Your MGoMoment of Zen: Jabrill Peppers' ridiculous touchdown run from today's scrimmage.

I may be prone to superlatives, but that man is both the best recruit of 2014 and the best recruit Michigan has ever landed.

he understands the basic rules, objectives, and has played this game before.

his school, which when I played --and baseball only-- we kicked their ass. Paramus Catholic was a private school of limited repute. The best Catholic school in the area was Don Bosco Prep. and you might have heard of it.  And they were good in everhthing. PC not so much. 

The other thing is, I went to camp and met kids from Red Bank. Red Bank has no history as a sports competitive area in NJ, period. They sucked in everything because their parents mostly worked in New York. But our town had been around since the 1700s. 

As it was, most of the parents in my town, worked in NYC also. But they were like stock brokers and engineers and such. Just the way it is when you live 20 mintues from the GW Bridge. But we were good in certain sports like baseball, Red Bank not so much. 

So, I've been gone for a long time. And Paramus better known for Paramus Mall where the Sopranos scenes were sometimes shot, and my school's current big Thanksgiving Day rival --we used to play football on Saturday afternoons and finished on Thanksgiving Day against Fair Lawn High School, which had a great stadium (think Horeseshoe, except erector set stands that seemed awesome in high school and accommodate bigger crowds). 

When I went to school there, we never played PC in football because they were a smaller school and couldn't compete. But now they can. Because private the next big thing. schools can recruit and public schools can't. And so Jabrill Peppers is the man.

And if you grew up when and where  I did, then you know that college football wasn't what it is in the Midwest. But I still loved it, and I still knew all the stars, and I still loved Bo Schembechler and how his team beat that invincible team in 1969 that many thought could compete against the NFL. And so  I had a natural rooting interest for Michigan.

Because our rival,  Fair Lawn High, had this kid that Ohio State recruited and starred for them and played against Michigan in 1969. So he was a compelling reason to watch. And because four years earlier when Bruce Jankowski was a senior at Fair Lawn High and our team a heavy underdog, my school, Ridgewood High School, despite being a heavy underdog, beat his team on Thanksgiving Day. And it was like Michigan vs. Ohio only Jersey style. 

Have to get the ball in his hands on offense at least 5 touches a game and use him in the return game.  Peppers and Campbell are the two recruits that I am most excited about so far.  Campbell will be a Randy Moss type threat speed + size.  I said this in another thread and got bashed for it, but the I think there are 3 or 4 recruits in the last few classes that seperate us from OSU even if overall recruiting rankings are even.  Peppers, Campbell, Hand (fingers crossed), and Harris are game changers.  OSU has some elite 5 star kids coming in, but nothing like what we see in this clip.

or Jabrill Peppers. There's no other reason for him to neg the OP.

...and the WORST tackling ever recorded in the history of scrimmage football.

And he wasn't recruited as an offensive player?

Scary.

Who is 'Charlie Chunk" and WHY would he downvote this?!?!? Off to Bolivia with that clown!!! Peppers is the next Charles Woodson!!!

I upvoted to offset the lone downvote. Order restored.......for now.