MGoTheater 3000: The 1989 Rose Bowl
We are giving Ace the weekend off to bring you some FOOTBALL! Specifically, football of the Michigan vs USC variety. My copilot for The Teams/Michigan historian Dr. Sap is on hand to help with the memories because I was newly nine years old on January 1, 1989.
We lost our original special guest, but then scored a giant one across from him: GREG SKREPENAK will be on hand to answer questions and tell Bo stories.
Join us at 8pm ET. You can watch the embed and participate in the chat below, or go to https://www.twitch.tv/mgoseth
Watch MGoTheater 3000: The 1989 Rose Bowl from MGoSeth on www.twitch.tvIf we run into technical issues please bear with us as it's my first time running one of these. Game notes are here: http://www.umich.edu/~bhlumrec/athdept/fbstats/1988/1988usc.pdf
THE LINEUP:
USC of course had Rodney Peete, RB Ricky Ervins, RB/FB Leroy Holt, two future NFL tight end sin Paul Green and Scott Galbraith, two future NFL draft picks outside in Erik Affholter and John Jackson Jr. (father of JJIII), and some stars on the offensive line including Rimington candidate Brad Leggett at center. Oh and on defense, just some guy named Junior Seau.
Was at this game- it remains my favorite all time game, even moreso than the 1998 Rose Bowl, because it was a catharsis. Bo and the team coming from behind to beat USC in Pasadena, shaking off all of that bad ju-ju from the prior two decades, nothing has felt like it ever since...
Somewhere I have a ticket that looks a lot like that.
We weren't seated far from the USC band, and geez they play that one song an awful lot.
Who started???????
I have but one upvote to give.
That was GREAT. Thanks to everyone who contributed. For a while tonight, social distancing didn't feel so distant.
Go, Blue!
You are welcome! Football always has been, and always will be, the bond that unites us.
What a great feeling it was to again watch that great Michigan Rose Bowl victory! Thanks, Seth, Dr. Sap and Greg for treating us all to that!
Our pleasure, Rob - glad you enjoyed it. Due to some technical difficulties, we had to pivot & scramble to find a last minute replacement for Mark Messner. Skrep was gracious enough to bail us out, but we really had to rush & accelerate our production "testing" to meet the 8pm air time. That may explain the few production snafus we had, but all in all, we were really happy with how it turned out. We settled on an 8pm kickoff time - to make it "PrimeTime" - but are really at the scheduling mercy of our guests. We'll see when the next one happens. Maybe it will be a noon kickoff??
My first Rose Bowl. Big John was dominant!
The only Rose Bowl I ever attended. Went with my Father and it was fabulous. Beating USC & coming from behind. Great memories!
The only Rose Bowl I ever attended. Went with my Father and it was fabulous. Beating USC & coming from behind. Great memories!
It seems like JJ Grant and Dean Dingman would get stars. Maybe I am remembering their play as upperclassmen vs as Sophomores.
star = all big ten
I see that now. Thx.
How did that team with a Big Ten title with almost no NFL talent on it? Was the rest of the league even worse? It seems like this team would get demolished in the conference today.
Someone with better reference skills can do the details but that was an incredibly talented team.
Tony Boles was a small step down from Marcus Allen and it is still one of my worst memories to see his career ended by injury. Leroy Hoard, funny guy, played well for the Browns. Two WRs with good NFL stints. Calloway played for the Giants for a long time. Big Greg I think was a Raider. On defense guys like Messner and E. Anderson were incredible college players whose game didn't translate to the NFL. I'd consider both to be one of the best ever in Michigan history for their positions. Same for the backfield. And though he shanked them in this game Mike Gillette was a really good kicker.
and a heck of a coaching staff.
A very very talented team.
Leroy Hoard: "If you need one yard, I can get you three. If you need five yards, I can get you three!"
Someone with better reference skills can do the details but that was an incredibly talented team.
Tony Boles was a small step down from Marcus Allen and it is still one of my worst memories to see his career ended by injury. Leroy Hoard, funny guy, played well for the Browns. Two WRs with good NFL stints. Calloway played for the Giants for a long time. Big Greg I think was a Raider. On defense guys like Messner and E. Anderson were incredible college players whose game didn't translate to the NFL. I'd consider both to be one of the best ever in Michigan history for their positions. Same for the backfield. And though he shanked them in this game Mike Gillette was a really good kicker.
and a heck of a coaching staff.
A very very talented team.
And Jarrod Bunch. How could I forget him. He was good. In fact, if I was making a best of team I'd put him down for my fullback. Also a NY Giant.
Skrepenak was well north of 300 when that was more the exception.
The Barge.
To answer the 3rd Gen M FB player question about the Kolesar's. No, they are not the first family with three generations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herrnstein
I just read thru that Wikipedia page on John Herrnstein, and though I'm happy to now know the Herrnstein family was the first to have 3 generations of Michigan Wolverines football players, I was also disappointed to see that a 4th generation member of that family chose to play football for the buckeyes.
If You guys want to absolutely lose your minds you should start doing the Rose Bowls from the 70's.
I've gone back and watched them all. Not sure what drives me crazier:
1. Bo's ultra-conservative play calling on both offense and defense
2. Insanely bad luck/ball bounces
3. Officiating that makes the 2016 OSU game look positively fair and balanced
Oh ya - been thinking about those 70's Rose Bowls!! We'll see... ;)
Thanks for this blast from the past.
I thought the volume on Dr. Sap was a little loud, such that it was sometimes hard to hear Skrep when he started answering before Sap was done with his long question, and also when Sap was saying, "Mm-hm, mm-hm" during the response.
Mm-hm...my volume was a little too loud. We had a few production glitches, but hopefully we'll iron those out when we do the next one. Not bad for our first time! Working on another one that we hope you all will enjoy as well. Glad you liked it!!
That was a fine USC team that had defeated ranked Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington and UCLA teams in the regular season, but then got demolished by No. 1 Notre Dame in the Coliseum.
Redemption game for Demetrius Brown. Not flashy, but had a 40 yard run and 1 TD pass and no INTs.
Back then I always thought is was kind of eerie that in 1979 and 1989 Michigan's starting QBs in the Rose Bowl wore lucky No. 7 jerseys (Rick Leach, Demetrius Brown).
Viewing this saddens me. Oh, how the Michigan football program had an offensive line that MOVED PEOPLE. It’s been garbage for at least a decade.
I was particularly interested in the discussion of what happened in the Emtmen Rose Bowl. That was my first year as a Michigan fan and was a good introduction to the "what just happened?" feeling that Michigan football has given me so many times since. Never get too comfortable as a Michigan football fan because at any moment it can all become a house of cards and your family and friends are laughing at you (assuming, as I was, that you are from out of state.)
That was in the infancy of the internet and I had to rely on the Freep or Sports Center for my sports news. Which, of course, means that I never had any idea what happened other than Emtmen eating what I had previously viewed as an excellent OL.
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