Michigan Hockey Anthem "Big Blue"
From the official UM Hockey Twitter is a new anthem with call outs to most of the players on the roster. So I guess we are leaning into everyone else calling us "Big Blue" now?
The World premiere of "Big Blue" the Michigan Hockey Anthem music video!#GoBlue〽️@ThisIsBrettWill @emer6on pic.twitter.com/glYY2DwDMo
— Michigan Hockey (@umichhockey) December 9, 2022
December 9th, 2022 at 3:25 PM ^
The obvious question, why an anthem?
December 9th, 2022 at 5:11 PM ^
Cause sometimes you gotta “hit em with the 4 like Auston Matthews!”
December 9th, 2022 at 3:26 PM ^
Nope - not going to do it.
December 9th, 2022 at 3:26 PM ^
Kentucky won’t be happy
December 9th, 2022 at 3:28 PM ^
They can take over the "Medium Blue" moniker
December 9th, 2022 at 3:48 PM ^
Nor will the NY football Giants.
December 9th, 2022 at 4:56 PM ^
IBM has entered the chat
December 9th, 2022 at 3:29 PM ^
"big blue," 0/10 would not recommend.
December 9th, 2022 at 3:29 PM ^
pop/rap song??? No just no!
December 9th, 2022 at 3:34 PM ^
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
December 9th, 2022 at 3:34 PM ^
Have never been a fan of that expression. In fact, a neighbor--who is a former FSU football player for Bobby Bowden--saw me in my Sauce Castillo t-shirt the other day, and said, "Go Big Blue!" and I was asking myself whether to speak up or not. Good manners got the best of me, but. . . why.
December 9th, 2022 at 6:44 PM ^
Correct that mofo
December 9th, 2022 at 3:34 PM ^
I guess it's better than the dog groomers song?
December 9th, 2022 at 3:41 PM ^
Didn't we just go through all this with a "new" song for football back in the days of Brandon? Wasn't in "In the Big House" or something like that? I recall it not being well received.
December 9th, 2022 at 3:54 PM ^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6RK-dCniHw
I don't mind someone or some group making a song because they love Michigan but it will never replace Hail to the Victors.
December 9th, 2022 at 4:29 PM ^
It's just "The Victors"...
December 9th, 2022 at 9:31 PM ^
I'd rather get Rick-rolled than listen to Plop Evil.
December 9th, 2022 at 4:25 PM ^
Yep, it coulda been much, much worse.
December 9th, 2022 at 4:26 PM ^
It coulda been much, much worse: Exhibit B
December 9th, 2022 at 8:34 PM ^
Much much worser
December 10th, 2022 at 12:35 PM ^
To really laugh, watch the guy in the tie during the whole video. He doesn't seem like he wants to be there and it's like you can watch him realizing that this is not a good idea slowly throughout.
December 9th, 2022 at 3:45 PM ^
Although I am sure we have many alumni / alumnae who work or have worked for IBM, we are NOT IBM, thank you.
December 9th, 2022 at 3:49 PM ^
For some reason I can't find the We Are Kickers SNL skit on Youtube, but that's the best sports music video ever.
December 9th, 2022 at 4:07 PM ^
I'd rather bring back the locomotive.
December 9th, 2022 at 4:10 PM ^
My dad went to Michigan in the 80s and often calls Michigan "Big Blue". He's also generally fairly knowledgeable about UM history and other schools' traditions, so I never questioned it until I started frequenting this board. I guess it's a pretty controversial phrase among certain segments of the fan base?
December 9th, 2022 at 4:19 PM ^
It's not "controversial," - it's flat out incorrect to call Michigan, "Big Blue."
December 9th, 2022 at 4:59 PM ^
Yes, I hear that repeated frequently on this board, and then I see people elsewhere (like in this song, for example) use it pretty confidently. It's hard for me to believe that "it's flat out incorrect" when many people seem completely oblivious to that "fact". Isn't that the definition of controversial?
December 9th, 2022 at 5:21 PM ^
Our cheer leaders have had a "Let's go, Big Blue" cheer at basketball games for some time, so it's not just outsiders, and we heard it on campus and in the media in the 80's.
I'm 100% comfortable with the Big Blue moniker becoming a global reference to my beloved Blue U, and IBM, Kentucky and the Giants can suck wind, because Michigan bows to no team, per James Earl Jones.
Go Blue!!!
December 9th, 2022 at 5:23 PM ^
was totally against your argument until you mentioned James Earl Jones and that somehow made it all OK in my head.
December 9th, 2022 at 9:25 PM ^
One measly upvote for ya and I will back ya up.
I think Big Blue started - I wanna say it was an ESPN anchor or similar - sometime in the last couple decades. That horse has left the barn and aint comin back. So deal with it. I hear it often when I'm wearing my M gear (I am not in Michigan) and I take no offense or make any attempt to correct anyone. A simple nod of approval, smile, or fistbump is all that's warranted.
Sorry haters but M is a bigger national brand than Kentucky hoops, Giants foosball, and yeah even IBM.
December 10th, 2022 at 7:17 PM ^
I think Big Blue started - I wanna say it was an ESPN anchor or similar - sometime in the last couple decades.
That sounds about right. But accepting it lying down is wrong.
ESPN also brainwashed everyone into thinking Ohio State is an all-sports rival on the level of the football rivalry.
December 9th, 2022 at 4:27 PM ^
I went to Michigan in the 80s. Like no one used it.
December 9th, 2022 at 5:13 PM ^
Your dad clearly has a secret family he ran away from in Kentucky.
December 10th, 2022 at 7:27 PM ^
And he/she probably went to State.
December 9th, 2022 at 4:37 PM ^
I got through about 30 seconds of that... Isn't an 'anthem' something you should be able to use for years? I mean, this is centric to the team this season. That's it. It cannot be used in other seasons because it names they players. That's not an 'anthem'! It's a hype song.
A misdirected hype song, because 'Big Blue' is Kentucky.
This effort is wrong on so many levels...
December 9th, 2022 at 4:40 PM ^
No way … it was brutal when the sideline reporter called us Big Blue on a tv game … it is GO BLUE !!!
December 9th, 2022 at 4:53 PM ^
That was fun. Thanks for posting.
EDIT: I just read the other comments. That was NOT fun. NO thanks for posting.
(Shh, don't tell anyone but I kinda liked it.)
December 9th, 2022 at 5:22 PM ^
negged for flip-flopping
then upvoted for honesty
December 9th, 2022 at 5:41 PM ^
negged for revenge
then upvoted because I'm a flip-flopper
December 9th, 2022 at 8:25 PM ^
negged to keep the joke going
upvoted because as an mgoblogger, I think you’re a solid dude
December 10th, 2022 at 12:20 PM ^
Negged because you were at 26469 points and I think 26468 is a cool sequence.
Upvoted because you noticed my head is solid (and you're cool too, Doc)
December 9th, 2022 at 5:15 PM ^
Awful.
December 9th, 2022 at 5:20 PM ^
hate the anthem and the name
"big blue" isn't michigan
i also expect nothing to happen because my opinion is just that, an opinion, which means fuck all
welp, about 5:30 pm so time to go to the bar
December 9th, 2022 at 5:35 PM ^
At this point we might as well shrug our old-man-yells-at-cloud shoulders and accept the "Big Blue" moniker. As time goes by it's getting used more and more in the media, so I think we're fighting a losing battle.
December 9th, 2022 at 5:35 PM ^
gross
December 9th, 2022 at 5:45 PM ^
Yuck. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
December 9th, 2022 at 7:22 PM ^
As someone who did undergrad at a school unfortunately known as the "Big Red" I strongly support negging Big Blue into oblivion
December 9th, 2022 at 7:53 PM ^
I've never understood the hate for it, Nebraska and Wisconsin have both been known as Big Red forever.