Eleven years ago today...
January 27th, 2022 at 5:01 PM ^
(It won't embed here, but if you click on the "Watch on YouTube" link, it works.)
January 27th, 2022 at 8:00 PM ^
Thanks! I remember this game clearly. I always thought this victory was the one that put us back into basketball.
January 27th, 2022 at 9:23 PM ^
The screen cap shows a note on Jeff Fisher. Kind of funny considering the next thread I n the board.
January 27th, 2022 at 9:51 PM ^
That is amazing, didn't notice until you pointed it out.
January 27th, 2022 at 5:07 PM ^
My senior year. Was such a fun season -- you could feel the tides turning.
January 27th, 2022 at 5:10 PM ^
The beginning of something very special…
January 27th, 2022 at 5:20 PM ^
That was amazing. I watched that at a bar, damn miss the pre covid days.
January 27th, 2022 at 5:24 PM ^
You know bars are still open and people still go to them.
January 27th, 2022 at 6:04 PM ^
After being hospitalized during the first wave, I'm in no rush to go to a bar. Also big family and take care of elderly parents. It's all good. Blessed to enjoy games at home ??
January 27th, 2022 at 5:23 PM ^
Also on this day in history in no specific order:
- Apollo 1 disaster (1967).
- Vietnam war ended (1973).
- The Siege of Leningrad was broken by Russian troops (1944).
- Russian troops freed the survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp (1945).
- Mozart was born (in 1756).
- The first episode of Lavern and Shirley airs on ABC (1976).
- Thomas Edison patented the incandescent light bulb (1880).
- Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad died (2018)
- Michael Jackson receives serious burns during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.
- The Honeymoon bridge across the Niagra Falls collapses (1938)
- The first public demonstration of a television system occurred in London (1936)
- Andre the Giant dies of a heart attack (1993)
January 27th, 2022 at 5:28 PM ^
Apparently yesterday was Michigan's birthday.
January 27th, 2022 at 5:52 PM ^
Interesting use of "after" there. Some time has elapsed in between those two events.
"Bob turns 90 after being born in 1932."
January 27th, 2022 at 8:13 PM ^
Michigan would have been a state two years earlier if it wasn’t for Ohio holding our statehood hostage so that they could get the port of what is now Toledo.
F’ Ohio.
January 27th, 2022 at 5:32 PM ^
One more to add to your list:
The Great Blizzard of 1978.
https://www.woodtv.com/weather/bills-blog/remembering-the-blizzard-of-1978/
January 27th, 2022 at 8:13 PM ^
I was 12. What a blast that was!
January 27th, 2022 at 8:19 PM ^
I was 22 and a WMU student back then. No school and no work for several days, but my roommates and I borrowed a sled and walked a mile through the blizzard to the nearest party store for essentials. They had already sold out their kegs before we got there but we made good with other "refreshments".
January 27th, 2022 at 9:17 PM ^
love looking back at stuff like that. those pictures are great.
in the UP i remember one day when it snowed 36"....and i didn't close my office. told the staff they didn't need to come in, but i went in. no problem, reasonable day, quiet. 4WD critically important.
January 27th, 2022 at 10:10 PM ^
Snowmobiles, x-country skis, and toboggans were also essential.
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My Goddaughter/niece just turned 44 today. My sister was 3 weeks early when the sudden steep drop in barometric pressure caused her to go into labor, my brother-in-law was 15 miles away working 3rd shift and couldn't even get out of the parking lot because of the intensity of the blizzard. Worse yet, their home was in the middle of nowhere midway between GR and Middleville.
911 sent a snowplow, an ambulance, and for the last few miles, a snowmobile to pick her up and get her back to the hospital---thankfully safely on time---to deliver their healthy baby girl. Her daddy didn't get to see her until about 36 hours later.
January 27th, 2022 at 10:13 PM ^
oh man, that's a heck of a story. glad it turned out well.
January 27th, 2022 at 11:12 PM ^
Yes, that was 1/26. I was in the 9th grade. I stayed up all night walking around the house and measuring snow drifts, since I knew school was going to be closed. The surface and 850mb low deepened so much that warmer air wrapped around the low and Detroit and the suburbs had sleet and freezing rain keeping snow amounts down to around 10" A bit farther west there was 20 or more inches of snow.
Also, 1/28/77 we had the great ground blizzard across southern Michigan. My school closed at noon that day and my bus got stuck in a snow drift. I had to walk 2 miles home in a blizzard. Fun times, that when everyone was saying we were on a verge of an ice age.
January 27th, 2022 at 5:57 PM ^
Also, J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, died on Jan 27, 2010 in New Hampshire.
January 27th, 2022 at 9:27 PM ^
What year did Michael Jackson burn himself?
January 27th, 2022 at 5:31 PM ^
I do remember watching this game, and thinking that suddenly - in ways not yet defined at that time - that Michigan basketball had finally had this epiphany of sorts, and that it could only get better and better after that. That really was almost worthy of an episode of James Burke's "The Day The World Changed", if he had ever bothered to do a sports version of it.
January 27th, 2022 at 6:25 PM ^
It looks like Darius Morris stops Izzo more than he was expecting in the handshake line -- wonder what he said...(check out 1:28:04)
January 27th, 2022 at 10:36 PM ^
Get the fuck off my court?
January 27th, 2022 at 8:24 PM ^
Amazing moment in UM sports history.
January 27th, 2022 at 9:46 PM ^
Zack Novak became a legend on that day. I will never forget it.
January 27th, 2022 at 10:32 PM ^
While at the Final Four in San Antonio in 2018, I approached Zack Novak in a restaurant and told him he was a big reason why we were in Texas. He was with a boisterous table of friends and really didn’t know what to say but he did smile. I referenced the game at Breslin on 1/27/11 and he said Thanks.
Very cool moment.
January 27th, 2022 at 10:41 PM ^
I imagine a Chris Farley/Paul McCartney type interaction here.
"Uh remember that one time... you uh... got real mad and stuff and kinda freaked out?"
Novak - "yeah"
"That was pretty cool huh? Never mind that was a stupid question. IDIOT.. Dumb stupid.. damn it"
Just bustin balls my man that is very cool and I would be right there with you yammering on about what a great moment that was. Only slightly less great was my quote above from Darius Morris telling the Spartans to get the fuck off his court. That was when shit got real!
January 28th, 2022 at 1:48 AM ^
Hate State week! LFG! Let's do it again Saturday.
Was just looking some things up about this rivalry. Some interesting facts:
- There have only been 18 games in which both teams were ranked in the AP top 25. Twelve (!!) of them have been in the last 11 years since this game. MSU is 11-7 in such games after winning the last four.
- Michigan has won just twice more in EL since this game 11 years ago (2014 and 2018).
- Michigan State has won three times in Ann Arbor since this game 11 years ago (2015, 2016 and 2019)
- Michigan has the longest winning streak at 12 games from 1921 to 1927. They lead the series 95-86.
January 30th, 2022 at 10:22 AM ^
Juwan will get us back to relevancy. He needs more shooters.