Well, like I mentioned before, I wish the picture was better. But you still get to see the snow as well as Biakabutuka and Mercury Hayes diving into water on the sidelines.
Plenty of chances to score inside the 10 yard line but came away with zero points 4 out of 5 times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j460bLNZ6To
Thanks. I convinced my dad to
103,271. Two words: Ha Ha.
I got there totally late and wish I'd left early. I remember some hack writer criticizing Michigan for having such a nailbiter against Purdue...someone who had clearly read only the score.
Haven't watched the video yet, but I recall a sure Purdue TD ending with an incompletion or a Boilermaker simply falling down. The only thing worse would have been losing 6-5 or 7-5. The next year was worse.
I remember
sitting in Charleston SC. in a University dorm watching that game. It was the only M game I got that year that wasn't at a bar and it was awful. mmmmmmmmemories
I will never forget the
I will never forget the numbness in my fingers during that game. The marching gloves are not gore-tex and tend to ignite when placed in front of the heat cannons on the sidelines. Very memorable game for me. Thank you for sharing!!
As always
Damn fine work, sir.
had to work
At the time I worked evenings and Saturday mornings, so no football games for me. I remember getting back to my apartment to watch the 2nd half, looking at all that snow and rain and thinking to myself that not being able to go to the games wasn't so bad...
If I recall correctly this is
If I recall correctly this is the game that Nate Delong was Michigan's punter and ended up "getting the game ball" or personally singled out by Lloyd as being a key to the game. He quit football after that year, i think. My brother was his long snapper in high school...one of the only people from Wyandotte Roosevelt High School to go to a big time school and actually produce anything...
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Very Cool
It's really interesting to watch since I don't remember this game at all
Cold, Miserable Day
My Junior year. Man that was a cold, miserable game. I'm proud to say that I stayed for the whole thing.
-So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
Seconded
This is one of the most memorable games from my college years. I was right there with you, from beginning to end.
Disgruntled former moderator. I got a lot of problems with you people!
Couldn't get my wife (or anyone else) to go....
Couldn't get my wife (or anyone else) to go so I sat alone in our 2 seats. I wrapped myself in Dad's then 40 year old wool M blanket and was only nominally miserable temperature wise. Past that all I remember was how badly I wanted not to lose given what the fans put in to be there.
We're gonna play with toughness, we're gonna be responsible and we're gonna play with toughness. This is Michigan.
i remember sitting in the car
just before the game with my dad and his two sisters. my aunties live in A^2 and drove to the game. just as we were about to leave, i asked for my ticket to go; my dad's younger sister said if you're so will I. clearly the older ones were the smart ones -- going home to watchthe game from the comfort of the livingroom.
I am still freezing just thinking of that game, and i felt real bad for mercury hayes belly slide through the mud lake right in front of me.
Born in Oklahoma
Raised in Ohio
Escaped to Meechigan
GERG saw this game
and vowed it would never happen again
Not too soon.
Not too soon.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Why? Because it would mess up his hair?
;)
Wow. My first and so far only
Wow. My first and so far only Michigan game. Really appreciate this WH.
“The blue in our ribbons may fade, our trophies may become tarnished, the gleam of our medals lose luster, but the emotional experiences of joy and elation will never be forgotten.”
My senior year of high
My senior year of high school. I so badly didn't want to go, but couldn't break my consecutive game streak the year before moving. Made to the end along with what looked like about 30k other people. I may remember this wrong, but didn't we elect to kick off in both halfs of that game? First time I'd ever seen that.
As always, a job well done.
As always, a job well done. I can always count on you, WH to entertain me when I am bored.
"Michigan isn't going to lose a game" - Fielding Yost, 1901
That puddle
Tim fell into in the second quarter could not have been fun
So hot. Milk was a bad choice.
I don't know. I kind of
I don't know. I kind of liked playing football in the rain. Getting all muddy was part of the fun. Being in the stands trying to watch in that weather, OTOH, is miserable.
I like playing Ultimate
I like playing Ultimate Frisbee barefoot (on grass surfaces, not asphalt), and I especially like playing it in the rain. Everyone else always seemed a little more tenative when it was raining, or maybe it was the competitive Wolverine in me coming out in the cleaner Northern Michigan rain.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Football in the rain
would be fun. Football underwater in 34° weather would get quite uncomfortable IMO
So hot. Milk was a bad choice.
Maybe in regular clothes, but
Maybe in regular clothes, but in pads and a helmet, you feel pretty much invincible as far as the weather is concerned. The only really bad things would be a lack of footing (which could lead to sprained ankles and such) and a slippery ball. I'd much rather play in that weather than have to sit through it, unless I were a QB (for them, it must suck).
Check your YouTube msgs WV
;)
Thank you for this. Your site is the only Youtube subscription I follow. Keep up the good work.
I was there
I was there, and walking to the stadium with the ice pellets falling sideways was unpleasant. I think there was also rain mixed in, so we could be wet to optimize the discomfort. And if there was ever a case study in whether attendance is tickets sold/actual attendess/combination thereof, that game was it. We're lucky if there were 70K there, but of course it was announced as 100K+.
I got a letter from the government the other day . . .
I picked my buddy up in
I picked my buddy up in Berkley to head to the game when we both said, "F this." We went to a bar on Woodward (1812, I think) and watched the game from the comfort of a couple bar stools.
this was
one of the few homes games I missed growing up. It was due to having my tonsils taken out and I couldn't go. I would have stuck it out if I were there but it sure didn't look pleasant on TV as I sat there in a warm house eating ice cream.
"To hell with Notre Dame" ~ Bo Schembechler
God bless your cotton-pickin' maize 'n blue Meechigan hearts!
Karma
Two weeks later those of us who stuck this game out got to witness one of the more satisfying victories, and dominant individual performances, I've ever witnessed first-hand. I still have a picture of me and a couple of friends with the scoreboard in the background reading Michigan 31, Ohio State 23.
That's the funny thing. Our
That's the funny thing. Our bad-weather games are almost always a week or two before OSU. For OSU itself, the weather cooperates (as much as you can expect for late November). In the 100th game (2003), it was even warm.
Quite True
Another good example is 1997. The Penn State game was two weeks before OSU and it rained quite a bit IIRC. I definitely remember driving to State College in a torrential rainstorm the night before.
Mike Alstott
I love watching Mike Alsttot wallow around in this type of weather. Great stuff.
According to the stat line, Amani Toomer was 0-1 with an INT.
I want a ruling, does
I want a ruling, does attending that game qualify a fan for a Fandom Endurance Level III Merit Badge? I know they won, but wow it was bad and I stayed for the whole damn thing.
Also, WH, the video quality is fine. It's just great to relive a game like that from the comfort of SoCal.
Only if level III
Stands for one hundred and eleven, Spinal Tap style. Because the others weren't close.
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
What's fascinating about this
What's fascinating about this is how thoroughly we dominated this game, despite the close score. We played almost the entire game on Purdue's side of the field, but just couldn't punch it in.
Now with 100% less South Bend, 100% more Washington DC.
The only thing that got me
The only thing that got me through this game was the bottle of Jagermeister that we snuck in and then put in a glove to take swigs from. Despite the score, I was never very concerned. Scoring for Purdue just seemed a bridge too far. It wasn't like Alstott was going to break one out for a TD.
The safety happened directly in front of us which was nice. I remembered it as being Woodson blitzing which clearly was not the case. Apparently, Woodson took away half my brain when he took away half the field.
Great work as always WH.
Give it to Wheatley!
all i have...
to say about this game is pay attention to how clean chuck winters uniform stays through out the game...
Thanks. I convinced my dad to drive my friend (who was a Purdue fan) and I from South Bend for the game. The weather was horrible the entire way there and never improved. Definitely the coldest game I've been to, and I'd say the stadium only had at the most 75,000 people. It's one of the most memorable for me, even though a lot of time was spent huddled in whatever shelter we could find.