Favorite play from 2009 season
December 18th, 2009 at 7:39 PM ^
Weis getting greedy and throwing a bomb at the end, and Warren slapping that weak stuff right down.
December 18th, 2009 at 9:10 PM ^
+1 for decorum. "Weak shit" would have been inappropriate for this forum.
December 18th, 2009 at 7:40 PM ^
first TD run against western...
December 18th, 2009 at 8:31 PM ^
However, it was very disappointing that he had no success after that running the ball.
December 18th, 2009 at 8:59 PM ^
he wasn't able to break free on every subsequent carry. He did have the following stats: 69 carries for 409 yards (5.1 yard/carry average), and 5 TDs, despite everyone knowing he's running the ball every time. These stats could easily be mistaken for some level of success.
December 18th, 2009 at 9:10 PM ^
We'll be enjoying this more and more in future...
December 18th, 2009 at 9:12 PM ^
dreaded double post...
firefox fail.
apologies to everyone
December 19th, 2009 at 12:17 AM ^
YES! I even loved the commentator's ( was is Craig James?) comments. "Broken plays are dangerous for a player like......LOOK AT THAT SPEED!! C-YA!
December 18th, 2009 at 7:41 PM ^
David Cone throws a dart to Ricky Reyes for 29 yards vs Delaware St.
/thread
December 19th, 2009 at 9:27 AM ^
Ricky lived across the hall from me my freshman year in Markley. It was great to see him get a little playing time (even if it was Delaware State, and yes I know he scored a td against Wisconsin). He's one of the nicest guys I met at school.
December 18th, 2009 at 7:46 PM ^
I literally jumped for joy.
December 18th, 2009 at 9:41 PM ^
This is mine as well. I was going to credit Mathews, but it takes two. I think I lost 2 years of my life on that last drive.
EDIT: I also enjoyed watching BG flatten Winston (I think it was Winston) during the MSU game.
December 18th, 2009 at 11:23 PM ^
I think this has to be the #1. This moment was almost as good as Henne-Manningham from PSU '05 and may have been the 2nd happiest moment I have had in UM football since I have been a student.
December 18th, 2009 at 7:48 PM ^
One word: shoelace.
December 18th, 2009 at 7:57 PM ^
Watching Tate take Michigan down the field vs. MSU. He was worn out at that point, could barely get a grasp of what was happening. Tate to Roundtree...sums up the season.
December 18th, 2009 at 8:12 PM ^
Cone-to-Reyes, actually, but I just wanted to toss out some love for Warren's INT against IU, because it gave us two very important things: our only freakin' conference win, and the Bill Lynch gum heave.
December 18th, 2009 at 8:19 PM ^
Tremendous.
December 18th, 2009 at 9:15 PM ^
That's for punching girls.
December 19th, 2009 at 12:02 AM ^
It is the strangest thing. As soon as that clip ends, I just want to play it again. Absolute destruction.
December 19th, 2009 at 10:50 PM ^
I'm glad you said this, because I thought for some strange reason that I was crazy for feeling this exact same way. Every time I see this video, I am possessed to replay to watch BG absolutely own Winston. Thanks to Dantonio for giving him a "second chance" to see BG kill him. This is, without a doubt, my favorite play of the season.
December 18th, 2009 at 8:36 PM ^
I'll have to second the pick of Tate's 4th down run vs. ND, but just so we can all relive McDonough's reaction:
December 18th, 2009 at 8:52 PM ^
I second that
December 19th, 2009 at 1:43 AM ^
STUDBOLT.
December 19th, 2009 at 2:34 AM ^
There's a jockstrap on the field and it belongs to Darius Fleming.
December 18th, 2009 at 8:43 PM ^
My favorite is when Stonum housed the kick-off against the Irish.
December 19th, 2009 at 12:35 AM ^
I cannot tell you how many times I have watched that. I could gush endlessly about how awesome that play was, but instead I think I will just go watch it again. And again. And probably a couple more times after that.
December 18th, 2009 at 8:59 PM ^
Tate to Hemingway in game one, the first drive. "Yes the dark ages are over!" Unfortunately October and November dong-punched me too badly... the dark ages aren't over (yet).
December 18th, 2009 at 9:29 PM ^
What a great day this was.
December 19th, 2009 at 12:20 AM ^
A harbinger of things to come.
December 18th, 2009 at 9:12 PM ^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTi_FQEeG4w
Loved the play when Tate scrambled around in this game, eventually throwing it to Vincent Smith, then he shook the defender and got in for the score.
December 18th, 2009 at 9:31 PM ^
Thank you to the OP for starting this thread. Watching the highlights from last season put me in a better mood tonight.
December 18th, 2009 at 10:37 PM ^
I second your "Duh". Winning is what its all about.
December 18th, 2009 at 10:10 PM ^
The game winner v. ND is a great choice but my favorite moment from that game, and the season, was Tate's run straight up the middle v. ND -- I was was just shocked to see a Michigan quarterback pull that off.
December 18th, 2009 at 10:16 PM ^
-Stonum's kick return vs ND
-Tate's TD run vs ND, where Fleming lost his jock strap
-Mathews GW TD vs ND
-Denard's fumbled snap he took for 6 vs WMU
-Stonum's TD catch and run vs MSU
-Donovan's pick 6 at Iowa
-Everything Roy Roundtree did those last few weeks
-BG. Nuff said
December 18th, 2009 at 10:23 PM ^
the plays where our defense stopped someone on 3rd and long
December 18th, 2009 at 10:24 PM ^
Brandon Graham's Touchdown. Awwwww yeah!
December 18th, 2009 at 10:35 PM ^
Tate's leaping TD in the Indiana game, which may not be favorite of the season but I think it is definitely worth mentioning. I would embed the video if I could...(hint hint)
December 18th, 2009 at 10:45 PM ^
I have different pictures of that leaping TD as my background picture at work and also on my laptop! I think that's one of my favorite M plays of ALL TIME.
Oh, and Forcier to Matthews. Obvz.
December 19th, 2009 at 3:13 AM ^
I gotta say, the 2 point conversion after that, where Moosman literally throws the entire pile into the end zone was tops for me.
December 18th, 2009 at 10:56 PM ^
My wife isn't much of a football fan; primarily because she doesn't understand all the rules, positions, plays, etc. and thinks it's just too complex to really follow.
She kind of barely gets the offense, mostly because she can just focus on the quarterback, and from watching him at least follow the plays as they develop.
She likes this, and over the last couple years has incrementally watched more and more football with me (though my own football watching budget is very limited). She's always just given up on the defense though, because "it's just a bunch of guys running around and then someone tackles the guy with the ball".
This year I told her she should try to pay attention to the defense because it can be just as exciting as the offense. She was skeptical, but after the beginning of the year I told her all she had to was to focus on one player at a time. Try just watching #55.
She loved it. She watched the Tivo'ed games with me just to see what he'd do, bitched at all the no-call holds by the blind refs, you name it.
Thank you Brandon Graham for helping my wonderful wife enjoy football more.
Her best quote was "Is he that good, or are the rest of them that bad?" (both the opponents offense AND the rest of our defense)
yes.
December 18th, 2009 at 11:01 PM ^
The last four minutes or so of regulation time at MSU were incredible.
December 18th, 2009 at 11:29 PM ^
For sheer drama, Savoy's drop in the endzone against Notre Dame is one of my favorites. I know, 'WTF kind of favorite play is that!?', but with no timeouts left, Tate scrambling and impossibly getting a pass away to a presumably open Savoy-DROPPED!!! McDonough roars- the crowd roars, we all roar-OMG!!!- the freakin' highs and lows of that play were fantastic. Of course it wouldn't have been as pleasantly memorable had it not proceeded the completion to Mathews for the game winner.
December 18th, 2009 at 11:40 PM ^
1) Tate's first TD pass, where he motioned Hemingway to head towards the end zone, and they cashed it in. Everything was still pure, and hope was as high as it has been in quite some time. Everyone felt good about everything.
2) Denard's 1st run. Our first look at Shoelace-porn, if you will. I think the CIL had about 6,000 WTF!!! posts, and about 12,000 SHOELACE!!!! posts, all at the same time. Me, I laughed for about 15 minutes straight, still in disbelief about what I had just witnessed.
December 18th, 2009 at 11:48 PM ^
It was my first game ever in the Big House and we were playing Indiana. We get the ball late in the fourth and Tate drives all the way down the field. Its been cloudy and raining all day, but then the sun bursts out, Tay Odoms gets behind the secondary and Tate drops it in for the touchdown. An amazing ending to my first game there. Theres nothing like it in the world
December 19th, 2009 at 12:58 AM ^
My faves are:
1. Stonum's KO return
2. Tate's 4th down TD run
Honorable mention for its awesomeness: Tate's pooch punt that was chased down by Stonum.
Awww, hell... how about a nice recap of that glorious day:
December 19th, 2009 at 2:56 AM ^
The fact that I can think of more than a handful of plays from this season that were exciting just gives me more hope for the future and proves to me that the offense improved significantly. Thank you to the OP and everyone who posted for reminding me of all the good that we saw this season.
December 19th, 2009 at 3:25 AM ^
Brandon Minor's two long touchdown runs in the Purdue game. I'm going to miss him.