Favorite Memory Inside Michigan Stadium

game winning FG against Washington. 2002.

There is no way anyone thought he was going to make that kick. I remember being pissed that we were even attempting to kick the ball.

Wisconsin 2008. Best game since I started going to Michigan.

The first game I went to. Driesbach to Hayes on the final play to beat Virginia 18-17

Woodson punt return vs. OSU 97

Tie between Penn State 2007 and Wisconsin 2008.

Penn State 2007 was around the time I started embracing Michigan Football as my religion. Also, I'm from central pennsylvania so all my friends from back home were doing a whole bunch of shit talking leading up to the game.

When we were up 20-19 and Wisconsin had a 3rd down, I looked behind me at the student section. They were all doing the Intimidation thing and were loud as eff. It was awesome.

3) ND in '97 when we held on against the Irish despite THREE stinkin' fumbles in the fourth quarter. I can't believe how good our defense was after each turnover, including that 4th-and-2.

2) Wisconsin in '08. I'm pretty proud to say I was there for the largest comeback in Michigan Stadium history (although the first half was probably the ugliest half of football I've ever seen).

1) The New Math. I was with my brother somewhere in the SW endzone and was basically directly in line with the flight path of Henne's pass. I knew Mario was going to catch it...I knew it.

the dude at the Utah game who called me a bigot for saying "fucking Mormons."

I tend to do the same things when I'm at games. Whoever we're playing I tend to be a little prejudice towards their cultures even if their from 60 minutes down the road.

Favorite memory was my first game.. I was 9 or 10, 1997 vs. Iowa.

Sam Sword intercepted a pass in Michigan territory to seal the victory, and the stadium ERUPTED. Chills go down my spine just thinking about it.

I don't have a favorite memory at Michigan stadium....I missed Wisconsin 08, been a student since 06. No game I've attended has ever had anything really special happen in it.

I remember Penn State coming into the game undefeated and thinking that if Michigan were to lose it would be first time since I had started following the team in '85 that they would be sub-500 that deep into the season. Somehow I knew they would not let that happen. I'll never forget watching Henne to Manningham from the South endzone and the ensuing pandemonium.

Actually, not the pose, but the return for a TD, and the cascade of OSU asses toward the exits before the game was over. I never thought I would ever see such a blowout in the series. It was a glorious, glorious day.

My favorite moment is from my first game. 1991 against Northwestern, I was 7 years old and we sat behind the north end zone. This was when Northwestern was beyond pathetic. But it was Desmond's year, and my first game, and I was just praying he'd do something spectacular. Sure enough, the offense is headed our way, Elvis hits Desmond on a screen and 21 houses it. I'm pretty sure that was his final play of the game. The best part about that play was it existed only in my memory for years, and this video from the eminently prolific Wolverine Historian brought it back to life. You can see the play I'm referring to at 2:38.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phxrqPnejxk&feature=channel_page

I was also at the '95 OSU game, sitting right next to the band, and I couldn't see a damn thing but still had the time of my life. And as someone mentioned earlier, the '97 ND game was pretty special. The crowd and the defense were rocking on those 4th downs.

Later as a student, I was at every home game from 2002-2006, but the one that stands out above all others was the '03 win over OSU.

I've only seen two games at the Big House, and they both qualify. The first was, you know, my first: always special. (It was a really unremarkable blowout over Purdue back when Purdue was staging yearly fights with Northwestern for crappiest crap in the Big Ten. M scored 40-odd points and Todd Collins came in for much of the fourth quarter to give Grbac a rest.)

The other one was MSU '04. Sparty got Braylonized. It was beautiful. A friend hooked me up with a student ticket.

I was at the 1995 OSU game with Biak running wild and Woodson getting the game sealing pick. The 1997 Iowa game was great, the loudest I have heard the stadium. It was the game UM loses historically. After that game, I thought there was a good shot at running the table.

I was a freshman, and my tickets were in row 94, but I moved up to somewhere in the 80's because tons of students went home for fall break expecting us to lose. I hugged so many random people that I've never met. It will always be the most memorable sports moment of my life (unless I manage to get front row tickets to our quadruple overtime victory over USC in the 2011 national championship game).

in 1997!!! i was luckey enough to be able to go to every game that year. the iowa game was a killer but when they came back in the 2nd half i knew that something great was going to happen that year.

Skipped my high school homecoming to go to the 1994 Colorado game. Left in time to miss the "play." That means it never happened, right?

This isn't my favorite moment in the Big House, but I think that many of my favorite moments have already been said. I really enjoyed when Patrick Stewart directed the band and then turned to us in the student section and proclaimed, "Now go forth and beat the buckeyes! Make it so... number 1."

I started by thinking of 1991 against ND as well. It was my Junior year and we had lost to those guys 3 times in a row. IIRC nobody had ever done that before. The playcall, and Desmond were amazing.

The 1990 MSU game (where Desmond was interfered with on the 2pt conversion but no penalty called) might have made the list...if we'd won. There were back to back kick offs returned for TDs in that game, if I recall correctly. And the decision to go for two, while holding the #1 ranking would have gone down as one of the seminal moments of Mo's career if it had worked. I believe with all my heart we would have won the national championship if that call had gone the other way.

Virginia was an amazing comeback; so was Wisconsin last year.

But that 3OT MSU game... Braylon was the MAN. And we needed every bit of him. We started to realize how special Henne might be. And we needed every one of those plays and points. We were jumping and dancing and screaming. What a game.

I can watch it again and again. I remember sitting high in the end zone seats and watching the play unfold... and then the great erruption with the victory.
Almost as memorable was Butch Woolfolk throwing the ball out of bounds on the previous play to stop the clock and set up the play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M3jVy_kJR4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEF6edfexco

The team celebrating and singing The Victors in the student section after beating Wisco in 2008, RR's first big win (or at least it seemed that way at the time).