Straight to the miscellanea: Honoring Falk > Postgame: Q. For the last 40 years your equipment manager Jon Falk has been the keeper of the jug. Any last words about Mr. Falk and knowing he’s got the job one more time that concludes his tenure here? Hoke: “Well, we gave it to him when we got in the locker room. I just hope he doesn’t take it home. But no, very emotional, very happy. Jon, his loyalty to Michigan and Michigan football is special.” I caught up with Falk after the game as he was heading out of the stadium. He told me when he got the jug he told the players, “There’s no coach & there’s no player bigger than Michigan football.” Uniform notes > Team wore LHS decal in honor of Lucas, son of former All-B1G tackle Adam Stenavich. As Sap pointed out, that’s the first non-player or coach to be honored in such a way (POTUS Ford, Bo, Ron Kramer). Timeline updated. Mood > Slight uptick, but that was way closer than the score of course and..well…meh: Jug History slaughtered but forgiven > At the conclusion of the broadcast Mike Patrick absolutely butchered the history of the jug, talking some nonsense about Minnesota taking the jug to Michigan and the crock being made of clay from the…
-
-
Dr. Sap’s Decals | Minnesota
I contributed the Editor’s Pick and RFUM&BFF Decal. Take it away, Sap! OFFENSIVE CHAMPION DEVIN FUNCHESS – What I saw from Funchess on Saturday was a player coming into his own. When you become confident in your ability and stop thinking about what you want to do and just go out there and flat out do it, your game goes to a whole ‘nother level. That’s what you saw from #87. There have (obviously) been some great Tight Ends at Michigan – guys like Kramer, Mandich, Kattus, Tuman – but I don’t think ANY of them have played with the athleticism that Funchess flashed on Saturday. A matchup nightmare just waiting to happen, here’s hoping he continues to flash that magic the rest of the season! DEFENSIVE CHAMPION JAMES ROSS III – To me, JR3 was flying around all over the place on defense. He played with an infectious energy that I feel has been missing since Jake Ryan cut his hair, I mean, last played. Defense is all about playing with energy and emotion and if Ross continues to amp it up, look out when #47 returns – that unit should be stellar! SPECIAL TEAMS CHAMPION MATT WILE (PUNTER) – I’m giving this to Wile (as a punter and not as a kickoff artist) based on the fact he…
-
Game Photos (Gophers)
A few more from Saturday. Thanks again to Kelley Kuehne for shooting these excellent shots: Fitz acts like he’s been there before…(which he has of course) Funchess’ TD grab with Shabazz all over him…this led to the ButtFunch and the FunchHunch
-
Beating Gophers (Sights & Sounds)
Love the look on the face of the kid on the left/middle Wow. Funchess is a walking photo opp.. and it don’t stop No way we can lose if a team when the old men do this – can they come back for the Bucks? Caption Contest still open. Click for More…
-
Retained
-
The ButtFunch & the FunchHunch
Devin Funchess and Jake Butt form..the #ButtFunch: After Butt is released, #87 delivers the #FunchHunch: I think Funch won this round of the ButtFunch, but Jake doesn’t seem too concerned. Follow MVictors on Twitter
-
TWIMFbH: You Gotta Hand it to Chap (1946)
This Week…heads to back at the battle on a hot October 5, 1946 day at the Big House against the Hawkeyes. That summer we lost Michigan’s Grand Old Man, but returned to us (from World War II) was the great Bob Chappuis. The formula for coach Fritz Crisler was simple so dig it: [display_podcast] You can catch all of the This Week in Michigan Football History clips here….sponsored in 2013 by Ziebart of Yspilanti. Listen to it live tomorrow on the KeyBank Countdown to kick-off on WTKA 1050AM or catch it live inside the Bud Light Victors Lounge. Radio notes!! I’ll be on with The Wolverine guys at 11am – you can catch it here. I’ll live in the WTKA Victors Lounge at around noon talking jug Catch me on the Michigan Tailgate Show on WWJ 950AM at 2:20pm Follow MVictors on Twitter
-
Retrofitted Jug
So we have two photos of the original, what I call the “Oscar Jug”, i.e., the Little Brown Jug as it looked after Minnesota equipment man Oscar Munson found the jug, brought it to AD Doc Cooke and painted it up. Readers of this site have seen these a few times but here they are: You know I’m a fan of Jil Gordon, artist, creator of True Blue 365, famed LBJ score painter agreed to take on a special project for me. I received this today, and…wow: I’ll be toting it around tomorrow. A huge thanks to Jil – this is awesome. Follow MVictors on Twitter
