ESPN Uni Watch on endzones - Michigan featured
Michigan is featured twice in the most recent Uni Watch column on road team names/artwork in endzones. The beginning focuses on NFL games, but there are at least two examples of Michigan games: 1968 @ OSU, "MICH" was painted in the endzone at Ohio Stadium, and in the 1995 Pigskin classic (Lloyd Carr's first game), "VIRGINIA" was in the endzone for a home game (though technically designated a netrual-site game).
Are there any other examples?
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/18459129/uni-watch-flashback-nfl-hosts-were-welcoming
January 13th, 2017 at 10:35 AM ^
I'm.... losing consciousness....
January 13th, 2017 at 10:39 AM ^
We wore blue pants at home once and played terrible football to honor Penn St.
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January 13th, 2017 at 10:45 AM ^
We won that game, yes? I'd rather win in ugly uniforms than lose in pretty ones..
January 13th, 2017 at 10:53 AM ^
With all the PSU adoration this post-season, people are quick to forget that they still had the same record as the Michigan team they lost to by 39 and James Franklin is 0-3 against Michigan. That's going to be 0-4 in October, can't wait to shut up the people narrowing the 2017 B1G East race down to PSU and OSU.
January 13th, 2017 at 11:04 AM ^
do have to say it was a rather stirring come back though. Penn State is clearly gross, but they played at a level this year at the end of the season that I really did not see them getting to under Franklin.
The moral of Penn State's resurgence is this, Michigan State is even more screwed than we thought.
January 13th, 2017 at 11:55 AM ^
has no place in a sentence that also contains the words "Penn State,"
January 13th, 2017 at 2:46 PM ^
There are several morals to the Penn State story:
The problem is that the students and fans don't get those morals.
January 13th, 2017 at 6:39 PM ^
Is there a reason comments with pictures in them turn into gigantic text strings?
January 13th, 2017 at 11:33 AM ^
Fortunately, the last two years we've been able to beat PSU and wear pretty uniforms.
January 13th, 2017 at 11:37 AM ^
You'd rather look good and lose than look bad and win. How many dinners did your necklace set your family back?
January 13th, 2017 at 11:08 AM ^
Minus the ridiculous looking duct tape touch, I was a fan of those. Much better than bumble bee, Sugar, and Outback uniforms.
January 13th, 2017 at 11:29 AM ^
I thought they looked like a set of pajamas.
I didn't have a problem with the Sugar Bowl uniforms, other than the redundant Block M (which seemed to be a Brandon requirement)
Looking at these now does make me prefer the all-white road look though. White and yellow isn't that great of a combo.
January 13th, 2017 at 11:36 AM ^
I was just going to say that, for as much as I like the all white road units, that pic makes me miss the maize pants.
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January 13th, 2017 at 12:02 PM ^
Numbers were too thin on the Sugar Bowl unis. Loved the all-blues sans the Venetian blind look on the numbers.
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January 13th, 2017 at 10:42 AM ^
I'd rather have colored endzones before having another team's name on the field
January 13th, 2017 at 6:24 PM ^
Glorious.
January 13th, 2017 at 10:43 AM ^
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January 13th, 2017 at 10:46 AM ^
How are we still behind Purdue?
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January 13th, 2017 at 10:52 AM ^
More like Pur-Don't amiright?
I'll see myself out
January 13th, 2017 at 11:02 AM ^
We have been behind Purdue for 2 weeks now. This is why I'm thread-jacking today. Hoping to get more MGoBloggers involved!
January 13th, 2017 at 10:43 AM ^
We should all spend a ton of time today wracking our brains to find more examples
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January 13th, 2017 at 10:45 AM ^
What a tease. I got excited it was a report on us getting blue endzones.
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January 13th, 2017 at 11:10 AM ^
That would be terrible.
January 13th, 2017 at 12:42 PM ^
Actually, I think blue endzones with maize "Michigan" looks pretty cool, as seen in photos from old Rose Bowls.
January 13th, 2017 at 1:28 PM ^
I'd love a decent quality pic of diamond M end zone in the Shoe if anyone has a line. Worth framing for certain.
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January 13th, 2017 at 1:28 PM ^
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January 13th, 2017 at 2:41 PM ^
Seeing as how we lost that 1968 game with the diamond pattern endzone by 36 points, are you sure about that? :P
January 13th, 2017 at 6:35 PM ^
Looks like it said ^M^I^C^H and not ^M^I^C^H^I^G^A^N^:
Here's some video:
January 13th, 2017 at 11:48 AM ^
Uni-watch is actually right up your alley. It is a really good lunch read. A lot of interesting information, and history behind uniforms.
January 13th, 2017 at 1:39 PM ^
Thought that to. I'm not as high on blue endzones at Michigan Stadium as you are, WD.
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January 13th, 2017 at 1:40 PM ^
I think it should be a thing reserved for bowl games. A bowl game tradition. Our endzomes are fine the way they are now.
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January 13th, 2017 at 10:56 AM ^
If it's any indication of how much video boards change the gameday experience, I was at that UVA game, and had no idea until this thread that Virginia was painted in the opposite end zone. The more you know.
January 13th, 2017 at 11:31 AM ^
I was also at the game sitting up high at midfield and didn't notice it. I don't recall it being a story either. Today it would be Instafaced and Snappered all over the world.
This is the very first I have heard of it.
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January 13th, 2017 at 2:09 PM ^
I don't remember "Virginia" in the end zone, but I do remember a lot of people leaving early.
January 13th, 2017 at 2:27 PM ^
Those people must've been kicking themselves after Dresibach-Hayes to win the game. That game was my sophomore year. Classic.
January 13th, 2017 at 3:03 PM ^
I remember a lot of people leaving 2004 MSU midway through the fourth quarter. Whoops.
January 13th, 2017 at 10:42 PM ^
Feel like all my friends in the student section left that one early. But... It was Halloween weekend, so everyone had a party to go to that night. Plus, it was a 3:30 game, started to drag before OT even happened, and to make matters worse it suddenly got unseasonably cold somewhere around the middle of the third quarter when the sun went down. People who showed up without a jacket or sweatshirt, especially if they were wearing a halloween costume... Nope.
I know it's easy to sit here and judge knowing what happened, but that was a once-in-a-lifetime comeback, and everything leading up the fourth quarter was terrible. If you were a student freezing your ass off, or a season ticket holder pissed as hell because the team laid an egg... I get it.
January 13th, 2017 at 2:34 PM ^
(Raises hand, with an excuse)
Had a family wedding that afternoon, we stayed as long as we could... All were crowded around the TV tying our ties at the house when Hayes caught the touchdown. And it would have been right in front of us, too. Oh well.
January 13th, 2017 at 6:39 PM ^
I was at the game (very hot day). I remember the VIRGINIA end zone. It was to make it look like more of a "bowl game". I remember it being a novelty seeing somebody else's name in the end zone besides Michigan.
The VIRGINIA end zome was where the walk-off TD occurred.
January 13th, 2017 at 10:04 PM ^
Incorrect. The Hayes touchdown was scored in the Michigan endzone.
January 13th, 2017 at 10:57 PM ^
Ooops. Must have had heatstroke.
January 13th, 2017 at 11:06 AM ^
was that Virginia game played at the Big House? Was the Pigskin Classic scheduled for Ann Arbor and we just happened to be playing in it? Strange how that would be called a "nuetral site" game.
January 13th, 2017 at 11:31 AM ^
The Pigskin Classic was always played on campus, IIRC. The Kickoff Classic was the one that was played in the Meadowlands.
January 13th, 2017 at 11:42 AM ^
That year was the first year the Pigskin Classic was played on a school's campus - prior to 1995, it had been a neutral-site game in Anaheim. Starting in 1995, it was usually on a team's campus, although there were still a few neutral sites mixed in (Chicago, Jacksonville).
January 13th, 2017 at 11:43 AM ^
But the first 5 years (90-94), the Pigskin Classic was a true neutral site game played in Anaheim. From 95-02, it moved to campus sites.
It wasn't coincidence. In 96, it was in Provo, UT and featured BYU vs Texas A&M. 97 was at Soldier field for Northwestern. 98 at the LA Colisseum for USC. 99 at Beaver for PSU, etc.
January 13th, 2017 at 12:08 PM ^
is just odd that history would record it as a "nuetral site game." They can call it whatever "Classic" kind of game they want but painting Virginia in the endzone does not a nuetral site make.
January 13th, 2017 at 11:12 AM ^
But you can still totally tell it was a Taco Bell.
January 13th, 2017 at 11:49 AM ^
Still, a huge improvement. Taco Bell is hot garbage. Indian food is awesome.
There's a Lebanese place in Ypsi that I'm pretty sure used to be a Taco Bell.
January 13th, 2017 at 12:13 PM ^
I was younger I ate all kinds of Taco Bell, all the cheesiest, beaniest, ridiculous items on the menu. Then I turned like 25 and I never ate it anymore because it was gross and it hurt. Now, I have discovered that if you just get tacos, like regular hard shell tacos with nothing globbed onto it or hanging off from it, it is actually pretty tasty and family friendly in a pinch. A taco box is a good deal and feeds 4 easily. A good alternate to a "pizza night." Certainly not like a once a week thing but a once in a while thing.
January 13th, 2017 at 12:20 PM ^
I usually get Taco Bell about once every couple years. It's enough time for me to forget the devastating effects it has on my gastrointestinal system. It always sounds good and then the next day it's always "ohhhh l, that's why."
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