October 10, 1936. That is the precise date when the Ohio State marching band first performed and thus invented their beloved Script Ohio formation. But there's a problem with at part of that. Feel free to inform your friends from Columbus of this fact: Rest assured that the folklore is true, it was indeed the Michigan Marching Band that first performed the ‘Script Ohio’ - four years earlier. Yes, the MMB literally spelled it out for the Ohio Stadium crowd on Michigan's trip to Columbus on October 15, 1932. Feel free to troll your friends from Columbus because of this fact: Rest assured that the folklore is true, it was indeed the Michigan Marching Band that first performed the ‘Script Ohio’ - four years earlier. Yes, the MMB literally spelled it out for the Ohio Stadium crowd on Michigan's trip to Columbus on October 15, 1932.
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LC, The First Script Ohio, Touchdown Manningham | This Week In Michigan Football History
Saturday's edition of This Week in Michigan Football History is a special one. We hit a few worthy topics starting with the recognition of the new Lloyd Carr Michigan Stadium Tunnel, before noting the 90th anniversary of the Michigan Marching Band visiting Columbus and teaching Ohio State their beloved "Script Ohio." We also get into this day in 2005 that gave us what is evermore known simply as, 'TOUCHDOWN MANNINGHAM!' Dig it:
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Righteous Tribute from Michigan’s Drum Major
Before the season I heard the Michigan Marching Band drum major Walter Aguilar did something really cool to honor the 2020 seniors. For context, thanks to COVID last year's MMB didn't get the chance to perform in the Big House, and that certainly must have hurt the folks in their final year in Ann Arbor. Bummer, dudes. But Aguilar did something about it - and here's a close-up look.
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Sights & Sounds – Maized and Enthused (Michigan 31, Washington 10)
What a night. While a gameday experience can't cover for a loss, that's about as close as you could come. But of course, we won. Well done by the students who are bringing it two games in. And the fans who bothered to wear maize. And the athletic department for arranging all the accouterment. And to the team: had we lost this one it would be remembered as a crap sandwich with extra maize mustard. But this night, this event, these tributes, this party, was about as close as it gets. The sights and sounds were aplenty, here are a few:
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Sights & Sounds | Family Reunion (Michigan 47, Western Michigan 14)
As JJ McCarthy's pass sailed diagonally across the field, a truck pulled up to the gates of Michigan Stadium. Its cargo was approximately 110,000 cans of that sweet nectar of hype, hope, and expectation. Of course, you usually received your annual dose around the first week of August each year, but you know, COVID and all. To the Sights and Sounds from Saturday. This is my gameday peek into events off the field on Saturdays, aka whatever you call the opposite of Xs and Os:
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A Seventy Burger | This Week in Michigan Football History
This Week In Michigan Football History, as played during the WTKA 1050AM 'Countdown to Kickoff' held November 7, 2020 before the Michigan-Indiana game. Topics: Bob Ufer's passing and the onfield tributes, Bo's disdain for both Illinois (after firing Gary Moeller) and for Illinois's head coach Mike White. For all these reasons and more, Bo and crew dropped 70 on White and the Illini:
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Sights & Sounds | Michigan 45, SMU 20
This was a strange one at times. Pregame Saturday had more of a feel of a true season opener as last week it felt like fans were still suffering over their hangover following the loss in South Bend. The mood was up, the day was hot but beautiful and it just seemed more lively out there. Then the game started and once again the fans got testy after a few stalled drives in a row, and a few instances where the offensive line seemed overwhelmed or at best, confused. There were even a couple glaring defensive breakdowns. More and more it does seems to be about what we thought it was – the offensive line. If there’s a shot at a truly great season it’s coming down to the in-season maturity of that group. I’m certain the coaches are taking a hard look..like, this hard: Jury’s out. Sights and Sounds: He Stayed. That’s Michigan Man Dick Caldarazzo, offensive guard on Bo’s 1969 team, looking great in the blue lot before the game: Forbidden fruit. Each week this guy taunts the band as they march out of the stadium, imploring them to take a cookie. Of course your beloved Meechigan Marching Band is supposed to be in Queens guard mode and dutifully march on as if there were no cookies dangling…
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Sights & Sounds | Michigan 18, Penn State 13
A few sights and sounds from the 2014 Penn State game including blue pants, a lightshow, Roy Roundtree pregame and much more:
