BEVELED GUILT & MGoStore - Celebrate the 6-0 start!!
It's great to have a regular season of CFB back this year.
It's great for Michigan to be 6-0 and exceeding expectations this year.
It's great to have all this free content to read and listen to this year. It is great entertainment.
We may not agree with every single tiny opinion on this blog, but we can appreciate that it comes from dedication and hard work. We know Brian is "working through some things" and Seth is taking on the large task of UFRs.
So, maybe we can show some support?
Maybe consider clicking on the "Beveled Guilt" link in the upper right corner or buying something from MGoStore. If you go to the store, I recommend this classic tee:
October 14th, 2021 at 11:55 AM ^
This feels like you are getting a little "something something" on the back end for this post...
October 14th, 2021 at 11:58 AM ^
No, he's probably trying to get back on Seth's good side (though I don't think he's actually on Seth's "bad side" to begin with). There was a terse exchange in the UFR thread, I'd guess that's the genesis of this post.
October 14th, 2021 at 12:04 PM ^
This is right. It was a short and terse exchange. Not too important.
But, Seth mentioning he was working on UFR during the exchange made me think. I was just coming with my hot take and I wasn't appreciating the work that went into the blog enough. I still disagree over the minor point, but I lost sight of how nice it is to HAVE a UFR.
Hence, the source of my own personal, beveled guilt...and this post.
Also, I didn't buy a HTTV last year or this year because....well not sure about the prospect of either season going through.
October 14th, 2021 at 12:12 PM ^
Good for you... and I feel good about my belief that this wasn't as pure as it seemed.
October 14th, 2021 at 12:20 PM ^
And IT'S TOTALLY WORKING!
October 14th, 2021 at 12:28 PM ^
well done, petr.
we've all typed something without remembering that there's an actual human on the receiving end of a comment, and props to you for owning up (and to seth, for reminding us) i should do what you did WAY more often. or once, ever.
but maizen? screw that guy.
EDIT to add - i now realize i was guilty of the exactly that, specifically saying "calm down" to the original exchange. my apologies. but not to maizen.
October 14th, 2021 at 12:53 PM ^
Right on. This is a good post.
edit: and I agree with a lot of your sentiment in the UFR comments, not all of it, but a lot of it.
October 14th, 2021 at 12:00 PM ^
It’s his NIL deal. He’ll probably be taking everyone out for steaks soon. Anyone ever been to The Chophouse in AA?
October 14th, 2021 at 12:15 PM ^
I haven't...But I'll go to EL to see us take Sparty to the Woodshed for lunch.
October 14th, 2021 at 4:56 PM ^
I hear if you cover the check there, you get a lifetime cyan circle.
October 14th, 2021 at 12:07 PM ^
done and done, thanks for reminding us. i've been here so long that i don't even see that button any more.
brian / seth: not sure this is the place to do this, but whatever, man: i do a few patreons for podcasts that i enjoy, and i'm wondering if you've explored that option at all. once i actually, you know, pushed the beveled guilt button, i saw that there's a monthly option via paypal, but i had no idea that was there.
one positive about using patreon is that it lets me gather all of my millions of dollars in patronage in one place, so it's super-convenient to give you all some dough to help keep the lights on. i know it feels icky to ask for money, but i think there are a lot of us that would be willing to help y'all out.
October 14th, 2021 at 12:22 PM ^
They should add a companion shirt for the Trusted Agent shirt that says, “I AM A TROUBLE SPOT” and make the Os in cyan. It couldn’t be any worse than the PSU complaints t-shirt.
October 14th, 2021 at 12:37 PM ^
Pretty unrelated to this post but in 1980 the Detroit Lions began the season 4-0 and recorded a single "Another one bites the dust" (back then all NFL teams were doing this for some reason - if you really want a laugh look up "Ram it" by the LA Rams) based on the Queen song. The Lions then went 5-7 the rest of the year and missed the playoffs by one game.
This past weekend I was in a conversation via the Twitters with both Billy Sims and Al "Bubba" Baker and mentioned that my family were Lions season ticket holders and that I bought that single when it came out.
Bubba went OFF. He said he HATED that song because it put a bullseye on the back of every Lion and that they played it in every stadium when they lost. He said he never hated a song more than that one and that recording it was a terrible, terrible idea.
Just thought I'd mention that as we celebrate Michigan's 6-0 start. Remembering what Bubba said I was so glad to see we didnt make a 6-0 t-shirt or something.
October 14th, 2021 at 2:09 PM ^
So true - lived through that era; the Bears were doing a song; and the Lion's song was pushed by a DB, Jimmy "Spiderman" Allen.
It didn't end up well for him despite having had a decent NFL career and being on two of the Steele Super Bowl teams.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101011061812/http://profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/26-05-1042.pdf
Another ex-Lion great DT Doug English felt the same way about the song - and this was not recent - this was way back in 2015.
"The time to dance and strut is after you win the Super Bowl," English told the Free Press by phone last week. "It was not a time to mock the opposition. That's the way to earn a target on your back, and we did in the end."
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2015/02/08/detroit-lions-doug-english-michigan-sports-hall-fame/23073741/
October 14th, 2021 at 4:59 PM ^
Personally, I can't wait for the inevitable Lions cover of Super Bowl Shuffle.
October 14th, 2021 at 12:39 PM ^
Thanks, OP. I haven't donated in awhile, so I just beveled some guilt as partial payment for the hours of joy this blog has provided to me for over a decade.
October 14th, 2021 at 8:49 PM ^
Can we get a shirt that only comes in Cyan that simply says "I am a Cyan"
????
I would legitimately purchase this