Whole Michigan FB team running up State st. this AM
So I'm on my way to work like any regular day and as I'm coming up to the athletic facilities on State Street I notice a huge number of people, all dressed the same, running up the street. As I got closer I spotted some dreads and knew it was the FB team. I took out my phone to capture the moment, and be a little creepy/illegal, because I've been driving the same way for years now and have never seen anything like it. It's kinda hard to tell, but they stretch from the back part of Yost basically to the new Ross Academic center.
I, of course, gave them some nice honks in the tune of "lets go blue" - to which they gave me some fist shakes along the way. It's nice to see the senior leadership at work, making them run.
When I got to work, they all were gathered in a huge circle around the block M in the Diag. So no idea what they were doing there.
You'll have to drive a lot faster than 19 mph to actually see dreads.
He was driving well over 100 and could barely make out the numbers 16 in the distance.
The vehicle is a tracking unit, specially-built to Rich Rodriguez's specifications.
Only in prototype stages when he was at WVU.
I'm sure that Honda Civic can move, but let's not even pretend it can keep up with Denard.
Run over State on October 9th.
The Juggernaut spins up to speed...
Kensington Metroparks huh?
Actually it's the whole local metropark system - including Kensington. I usually go to Hudson Mills though; a lot closer.
Summoning its awsome power. It is rumored to be a significant source of dilithium. Hail.
I'll take this over the march of 100,000 goose-stepping North Korean troops any day.
The seniors got the team together, told them all: "Because of the penalties, the coaches can't start us up with practice yet. So we're going to start ourselves now, so we can go straight to pads when they CAN set up official practices."
I seriously think that's close to the truth. We've got some nice character, baby.
Good work, guys! Thank you for giving us so much to cheer for every fall! We appreciate it more than you know!
a mandatory no pad period. That doesn't change no matter if players started training 3 months ago or yesterday.
It is good to see the whole team working out together and the leaders making sure everyone is doing their part.
But what I mean is, usually coaches want a week or two of no pads to warm up, get drills and timings straight, etcetera, before going to pads. I don't know what the official no-pad period (whoa... bloody. Gross) is, but if it ended, say, two days after our practice time started because of the penalties, you wouldn't want to have to wait an extra week to get into pads.
I believe NCAA rules dictate football teams must have 2 or 3 non-padded (whoa) practices before the team can go "live."
You wouldn't want to, but you would have to. The NCAA isn't going to count a bunch of players voluntarily running their own show with no supervision as the no-pad period.
Yeah, I was shocked to see the whole team. It got me pretty pumped for the season, and some of the guys were jumping around and screaming as I pumped my horn at them - in a good way. It was just cool to see, the looked pretty pumped up about things.
From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I WAS RUNNING!
Long hair, yet no dreads.
Yes, but can you imagine if our quarterback had a beard like that? Unstoppable.
Dreadlock beard.
Damn you sir. I'm on my way back to Ann Arbor in late August but the attached picture has made that wait even more excruciating. I miss it.
..... wouldn't want you to accelerate into them!
I was actually thinking while I was illegal taking pictures/driving; Man this would be a bad headline - Fan crashes car into half of Michigan football team while trying to drive and take phone picture.
On the other hand, I'm sure Houston Nutt and Saban would take that idea and clean-out some needed schollarship space for their 30 recruit classes:
Houston: "Ok guys, time to run, but let's make sure that the 4th string scholarship players are in the back of the pack"
Saban: "Today we're going to have the walk-ons run behind Ingram and create a protective wall... and the scholarship Juniors that didn't play a down last year behind them. And if you hear the roar of an engine behind you - don't move, it's just a test of mental strength."
Illegal or not, PLEASE don't do this:
That would make this season not good.
Is that real, and how did the dog get involved?
but the car, and the dog, were edited in. It was just a collision of bikers.
Mike Martin would have HULK SMASH dead-stopped you.
This is the part of the movie where Eye of the Tiger is playing in the background..
I imagine that if we go 12-0 with a national championship this year, they'd have to make it into a movie at some point wouldn't they? It'd be a hell of a lot better than Rudy.
That is all.
The Bucket List was better than Rudy.
Tron was better than Rudy. I kid, sort of.
This team needs... A MONTAGE!
The only thing even remotely creepy is that your avatar is wearing his underpants on the outside, but hey, each to his own.
Great pic and story anyhow. Where do you work that you saw them around the Block M?
Whoa whoa whoa, nobody badmouths Quail Man. Get with the times Don!
Doug Funny is not creepy.
edit: beat me to it. Sidenote, instead of Quail Man he should be "Michigan Man" with that block M. Man, now I am dying for a honkerburger.
I work in Mason Hall, so as I was walking up to the building I noticed them circling around it.
As for my Avatar, it's Doug Funny - From the cartoon "Doug" from the 90's - and his Quailman persona; changed into Michigan form.
It's DOUG FUNNIE.....get your Doug facts straight!*
Excuse me while I go bash my head against the wall for knowing how his last name was really spelled without even having to look it up. What a loser.
Hey man don't worry, Doug ruled. Now, if you happen to know Skeeter's last name, then....
Sad to say I do know this one....His full name was Mosquito Valentine
Some cellphone-stalking is creepy. This was not creepy; this was not even close to creepy. This event should have been filmed in High-Def and broadcast all over campus. It was basically intended as a sort of a broadcast message, wasn't it?
I don't claim to know everything about our football history; but does anybody EVER recall a Michigan team doing this? Not as far as I know. Not in 30 years that I can recall. I absolutely love this team's attitude.
Again, I say; totally AWESOME idea by whoever thought of this. It says to the world; "We're a team, and if you are going to come after us for 'Countable' practices, well here's an uncountable practice for you right here. Suck on it. We'll see you all, in the middle of the diag."
I can see that on a t-shirt... just below a big block M. I'd buy two and send one to Rosenberg.
The only other time I can recall: in 2006 the team would voluntarily wake up every morning to go run the golf course (and from having played that course, this would be death). The O-Linemen (and other beefier elements of the team) were challenged to keep up with the skill players.
If this team is demonstrating the same sort of leadership/attitude/commitment as the 2006 team, we have a lot to look forward to in the fall.
They rightly think of the Golf Course as part of the athletic campus.
I remember waiting on the 8th tee (Par 3) to play, and having a shirtless Mel Owens, dripping in sweat, run up out of nowhere. Mel Owens was a very good ballplayer, but more than anything, he might have been the first 'OMG shirtless' guy in our program. I was just hoping that he was not so thirsty that he would kill me and drink my blood.
But the team running through town... and to the diag? That's new.
In case this is too free for you, Scout would like you to pay to know the players were running down the road.
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I like the gathering around the block M in the diag thing.
She sent out the "Beefcake on the Diag!" alert. Perked her morning right up.
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