1986 Michigan @ Hawaii intro

Submitted by WolverineHistorian on

With all the Hawaii talk lately, I thought I would upload this intro from the 1986 game in all its cheesy glory.  'Two Tickets to Paradise,' complete with Jamie Morris packing his teddy bear. 

I would have uploaded this years ago, but I was always worried about YouTube losing their sh*t on me for posting a video with a copyrighted song.  I'm pretty sure this is fair use now since Mike Patrick is narrating over it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQLDe0iA-lU

LSAClassOf2000

May 17th, 2016 at 6:00 PM ^

Towards the end of that, it seems as if someone has the same old deck of cards that I do - the one where occasionally you get the fifth ace in your hand. Very nice indeed. 

Also, vintage airline logos - I once got the chance to take a couple trinkets from the old North Terminal, which is how an old Eastern Airlines sign ended up in my home office.

Nice contribution indeed, WolverineHistorian.

ploeg

May 17th, 2016 at 7:55 PM ^

He was a tough litle guy. I remember the Michigan - MSU game when he totally handled All American Tony Mandarich.

I lived in Chicago area then, and when they announced their All Big Ten team, a sportswriter would write a comment about each player. THe comment about Messner was something like: "at the end of the Michigan-MSU game it was Mandarich throwing up in the tunnel and it was Messner walking tall..."

 

taistreetsmyhero

May 17th, 2016 at 7:44 PM ^

Harbaugh left his wr out to dry on a long pass, receiver snagged it right in front of a Hawaii safety, got hit, dropped the ball, then caught it again after he fell without it ever touching the ground. It was called incomplete. And now I see where harbaugh learned to sideline rage from.




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Michigan Arrogance

May 17th, 2016 at 8:53 PM ^

Flight #....3?!?!!? WTF, it's 1986, not 1906. I feel like there's a yo mamma joke in there: Yo mamma's so old her phone number is ... 3. that's it just 3.

 

it's like my FB password... i've been on FB so long my password is only 6 characters.

NittanyFan

May 18th, 2016 at 10:24 AM ^

It only shows flights TO O'Hare.  But United Airlines flight 2 arrived from Honolulu.  It would make sense, given for how airlines numbered flights back then (A to B would be Flight XX1, B to A would be Flight XX2) for United Airlines flight 3 to be a flight from O'Hare to Honolulu.  The team would have flown DTW-ORD-HNL.  (I doubt DTW-HNL non-stops existed in 1986).

http://www.departedflights.com/ORD85p5.html

Anyway --- a Flight 3 number would not be that unusual.  What is unusual from the perspective of today: a full football team flying commercial!  But that was the way things were 30 years ago; now, they would just charter a jet.

 

megaswami

May 18th, 2016 at 5:06 AM ^

Remember this game well. I was 8 at the time, but my dad made a bet with my mom. Had a bet on the outcome, with the score built in. Breakfast in bed for 3 weekends. Little did my mom know that the game was on tape delay and my dad already knew the outcome! Think he finally spilled the beans after the second weekend, mom was not happy! Funny how that memory sticks out after all these years. One of my dad's best pranks.




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Der Alte

May 18th, 2016 at 9:06 AM ^

Thanks for the video. I was at that game as part of the UM Alumni tour. A great trip, including as it did a good UM win (despite the team contending with some jet lag and an inspired Hawaii team) and on Sunday, December 7th, going to Pearl Harbor to observe the 45th anniversary of the attack that brought the US into WW II. Many members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors were there and offered fascinating personal insights into their experiences on that fateful day.

In Honolulu we stayed in the same hotel that the team used. While on the elevator, one team member was holding the door for a teammate. “Come on, Greg, hurry up!” he said. I allowed as how I thought Greg McMurtry was supposed to be fast. “Naw, the door-holder said, “He’s slow." Maybe he was slow getting to the elevator, but his onfield performance was quite the opposite --- a great player.

Ali G Bomaye

May 18th, 2016 at 9:09 AM ^

The football at the end is really bothering me.

Why are the laces on top, but the striping is on the two panels on the right?  I mean, I'm sure there were plenty of stock images of normal-looking footballs, even in 1986... why go out of your way to create one that's wrong?

SBayBlue

May 18th, 2016 at 1:32 PM ^

I think it was late night when that game started. Was it an evening game for Honolulu time?

1) Man, video quality was horrible back then. Yes, I know this was encoded for YouTube, and video degrades over time. but how we put up with such poor quality to watch a game, I don't understand. Internet video, nevermind 1080p and 4K, is 10 x better now.

2) Styles were really cheesy then. And it is Bo, but love the hat he had on at the airport. That's total old school.

3) Our players look a lot bigger, and I mean, a lot bigger than Hawaii's. I'm thinking the difference these days would not be so great as training methods have progressed.

4) The barefoot punter from Hawaii stands out. I remember barefoot kickers like Tony Franklin who kicked 64 and 65 yd field goals in his day. With the advent of better shoes, you don't really see barefoot kickers and punters anymore.

5) The airplane in the video is a DC8 I believe. That doesn't match the flight schedule posted earlier in the thread which said it was a 747 on that route. Likely stock footage.

6) The Hawaiian cheerleader is still very cute by today's standards. Even if it was from 30 years ago. Most girls from that era looking back are not like I remember.

 

NittanyFan

May 18th, 2016 at 6:24 PM ^

that's sourced from a couple newspaper archives that are available on-line.  There's a 5 hour difference between Detroit and Honolulu in the cold season; 6 hours this time of year (daylight savings).

Sun sets around 5:45 PM local time in Honolulu during early December.  So, lines up with the sun being out for the first 3 quarters, but dark by game's end.

The 1998 Michigan game had a 9:30 ET (4:30 local) kick.

I think ALL of those cheerleaders still look good.  Hawaii has some "talent" for sure.   :-)