2017 Football Promotions Schedule
While checking MGoBlue.com today I came across the list of promotions and giveaways for this season's home games.
Below are the announced promotions for the season opener against Cincinnati:
• Michigan Marching Band Halftime Show -- A collaboration and premier you won't want to miss!
• Honorary Captain -- Adam Schefter (1989 University of Michigan graduate, NFL Insider for ESPN)
• Giveaway -- The first 10,000 Michigan students will receive a rally towel
• Men's Basketball Big Ten Tournament Championship Recognition
• Women's Basketball WNIT Championship Recognition
• Women's Tennis Big Ten Championship Recognition
Of note for the rest of the season:
- The typical parachute jump and T-38 flyover will take place during the Air Force game on Sept. 16.
- Announced Honorary Captains: Adam Schefter (Cincinnati), Charles Woodson (OSU)
- The 1997 National Championship Team will be recognized during the Michigan State game on Oct. 7.
- It appears the athletic department is moving away from pom poms and towards...rally towels. The first 10,000 students for the Cincinnati game and the first 15,000 for the MSU game will receive towels.
August 23rd, 2017 at 9:50 AM ^
August 23rd, 2017 at 9:53 AM ^
I hate them all. It encourages people to wave a silent towel instead of clapping and making noise. Giving everyone free maize t-shirts looks better and has to be about the same cost.
August 23rd, 2017 at 9:57 AM ^
How about those voodoozuellas from the world cup a few years ago?
August 23rd, 2017 at 10:57 AM ^
What's funny is that, thanks to 2010's World Cup, vuvuzelas are specifically on the banned list in a lot of major venues around the soccer world, or at least that's what I recall from the immediate aftermath of that World Cup. I know Wembley and several major venues in the UK banned them....even a few comic conventions banned them actually.
August 23rd, 2017 at 10:21 AM ^
August 23rd, 2017 at 4:09 PM ^
110,000 maize thunder sticks would be amazing. Those things are loud.
August 23rd, 2017 at 10:44 AM ^
Oh yes, because the Notre Dame and Ohio State games in 2011 were some of the quietest in our recent history.
Clapping doesn't make half as much noise as your mouth does and pom poms dramatically improve the appearance of The Big House.
August 23rd, 2017 at 11:06 AM ^
No the towels look cool - plus people will still be yelling which is louder than clapping.
You can't shake a pompom or wave a towel above your head without yelling!
August 23rd, 2017 at 12:08 PM ^
How often do you hear clapping instead of yelling? As far as I know you can still yell while waving a towel.
August 23rd, 2017 at 1:36 PM ^
You can both wave a towel and make noise. Red herring.
The actual problem is the stupid people who will wave their crap so you can't see the game. All freaking afternoon.
August 23rd, 2017 at 11:57 AM ^
What's the point of a rally towel if you're ahead the entire game?
August 23rd, 2017 at 12:10 PM ^
You don't think we need to rally when we're only up 49-0 heading into the 4th quarter against Rutgers? C'mon man! Get hyped and rally!
August 23rd, 2017 at 9:51 AM ^
August 23rd, 2017 at 10:22 AM ^
Agree, the pom poms work far better.
August 23rd, 2017 at 10:48 AM ^
This is one of the stupider and more annoying things Warde has done as AD.
Hackett smartly kept the pom poms going in 2015 for the State game.
The Big House by far looks the best in games in which we had pom poms handed out, we use those shots in nearly all of our promotion pictures. Penn State, Alabama, Auburn and plenty of other fearsome stadiums all use pom poms.
Rally towels don't look nearly as good and are much harder to use.
Either way, it's also problematic that they're only giving them out in the student section. The student section is the only part of the stadium that looks good on TV with our without them.
We really need pom poms for the OSU games so it doesn't look like half our stadium is red after hoards of non-student season ticket holders sell off seats.
August 23rd, 2017 at 10:53 AM ^
By recent measure, things are going pretty well if all we have to bitch about is Warde's dumping pom-poms in favor of towels.
August 23rd, 2017 at 1:58 PM ^
They're pom-poms. Good lord.
August 23rd, 2017 at 9:54 AM ^
Which game will have free cokes?
August 23rd, 2017 at 10:13 AM ^
Which Cokes will have free games? The answer is none, as it always should have been.
August 23rd, 2017 at 9:55 AM ^
So should we have the Turkish Air Force T-38 perform the flyover just to troll Air Force?
August 23rd, 2017 at 10:19 AM ^
Maybe my favorite presser. Old friend Schefter needs to be careful. He's surely aware of the time Belichick sent noted fiction writer Albert Breer to bolivia.
August 23rd, 2017 at 10:18 AM ^
August 23rd, 2017 at 12:52 PM ^
It may be me, but that lamb looks to be a couple psi short. I bet it doesn't change the outcome though.
August 23rd, 2017 at 11:01 AM ^
August 23rd, 2017 at 1:57 PM ^
Football: It's really just a front for the rally towels.
August 23rd, 2017 at 11:42 AM ^
August 23rd, 2017 at 11:50 AM ^
Whats dumb is why does only 10% or 15% of the fans receive one? Not sure how good of a look that is with scattered rally towels
August 23rd, 2017 at 12:10 PM ^
Was in EL for a game a few years ago in the MSU student section. There were rally towels. It was raining. My head took a pounding (I was wearing M gear obviously).