Meta: Just like everyone else...I need a fix!
It's the middle of the week. Work has me going in about 20 different directions. Spring football practices are over. And yes, I am in serious need of some Michigan football videos to keep up my enthusiasm.
Whenever I need a quick pick-me-up I check out the Capital One Bowl highlights (it never gets old), but I would like to know which videos you think are the best for the upcoming year. I know WolverineHistorian always has some good ones, but I am sure there are quite a few that I haven't seen in my searches on YouTube.
Any suggestions?
GO BLUE!
WolverineHistorian's entire catalog? if not, it'd be well worth your time
And if you have, it's well worth your time to to go through it again. And again. And again.
I have no idea how many times I've watch the 1997 PSU and OSU games, and the 1998 Rose Bowl.
I keep an album of DVDs by the TV/DVD player in my kitchen. When I'm cooking, I usually have a game playing. I can usually watch them in small bursts if I'm eating alone or just doing a quick meal. It's not like I don't know how it ends.
Last night, I watched the first half of the 1997 Colorado-Michigan game. Would've watched the second half, but the file is corrupt on MGoVideo. Grr. The 1997 Penn State game is a great one.
The 2000 UM-OSU game is always fun. So is the 1991 game against Notre Dame. In fact, the other day, I was watching that one and noticed something in the background.
When Howard makes that incredible diving grab for a touchdown, very clearly in the background, you can see a guy with a mullet, a moustache straight from the Thomas Magnum School of Facial Hair, a pink t-shirt tucked into acid-washed denim shorts. White socks pulled up to the mid-calf completed the "Sweet Jesus What Was I Thinking??" ensemble.
I usually avoid mocking the folks from the 70s for their fashion tastes. It was a national problem. But while mullets, bad 'staches, and acid-washed denim certainly pocked the landscape of my high school days, this guy really went above and beyond.
That's one way to get noticed in a crowd 20 years later.
We destroyed them. This is the source of all subsequent Yakkety-Sax.
I particulatrly enjoy Jerome "The Bus" Bettis pucker-factor as the game went on as well as the pregame Wies nonsence.
ND game last year, MSU games (Braylon Fest) The Michigan - Texas Rose Bowl game was a phenomenal game, Stevie. B kept us in it... we missed winning it by inches.
EDIT: I forgot to include Wisconsin in 2008. Say what you want about that year, but golly, that game featured one of the most improbable come backs of all time.
in an otherwise forgettable season, that game was pure entertainment. The stadium was rocking like the NC was on the line. Great fun, however, I want the stadium to rock with the NC on the line.
I'm actually trying to block out a space of time next week to rewatch the entire 1997 season. Of course, the challenge will be finding the entire 1997 season somewhere. Either way, I plan to act as if it is happening now and cry like a little baby at the end.
The entire '97 season is on mgovideo.
I choose you, UM/OSU '97 game.
Don't you wish you could just sim through the offseason really fast like in NCAA Football games?
Thanks Tim!
I was getting ready to make a 4 hour roundtrip to my parent's house to steal my dad's VHS collection of the games that season.
MGoJen, sorry for the bad thoughts I was thinking towards you while watching the first half of the Utube Video. I am not proud of what was spoken under my breath. But then, the sun came out, I heard birds singing, the sound of children playing, and all was right with the world. My disdain turned to joy, and my cursings turned into blessings. Thanks
I just watch it all the time, I by no means can take credit for it. It was created by one of our fellow MGoBoarders, Shorts, and first showed up in this diary post:
http://mgoblog.com/diaries/sometimes-when-youre-2010-its-time-we-need
Gives me goosebumps. I'm pulling for this team more than any previous Michigan team. Just win babby.
wow.... i had not seen that before.... thank you ..... (man tears came around)...
GO BLUE !!!!!!
very nicely. Avoid dong-punch or screen-punch during first half.
Bring on 2010, I'm feeling it now. Shock the nation!
I've probably watched this one literally almost a hundred times, I can play it back in my head in it's entirety when I'm bored at work.
I saw "Wednesday Recruitin" on the main page, and tried coming back a minute later and it was gone. In terms of "needing my fix", this is similar to someone sitting in front of a liquor store teasing bums with a dollar bill on a string.
It should be posted once Fearless Leader gets his edit job done on it.
explain to my co-workers why I have a chubby from being on a college football blog.
This video which has been posted here before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Olok-oWNM
The editing and blend of old and new was just the best I have seen. It makes me want to throw on a helmet and run through a brick wall for Coach Rod just watching it.
What I do is always just go to WolverineHistorian's channel and look for my favorite games. The ones I normally watch are the 2008 Capital One Bowl Game, 2003 and 2004 Michigan State, 2003 Ohio State, and the whole 1997 season.