• Gearing Up for 2018

    A couple quick announcements as we count down to the season opener: For starters, I’m happy to report that the prolific Steve “Dr. Sap” Sapardanis returns for another season of Dr. Sap’s Decals following games this season. I’m returning for Season 9 of ‘This Week in Michigan Football History‘ on the WTKA 1050AM pregame show.  The ep for Notre Dame is in the can and replete with Bo’s “To Hell With Notre Dame” drops (cheers to Ira) just like you like it. I expect to guest lecture at U-M in EDUC 212 – The History of College Athletics this fall.  Watch here and Twitter for updates. Other regular features: Sights and Sounds following home games Uniform Timeline updates as they happen Snark on Twitter during all games Go Blue.  Hit me on Twitter with questions, theories, tips and what-have-you. P.S. If you missed this, read Cody from The Athletic’s piece on Greg Kinney and the Bentley Library.  I contributed to the piece and it’s righteous.    

  • One from Each (Michigan Football ticket stubs 1927-2017)

    One ticket from each season since Michigan has played in the Big House: Why not? Random Factoid: Did you know that there are only 2 seasons where the home ticket did not display the year that the game was being played? Indeed. First in 1967, as the ticket simply includes a logo and the words “One Hundred Fiftieth Year” celebrating the 150th anniversary of our beloved institution. The other instance?  That’d be last year, the season of infinite mediumness, which happened to be the 200th anniversary of U-M but no mention of this event is included on last year’s tickets.   HT to Mike D for pulling this video together.  I’m down with Mike D and it ain’t no hassle. Go Blue.  Follow MVictors on Twitter

  • Bogus Votes (1973), Wear 3 Coats (1950) | This Week In Michigan Football History

    This edition of #TWIMFbH first goes back to a dark day in recent lore, the 1973 Big Ten AD vote that sent the Buckeyes, not your beloved Meechigan men to the Rose Bowl.  But then we shoot back to 1950 to one of the wildest games in college football history – to be forever known as The Snow Bowl.  Go Blue!   Here’s the clip: ?TWIMFbH is sponsored by Hillside Terrace of Ann Arbor.  This segment can be heard on the Keybank Countdown to Kickoff and you can listen live on 1050AM in Ann Arbor & on wtka.com around the world.  This segment plays approximately 2 hours before kickoff each week – specifically around 10am Saturday morning before THE GAME. You can hear the archive of This Week in Michigan Football History clips here.    If you have suggestions for future games hit me on Twitter @MVictors.  Go Blue! /script …after the jump

  • Badgered | Dr. Sap’s Decals

    Steve “Dr. Sap” Sapardanis is a Schembechler-era savant and once again this season he’ll be diligently handing out his postgame helmet stickers after each game. Sap has pored over hours and hours of U-M games over several decades, and in these posts he’s able to tie the present to the past.  I encourage you to subscribe to Dr. Sap on YouTube, or follow Sap on Twitter.   OFFENSIVE CHAMPION – It’s always difficult awarding champions after a loss because, for the most part, no one typically will have played a perfect game. Mistakes were made all over the field, in all phases of the game. Having said all that, I’m awarding my decals to those players whom I feel demonstrated the ability to be game-breakers. I call that out because in order to beat Ohio State next week, players will need to step up and make plays. On offense that guy is Chris Evans. He seems to finally be healthy and quite possibly THE ONLY healthy runningback right now. He was close to going all the way against Wisconsin on a couple of plays, on Saturday. He can hit the home run and/or leap over defenders in a single bound as he did last week against Maryland. Hopefully #12 can channel his inner Clarke Kent because the offense could sure…

  • Frightening Football (1905) | This Week in Michigan Football History

    This edition of #TWIMFbH goes back to the Wisconsin game in 1905.   The Yostmen were still dominating on the field, and indeed putting up a point-a-minute.  But this was also scary time on the field for players, and in this game, it got downright scary off the field approximately 2,000 fans at Ferry Field.   Here’s the clip: TWIMFbH is sponsored by Hillside Terrace of Ann Arbor.  This segment can be heard on the Keybank Countdown to Kickoff and you can listen live on 1050AM in Ann Arbor & on wtka.com around the world.  This segment plays approximately 2 hours before kickoff each week. You can hear the archive of This Week in Michigan Football History clips here.    If you have suggestions for future games hit me on Twitter @MVictors.  Go Blue! /script …after the jump