When did Go Blue! get added at the end of The Victors?

Sounds like a job for Wolverine Historian

Probably late 90s/early 2000s? It’s tough to pinpoint, because it originated in the student section, and you’d need the input of someone who was a student when it started. For example, I can tell you when the students started dancing to Blues Brothers (at Yost, which eventually made its way to Michigan Stadium), because I was there for the transition of Jack Johnson’s dad being the one that danced to the students starting to dance after he went to the NHL.

I’ve gone to Michigan football games my whole life, and had never heard the Go Blue at the end of The Victors before I started college in 2005. But it was clearly a thing by then, as at orientation, when the leaders taught us (or really those of us that didn’t already know), how to sing the fight song, they added Go Blue at the end. And the students did it at the games, from which it just became second nature to add it.

It doesn’t surprise me that I hadn’t heard it before, as my family’s tickets were on the other side of the stadium from the student section, and you couldn’t have really heard that they were adding it over the general noise of the band/game/crowd etc. 

I have been wondering the same thing.

Ik that the hockey "let's go blue" thing in between the two verses started making its rounds at The Big House in 2016.

Go Blue at the end was way earlier. My guess? 2007 approx. was when everyone started doing it. Students likely started in the early 2000s.

Not a season ticket holder but I always try to go to two games a year.  Funny, but I don't think I ever noticed it until several years ago.  But I like it.  Especially when you hear the entire stadium doing it.  

The first time I ever noticed the "You Suck," chant was when we played Brady Hoke's Ball State team in 2006.  I admit, I laughed when I heard it the first time.  But over the years...yeah.  It's kind of annoying now. 

A cheer I love now is when the band plays that little ditty after first downs followed by the "OhhhhhhhhhhOhhhhhhhOhhhhhhhho...Lets go blue!"  First time I heard the chant was in 1997.  But the first time I heard the band's segue into the chant was (unfortunately) the Spartan Savings Time game in 2001.  I really like that cheer.  That particular game can rot in hell.

Add me to the chorus that says this gained steam in the late 2000s and became the standard around 2009-2011.

Source: attended UM 2004-2008. i.e. Saw the last Big10 Championship team :(

As many of you know I am pretty young relative to most of this site (18) and I can't seem to remember a time when we didn't say "Go Blue", it just seemed to naturally fit there

I seem to recall 2006 or so. I moved out of state and remember my first game back thinking "WTF is this?"

Between 2000 and 2003 or so. I graduated in 2000 and we didn't say Go Blue! at the end. By the time I went back for my 1st game as a grad (2003), people were chanting it. It felt natural.

Late 90s-early 00s. 

Personally, not a fan.

Attended from '05-'09 and I think it became a widespread thing during that time. More in the '06-'07 period because I don't remember it much during my freshman year.

Sometime after ‘97. Of that I’m quite sure.

I don't say it myself, because it is fake. It isn't part of the song.

I have no idea, but wanted to chime in that I also wish Seven Nation Army would go away.  Hearing it on every third down or in any other possible momentum-changing play of a game is seriously annoying.

But interesting question!

I don't know if you feel it was in the late 2000s, Devoted.

I was a student from 1998-2002.  It wasn't a thing then.  It was at some point in the second half of the decade that it caught on, around the same time that saying "You suck" at the end of "Temptation" did as well.

I was an undergrad 02-06 and I regard it as a thing that became standard among a younger cohort of students, when I was a grad student. So I'd say 2007 or 2008.

I wouldn't mind if there is an mgoblog post in 20 years which poses the question of which year did the "you suck" chant end?

'00-'03 and I always remember doing it. Also I was in a lot of marshmallow fights so don't know when that stopped. 

It was NOT a thing in 2000 or before.  And you're wrong if you say otherwise.  

I was on campus for the 2001 and 2002 football seasons. I recall it was happening then, but seemed to be very spotty. I’m fairly confident it wasn’t universal and wasn’t happening outside the student section. 

That's such a great question!!  I actually was happy to see it.  We definitely didn't do it back in the late 80s.  And when I started coming back to games a few years ago, I had to catch on.  But I love it.

GO BLUE!!

My, we are bored