Bo tours Michigan Athletic Museum (video)

Submitted by mgofro on

In 1992, Bo Schembechler toured the new Michigan Athletic Museum inside Schembechler Hall. The museum would later be renamed the Margaret DowTowsley Sports Museum. While the museum no longer exists, some of the memorabilia now resides inside the new Schembechler Hall Museum in Ann Arbor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feq1n86A6Vc

I wish we still had such a museum where we could see all the accomplishments of every sports team. The new Towsley Museum is nice, but it's kind of small (they don't even have all our bowl trophies on display) and only for football.

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January 29th, 2016 at 12:37 PM ^

The best part of the video was when he made Bo watch his own locker room speech. At the end. "What'd you think?" Bo, "Ehh...it was clean."

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Bando Calrissian

January 29th, 2016 at 12:42 PM ^

The museum really was cool when it opened. They had all sorts of (fancy for the time) video interactive things where you could watch segments from Michigan Replay. It was a really fun time. Cool video.

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January 29th, 2016 at 12:52 PM ^

LOL!!!

Get a load of the 1992 touch-screen technology at 1:33. Cutting edge! I love it.

Now there's a massive wall of 1080p touch screen in that same building. 

Really puts it into perspective on far technology can come in a 24 year span.

 

Also, you aren't kidding about the Towsley Museum being disappointing.

We have 42 conference championships. You sure wouldn't know it based on how many trophies we do display. There were two there when I visited in 2014. Two.

One Rose Bowl trophy. No national championship trophy. WTF.

There are 21 bowl trophies. Where are they? Where are the 40 other conference title trophies? Where is the 1932 national championship trophy-

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mgofro

January 29th, 2016 at 1:26 PM ^

I visited at the same time (my photos) and was really disappointed. It was cool to see the old Big Ten trophy and some of the individual awards (like the Rimington, Hendricks and Biletnikoff), but I was surprised they didn't even have the Sugar Bowl trophy. Hopefully they replace the legends jerseys (they have a retired jersey display on the stadium concourse and the museum ones are outdated adidas versions) with a big trophy case.

BTW, do you have a photo from the Bluebonnet Bowl trophy? I have never seen it anywhere.

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Bando Calrissian

January 29th, 2016 at 11:40 PM ^

...a bunch of those trophies are displayed in Crisler...

And I really doubt Michigan really has 42 Big Ten championship trophies sitting around. Bet you anything back in the day it was the same trophy getting passed from school to school. Hell, schools didn't even get the second Heisman until the 60s when Spurrier donated his back to UF and the New York Athletic Club decided to make a second trophy for the school. The Big Ten wasn't just making a new trophy every year.

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January 30th, 2016 at 12:14 AM ^

..............The Big Ten wasn't making the trophies period to start off. Frank Dickinson was................

May not have 42 but they at least have 32 as photos from the 1926 newsreel of the presentation of the Rissman Trophy shows.

 

Also, pretty dumb to have football trophies in Crisler. Lot of sense that makes. 

National championship trophy of 1997 is upstairs at Schembechler Hall in the off-limits recruiting lounge.

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WolverineHistorian

January 29th, 2016 at 12:56 PM ^

The Big Ten Ticket was around in 1992? I didn't start watching it until the 1997 championship season, when they had the Mortal Kombat theme song. Always loved that show. They would dedicate 20 minutes to Michigan and the remaining 4 minutes to MSU.

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