Doing everything possible to fail miserably at any task after success appeared inevitable. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Being one's worst enemy. A reference to the tendency of the Michigan State Football team to dominate 3 1/2 quarters only to implode and give the game away to their opponent, resulting in a frustrating defeat.
Example 1: Bill overachieved all year to get that promotion, but got fired for sending that joke about his boss to the whole company. Bill really Pulled a Sparty.
Example 2: That girl has been into Jeff all night. I hope he doesn't Pull a Sparty and tell her about his Dungeons and Dragons collection.
To capitulate for no apparent reason like Tottenham Holtspur FC in the modern day Premier League seasons between 2015 and 2019. The team was flying high and looked to achieve some notable feat but then before they cross the finish line they start losing for no apparent reason.
Then suddenly it was over and they lost. It was so spursy.
Commonly mistaken as a period in russian history where one of the tsars ministers sergei witte sold peasants grain in order to bring about a large growth in russian industry and badly needed growth in russian transport network. Witte's Great spurt is actually the name given to, as the aforemetioned minister described it, 'My great jizzplosion' its is often used a as part of a analogy decribing a spurt of any liquid and more commonly spunk.
ZOMG when i came it was equivical to witte's great spurt!
That Sergei guy was intense, look at how far he spurts