1997 season

Submitted by Jeremy on July 9th, 2020 at 9:59 AM

With the prospect of a fall season not looking so good. I was wondering if anyone knew how to get recordings of the 1997 season? If we can't watch live Michigan football this year why not watch some older games?

RobinRedmond

July 9th, 2020 at 11:06 AM ^

I think I have the whole season including the Rose Bowl on DVDs that I created from VHS.  I will have to go through the inventory to confirm, but I am sure I have them somewhere.

Kilgore Trout

July 9th, 2020 at 11:21 AM ^

Very slightly related, I heard an example (might have actually been Seth on the mgopodcast) talking about picking a random season that you have no memory of and watching it on youtube week by week as if it was real. For instance, so choose 2011 PAC-10, load up the videos and see what happens. 

snarling wolverine

July 9th, 2020 at 1:12 PM ^

It’s weird that we haven’t been able to fully replace the advantages of VHS.  It had both recordability and portability.  DVD/Blu-Ray have only the latter and DVR only has the former.  If you move or cut the cord, you lose the stuff you’ve DVR’d.

Sure, you can find a lot of old stuff on YouTube, but not everything.  You’re at the mercy of someone else uploading what you want (or else you have to go to the trouble of uploading it yourself).

uminks

July 9th, 2020 at 5:50 PM ^

Heading into the 1997 season, I did not expect Michigan would go undefeated. I thought the defense looked good and that Carr may only lose 3 games instead of 4. So, I was surprised.

Desert Wolverine

July 9th, 2020 at 8:45 PM ^

The funny thing for me that 1997 season, I was going on a Michigan bulletin board, and there was a posting after the first week of the season by a guy who went by preacher, who laid out an eerily accurate prediction of each game for the season, in a revival tent style that was well worth the read.  And then as it played out, I want ed him to pick some stocks for me