Kirk Herbstreit comment on GameDay
I heard Kirk Herbstreit, refer to the University of Michigan as the "wolves" on GameDay last weekend. For the life of me I have never referred or heard anyone refer to the wolverines as the "wolves." I know this guy is a egomaniac, but has anyone ever heard the wolverines referred to as "wolves"?
October 14th, 2015 at 9:10 AM ^
Oh, damn! The dreaded frosted tips insult! There's no recovering from that.
October 14th, 2015 at 9:57 AM ^
My 14 year old self is feeling so burned right now.
October 14th, 2015 at 9:23 AM ^
October 14th, 2015 at 9:27 AM ^
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October 14th, 2015 at 9:32 AM ^
October 14th, 2015 at 9:26 AM ^
Wife's cousin lives in his neighborhood, all million dollar homes. Let's just say when she didn't know who he was, he was extremely annoyed.
October 14th, 2015 at 10:03 AM ^
October 14th, 2015 at 10:12 AM ^
live in a neighborhood with people of similar economic status?! And maybe your wife's cousin is just plain annoying?
October 14th, 2015 at 9:07 AM ^
I prefer Fightin' Nautical Wolverbears.
October 14th, 2015 at 9:04 AM ^
he was talking about the minnesota timberwolves, obviously
October 14th, 2015 at 9:04 AM ^
Never heard it before, just like someone calling osu "the bucks" I guess.
October 14th, 2015 at 11:03 AM ^
at my first UM game, I think it was homecoming versus Minnesota IIRC, the entire student section had those cardboard squares, one side collectively was Go Blue, when flipped over, the massive collaboration said "Fuc the Bucs". My cool story of the day.
October 14th, 2015 at 9:06 AM ^
October 14th, 2015 at 9:10 AM ^
Man, where do you live? Maybe time to relocate to a more educated city? Haha
October 14th, 2015 at 9:20 AM ^
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October 14th, 2015 at 9:39 AM ^
Yeah that's crazy! Before too long they won't be saying that though. Soon they'll be back to doing that to Sparty fans.
October 14th, 2015 at 10:07 AM ^
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October 14th, 2015 at 9:08 AM ^
He meant Wolvs', as in short for wolverines. Not actual Wolves.
While I agree that it was sort of odd I highly doubt Herbstreit meant any disrespect. If anything, OSU has accused Herbie on many occasions that he didn't seem to be enough of a homer in their eyes.
October 14th, 2015 at 9:48 AM ^
October 14th, 2015 at 10:05 AM ^
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October 14th, 2015 at 12:27 PM ^
Try reading comprehension. the OP said "wolves" which is much different than "wolvs'". I was just clarifying there is a huge grammatical difference. Nice to know you've made it easy to identify yourself as one of the forum douches though.
October 14th, 2015 at 12:28 PM ^
edit: double post
October 14th, 2015 at 9:12 AM ^
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October 14th, 2015 at 9:13 AM ^
Both will occasionally reveal some homer-ism, but not nearly to the extent that I've seen from people like Joey Galloway, or Robert Smith. I wouldn't consider either Kirk or Chris to be OSU slappies.
October 14th, 2015 at 9:18 AM ^
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October 14th, 2015 at 9:25 AM ^
Agreed. Chis more than Kirk, but even then, Chris rarely shows homerism. Chris and Kirk are two of my favorite ESPN people. I believe Chris is an excellent color commentator, which is why I'm happy he is calling our game. I prefer to have Fowler and Herbstreit, but that's OK.
October 14th, 2015 at 9:24 AM ^
I have a soft for Spielman from this Lions days and a guy you actually saw losing destroyed him internally as opposed to a lot of pros who "hey its a paycheck, next."
As for Galloway I have no idea why he is in broadcasting. He is turrible. Another reason to be so thankful for Harbaugh - our team is not so shitty that we get assigned his broadcast team to do our games.
October 14th, 2015 at 9:18 AM ^
Reminds me of a scene in Sicario. Benicio Del Toro says to Emily Blunt, "You're not a wolf. This is a land of wolves." If we did use wolves more it would be a great clip for games.
October 14th, 2015 at 9:23 AM ^
How is this thread-worthy? Also, if Kirk called them the wolves, who cares? I don't think Kirk is an egomaniac. He is one of the best analysts on ESPN.
October 14th, 2015 at 9:24 AM ^
I am not going to cry. I am not going to cry.
Fuck it.
October 14th, 2015 at 9:25 AM ^
I can see someone getting a little worked up over this after it happened, but its been almost 4 days. Four days later and you are still worked up enough over this to start a thread about it?
October 14th, 2015 at 9:26 AM ^
AN egomaniac. At least be grammatically correct!
October 14th, 2015 at 9:26 AM ^
October 14th, 2015 at 9:32 AM ^
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October 14th, 2015 at 9:34 AM ^
Was there a reason you waited to post this on Wednesday?
October 14th, 2015 at 9:48 AM ^
Was getting tired of all the hype leading up to MSU game and Walker recruitment. We've gone from 7 to 9 win predictions to National Championship contender in one week. Although, I did put my prediction at 14-1 season on the board, just don't want to jinx us, so I'm following my exact routine each week since Utah game on Saturdays. Michigan's downfall has always been looking past the next game. I think Harbaugh will not let that happen and hopefully players are not reading the media hype. Can this team continue to improve each week like they have? As MSU and OSU surely must be able to from how they have played so far.
October 14th, 2015 at 9:42 AM ^
I've actually hear it now and again and always just brushed it off as someone's idea of spoken shorthand. I figure that as long as I know what they mean, I am not going to get too worked up about it. That being said, however, the whole "Big Blue" thing does annoy me some - I hear that one more often than I would care.
October 14th, 2015 at 10:05 AM ^
That's one I don't quibble with (at all). He writes my performance appraisals and determines my annual bonus and raises.
October 14th, 2015 at 10:10 AM ^
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October 14th, 2015 at 9:45 AM ^
I live in Orlando, and I wear my Michigan apparel frequently.
I can't tell you how many times I hear "Go Big Blue!" shouted at me as I go by.
I'm always at a loss as to what to say, so I just say "you got it", then mumble "I don't know what it is, but I hope its not catching".
October 14th, 2015 at 10:00 AM ^
October 14th, 2015 at 9:45 AM ^
zoologically unaware.
October 14th, 2015 at 9:48 AM ^
Referred from time to time to the Wolves
October 14th, 2015 at 9:51 AM ^
He must have been getting a sandwich on plays when Lewis and Peppers were in the game?
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October 14th, 2015 at 9:56 AM ^
October 14th, 2015 at 9:58 AM ^
I saw Herbie in the Vegas aiport when I look up at a newstand and he was next to me.
I introduced myself and I told him I was a fan.
He could not have been a more down to earth and nicer guy. He spent 15 minutes with me and appeared to be geninuely concerned about what was going on a Michigan. At the time, Hoke was the coach.
He said, "It's important to the BIG and to all of college football that Michigan get back to their normal place, winning a bunch of games and to do it soon. Us BIG guys have to stick together."
He made it clear how much he respected Michigan, loved the campus and wanted us to be good.
I a big fan.
Anyone who isn't, has frosted tips.
October 14th, 2015 at 10:12 AM ^
Maybe, I'm still bitter over the "Les Miles is going to be Michigan's next coach" report in 2007. I need to reflect....
October 14th, 2015 at 10:28 AM ^
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October 14th, 2015 at 11:04 AM ^
Don't want to get your run out of Tennessee, like they did in Columbus.
October 14th, 2015 at 11:06 AM ^
want a word with you.