚞𝚖𝙶𝚎𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚠: https://t.co/ERiVuAYYKv pic.twitter.com/JOHOiY2dXZ
— San José State Football (@SanJoseStateFB) August 9, 2019
San Jose State is deeming the night as “Retro Night.” It does make sense. The San Jose State football team is the Spartans — just like Michigan State. And in fact, there’s some history with San Jose State:
I can verify MSC marketing Gruff Sparty in 1951. This SJSU shows Gruff Sparty at 1948. They also named their stadium Spartan Stadium before we did pic.twitter.com/4bFBNU6VJ5
— SPARTANTIQUES (@SPARTANTIQUES) August 15, 2019
Back in 1948, San Jose State used the same look. As the tweet above mentions as well, San Jose State named their stadium Spartan Stadium before Michigan State did.
There are no legitimate complications with San Jose State using this gruff Sparty helmet. It just won’t be received well by Michigan State fans.
After all, what’s better? That old Sparty look or this?
We got an up-close peek at @MSU_Football's new uniforms on Monday. 👀
Thoughts on the alternate look? 👇 pic.twitter.com/3Qa93PtI35
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) August 12, 2019
Kevin covers Big Ten football for Saturday Tradition.