Helmet decals. Honor badges. Or how about “performance stickers”? Call it a gut feeling but I think we’ll see them on the winged helmet following the Utah game but we’ll see. A primer on helmet sticker history can be found here. Naturally Dr. Sap has been pondering their return and he has mocked up a few potential designs for your review, poll at the bottom: 1. adidas logo 2. 1969 old school maize 3. 1969 high maize 4. Bo 5. Block M (Inside Oval) 6. Swoosh 7. Pebble grain retro 8. The Team x 3 9. HTTV 10. Mid-1970s Added: 11. Blockhams Bo (submitted by Scott from The Blockhams) Added 12. Plain Block M (requested on Twitter and mgoblog) Added 13. Via comments, Jumpman (2016?) Which one do you like, or do you have your own design? Send it over or hit me on Twitter. [poll id=”73″] Follow MVictors on Twitter
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Dr. Sap’s Decals | Purdue
Ed. Dr. Sap is back with his decals for week 5. I added the Editor’s pick and we collaborated on the Fan award this week. Here are the picks from Week 1 and Week 2 and Week 3 and Week 4. Back when Bo was coaching the Michigan Football team, he awarded decals for individual as well as TEAM accomplishments. He also selected Champions each week. Not only were the obvious categories (offense, defense, special teams) selected, but Bo also made it a point to recognize the not so obvious ones – Scout Team Champions and Team Hustlers – each week. OFFENSE DENARD ROBINSON – So it wasn’t just me. Even Frank Beckmann said that the way Denard and the UM offense was churning out the yardage Saturday, you could put a #7 on his back and you would have thought Rick Leach was running the Michigan offense again. Only fitting that Denard’s performance made him the All-Time Big Ten Rushing QB Leader. When he’s healthy, Shoelace is tough to bring down – with or without his shoes on. DEFENSE JAKE RYAN – After watching #47 do his thing again, one word came to mind – MANSTER. In the late ‘70s, Bob Ufer recalled how UM D-Tackle Chris Godfrey was called “manster” by fellow wolverine Ron Simpkins. Why manster? He…
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Viva Michigan Helmet Stickers!?
Near the end of Wojo’s extensive Q&A with Coach Hoke was this exchange: Q. Many fans crave a return to old Michigan ways. You’ve talked about being tough in the trenches, having a pounding defense. What about the little traditions, like helmet stickers again? A. I don’t know about the helmet stickers yet. I’m gonna get some counsel from ex-players, from coach (Gary) Moeller, coach (Jerry) Hanlon. We are going to have captains, I can promise you. It’s a tradition many believe started with Woody Hayes and the Buckeyes in the late 1960s but thanks to the piece in Hail to the Victors 2010 by John Kryk (with Steve Sapardanis), we know that the tradition was actually started by Bo. Kryk described the scene in 1969 when Schembechler announced that the Wolverines would be placed stickers on their helmets after games: “Oh, like Woody?” a reporter asked. “Uh-uh.” Schembechler grinned triumphantly. “Woody got the idea from me.” Kryk goes on to trace the start back of the “big-play” stickers to 1965, Bo’s third season at Miami, OH (then still nicknamed the Redskins). They used little red tomahawks. Thanks to Sapardanis, here’s a breakdown of the Michigan helmet decals used to date: Count Sapardanis as one who would like to see the tradition return in fact he’s made a bold suggestion…