Omnipresent Detroit-area radio caller "Linda from Grand Blanc" called up and rattled up the phrase in the title of this post after a tough loss [edit: I found the audio!] . It’s fitting this morning I suppose. Random postgame sights and sounds: It wasn’t over until it was over, and this is the guy you hoped wouldn’t be taking the last snap of the game: Media gets on the field the last few minutes of the game. Packed in that final stretch was a lot of this And some of this on the other side of the end zone, Mouton and Kovacs discussing what went wrong after UMass scored again: Denard postgame. His left leg was wrapped all day (including during the pregame), I didn’t hear why: It was good to see these two guys play. I heard Lewan manhandled his man when he played, will need to watch the tape: More of the hockey team clowning. Keep in mind this was completely unprovoked, I merely walked by and pointed the camera in their direction: Elsewhere: Oh my how sweet is Steve Threet ROCKING the 5-1-7 headband for Arizona? I need to hear the accompanying rap that gives props to his peeps in Howell, Okemos, Adrian and Grand Ledge. Best put in this tweet by Craig Barker, "Is Steven Threet…
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Massachusetts Pregame (Photos)
A few shots from in and around pregame. It was basically sunny on the field, a little damp from the rain earlier, mood seems somewhat subdued in the stadium. The greatest living Wolverine legend? Bob Chappuis, Mad Magician. He asked me if my camera broke after I took the pic! – heck no, he looks great: Rich Rod said he was thinking of tinkering with punter Will Hagerup’s pregame routine. Here he was, getting loose, tossing a few balls. (And he’s got a decent arm, keep that in your back pocket): Nerd Alert! The control room for Fan Vision, the little handheld devices that kick butt: Hockey team being, um, hockey players:
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This Week in Michigan Football History – September 18, 2004
Here’s the next entry in ‘This Week in Michigan Football History’ to be played tomorrow on WTKA 1050AM’s Key Bank Countdown to Kick-off pregame show before the UMass game. This is probably the most recent history we’ll visit in the series, just a few years back to September 18, 2004 when Michigan took on the Aztecs of San Diego State. Hope you like it: [display_podcast] The sponsor is Wolverine Beer so here’s where you can find Wolverine Beer, or check out the Beer Wench’s Blog. Anyone tried Wolverine Beer? I should probably try one sometime soon. You can hear all of the This Week… clips here.
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Should Michigan Men where Numbers on Jerseys? (1910)
Saturday Michigan players will wear a special ’87’ decal on their helmets in honor of the great athlete Ron Kramer who passed away last week. Here’s what it will look like on the winged headgear (HT: U-M Media Relations): Not every Michigan football great got the opportunity to wear a jersey number, including but not limited to Willie Heston, Germany Schulz, and Neil Snow. 1930 was the first year uniform numbers showed up in a Michigan team photo, but we know digits were worn on the gridiron sweaters starting in 1915. Trolling through the 1910 Michigan Daily archives, I found a brief discussion on whether Yost’s men should don digits on their numberless backs. Apparently eastern teams wore numbers and there was a legitimate question of whether Michigan should join them. Yost saw it as a counter to the team concept, telling the Daily, “..it brings the individuals into too much prominence. The team is a machine and should be considered as such and not their individual efforts.” Baseball captain Norman Hill comments echoed Yost’s sentiments but he also noted, “It looks queer to me.” (It’s unknown if the Daily reporter told Hill, “No, you are.”) Here’s the entire piece from the front page of the Tuesday, October 11, 1910 edition of the Michigan Daily:
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Preserving The Call to Battle
Rest assured that the practice of Wolverine fans bitching about alterations to gameday traditions is not a recent phenomenon. If you’ve perused early editions of The Michigan Daily, you know that students (and fans in general) have always been quite vocal about goings on around football games. Check this out from nearly 100 years ago, the October 29, 1910 edition of the Daily. A student put pen to paper after noticing the band stopped playing ‘The Victors’ prior to games. He didn’t care for the change and asked the Daily to step in to get the pulse of his fellow students. It made it on the front page: Keep in mind ‘The Victors’ was a mere 12 years old at this point but what’s right is right! Good for you ‘Senior’
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Denard Robinson (audio from Sept-13 press conference)
The man of the hour and here’s the audio: [display_podcast] The thing about Denard is that he’s highly likeable. He’s clearly humble, there’s a bit of an ‘aw shucks’ thing going on and that huge smile just tops it off. I think that extends outside the Michigan fan base too. As you do, I know quite a few State fans who really couldn’t stand Tate especially after the "I don’t get nervous" comment. I saw it differently of course, but I guess I understand. There were several questions about his workload running the ball, both at Rich Rod and Denard. One interesting fact. He was of course a quarterback in high school but most schools recruited him as a receiver or cornerback but did you know Denard only rushed for 462 yards his senior year at Deerfield Beach (while throwing for 1809)? So he’s just seven yards away (read: 1 carry) from beating his rushing totals from his entire high school senior year. P.S. They handled out an updated copy of the Michigan record book at the press conference today, haha, that’s never a bad thing.
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Irish Bullets – Sights & Sounds | Michigan 28, Notre Dame 24 (2010)
A few takes across the board from the trip to South Bend. First off, most ND fans are very courteous and to me, it’s just a pleasure to go down there for games in this rivalry. I love the trip and it’s a big reason I’m firmly behind continuing the contract with the Irish. One thing that does suck about the trip is the Turnpike. It’s not so much the concern of paying the tolls—it’s getting through the tollgates. On the return trip the wait to get onto I-69 north was like 20 minutes+ at 10 PM. Going from the press box (with laptop, phone, TV and Fan Vision nearby) to sitting in Notre Dame stadium was quite a shock. My cell phone didn’t get any reception (then died trying) and with a scoreboard that basically shows time and score. I had no idea what happened to Crist and then rumors started to circulate around the crowd that he was poked in the eye. Someone even joked he should wear an eye patch. Above is a shot when the sun came out at the end of the game—I think there were about five minutes left when the clouds broke. I haven’t seen the telecast yet but I hear they got really sappy with their description of the scene. It was…
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Who Voted for Michigan, AP Poll Week 3
Again, this is effectively meaningless but interesting nonetheless. Note that Lesmerises dropped the Wolverines from #8 last week to #9. Fine by me—again, I think that’s way too high but I like the way the guy votes: Voter Rank Source Jon Solomon 8 The Birmingham News Doug Lesmerises 9 Cleveland Plain Dealer Chadd Cripe 10 Idaho Statesman Kirk Bohls 10 Austin American Statesman Brett McMurphy 12 Ray Ratto 13 Chip Cosby 14 Craig James 14 Kirk Herbstreit 14 Mike Hlas 14 Joe Giglio 15 John Niyo 15 Garland Gillen 16 Tom Murphy 16 Cecil Hurt 17 Chris Fowler 17 Doug Haller 17 Travis Haney 17 Dave Foster 18 Jack Bogaczyk 18 Kyle Veazey 18 Steve Conroy 18 Steve Sipple 18 Tom Mulhern 18 Wes Rucker 18 Bob Asmussen 19 Bob Condotta 19 Kyle Ringo 19 Kyle Tucker 19 Rob Long 19 Robert Cessna 19 Wade Denniston 19 Bob Hammond 20 David Jones 20 Desmond Conner 20 Ferd Lewis 20 Greg Archuleta 20 Greg Auman 20 Keith Sargeant 20 Matt McCoy 20 Tom Keegan 20 Jon Wilner 21 Lisa Byington 21 Manny…
