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By Brian — September 16th, 2008 at 2:00 PM — 19 comments

Turnabout is fair play, the shoe is on the other foot, the hat has flipped, the penguins have rotated. Via House Rock Built comes a well-deserved Evil Yakety Sax:

Will there ever be a Michigan-Notre Dame game well-played enough to avoid this? Only the future knows.

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September 16th, 2008 at 2:16 PM | you know what? (Score:1)
caup
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That was pretty damn funny!  I have a soft spot in my heart for ol' Benny Hill, and in a weird way, putting that putrid performance to sounds of Yakety Sax helps me put the game into perspective.

Touche, and well done HTRB!

Go Blue

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September 16th, 2008 at 2:19 PM | I'd like to overanalyze this (Score:1)
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I'd like to overanalyze this for a moment.

Now, I created last year's "Jimmy Clausen for Heisman" video, imitating the previous iteration as closely as possible in both style and substance. 2 minutes into the game I was already preparing for the "Steven Threet for Heisman" video that never came, as they don't even give us the opening jab.

The title is "Michigan vs. Notre Dame, Yakety Sax Version," because
apparently the joke is always funnier when it's explained in the
opening titles. With that title they've completely stripped the dry
humor and replaced it with obvious observation, reducing the entire
exercise from ironic satire into going-through-the-motions cash-cow milking. It's Shrek 3 to "Brady Quinn for Heisman's" Shrek.

Also, any Yakety Sax video from Saturday that does not include Charlie Weis falling mightily to the earth truly reveals the editor's intent: Vengeful retaliation, not spirited participation.

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September 16th, 2008 at 2:22 PM | You (Score:1)
Dana
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are a dork.

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September 16th, 2008 at 2:23 PM | Am I wrong? (Score:1)
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Am I wrong?

And for the record, I still LOL'd at the video. Dammit.

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September 16th, 2008 at 2:30 PM | He may be a dork (Score:1)
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But that does not mean his analysis is incorrect.  It could have been funnier, but they made some poor choices.  Still pretty funny, but the possibilities were there....

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September 16th, 2008 at 3:29 PM | so what you guys are really saying (Score:1)
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is that the video, much like the Notre Dames' performance on the field, was not so much excellent in execution as an "impossible to fail" situation given Michigan's foibles and follies.  Right?  Right???   ;)

For my privacy, my new username is "non-Oriental non-Andrew"
 

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September 16th, 2008 at 4:48 PM | The problem is that a real (Score:1)
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The problem is that a real "Steven Threet for Heisman" video wouldn't work since he completed 17/23 and you'd be left with the three fumbles and, like, nothing else. So they had to go in another direction.

I do think it should have been "X for Heisman," with X being "Michigan" or "Rich Rodriguez" or something, but... what are the chances they actually watched the whole Yakety Sax I or YSII videos? I wouldn't if I was them.

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September 17th, 2008 at 1:41 AM | Any "X for Heisman" would (Score:1)
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Any "X for Heisman" would have been too strong; not even an uninformed blogger expects a Michigan Heisman in the next few years.  A better title might have been "RRod brings the Spread & Shred to Michigan."

Also, this vid needs more frustrated RRod. RRod's facial expressions speak for the whole fanbase.

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September 17th, 2008 at 11:10 AM | Are you suggesting that (Score:1)
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Are you suggesting that sincere "Brady Quinn for Heisman" and "Jimmy Clausen for Heisman" sentiments were reasonable?

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September 16th, 2008 at 2:45 PM | The challenge is out there, then. (Score:1)
ThWard
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One video, profiling all 3 past games, filled with slapstick fumbling, Weis ACL-tearing, and Quinn/Clausen turf sandwiches.

 Man, these two teams really don't like to play competitive football against each other, huh?

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September 16th, 2008 at 5:30 PM | I have raw video of all three games... (Score:1)
Chris of Danger...
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...and I would love to step up and say "I accept!"

However, I'm looking at my schedule for the next week or so, and the best I can do is "I'll give it a shot!"

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September 16th, 2008 at 3:13 PM | Next Year (Score:1)
jamiemac
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Next September: Yakety Sax Bowl IV. Ann Arbor.

I'll be there.....screaming my head off!!!!

Go Blue!

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September 16th, 2008 at 3:18 PM | Dana (Score:1)
Atlanta_Blue
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We're all dorks.  It's a football blog.  Get over it.

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September 16th, 2008 at 10:34 PM | Fair play (Score:1)
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.. and it sucked to be on the receiving end. Kudos, sir.
I think the roles will be reversed very soon.

Guststus Similis Pullus

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September 17th, 2008 at 9:21 AM | Molk's tackle (Score:1)
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The play Molk made on that interception is one heck of an eee Barwis moment. Here's a lineman taking the proper angle and running down a DB, over 30 yards! And Molk then brings him down with a lunging one-hander (illegal, sure, but worth the 15 yard penalty). That play alone has me excited about the rest of the season.

Wanting something to be true does not make it true.

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September 17th, 2008 at 12:44 PM | about that penalty (Score:1)
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That's about the lamest horse-collar call I've ever seen, IIRC.  Didn't he just get ahold of his collar, pull him off-balance backwards, and then let go as he started to go down?

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September 17th, 2008 at 12:19 PM | As long as there is no video of our QB (Score:1)
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with turf stuck in his face mask, post face-plant, we're still up on Notre Dame. 

M'Dog

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September 17th, 2008 at 3:04 PM | I agree, re: horse-collar (Score:1)
caup
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the horse-collar tackle should only be a penalty if the ball carrier is forcibly brought down via that manuever. There's a need for some discretion.  Molk's tackle attempt was actually "broken" by Bruton, and he continued to stumble forward.  This is not a penalty.

Go Blue

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September 17th, 2008 at 6:01 PM | I don't know (Score:1)
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Just because he failed to take him down with the horse-collar, it doesn't change the fact that that was the method he was using to try to tackle the ball carrier. He grabbed the of the shoulder pads and yanked down, it shouldn't matter how effective it was.

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