Michigan dark secrets
The offseason can be a long and difficult time for football fans, but it is a time that generates some really interesting threads occasionally. In light of this, I pose this question to you all:
What are your deepest and darkest secrets relating to your Michigan fandom? Are you a convert from the other side? Do you have any regrettable stories from watching Michigan games? Do you have any dark secrets now?
I'll start: I love Michigan and cherished my undergraduate years there, but next year I start my PhD at...Ohio State.
that felt really good. I think I'll sleep better tonight.
I generally don't watch games because I can't stand to see us struggle. And I really hate to see the other guys win. Sometimes I start to watch and if it looks like we're going south, I just turn it off. It's not that I'm a bad fan and I never boo my team under any circumstances. It just hurts too much to watch the suffering. Hopefully those days will end soon.
I was not at BraylonFest. I was at the game, but my friend couldn't take it anymore.
My cousins still give me crap for it all the time when they remember. There's only one picture I can find anymore that I'm wearing OSU clothing and I've definitely contemplated burning it, but it's such a good memory of me at my grandma's farm in Michigan with my sister that I can't bring myself to do it.
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I rooted for Loyola Marymount over Michigan.
I laughed hysterically when he slugged that Clemson kid in the Gator Bowl.
Then I rolled on the floor laughing to tears when they fired him a couple of days later.
However, after a couple of years of Earl Bruce, man I MISSED Woody. It was just too much fun to hate him.
I still miss that SOB.
That song has haunted my soul almost every November since 2001--but it's so damn catchy that sometimes I don't mind.
"Don't judge me, monkey!"
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April 15th, 2015 at 10:44 PM ^
Wearing an MSU hat, not that I ever cheered for them, I was just a dumb high schooler...I feel better saying it though...
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I got my undergrad degree from Ohio St. after following a girl there for school. Dark secret... it's a very good school educationally. 2nd dark secret, I turned down UM for medical school... *cries*. In fairness, I turned down every school for medical school in the end because I ended up not going. Ha.... jokes on them! ... kinda.... Ended up getting my MBA locally in Chicago and now working on the 2nd Masters. I still hope to attend UM and get a degree from there.
Also... I've attended more games at the Shoe than The Big House (was a season ticket holder for the gf/only by 2 games) sigh. I feel like I need a counselor after this.
Oh Yeah.. I also have pictures of me wearing an Ohio St. hoodie online primarily because I lost a bet and had to wear it, secondarily because it became comfortable later on?? Oh God... someone help me!
Yeah, whenever I see people dogging OSU's academics I chuckle a bit. It may not be elite in as many areas as UM, but it is nationally elite in quite a few, including my specialty.
Yep, UM/ND/tOSU are all similar when it comes to their grad programs as well as their graduate programs. Depending on what you are looking for.
I'm currently finishing my Masters Degree at OSU. Not a day goes by where I don't walk into class and feel dirty for what I've done, but it's gotten me a great job so its hard to be too unhappy.
I skipped the 2010 Illinois game because I wanted to sleep. Yeah I ended up regretting that one big time.
I became the definition of a fair weather fan with the football team this year. Although it was hard not to be, I honestly just stopped caring after the Utah game. I went into every game expecting the team to lose, to play extremely poorly while doing it, and that Hoke would still blindly spout about how his team could still win the Big Ten. At points during several of the games, I'd just turn it off and watch something else. I also hoped after the MSU game that the team would not make a bowl. Now, of course I wanted them to beat OSU, but I was afraid that getting to a bowl would mean at least 2-3 more weeks of Hoke and the possibility of him staying.
The fact that I wanted a fellow human being fired from his job just so I could feel better is pretty sickening, but that's sports for you.
I don't feel sorry for Brady Hoke one bit, either--"good guy" or not. He was totally fucking incompetent and I was happier after he was gone than I was RR or Lloyd. I hope he NEVER comes back.
Sometimes you have to kill Caesar to save Rome, right?
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I think Columbus is a nice enough town and Ohio isn't really that different as a state than Michigan.
Apparently we need an mgo version of this:
the victors is number one, but i have to say, ND's is the very, very strong #2. analgous to the national anthem - the star spangled banner is tops but i do love 'oh canada' and played lots of hockey up/over there to have heard it countless times.
This last fall I broke the bank and bought a really nice 65" LED flatscreen tv for our living room to watch Michigan football.
1/2way through the opener I was back watching on my shit-little walmart 16" tv because it's next to the computer and I love the threads and liveblogs so much. (Trying to use a tablet from the couch doesn't work for me)
Watching with friends (or at least over the top/hilarious strangers) is apparently far more important to me than seeing every blade of grass on the field.
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and i appreciate that you took the time to remind a fellow human being that there is more to life, and that actual contact with other people is important.
Could you send the fuck ones over?
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During Brady Hoke's surprise 1st year the 5-0 Lions hosted the 49ers and we all know what went down during the postgame handshake. After that I said to my friend, "I'm glad he isn't our coach. We got the better end by getting Hoke"
That's worse than some of my 2am bad decisions
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April 15th, 2015 at 10:42 PM ^
I have two degrees from Michigan (love the university) and am currently employed by Ohio State.
I think Columbus is a decent town.
I spent many football Saturdays at the Big House doing more people watching than football-watching when an undergrad.
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Several years ago, we fumbled the ball against Purdue late in the game, and I threw a couch cushion across the room. Not a big deal, if I'd been in my own house, with my own couch cushion, instead of a roomful of strangers at a party whom I'd met only a few hours before.
I grew up on Indiana Basketball and worshipped at the altar of Bobby Knight.
To this day, I cheer for UM basketball...except when they're playing IU (and was the only person in Ann Arbor happy when Jordan Morgan's putback rimmed out a couple years ago).
There, I said it.
I got into Michigan but won't be going there next year. Where is my loyalty???
I won't watch the end of a game if we are losing. I leave the room (or stadium) and avoid all media until the next day.
And yes, I have missed some pretty epic comebacks.
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(And yes, most of you are not rational fans.)
April 15th, 2015 at 10:14 PM ^
...when people are a certain religion, political affiliation, or fan of something because their parents are.
I have two young kids, and I'm not going to push them to be Michigan fans. In fact, I'm going to counsel them to think for themselves and choose accordingly. Just don't jump on a bandwagon, like Oregon now or Miami in the 80s/90s. Don't think it'll work, though, as both kids (ages almost 5 and almost 3) know "The Victors" and have recognized since they learned to talk that the Block M stands for Michigan and "Go Blue!"
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and then my family moved from Texas to Michigan. I decided to transfer and very casually chose what I thought was the best school closest to my parents' new home. Didn't know the school, the academics, the campus, the colors, the football team. Nothing. I'm a hard core alum now, but the truth is that I came to Michigan almost on a whim.
My first date with my wife-to-be was Michigan-Arizona, sitting right behind the visitors. I had an extra ticket for her because I used to chat up people in our laundry room at school who just looked like they'd bought season tickets and would never use them - tickets as bookmarks were a dead giveaway. I got a lot of free tickets that way.
Once a Lobo...
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The only thing more bs than that call is the fact that you think it was Glen Rice and not Rummeal Robinson who shot the winning free throws.