10 memorable plays against MSU
Technically 11 plays but I tied two of them so I could squeeze an extra play in.
I had 22 different wins to choose plays from so this was much more difficult than the Indiana version. But as usual, feel free to make fun of my rankings, agree, or choose which plays you would have ranked instead.
October 30th, 2013 at 2:11 PM ^
Dear lord - was that a Lloyd Brady sighting at 2:24? Is Lloyd Brady immortal? Is Lloyd Brady a . . . gasp . . . vampire?
October 30th, 2013 at 3:10 PM ^
October 30th, 2013 at 11:47 AM ^
Thanks for doing these. I enjoy them.
October 30th, 2013 at 11:54 AM ^
Your #1 is spot on. For me, personally, Gillette and #21's KO return are two of my greatest game memories as a student. Especially the Gillette play, he ran down the sideline right in front of the student section.
The flip side of the coin also has 2 plays burned in to memory. I was within marshmallow-throwing distance of Eddie Brown (it was him, wasn't it?) tripping Desmond on the 2-pt. attempt. And Sparty Bob was the day of my bachelor party.
October 30th, 2013 at 12:17 PM ^
Yeah I agree with the #1 as well. That play calls for another Gary Moeller "that kid is unbelievable".
I get goose bumps just thinking about the potential for another playmaker like Woodson in Jabrill Peppers.
October 30th, 2013 at 12:26 PM ^
a long, long time. . ."
Meanwhile, I think that Derrick Alexander has featured in your last three highlights reels, WH; that guy doesn't get quite as much praise, but he was amazing.
October 30th, 2013 at 6:13 PM ^
i always thought he was the best i ever saw on the bubble screen. seems like he always made that first guy miss. very shifty.
October 30th, 2013 at 7:56 PM ^
but for Alexander's knee injury in the opener vs. BC that year. The two of them together in '91, though, would have been ridiculous-- would that have been the only time we've had two first round NFL draft picks starting at WR at the same time? I don't remember if Alexander started on the '90 team.
October 30th, 2013 at 2:33 PM ^
Anyone who disagrees with #1 has delcared themselves insane. It's really not even close.
October 30th, 2013 at 12:49 PM ^
Since 1997 I have watched that reply many times. I am still amazed and can't quite believe that he caught that ball.
October 30th, 2013 at 12:08 PM ^
Love these. Glad to see your videos are back!
October 30th, 2013 at 12:12 PM ^
October 30th, 2013 at 1:02 PM ^
He could not have made that less exciting if he tried.
October 30th, 2013 at 4:30 PM ^
Or, use foreign soccer announcers!
October 30th, 2013 at 12:18 PM ^
I think one of my favorite things about this video is that MSU seems to be wearing different uniforms in each clip. Oh, and all the SPARTY NO! moments.
October 30th, 2013 at 12:22 PM ^
that was an awesome play by Gillette. Juked three unblocked guys and ran for the TD. Baller
October 30th, 2013 at 10:12 PM ^
The play before, the Spartans had blocked Gilette's punt for a touchdown. Somebody had jumped offsides, though, and the play was called back. That would have tied up the game, too.
October 30th, 2013 at 11:06 PM ^
October 30th, 2013 at 12:24 PM ^
I tried to score tickets in E. Lansing on game day for that one, and struck out. So I watched it at an E. Lansing bar, and (due to my pure exuberance) made a bit of a spectacle of myself when Woodson pulled that one down. Fortunately it was at a brew pub (Blue Coyote), so I wasn't subject to a brah beatdown - the crowd was actually pretty impressed with Woodson's leap, so couldn't really fault me for being excited.
Great montage, Wolverine Historian. Thanks!
October 30th, 2013 at 6:27 PM ^
every time it comes up, till the day I die.
I was in middle school and we got in free to work concessions for a fundraiser. I only had to work one quarter and got to see the rest of the game. I was standing almost at the line of scrimmage about 20 rows up for that play. Unforgettable.
October 30th, 2013 at 12:29 PM ^
Is it sick of me that I remember the BAD plays more than the good?
TOP THREE OF HORROR
3. 1978 - Kurt Gibson goes nuts and undefeated and #1 ranked Michigan goes down. The term "Arrogant Asses" is born.
2. 1990 - A huge comeback is ruined by an official turning a blind eye to an obvious pass interference with Desmond Howard on our two point conversion attempt and we lose. Again ranked #1 in the country at the time.
1. 2001 - "5,4,3,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1........." Spartan Bob singlehandidly gives MSU extra time to run one last play (and also singlehandidly changes NCAA rules on time keepers) and despite obvious holding in the middle of the field on the last play State scores and is given another gift win by the officials. Somewhere the 1972 USSR Mens Basketball team was nodding it's approval.
October 30th, 2013 at 1:21 PM ^
NEVER FORGET:
October 30th, 2013 at 6:53 PM ^
Most of the time I have followed Michigan football, since '72, Michigan was expected to win. You seem to remember those unexpected outcomes!
October 30th, 2013 at 12:58 PM ^
I will agree with others here - the top play is dead on. I was at that game and it was one of the most beautiful things I had seen to that point in my life. The funny thing about it is that it probably would have just sailed out of bounds otherwise, but Woodson being Woodson, Michigan ball.
Thanks for sharing these compilations. Excellent work.
October 30th, 2013 at 1:26 PM ^
Great stuff, but you needed to add at the end the John L. Smith melt down, Mike Hart's "little brother" interview, and Dantonio's hatred-filled interview in his first year.
October 30th, 2013 at 1:34 PM ^
#1 is one of those plays I was doing growing up where I was always trying to imitate with friends. Play will forever be incredible.
October 30th, 2013 at 1:47 PM ^
#1 was amazing. I will always remember watching that at my friend's house (3 generations of MSU alumns) after taking our ACT tests that morning. To see their collective jaws drop was so sweet.
October 30th, 2013 at 2:20 PM ^
Something I had forgotten about Braylonfest but remembered after watching the comeback on mgovideo:
M got the ball back, tied 27 all, with one minute left and I believe one timeout, on their own 20, and just ran the clock out. So very Lloyd of Lloyd. I mean, Braylon had just spent the last five minutes going bananas and they didn't even take one shot at picking up some good yardage. It all worked out, of course, but man. That's some conservative ball coachin'.
October 30th, 2013 at 3:58 PM ^
Didn't MSU have the ball last? I remember them drawing a very questionable PI penalty in the final seconds and then missing a long FG to end regulation.
October 30th, 2013 at 4:36 PM ^
Whoa, you're right. I stopped watching right as M punted with 9 seconds left. It was shanked, of course, and MSU threw a pass down the right sideline. Leon Hall was flagged in a highly bullshitty way, as you remember, and then MSU (Dave Rayner) missed a 52-yard field goal into the wind with no time left on the clock.
That was some Skin of the Teeth Lloydball right there.
October 31st, 2013 at 11:13 AM ^
Great work by MGoVideo to synch that up with Beckmann's audio.
It sounds like Braylon only had about 40 receiving yards in the first 52 minutes of the game, which is crazy to think about. I know it was windy that day, but we needed to go to him earlier when we had the wind, at least.
There were so many clutch 3rd-down plays in the overtimes. I totally forgot about that clutch 3rd and 1 defensive stop in the first OT. They were inside the five when that happened, so that was a pretty scary situation. Huge play. And then Avant made the acrobatic TD catch on 3rd and goal in the second OT, and Braylon the TD on 3rd and 9 in the third one . . . wow.
BTW, I noticed that there was no "You Suck" chant at the end of "Temptation" in that game. When exactly did that start?
October 31st, 2013 at 11:14 AM ^
The first time I ever heard the students do "You suck" after Temptation was at the 2006 Iowa game. The next two weeks against Northwestern and Brady Hoke's Ball State team, the students did it again and have done it ever since.
The previous season, 2005, I went to the opener against Northern Illinois and the Penn State game (Henne to Manningham on the final play) and I did not hear the you suck chant from the students. So I'm pretty sure it was 2006.
October 30th, 2013 at 2:22 PM ^
Derrick Alexander's punt return (#7) has some of the worst announcing I've ever heard. The play-by-play guy calls it like it's a 3 yard zone stretch.
October 30th, 2013 at 6:19 PM ^
how i long for a 3 yd zone stretch...
October 30th, 2013 at 2:52 PM ^
I love how Gillette runs right through the referee on his fake and that was the only person who touched him.
October 30th, 2013 at 6:21 PM ^
why that guy is anywhere near there (and not 5 yds back) is beyond me. imagine if gilette would have bumped him then tackled for the 10 yd loss. reminds me of that idiot 3B ump in the tiger/red sox playoff game.
October 30th, 2013 at 7:47 PM ^
Bo admitted in an interview with Michigan Replay (it's on the '88 season highlight tape) that Gillette forgot to tell the ref they were going to run a fake to that side of the field, and thus the guy ended up flat on his ass. Whoops.
October 30th, 2013 at 3:34 PM ^
Great list, as usual. I just wish ALL of the Braylen Bowl highlights were combined. Picking just one is too hard.
October 30th, 2013 at 4:01 PM ^
I miss toilet paper and marshmellows. The terrorists have won.
October 30th, 2013 at 5:51 PM ^
I was just going to post the same thing, but I'll just agree with yours instead. I didn't even mind getting the occasional toilet paper roll to the back of my head. I mean, it's toilet paper. Those were the days.
October 30th, 2013 at 5:27 PM ^
It gives me warm cuddly feelings inside to see all the Wolverine Historian videos again.
October 30th, 2013 at 5:53 PM ^
Well, the Woodson INT at #1 seemed rather obvious. But man, that Desmond Howard... what a great player.
October 30th, 2013 at 6:06 PM ^
Oh, would another one be sweet, especially since we've been bitten in the arse by them over the years.
Please!?
October 30th, 2013 at 7:42 PM ^
October 30th, 2013 at 11:45 PM ^
That's some epic trolling. I don't remember Mouton ever grabbing the facemask of a prone player and twisting it 90 degrees, though.
October 31st, 2013 at 8:43 AM ^
-You're welcome.
October 31st, 2013 at 12:41 PM ^
I grabbed breakfast at a local greasy spoon this morning, and there was this morning's Freep sports section left on the table. Hack Mark Snyder put together his list of the "Top 10 Most Memorable Performances by A Wolverine in the UM-MSU Rivalry." OK, fine, it was all the expected stuff, until I get to 1990 and Desmond Howard. This is what Hack Mark Snyder wrote:
"Howard caught eight passes for 140 yards and returned a kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown but was remembered for a ball he didn't catch, the end-zone two-point conversion in the final seconds when he tripped."
When he tripped?
http://www.spartansportspage.com/story/title/Guilty_as_charged_Ex-MSU_b…
"Former Michigan State defensive back Eddie Brown has a confession. Yes, Brown says, he did trip Desmond Howard in the end zone during the MSU-Michigan game in 1990. He says he did it purposely to prevent Howard from catching what would have been a winning two-point conversion in the game's final seconds."
Snyder might as well attribute the outcome in Clockgate to "a clock equipment malfunction."