New MGoBlog Banner? Is it time?

Submitted by Gerald R. Ford on

I am just a small-timer on this board, but isn't it close to the time when we start voting on submissions for the next MGoBanner? Last year, if I recall correctly, we did not get to use the one that won the competition (yevgeni?) because there were some copyright concerns. I don't dislike the current banner (maybe a little), but I enjoyed the competition last year and voted every day.

Bryan

March 1st, 2010 at 8:25 PM ^

Hasn't this banner been up since before the start of the 2008 season? Could it be the reason for M football downfall as the CIL was for basketball last season? Hmmm?

BeantownBlue

March 1st, 2010 at 8:41 PM ^

Many banner changes over the past couple years. I think this one was put in place when we realized the last one (the contest winner?) had cursed us.

In retrospect, I'm thinking it was more than the banner. This one hasn't been particularly kind to us either.

NYWolverine

March 1st, 2010 at 10:52 PM ^

So this old dude walks back from the showers tonight and did pretty much everything he could to avoid putting on underwear. Longest 20 seconds in recent memory: tying my sneakers as this guy bent over to pick up his shoes by the bench i was sitting on.

First thought: why grab for your shoes when you're not even wearing pants? That's skipping at least three steps. Secondly: man, you're not wearing any clothes at all! Forget the shoes, concentrate on your old-man drawers. Of course, he turns out to be a sock first guy. A standing sock first guy. All up in my personal space.

For an eternity this dude just stood sack-naked in a crowded locker-room airing his balls. Then he decided to shuffle in front of my locker right as I was about to lock up, prompting an awkward, "behind you, excuse me, damn you are old and wrinkly and naked" maneuver.

So yea. I'm all set on naked men, thanks. Let's see what else we've got in the pipeline.

MaizeAndBlueWahoo

March 1st, 2010 at 11:44 PM ^

what the hell is the obsession with the naked guy banner? I hated the naked guy banner. I don't think enough of you go to the gym, because I'm with NY: the locker room provides my poor eyes with more naked men than should be allowed to exist in the world.

MaizeandBlue14

March 2nd, 2010 at 8:30 AM ^

Whereas naked man symbolizes the greatness of this blog and U-M, it is difficult to explain to your boss why you have a naked guy with a porn-stache on your monitor.

ZooWolverine

March 2nd, 2010 at 11:46 AM ^

I don't know if it's the banner or leaving blogspot, but we've been 8-16 since leaving mgoblog.blogspot.com and going with this evil, menacing Drupal. Sure, there wasn't nearly the same interaction or level of involvement there, but since when would that get in the way of a superstition?