Buzzfeed suggests rooting for UM this season
so, maybe people know this or maybe not, but buzzfeed is a sort of internet news/culture/weird stuff aggregator site that usually has lots of good cat videos and pop culture stuff. its pretty good to leaf through during the day, a few laughs. the site is very widely read across teh world and has begun to style itself as a sort of magazine like substance with some pretty serious writing on politics and the world. anyhoo, one staff writer there, Ben Mathis-Lilley has a post called "The Rootability Pros And Cons Of Each Team In The Big Ten" which i totally agree with.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bml/the-rootability-pros-and-cons-of-each-team-in-the-big-ten
Michigan:
Pros:
- Great uniforms and giant, cool stadium.
- Hugely dedicated and geeky fans make good rooting brethren.
- Slowly getting back to the point of always having a looming, destructive monster defense.
- Having an endearingly schlubby coach (Brady Hoke) and relatively anonymous roster still coming back from the down years of the Rich Rodriguez era somehow makes the winningest school ever seem like an underdog at the moment.
Cons:
- No more Denard Robinson.
- Probably not actually the best team in the B1G this year but I’m a Michigan fan and can’t bear to put Ohio State first.
i suggest reading the whole thing to brush up on the upcoming season. stick around the site for an article on someone catching a giant stingray, a dog that is dressed like Marilyn Monroe and something about a german drag queen.
Buzzfeed, where you go for content when you actually don't want content.
Don't need internet dorks to dictate my college football to me
Umm, I hate to break it to you, but this is MGoBlog we are all internet dorks.
The article itself is actually pretty amusing, I thought, and the section on MSU had something listed in the "con" section thatcould just as easily be a "pro" if you're trying to defend against an offense in which Jim Bollman has a hand:
"They play offense with the imagination and enthusiasm of a trip to the DMV."
Also, I really do believe that the Dakota University Hammerjacks are a team that people could get behind.
Ok I'm sold.
Here I was, all set to give Iowa State everything I had, and now this.
-1 for basically stealing my joke.
The idea that people need a rooting guide for football makes me think that people like this actually exist...
You know what I can deliver? 1,000,000 points! Thanks Seth!
August 2nd, 2013 at 10:31 PM ^
A long way of saying it makes me very happy that my best Michigan football fan friend is now in a position to write these pieces.
In terms of contribution, Bleacher Report is was less discriminating.
August 2nd, 2013 at 11:24 PM ^
Thanks but I get all my rooting advice from my AOL homepage.