and Alabama fans gritting their teeth over 85 yards through the heart of the South, Urban-hating Gator fans, etc. We are all familiar with the term schadenfreude thanks to the HBO documentary and the Simpsons episode. That is taking pleasure at the pain of others, something very familiar to Buckeye fans during the RichRod and Hoke years, as well as recent pickle-squirting. But is there a term for the opposite, pain felt at the pleasure of others, such as the burning in their gut every time they see a photo of the Buckeyes hoisting and kissing the golden trophy? It turns out there is: gluckschmerz.

Here is the WSJ account for how the term came to be:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/schadenfreude-is-in-the-zeitgeist-but-is-the...