This Week in Michigan football returns for season XIII this Saturday in the glorious new Bud Light Victors Lounge, as part of the WTKA 1050AM Countdown To Kickoff. This time, a double dip, first to 2016 against Hawaii, then all the way back to 1898 when your blue-stocking clad warriors dropped Chicago and Amos Alonzo Stagg:
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Isn’t it great, to be, the DEFENDING UNDISPUTED BIG TEN CHAMPION Wolverines??? There’s no doubt that last season will be featured in future episodes of THIS WEEK IN MICHIGAN FOOTBALL, but today we take a short trip – just 6 years ago – back to September 3, 2016 as we opened the season and hosted the Rainbow Warriors:
The biggest spectacle on this day came during the pregame festivities, as Canham’s Carpet was put on GOAT watch. Fans got to see three of the GREATEST EVER in professional football, baseball, and basketball and I’m talking about legends Charles Woodson, Derek Jeter, and Michael Jordan who were on hand as honorary captains.
As far as the game, Aloha means both hello and goodbye, and that sums up how this game went. The Wolverines, donning fresh satin-finished winged helmets, welcomed the Warriors on the field and quickly said, see you later! and thrashed Hawaii 63-3. The men in blue tallied 2 defensive scores and get this – ZERO punts. Mahalo.
Now, back to our Big Ten champs that start the 2022 season in a couple of hours. If you are keeping score at home, last year’s title was #43 in our GLORIOUS history. We claimed our first conference title on Thanksgiving Day 1898. It was just the third season of league play and Your beloved blue-stocking-clad men traveled to the Windy Cindy to face then-rival —The Chicago Maroons. Way before Urban, even way before Woody, back around the turn of the last century PUBLIC ENEMY #1 was Chicago and their crafty coach – Amos Alonzo Stagg.
Highlighted by Charles Widman’s 65-yard Touchdown dash, your Wolverines VANQUISHED Stagg 12 to 11 to claim that first conference title. A young student named Louis Elbel was at the game, and Elbel knew we needed a song to proclaim our newfound conference glory – and he did so in grand fashion by writing The Victors – the greatest fight song in the world – and forever cemented the legacy of 1898 and those Victors Valiant, indeed those Conqu’ring Heroes, and undeniably the Champions of the West!
GO BLUE – Beat the Rams! -For more go to MVictors.com or WTKA.com – for the Keybank Countdown to Kickoff, this is Professor Greg Dooley.
One Comment
Teddy
I always look forward to TWIMFH before every game. And yes, the new background music has grown on me even though I still prefer the original.
Go Blue!