Awesome piece in cleveland.com on my man Steve Everitt including this pic of Bo’s visit to Key West to see the big man in 2003. (HT: @moesportshops). Slice: Everitt heard Schembechler was coming down Key West way for the World Sailfish Championship Tournament. “I asked if he wanted to come by the house figuring he’d say no,” Everitt said, laughing. “He said yes.” Amy Everitt, Michigan Class of ’93, got the camera out and started snapping pictures. Steve felt a little sheepish so he kept telling her that was enough. But now, nine years after the legendary coach’s death, Everitt says, “I wish she would’ve taken 1,000 pictures.” She stopped well short of that, but not before getting one of Schembechler in what Everitt describes as “my Michigan bathroom.” Everitt remembers one pose in particular: Schembechler sitting on a closed toilet, playing Everitt’s “KISS” pinball machine, a metal-legged survivor of Hurricane Wilma. Therein you’ll find several more reasons why EVERITT RULES. Go Blue! Follow MVictors on Twitter
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Everitt Rules
Former Michigan offensive lineman Steve Everitt (89-92) was one of the honorary captains at today’s game. A few quick stories:* After a bowl game (I believe the 1993 Rose Bowl in Everitt’s senior year), ABC was doing a post-game interview when a deep voice bellowed, “EVERITT RULES!”* He lost his helmet and had his jaw shattered in the middle of the 1991 Notre Dame game. Doctors put three plates to stabilize his jaw and they gave him a special chinstrap. He returned to play 20 days later. One of the screws they used to insert the plates came loose and has yet to be found.* During a trip to the Rose Bowl, Everitt climbed that hill that has the Hollywood sign. Someone got a pic of Everitt dangling from one of the letter Ls.* While playing center he broke his snapping hand. He learned how to snap with the other hand and didn’t miss any action.* The sideline Wok microphones were aimed at the offensive line one game, I don’t know the circumstances. The team is watching the game film. Everitt pancakes a guy from the other team, gets right in his grill, and asks him over and over, “YOU LIKE THAT, HUH? YOU LIKE THAT, HUH?”.
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Saturday Night Live – Sights & Sounds (Michigan 38, Wisconsin 13)
A few sights & sounds from the big night game win over Wisconsin. Includes shots of Johnny Wangler & Anthony Carter, David Molk, Steve Everitt, Red Berenson plus commentary...
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Top 25 Michigan Football Players of All-Time
One method is to compare players from the same era—and I get that—but that’s not what I went for here. With some input from a few Wolverine historians here’s a list of the top twenty-five Michigan football players of all-time.
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Overwhelming – Sights & Sounds (Michigan 56, Nebraska 10)
The most complete performance in a while and yes, Harbaugh’s Michigan teams have proven very adapt at pounding the crap out of weak opponents. Plenty of sights and sounds from the game: Husked. We’ve done this before to the Huskers, back in 1905 the Yostmen rolled up the Huskers 31-0 at Ferry Field and the Daily pulled out the thick typeface to let campus know: ICYMI, we had less luck in 1911 when we tied, 6-6 but team, fans and everyone had a lovely time afterward at the joyous feast. Pregame. I must say I love the James Earl Jones-narrated pregame hype video that they blast out before the team comes out. And props to the athletic department for updating it each week -for Saturday they slipped in the “Go Blue” that Emmy winner Darren Criss dropped in his speech. Well done.I’m also a sucker for the parachute drops, especially parachute drops with an on-field hype man barking out stuff until they land. Spectacle. An underrated must-watch element of these games is watching punter Will Hart kick the snot out of the pigskin. If he qualified (not enough attempts) he’d be #2 in the country with a 52.6 average, just behind a gent from Georgia State (Go Fighting Peaches!) with 52.8. The current #4 spot requires a 47-yard average. Also Michigan…
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Sights & Sounds: Michigan State 27, Michigan 23 (2015)
For posterity, a few sights and sounds all prior to the Apuntcalypse. If you are a sick bastard here are my drive by drive notes. If you are a really sick bastard here’s where Saturday’s ending ranks amongst the numerous nut punches in Wolverine history.
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Sights & Sounds – Notre Dame – Under the Lights 2
More pregame photos here. All the postgame Tom Harmon/98 related thoughts & takes here. Passionately attacking you with miscellanea since 2001, here’s more: Students: The earliest started queuing up around 10:30PM Friday evening as I understand it and they were let in around 4:30PM yesterday. Here they are filing in (on the left), and.. …props to the athletic department for dropping the 4 pack of live games (right, above) on the big boards for a while. The Ross Toss: Love for Stephen Ross and his wallet saturated Ann Arbor all day Saturday, from Desmond leading off with a huge thank you to Ross on GameDay, to the story and full page ad in the game program, to the special break during the game to acknowledge the man, to the massive sign the students propped up (some fans were literally under the C). The even dedicated the coin toss to #$teve which makes one ask, if they used a quarter for the coin toss and handed it to Ross when they were done…is it now technically a $199,999,999.75 donation? Cease and Desist. Still waiting for the bros who blew up my photo for their GameDay sign to reveal themselves and face the music. And by music I mean 7 Nation Army on a loop. Lasers. I haven’t seen lasers like that…
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Mott Takeover 2013 – Ready yourself!
One of the highlights of the radio calendar – the WTKA Mott Takeover hits the airwaves tomorrow (Friday) starting at 7am. I may try to pop by and capture some sights and sounds, we’ll see. All the details are here and re-posted here. Remember those out of town can listen live (check out WTKA.com or via iheartradio here). JOIN US FOR THE 2013 MOTT TAKEOVER ON FRIDAY MAY 17TH ON SPORTS TALK 1050 WTKA, WTKA.COM AND iHeart Radio. Once again, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital is taking over Sports Talk 1050 WTKA. HERE’S THE 2-13 LINEUP (always subject to change): 7-8am — Lloyd Carr, Jay Feely, Jarret Irons (call-in 7:15), David Baas (call-in 7:30) 8-9am — Al Borges, Remy Hamilton, Dave Brandon (call-in 8:45), Drew Stanton (call-in TBA) 9-10am — Dana Jacobson, Peter Vanderkaay, Zak Novak, Brian Griese (call-in 9:30) 10-11am — Anthony Thomas, Mike Hart, Larry Foote, Chris Floyd 11am-12pm — Jeff Backus, Ron Bellamy, John Navarre 12-1pm –Travis Conlon, Andy Mignery, Drew Henson (call-in 12:00) 1-2pm — Ron English, Roy Manning, Marlin Jackson, Chad Henne (call-in 1:15), Eric Mayes (call-in 1:15) 2-3pm — Cato June, Jerame Tuman, Aaron Shea, David Baas (call-in 2:15) 3-4:30pm at The M-Den — Steve Everitt, Steve Hutchinson, Glen Steele, Ben Mast, Jake Long (call-in 3:30) 4:30-6pm at The M-Den — Charles Woodson, James Hall,…
