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How did YOU become a Wolverine?

Alrighty, first period and bored. I want to know how all you have became Wolverines and why you stuck with it, i became a Wolverine because my dad loved them and was never able to attend the University so i'll try to be the first. Discuss & Go Blue!

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January 9th, 2012 at 8:36 AM | Mutation (Score:5 Normal)
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into a superior life form . . . like all Wolverines.

Your opinion has no value.

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January 9th, 2012 at 2:52 PM | Yep, it's genetic.  Looks (Score:2)
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Yep, it's genetic.  Looks like we share a common ancestor...

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January 9th, 2012 at 8:37 AM | Games use to be on after (Score:2 Normal)
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Games use to be on after Saturday morning cartoons, they grew on me :). 

Looking for BTTYS Nike sb Michigan Dunk Highs size 14, hit me up. 

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January 9th, 2012 at 8:43 AM | posted from iPhone (Score:3 Underrated)
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Fab Five got me

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January 9th, 2012 at 8:57 AM | (Score:1)
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Grew up 30 min north of ann arbor, I was a sponge at age 12 when 97 happened, and Woodson made me a die hard.

You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:07 AM | Proximity (Score:1)
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I grew up 45 minutes from Ann Arbor so Michigan football is what was on TV. My Dad is about as casual as fans come and my Mom went to Ohio State but couldn't care less about sports. Most of my friends growing up were Michigan fans too.

I actually have pictures of me in an OSU shirt when I was about three and a Michigan State shirt when I was about six or seven. I'm guessing they were gifts because I don't ever remember being a fan of either.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:01 AM | My Grandfather (Score:4 Normal)
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My grandfather was part of a small vote behind closed doors that determined that Fritz Crisler would be the next head coach. That coaching search was very different than what we see today. My grandfather and great uncle also ran track with Don Canham. My father and his brother also graduated undergrad.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:02 AM | Easy... (Score:5 Normal)
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By Birth.

Florida Wolverines have dreadlocks...

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:52 AM | Yup. Born in University of (Score:1)
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Yup. Born in University of Michigan Hospital to an alum and a prof. Hail to the Victors was sung to me in the cradle. Spent my Saturdays before we moved to Florida running around with my brother and cousins as my dad and uncles would scream at the TV. 

Got into sports on my own when I was older, late teens or so, mostly as a bonding thing with my dad, so teams of interest were obviously Michigan and Detroit teams. But it turned into actual interest somewhere along the line.

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January 9th, 2012 at 1:00 PM | Likewise. (Score:2)
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I'm a fifth generation grad, born of a fourth generation grad and a second generation grad.

My crib had a Michigan pennant over it.  It was really never a consideration that I'd be anything other than a Wolverine.

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January 9th, 2012 at 4:53 PM | Same here -- also born in UM (Score:1)
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Same here -- also born in UM Hospital to alumni parents. 

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:02 AM | Same ol' sad story . . . (Score:3 Normal)
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was bitten by an infecrted wolverine fan as a kid, been stuck with the insatiable thirst ever since.

Will most likely stay this way until someone digs Yost out of his native earth and puts a stake through his heart.

Love & Hate are horns on the same goat.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:02 AM | posted from iPhone (Score:1)
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Although I grew up primarily a ND fan, I always liked Michigan. I think the helmets did it the most. Once I decided to attend UM it was all over. I became a huge Michigan fan because of school pride, obviously, and because it's impossible to go to the Big House and leave unamazed. Go Blue!

University of Tom Brady, B.A. '10; University of Peyton Manning, J.D. '13.

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January 9th, 2012 at 11:51 AM | this is my story exactly, (Score:1)
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this is my story exactly, except i didn't care one way or another about michigan until my first game in the big house freshman year. i was hooked instantly.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:03 AM | Wait, this question implies I (Score:4 Normal)
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Wait, this question implies I could have become something else. I didn't know that was an option.

@pnbloem | Ultra-MGoBoard

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January 9th, 2012 at 11:06 AM | Agreed.  Predestination. (Score:3 Normal)
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Agreed.  Predestination.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:05 AM | Winged Helmet! (Score:1 Normal)
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Love at first sight. Also, watching Grbac in the Rose Bowl against Washington is my first memory of the Maize and Blue.

'Try growing up in Texas a Michigan WOLVERINE'. Follow me on Twitter: RudygoBLUE

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:06 AM | the way (Score:1)
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my mom tells the story: i was about 6 or 7 years old and we were at a garage sale. i saw a michigan hat on the .25 table and liked the colors. when i asked my mom if i could get it, she said 'your dad isn't going to like that, he roots for ohio state'.

when i found that out, i didn't take the hat off the entire summer.

i kinda remember that, but my mom remembers it well.

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January 9th, 2012 at 11:21 AM | Yikes, (Score:1)
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what if my son, when he's 6 or 7 sees an OSU hat for $0.25 and likes them? How can I prevent this?

"They're stuck with that quarterback (sophomore Braxton Miller) for the next two or three years, that's fine with me. He throws worse than (Tim) Tebow. - Steve Everitt

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January 9th, 2012 at 11:52 AM | Simple (Score:1)
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They have ugly colors.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:07 AM | posted from iPhone (Score:2)
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Because I was born in Michigan. Duh. Was Sparty even an option? I seriously didn't even know they existed until 6th grade.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:07 AM | It is (Score:2 Normal)
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hard to tell whether I love Michigan because of who I am or if I am who I am because I love Michigan (or something close to that.)

---- Brian, Eleven Swans, 2006

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:08 AM | posted from iPhone (Score:2)
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Deep.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:09 AM | It was my assimilation into American Culture (Score:4 Normal)
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Grew up in Canada (Toronto) until the age of 12, after which my father picked up the family and moved us to Ann Arbor of all places. Grew up a Baseball (the Blue Jays were going through their hey-day) and Hockey (Toronto is the REAL Hockeytown, don't get it twisted) fan, but football and to a lesser extent Basketball (pre-Raptor era) were somewhat foreign to me. College Sports were an absolute unknown.

My first night living in America was spent at Joe Louis watching Michigan beat MSU in the Championship of the GLI. Great experience - it was there that I saw what this whole Michigan thing was about. 

 

Then, when football season came around....it was over. My whole family fell in love with Michigan and football was king. Not I can't stand baseball and still follow Hockey a bit, but professional sports are not really my cup of tea. College is where it's at and from there on out I was a Michigan Man.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:14 AM | I was about 4 (Score:1)
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when my dad took me to my first game.  My dad and uncle are both alumni and my dad had season tickets since 1956.  My first game was 1968 and I haven't looked back since. 

My allegiance has never waivered and my hatred for Sparty, ND and Ohio grows every day.

Go Blue

What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve and...Those Who Stay WILL Be Champions.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:18 AM | Simple (Score:2 Funny)
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My parents had season tickets when I was a kid. My dad took me to my first game the day Woodson and the gang beat ohio to go to the natty. It was a wrap after that. Plus all the spartan kids at school played with dolls. Shit was weird.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:20 AM | Grandpa went to Michigan... (Score:1)
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My Mom was working on her PhD and met Dad.   Mom and Dad's first date was a football game.   All four of us kids went to Michigan and I met my husband at Michigan.  I'm actually the loser in the fam who did not go to Mich. for grad school, only undergrad.  (Which, for the record, I would like to blame on Rick's and my various  sorority parties.)  

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:22 AM | Grew up in MA (Score:1)
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I grew up in Massachusetts and I remember seeing the winged helmet on TV. College football wasn't big there, so I watched the national games as a kid and loved the helmets. The fab five intrigued me in middle school.

I guess it may have started then, but I really jumped in when I went to Ann Arbor for grad school. My plan was to get me degree and move back east. That was 10 years ago. I'm still in AA and an avid MGoBlog disciple.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:22 AM | I was 12 years old (Score:1)
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In 1965 and on a Saturday in the winter the Big Ten game of the week came on TV. Michigan was playing someone and it was the first time I saw Cazzie Russell play. I fell in love with Michigan then and there. How ironic you ask this question because yesterday at the Michigan BB game they brought back some players from the past and honored Cazzie. I was fortunate to get a picture with him and I told him how I watched those games and his battles with the Van Arsdale twins from Duke. Got a big smile from him and he told me "Their aren't 5 people in this gym that remember those guys". Thanks for this thread. Made my day (twice).

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January 9th, 2012 at 1:22 PM | The Van Arsdale twins played (Score:1)
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The Van Arsdale twins played at Indiana.

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January 9th, 2012 at 4:27 PM | Sorry about that (Score:1)
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You are right. That is why I was watching them on the Big Ten game of the week. Thanks for correcting me.

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January 10th, 2012 at 9:22 AM | No problem. You had me (Score:1)
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No problem. You had me questioning my memory, but Wikipedia confirmed it.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:24 AM | As a young boy I watched (Score:2)
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Jim Harbaugh roll out of the pocket, winged helmet shining in the sun, and squeeze in the corner for the TD.  I don't know what game it was, what the final score was or anything like that, but that single moment was the start of something strange and inexplicable that would hunt me down in life until I submitted to its will a few years later...

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:27 AM | Wolverines are not made, (Score:2)
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Wolverines are not made, they, like most exceptional people, are born the way they are.  I was valedictorian of my HS class and could've gone to pretty much any school I chose.  I applied to only one place because going anyplace else would've been settling.  I'll give you 3 guesses what school that was, but you only need one.

 

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:30 AM | That's easy (Score:3 Normal)
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University of Phoenix, right?  After all, what other school has its own pro football stadium?

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January 9th, 2012 at 10:27 AM | How could I not have seen (Score:2)
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How could I not have seen such an obvious alternative to the correct answer.  Alright, you only need TWO guesses....

 

"...what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"

"Fix the cigarette lighter."

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January 9th, 2012 at 11:01 AM | and they have campuses (Score:4 Normal)
SysMark
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and they have campuses everywhere...including on the internets

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:30 AM | Was introduced to College (Score:1)
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Was introduced to College Football by a good friend and his dad when I was about 8 or 9.  They were huge Michigan fans and his dad often got tickets through his work.  He took both of us to watch the 1986 Iowa game at the Big House.  I was 10 at the time and I have been a fan ever since.  Was the best and most surreal moment I have can remember as a kid sitting in that stadium.  The taligating was awesome.  My buddy and I were actually playing catch with a football when he over threw me and it bounced into the front seat of a Porsche 911.  I was not about to go get it.  The guy who owned the car called us over, we both thought we were dead, then promptly gave us the ball and let us sit in the car.  We both thought we were the $hit at that age.  Graduated from high school and was accepted into U of M undergrad.  Then was accepted in grad school 1998.  Graduated 2002 from U of M Dental School and bleed Maize and Blue.  Have a son named Braylon, and a daughter who was nicknamed Denard by a very close friend and also an alumnus. 

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:34 AM | Members of my family had gone (Score:2)
Wendyk5
Joined: 11/20/2008
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Members of my family had gone to Michigan (my brother and uncle), so I did apply, but in the 11th hour, my boyfriend talked me into following him somewhere else. Of course, then four days before we left for school, he broke up with me. I ended up transferring to Michigan my sophomore year.  I love Ann Arbor more now than when I was there, and go every chance I get. 

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:35 AM | It's Michigan forgogsakes! (Score:1 Normal)
UMichMSW07
Joined: 05/30/2011
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It's Michigan forgodsakes!

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:36 AM | posted from iPhone (Score:3 Normal)
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I wanted to go to the best university in the state (since I didn't want to be too far away from family). Obviously that was Michigan. I actually didn't care about football at all when I got there, and now I'm as diehard as the rest of you poor schmucks. Dad was actually an ND fan, but I like to think I'd have converted him.

Denard has spent the offseason working really hard and smiling at people.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:40 AM | My grandma is a diehard fan (Score:3 Normal)
HttV Wolverine
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My grandma is a diehard fan and I kinda got it from her. I have loved them for as long as I can remember. Now, there is no one in my family that is a bigger fan of the Wolverines. 

“What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve and those who stay will be champions.” - Bo 

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:41 AM | Both parents went to (Score:1)
Lady in Blue
Joined: 11/07/2011
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Both parents went to Michigan... grandpa taught my older sister all about Michigan football, she taught me and the rest is history!

"[Denard] is not a moody guy. He’s got only one mood, and it’s bouncing off the walls.”

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:43 AM | Technically, for me, it (Score:3 Interesting)
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Technically, for me, it started at birth.  I was born and raised in Ann Arbor to 2 U of M grads.  But it truly took off in the beginning of the 90's, thanks to the Michigan Women's basketball team, believe or not.

My mom was a member of the Women's Basketball team booster club, and when I and one of my sisters were old enough, we came became permanent ball boy/girl for the team, along with Lisa Mattison (Greg Mattison's daughter).  That eventually led to me becoming a regular ball boy for the men's team during the sophomore year of the fab five.  While I didn't appreciate the situation as much back then, I got to basically be around those guys whenever I wanted (Juwan was hands down my favorite, but I recall Jalen not being so nice...).

My true fanaticism came about after that year, when my other sister became old enough and good enough to start being recruited for college basketball.  Because of NCAA rules, my family had to sever all personal ties with the athletic department.  To fill that void, I became the obsessive U of M fan that I am today and haven't looked back.

 

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:45 AM | I used to follow Notre Dame. Crazy! (Score:1)
UMMAN83
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I went to Catholic schools. I can't recall the game.  However, they won a bowl and and jumped quite a few positions in the polls to be top rated.  This appeared to be very biased and I never followed them again. 

Around the same time the  Michigan - Sparty game was playing in the car while driving with my Dad.  I asked who we were rooting for and he said.  "Michigan".  The rest is history including attending The University of Michigan.

 

Go Blue !!!

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:46 AM | I started following Michigan during the Bo-Woody (Score:2)
True Blue Grit
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10 year war in the mid-70's.  Add to that the great Michigan basketball teams of 1976, 1977 and I was hooked for life.  But when college came, I had two choices due to the type of major I wanted to pursue (Naval Architecture): Michigan and a small school on Long Island.  Fortunately, I was accepted to the former and not the latter.  The rest is history.  I went to Michigan, - watched some great sports teams (not basketball unfortunately), met my future wife, and got a great job when I graduated. 

"You owe it to every man, woman, and child in the State of Michigan to beat the Buckeyes and silence their fans!  Now go out there and make it happen!"

- Bo Schembechler (Result: U-M 22  OSU 0)

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:47 AM | Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (Score:1)
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The degree program brought me to Michigan. I received the acceptance letter, and the football season ticket order form. I either became a Wolvering on the day we sent the deposit and ticket order back, or September 10th, 1983. All I know is college football has been my favorite sport since then.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:48 AM | Blue... (Score:1)
Half Blood Dutc...
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it was and still is my favorite color. lol

I went to a football game when i was just starting to get into sports, i was 6 or 7 years old (i wish i remember more about the game) and the the Big House just amazed me! I noticed that pro stadiums looked bigger on tv, but was told the Big House held a hell of a lot more.

And the color green disgusted me...it really did.

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January 9th, 2012 at 9:49 AM | I became a Wolverine by (Score:3 Normal)
Magnus
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I became a Wolverine by applying and/or offering Mary Sue certain favors.

I'm not saying which.

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January 9th, 2012 at 10:32 AM | I'm Saying Which (Score:2)
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James Duderstadt was president when I went to Michigan, so I definately APPLIED. (NTTAWWT)

 

"...what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"

"Fix the cigarette lighter."

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