Voting closes in 2 hours (at 5pm EST) and Michigan Mortified Punter is currently behind by almost 100 votes. Go do your job, MGoHordes!
http://www.sbnation.com/2012/3/30/2913582/the-gif-championship-mortified...
EDIT: Looks like some haters brought the robots out. We went from being in the lead by roughly 50 to being down by 200 in about 60 seconds.
I'm sorry, I can't. The
That's what she said.
That's what she said.
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the Raptor!!! thats my move.
the Raptor!!! thats my move. If you end it with a counterclockwise swirl, I'm suing
Everyman needs his own move.
Mine uses a knuckle.
Neither of those can compare
Neither of those can compare to the stop-short and grab
sparksofattraction.com
As a former mascot
Before my time at Michigan, I was a mascot at another college. I won't mention the name of the mascot or school in order to preserve its integrity, but I will mention it is not a big ten school or anywhere near AA for that matter.
While some of you may argue that the mascot gif is intensely more funny, take the perspective from someone who has been there and back. It's easy to look stupid, and it's really easy to make people laugh. I remember and incident when I stole another mascot's motor cycle and threw it in the bushes of this mascot's stadium. Everyone thought it was hilarious. I also remember shooting a t-shirt out of out of our stadium while using the t-shirt gun. The list goes on.....
At any rate, the raptor mascot may look funny and I see it as so as well. However, he didn't have to make any facial expressions. No intense camera work was done. Nothing was slowed down in order to capture the moment of hilarity. The Raptor fallind down on roller blades was inevitable and it was set up to be that way.
I debated it for a while, but I think you have to go with Michigan Mortified Punter. The video work is better, the action is real, and it takes more than just being in a colorful suit with roller blades.
I'd use the mascot signature at this point, but again gotta preserve integrity when it's due
3-time Wolverine
it really is tough
objectively, I really can't justify Will over the Raptor. Will is Kobe-good, but the Raptor is Jordan-good.
Tremendous!
At 3:21
with over 2,000 votes cast, the difference is SEVEN votes!
The only reason I'm not
The only reason I'm not voting for the Raptor is that I wouldn't have seen it without this link telling me to vote for Hagerup. But there's no way in hell I'm voting for Hagerup either
"I hope I can get a bunch of championships - like 15"
Yeah I am sorry Hagerup, but
Yeah I am sorry Hagerup, but that damn raptor gets me every time.
“What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve and those who stay will be champions.” - Bo
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Remember, a vote for Hagerup
Remember, a vote for Hagerup is a vote for for Michigan. Don't let Michigan down.
/guilted
"There will be blood on the field and it won't be mine." -KK
Just two votes behind now.
Just two votes behind now.
"Wasn't that Michigan drive just great. That's like Patton riding into Berlin." ~Bob Ufer
This would be
such an undeserved victory.
There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter.
You play to win the game.
You play to win the game.
BEAT OHIO
the raptor
when his tail deflates and he lays there in shame and embarassment...
it's just too much for ill-Will Hagerup to overcome.
The best part is his total
The best part is his total faceplant, ending with his eyes stuck directly to the floor.
M'Dog
The real vote...
One man can only rec this guy so hard. I need a group effort here:
Raptors Mascot = archetypal antihero
I’ve dome some thinking about why Raptors Mascot appears well on its way to glorious victory, and why I’ve watched it 2,765 times this week alone. My hypothesis is that Raptors Mascot represents the archetypal plot so familiar to us from literature, television, film, and other media, and thus plugs directly in to our collective consciousness’s desire and expectations of being entertained.
Consider how snugly Raptors Mascot conforms to the traditional plot diagram as taught in most high school and college English courses:
EXPOSITION: There is an inflatable dinosaur mascot on Rollerblades.
CONFLICT: Once the mascot hits the arena floor, he loses his balance.
RISING ACTION: His mouth flails uncontrollably as his Rollerblades become more and more unsteady.
CLIMAX: He goes airborne.
FALLING ACTION: He thuds to the arena floor.
RESOLUTION: The tail. My god, the tail.We cannot label Raptors Mascot the gif representative of Joseph Campbell’s “Hero with a Thousand Faces,” since ultimately he fails in his journey rather than triumphs. But I believe the gif does parallel that of such classic works of the antihero as Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Ubervilles” or The Wire, and this is why we respond to it so enthusiastically.
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Or, to put it another way:
We think of Barney, and wish death upon him.
Larry
I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV
Great Analysis
I find usage of this chart highly appropriate, although I'd argue that Climax = Thud and Falling Action = Deflating Tail. I'd consider Going Airborne as part of Rising Action.
Also, how does this chart compare?
Did we get another 4-star
Did we just get another 4-star commit?
M'Dog
up
up by 66
3:35 PM
and Mortified Michigan punter is in the lead by 74 votes
But I have to say that Raptors gif is the gif that keeps on giving. Not that I'd allow that to cloud my judgement
ALWAYS remember the golden rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules
All
All the non-football SBN posters are against MMP simply because this happens every round with MMP:
A football blog (MGo, EDSBS, or MaizeNBrew) posts a link asking for support. An hour later, domination by MMP. It happened to Hockey Massacre, it's happening here.
I still think Hockey Massacre vs. MMP in the Regional Final was the real championship. Raptor Mascot is hilarious; I think I prefer the simplicity of MMP or the perfect cinematography of Hockey Massacre.
Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.
Lots of people say this but I
Lots of people say this but I just don't get the Hockey Massacre one. Its okay, but its not like i'm laughing hysterically. Both of these are far superior.
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I guess
I guess we just disagree.
Raptors Mascot is funny but if I wanted a bunch of "fall down go boom"s, I'd put America's Funniest Home Videos on...
Raptors Mascot is staged. It's not that hard to pretend you're terrible at rollerblading/skating. I mean, they're in Canada fergodsakes - the guy in the costume knows how to skate. I guess a personal pre-req for funniest gif is the organic nature of it.
Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.
The bots are out
...and they're voting Raptor.
I just watched as the Raptor got 100 votes in less than two minutes to retake the lead.
I just can't vote either way.
I just can't vote either way. Instead I will watch the ROLLERBLADING RAPTORS MASCOT until it's not funny.
Special Teams means special times!
Good luck with that.
Good luck with that.
“What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve and those who stay will be champions.” - Bo
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I'm sorry, but I have to go
I'm sorry, but I have to go with the Raptor. If you haven't seen the entire clip you are doing yourself a disservice. The gif isn't even the funniest part of the whole sequence. Not only did he/she fall down the stairs (before the gif starts), but after the gif stops the costume popped and deflated. Priceless...
Link?!
I need to see this
"Relax you panic monger" -Megatron
I can't link it from my iPad,
I can't link it from my iPad, but just Google "rollerblade raptor" and it's the second one (raptor mascot double fail).
(No subject)
"Relax you panic monger" -Megatron
down by like 300 now.
down by like 300 now.
hmmm looks like someone made
hmmm looks like someone made a bot lol
down by 700+ now
GG
There have been about 900
There have been about 900 votes cast in the last two minutes.
wow, down by 1700. Where are
wow, down by 1700. Where are the MgoBots
Damn the RAPTOR! Will's face
Damn the RAPTOR! Will's face is eternal!
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It's not possible that the
It's not possible that the raptors have better programmers than UofM does
"I hope I can get a bunch of championships - like 15"
If they can learn how to open
If they can learn how to open doors in 1993 they can learn how to program bots in 2012.
For the strength of the pack is the Wolv, and the strength of the Wolv is the pack.
clever girl
clever girl
This reminds me of why I never look at these.
Besides, even with a deflating tail, it's red!
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift
As a former mascot
Better get those bots going sneakely. Think about how to take down a dinosaur.
3-time Wolverine
I was ready to vote for Will…
and then I seen the tail.
Sorry guys.
Sorry. I voted for the
Sorry. I voted for the raptor. That gif is perhaps the funniest thing I have ever seen.
Ditto
I about crapped myself lol
We hate Michigan State. We don't like Penn State too. We don't care for Minnesota, Wisconsin or Notre Dame but we all hate O-S-U.
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Laughing at, not with
In addition to my laughing harder at the Raptor, I would rather laugh at misfortune unassociated with Michigan.
A scenario: if Ohio's punter commits the exact same gaffe, facial expression and all, would you vote his derpiness over Hagerup's?
Of course not.
What's your point?
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift
If we had lost the game we
If we had lost the game we would hate this .gif. But because we prevailed in the end it is hilarious in hindsight.
Whatcha gonna do, little brother?
I voted for Will but candidly
I voted for Will but candidly had not noticed the tail until pointed out by you guys.
I want my vote back.....God that is funny.
The raptor is funny as shit
but I'm pretty sure those are intentional pratfalls, which makes MMP the champ in my book.
I'm sorry, I can't. The Raptor is too good.
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