meta: Tell me about yourself

Places I recently visited: India and Nepal

Airport I flew through: Doha, Qatar

How do you pronounce "Qatar"?  I still don't know.  People pronounce it differently even there. 

Illness I acquired:  Some sort of upper respiratory infection

Type of monkey I fed:  A langur, who look a berry from my hand and then, because he was full of berries, dropped it and looked up at me with a face that said I'd wasted his time.

Attainment of elightenment:  It was only the effect of cough syrup with codeine.

 

 

 

First name: Jonathan

Live: Grove City, OH (just south of Columbus)

Family: wife and 2 kids under 5

Sports: I played tennis in HS, then abandoned sports because I am no good at them.

Hobbies: graphic design, music, video games when I have time.

Occupation: Banker

What I wish I did for a living: graphic design.

College: private Christian college, BA History/Business Marketing

Fun fact: In 2003, I sang for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, 10 years later I was literally on my knees praying to God for victory when Trey hit "the shot."  This is still my favorite Michigan basketball moment.  It was so damn late and I was so tired from a long day of work, but it was worth every bit of lost sleep.  

Favorite Football Moment: "Under the Lights."  I have never enjoyed Brett Musberger's voice, but he sounded like an angel when he said "Wide open's Gallon, they left him alone..."

Favorite Football Moment #2: "Touchdown Manningham!"  I was stuck at dinner with my in-laws and their friends (all OSU fans) and I was missing the game.  As we were leaving, I saw the game was on at the bar.  This was just before PSU scored to go ahead.  My in-laws graciously stayed there waiting for the last couple minutes of the game so that I could witness it live.  Really wish I could have been there.

Non-Michigan Football Moment: This year's Super Bowl.  I was so depressed when that circus catch happened to put the Seahawks in striking range.  When they had the ball at the 1, I could see the end of Tom Brady's career.  Thankfully, that vision was ripped away when Malcom Butler jumped the passing route and secured victory for my Patriots.

I love this blog WAY more than I should...

Hometown: Flint, MI

High School: Flint Powers Catholic (Chargers)

Played Football, Hockey (HS and Travel) and Baseball

Undergrad: University of Michigan (College of Engineering)

Grad School: University of Florida (Warrington College of Business / Hough Graduate School)

Currently reside in Southlake, Texas

Business Development for Nokia

Craft Beer Aficionado

First Name: Ty

Current City:  Ann Arbor

Highschool: Carson City - Crystal (MI)

Sports:  HS golf, hockey on mt. pleasant club team

College:  EMU for econ, UM-Dearborn for business analytics - marketing masters (current)

U of M connection:  aunt and uncle had season tickets, first game was osu in 95 with biakabutuka getting 313

Favorite place: mexico city, until I got sick

Fun fact -  I graduated with 69 kids in my class, and that was 5 towns all coming to 1 highschool.  my town has no stop lights, fast food, and just recently got a 24 hour gas station (but only on fridays and saturdays)

 

Name: Mike

Hometown: Holly, MI, Holly High School Bronchos

Currently: Suburbs of Philly

Sports played: Football and Baseball

Army Vet

College: Northern Michigan Univ.

veterans service coordinator in Philly

Married with one son and another one on the way in June

Favorite Michigan moment: while deployed to Bosnia, my leadership allowed me to listen to the Mich v OSU game in 1997. While preparing to go out on patrol, Woodson returned it to the house!

X-Alias: Lucosi Point of Origin: Middletown, Ohio (As a kid, I lived next door to Cris Carter in some project apartments. My uncle was professional boxer, Wilbert "Vampire" Johnson. Said uncle didn't care much for Cris.) Superpower: Uncanny ability to add a "S" in front of my words to make swords with which to face walls of opposing villains and wage war Favorite Danger Room Activities as a New Mutant: Basketball, boxing and football Current Diversions: Writing short fiction and rhymes, sampling vinyl and making beats, developing a driveway jumpshot (can't dunk no mo'), playing X-Box and wrestling with my progeny, Michigan football and basketball, Oakland Raiders, New York Knicks Training Grounds: USC Upstate (Bachelor's in Creative Writing), Clemson (Master's in English) As a Civilian: Adjunct English Instructor and shipping coordinator Nice to "meet" y'all...

That says M- son-in law

                      - grad

                      - husband

                       -father(2x)

                       -brother(2X)

So true blue. Probably wristbanded you if you were a drunk student entering the stadium last year. Opened the door for you at Yost. Greeted you at the Weiser family club at Crisler if your name is Mary Sue C., Mark S., Jamie M., Rick L., Al G., etc. Ambition in life is to indentify Wolv. Devotee at a Lacrosse game just from his shoes, sox, receiver gloves and 3in. thick ring binder.

First Name: Dr. Emmitt
Last Name: Brown
Age: 62 years old
City: Hill Valley, CA
High School: Hill Valley High School
College: Cal Tech
Now: Time Traveling Inventor

My name is Jason and I'm not very creative in making user names. From Canton MI; played football for the Salem Rocks. Went to Michigan and majored in the always useful poly sci and now my career involves neither politics nor sceince. I follow all the local (Detroit) teams save NFL where I am a Niners fan. Jed York is a case study on why we should hate all things Notre Dame. As a caveat to that rule I point out that it is perfectly acceptable (and necessary) to never acknowledge Joe Cool as a Domer.

Name: stealth

Home town: somewhere in southern MI:

City where I reside: Topeka, KS

Education: Michigan 81-85 BSE. Graduate degrees Oklahoma 89-93.

Occupation: Scientist who works for the Federal Government.

Sports: Played HS football.

Age: The same age of our fine coach! Mr. Harbaugh!

I was lurker here 2 years before finally joining mgoblog! Got sick of the old Ann Arbor news Michigan football blog in '07, that is now mlive! Never have visited the site since finding mgoblog.

I hope Harbaugh turns our program into a championship program, so when I retire in 10 to 13 years, I can go to plenty of good Michigan home games and follow them on the road!

Name: MacGruber
Location: Colorado/DC/Equador
College: UTEP (starting TE #69)
Vehicle: Mazda Miata, convertible.
Stereo: Blaupunkt (cassette)
Hobbies: Ripping throats
Interests: I like Holes
Credentials: Former Navy SEAL, Army Ranger and Green Beret. Served six tours in Desert Storm, four in Bosnia, three each in Angola, Somalia, Mozambique, Nicaragua and Sierra Leone. Recipient of sixteen Purple Hearts, three Congressional Medals of Honor, seven Presidential Medals of Bravery.

First name: Jon

Last name: Surprisingly, not Ross

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA

High School: Clarkston Wolves (yes, that one)

Fun Fact: I've moved a lot

haves: two brothers, both named Daryl; master's in Russian likes: pina coladas, getting caught in the rain. from: north rosedale park hs: the High married. two daughters. thankful for the laughs and smiles this community provokes.

Name-Mike

Age-34

Occupation-Pharmacy Technician at U of M

Education-Currently a senior in the Healthcare Administration program at EMU

High School-Ypsi High C/O 99 Go Braves

Athletics-Played freshman soccer and baseball

After High School-Became a Naval Rescue Swimmer before a serious ankle injury ended that

Fun Fact- Married to the girl I made spit Cherry Pepsi out of her nose the first time I ever met her

Name:  Heinrich Simon Peter Gruber

Born:  1946 - Karl-Marx-Stadt, Saxony, formerly the German Democratic Republic

Family:  brother - Hans Gruber

Military Service:  Colonel, East German Special Forces

Mortal Enemy:  John McClane

Least Favorite Movie:  Die Hard 1, as little brother Hans got his butt whupped

Favorite Saying:  "There's a difference, you know, between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window."

 

Name: Seth (surprisingly not Socrates)

Age: You're never too old to act immature

Location: St. Petersburg FL, born in Grand Rapids MI

Occupation: Pharmacist

Education: UofM '99 Biology, UofM '04 PharmD, UofM '06 Residency. 10 years in Ann Arbor! 

Athletics: Basketball and Baseball in HS

Fun Fact: I am an avid home brewer

Name : bill Hometown : Rochester, ny Current city : buffalo, ny Sports played : football, wrestling, soccer Greatest sports achievement : taking 5thplace in the nation at 125 lbs (wrestling) Occupation: bartender and football coach (high school, semi pro) applying for low level college jobs Fun fact: I am deathly afraid to fly yet I have a girlfriend who is stewardess and I can fly anywhere in the world for free... Someday I wll take the chance...haven't decided when yet.

Wendyk5

Age: Let's just say 50 is right around the corner

Michigan grad, AB in Communications

Brother and uncle are Michigan grads

Played no high school sports, but I am deceptively athletic or so my husband told me when I beat him repeatedly in tennis

Advertising copywriter for 15 years on large packaged goods, mostly television and radio

Took some time off from advertising to go to cooking school in Chicago. I was a pastry chef for four years before I had kids. 

I loved Michigan football in college, went to a handful of games after I graduated (see below: The Kurse) and then really got back into it 6 or 7 years ago. 

Fun fact: We lost every game I attended after graduation (Illinois, Wisconsin, Penn State, Michigan State, and Toledo) until the Ohio State game in 2011. That's a span of 24 years. I called it The Kurse. 

 

 

 

Hometown is a small town near Battle Creek.

Michgian engineering/UNC MBA

Medical Device industry

started a new company last year in the consumer goods industry as a side venture

starting another new company this year with a buddy in senior healthcare industry

live in Manhattan Beach, CA. kept my season tix for 15 years before finally giving them up last summer.

HS varsity sports basketball, baseball, track

I have mentored a boy that lost his father to cancer for the past 6 and half years now. side note: mother and father met while at OSU undergrad.

 

 

I was born at a very young age...

The rest of it I'll leave to your imaginations.

Me- I'm only here for the mgopoints

First name: I'm only here for the mgopoints

City: shout out to my homeboys

High School: I'm only here for the mgopoints

Sports your played in HS/college: shout out to my team mates

HS mascot: peace

Born and raised in Flint. Ran track and cross country in high school.

Proud graduate of UM-Flint

I'm the son and father of MSU graduates (plus two other children who attend(ed) college here in Oklahoma where I currently live).

Met my lovely bride in grad school at Purdue.  I proposed to her during an alcohol fueled argument just to get her to shut up. It worked. We've been married nearly 30 years.

Gabe

Frisco, Tx

West Monroe High School

Basketball/Football

Rebels

I like to joke with my coworkers and say that I'm the all time D1 leader in FT percentage. I was a walk-on for a small D1 for a year before I decided to hang em up, and on a very small sample size I shot 100%. 6 for 6 baby!!!!

MGoMaizeNBlue 

Occupation: NSA security analyst 

 

My name is Craig, I did drugs once, I am a Wolverine, so check me out.

John, 49

Native Californian but have lived in Michigan since high school.

HS mascot: Arrows. played football and baseball.

Wife and I graduated from Michigan in 1988

Son is currently a junior at UM in Neuroscience.
Daughter is a freshman at Alabama school of Engineering

Interesting story: Harbs used my VW microbus when he and Andy Moeller took a vacation to California after graduation.

K

last name:  OK

football team lost one home game, the last, my four years at UM, but no Rose Bowls

high school:  G. P. South Blue Devils

sports played:  pathetic

I could not make a no-cut Babe Ruth baseball league.

Played IM basketball in 7th grade, was called for double dribbling before attempting a free throw

in high school, football.  proved freshman year 0 and 6 record was no fluke by going 0-9 senior year.

actually, worse than that, 1-8 because a team that beat us 28-14 had to forfeit for playing a 20 year old.  And I did not even start.

Did play on a championship IM hockey team post-graduate as a "significant other"

 

First name: Dan

Born:  Detroit

High School: Dundee HS, Dundee, MI; where absolutely no one you've ever heard of is from.

HS Sports:  Track.  Was cut.  Golf.  Was cut.  Drummer in marching band.

College:  Michigan (Mechanical Engineering)

Current:  Denver (shocking!)

Current Sports:  Golf.  I'm still bad at it.

Fun fact:  I'm quite possibly the single most uncoordinated human in the history of ever.  But I make up it with my total lack of physical strength and flexibility.

 

Brian Live in Clemmons, NC Born in Grand Rapids and lived in Milford High School in FLORIDA. Eustis High School Panthers Played soccer at Palm Beach Atlantic University Work in Biotech Became a Michigan fan as early as I can remember.