FINAL PRE-FOOTBALL FRIDAY POSBANG

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TITLE SAYS IT ALL

LSAClassOf2000

August 28th, 2015 at 7:00 AM ^

When I woke up roughly 90 minutes ago, it dawned on me that by this point in next week, we will be talking about football that has been played rather than football that will be played, and finally we will have out first actual data point in the Time Of Harbaugh at Michigan. As fun as the summer has been, I've been anticipating this for a long while - indeed, since maybe a few minutes after the first presser last December. 

double blue

August 28th, 2015 at 8:56 AM ^

It was1989, my thoughts were short and my hair was long..,.,,

It was summertime in northern michigan. .....

The Mad Hatter

August 28th, 2015 at 9:19 AM ^

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our Michigan dead!
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man,
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the wolverine:
Stiffen the sinews, conjure up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage:
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let it pry through the portage of the head,
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o’erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O’erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide;
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest Wolverine,
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders, 
Have in these parts from morn till even fought,
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.
Dishonour not your mothers: now attest,
That those whom you call’d fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in Michigan, show us here
The mettle of your pasture: let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:
Follow your spirit; and upon this charge,
Cry ‘God for Harbaugh! Michigan! and Saint Bo!

 

James Burrill Angell

August 28th, 2015 at 10:58 AM ^

MIchigan Men's Soccer opens the season on the road against #6 ranked Creighton.  Good luck to Mellors-Blair, Murphy, McAtee and the other boys. Any kind of result (which means a tie or win to those who don't follow soccer) would be a HUGE start to the season.