ESPN Uni Watch on endzones - Michigan featured

Submitted by Sambojangles on

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

SAMgO

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.

ijohnb

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.

Bando Calrissian

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.

Bando Calrissian

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.

 

M-Dog

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.

 

ijohnb

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.

In reply to by ijohnb

Pepto Bismol

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.

 

 

ijohnb

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.

ijohnb

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.

In reply to by ijohnb

Artie

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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