From behind enemy lines, here’s a photo from Saturday’s for the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes held on the MSU Campus. Spartan coach Mark Dantonio was the honorary chair, here speaking to the crowd of over 1200 that gathered for the event. He and some MSU players greeted, signed and took some pics with the fans. During his speech passed along a few words of encouragement to the supporters, JDRF donors and even took a shot or two at those that lean Blue. The JDRF also holds a walk an Ann Arbor walk each year, this year it’ll be held September 14 at Hudson Mills Metro Park in Dexter. More info here. I know that Coach Bo walked in previous years. Here he is at the 2005 Walk: Perhaps Coach Rod will get out there once he settles into his new digs? Word is that the EL Walk raised nearly $300,000 for JDRF (wow!).
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Making the Buckeyes Sick in 1907
Check out this century-old postcard depicting the faces of each member of Fielding Yost's 1907 Michigan football squad. The original owner scribbled this note on the front, "10/25/07 These are the boys who will make O.S.U. look sick on Saturday."
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Baligian loves HTTV 2008
WDFN mid-morning host interviewed mgoblog‘s Brian Cook, editor of Hail to the Victors 2008. Sean B. loves the preseason guide, you will too! Get a copy now before they are gone. Here’s the full interview.
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Season Tickets Arrive
Came in my mail today, always a great day each summer. My wife brought in the mail and I spotted that brownish yellow envelope from across the room. There’s nothing special about the artwork on the tickets, which you may have already seen on mgoblue.com’s ad for single ticket sales. Each ticket has the opponent’s logo along with the same shot of the stadium and field. One exception is the one designated ‘Maize Out’ game (Wisconsin), which features a shot of the student section donned in Maize gear. One change to the tickets themselves: they’ve added a recommended gate number alongside section, row and seat, best I can tell the first time that’s been done. Also within the ticket book is a notice to call the athletic department if you need wheelchair accessible seating in future seasons.
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The Power Index
At the suggestion of an MVictors contributor, I’m going to release a weekly index featuring the Big Ten and Notre Dame. While there’s many solid polls out there including the excellent BlogPoll, the thought would be that it’d be cool to rate the teams tightly within our purview, while including a couple twists. After talking with a few guys, we thought it might be cool to rate these select teams in a blend of human polling and computer simulation. Each weekend pollsters will rate each team against the others and assign a simple score: * ‘2’ indicates Team A would beat Team B in the upcoming week with reasonable certainty (approximately 80% of the time) * ‘1’ indicates a toss-up * ‘0’ indicates a loss with reasonable certainty. Ratings assume the teams would play on a perfectly neutral field (like Ryan Field, har har). The totals are tallied and an index is created using a perfect score (11 match-ups x 2 points or 22 points) and the teams are ranked. What I like about this: * Having the Irish rated in the mix of the Big Ten teams. As a Big Ten fan, you know you slot the Irish in your head; now we’ll have data. * I think this beats simply slotting these teams 1-12. The index shows a…
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Inside the 2008 adidas Jersey
Thanks to ‘Michael’ who sent these stealth photos of inside the new 2008 Michigan football uniforms, featuring a few surprises: Inside the shoulder pad, a listing of conference championship years: An homage to Bo and a message for the current players: mgoblue on the inseam:
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Tom Harmon Goes for Schlitz Gusto
I love this ad from LIFE Magazine in the days leading up to the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics featuring Michigan Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon. Old 98 is featured as an NBC broadcaster who likes his Schlitz beer with a little extra gusto.
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Rodriguez on College Football Live (YouTube)
Via wolverinesFTW: He mentioned in the interview that he shot an honest 79 this summer on the links. Really? Coach, Sir Charles thinks your swing is ugly:
