Mgoblog half decade club

Submitted by the Glove on
I would like to take this moment to congratulate (or feel sorry for) many MGoUsers who have or will be hitting their 5 year mark soon. You have tremendous dedication to everything Michigan sports related and/or could not find another hobby in this many years. Though we may not like each other as human beings; we came together with one common interest. An undying, but a tad obsessive passion for an alma mater or team. There have been many highs and lows over the last 5 years, as well as, some interesting experiences. The jihad, the horror, fandom endurance, two coaching searches, and RollDamnTide. And that's just naming a few. Which leads me to my question, over the years what memory of the blog has stuck out the most for you?

UM2k1

July 16th, 2013 at 3:08 PM ^

(usually when someone says that, they are a jerk, but I have to get this off my chest)

 

The horror and coaching search 1 were both in the old days (pre-current MGoBlog).  Horror was labor day weekend 2007, and the first coaching search was Nov/Dec 2007.  the current incarnation of MGoBlog (and thus your joined date) came on or after June 30, 2008.

 

/endrant

the Glove

July 16th, 2013 at 3:44 PM ^

Actually the blog started on Blogspot and was Mgoblog.org. It was moved to the .com site a little over 5 years ago. Just because you weren't apart of it doesn't mean it didn't happen... just to get it off my chest.

cheesheadwolverine

July 16th, 2013 at 3:31 PM ^

The first thing I remember following here were, I think, Sam McGuffie high school highlight videos which everyone was so excited about around campus my freshman year (in retrospect, ha) and the recruitment of Terell Pryor (also ha).  How long was Mgoblog around before that?  At least a year, given this 11 Swans post I just learned of.

jericho

July 16th, 2013 at 3:37 PM ^

I was reading this thread thinking that 5 years was a very long time to be a regular reader of any board.  Then I realized that I just passed my 4th year.  It tells you how much most of us are just addicted to this place.

trueblueintexas

July 16th, 2013 at 4:06 PM ^

My 5 years is a few months away. One thing I love about this blog is the next most awesome thing could always happen the next day. Sometimes it is an official post, sometimes it's something that get's started in the message board. Sometimes it is someone's incredible story in a diary. For me, I still hear a certain song in my head from time to time. Maybe because it captured everyone's feelings so well. Marybe the combination of video editing and song was just perfect. But sometimes when you're on, you're really F*&#ing on.

 

http://mgoblog.com/content/preview-2009-sometimes-when-youre

ChalmersE

July 16th, 2013 at 4:45 PM ^

As I watched the horror in a sports bar, the guy I was with said something like I wonder what mgoblog is going to do after this.  That Monday I found out -- getting on that weekend was a lost cause.

snowcrash

July 16th, 2013 at 4:49 PM ^

I don't have any one favorite memory. I love the UFRs every week, especially the defensive ones. Having never played, reading those has probably helped me understand the game more than anything else I can think of since I started following football back in the 1970s.

Maximumblue

July 16th, 2013 at 5:25 PM ^

That is what I take away from the years I have spent enjoying this blog. I think that Brian's writing style has continued to improve over time and of course what I love is that he had the balls to not pursue his degree choice because he knew that it would not fulfill him in the way that pursuing a passion would, and that he made something special for himself from just an idea, into one of the very best sports blogs on the internet today. Congrats and thanks.

uminks

July 16th, 2013 at 5:38 PM ^

I lurked here for more than a year before joining. I had joined the old M-live blog in '06 and thought that one blog was enough...but after discovering mgoblog it became my home and I would always mention mgoblog on the other blog! Since '09 this has been the only blog I visit!  It has been great reading all the expert posts.

Dess

July 16th, 2013 at 5:46 PM ^

Well now I need to make a post because I can't remember when I made the account. I am also too lazy to just look. Haloscan uber alles.

Dess

July 16th, 2013 at 5:50 PM ^

ugh I'm already over the MGoHill apparently. My coworker here in the lab is an MGoUser, and a few random friends like Corey and T. We're an interesting and varied bunch. This is still one of my favorite lines Brian has written:

 

From the world cup 2010 era

 

"Soccer defies that. It is opera on a field. Not the Italian variety where a series of humorous misunderstandings yield mildly sexy results, but German opera—Klingon opera. Plenty of tridents. Sheets of rain. Thunderbolts cascading from the sky. In the background armies march through the mud, toward each other. Patterns converge in a rumble, pressure building until it's unbearable and someone falls over, a spear jutting out from his breastplate."

SotoWolverine

July 16th, 2013 at 9:47 PM ^

Not at the 5 year mark, but I vividly remember August 2010 and Doom. JT Turner was off the team, Warren went to the NFL, Cissoko was kicked off the team, Demar Dorsey and Adrian Witty never made it on campus, and then our Senior captian goes down with an ankle injury. I felt so hopeless after that injury. We still managed a respectful 7 wins that season and thankful Hoke has been able to turn around the defense, but at that moment our future was as dark as I have ever imagined it. Hope in RR was gone, the defense was horrible, and we had yet to see Denard Robinson start a game. 

Callahan

July 19th, 2013 at 9:29 AM ^

Maybe I'm a glutton but my favorite memory was the utter RichRod meltdown following the 2011 Gator Bowl. We're in a better place now, so if you ever to keep yourself grounded with the idea that you're human and make mistakes, go back to that period and read your own posts.  It'll remind you that when Hoke was stll Candidate Hoke, maybe three people liked the idea of hiring him.

ProfMurdoc

July 19th, 2013 at 2:17 PM ^

I was in the student section in '05/'06 and saw a few guys with 'I [heart] [hart]' shirts and asked where they got them. They looked at me and said MGoBlog, as if I was the silly one.  

I had to check it out and got to witness Tacopants, Robot Henne, and Lloyd Carr, poet laureate. It's been about 7 years now I guess. 

Thanks Brian. A fan's fan.