One-Year Anniversary of the Minnesota Goal-Line Stand
Happy Halloween. Today is the one-year anniversary of the Minnesota goal-line stand - in my humble opinion, the single best moment of the 2015 season. I know that we never should have been in a tight game against Minnesota, but damn, that moment was fun.
October 31st, 2016 at 10:17 PM ^
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October 31st, 2016 at 10:17 PM ^
24:05 is the goal line stand.
October 31st, 2016 at 10:30 PM ^
November 1st, 2016 at 9:58 AM ^
that put them at the goal line. The crowd goes wild!! But then, nope, No Touchdowns For You!
October 31st, 2016 at 10:19 PM ^
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October 31st, 2016 at 10:36 PM ^
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October 31st, 2016 at 10:51 PM ^
I'll never, ever understand Claeys' new-level Miles style of clock management on this series, and I remember watching this live - a Michigan fan - standing up asking my television what the fuck he was trying to achieve here. I don't think that I had ever seen anything like that, at least not in recent memory (I was pretty far into an eight-pack of Guinness and not introspecting at the time admittedly).
October 31st, 2016 at 11:01 PM ^
November 1st, 2016 at 9:37 AM ^
November 1st, 2016 at 9:39 AM ^
Durkin forgetting to make halftime adjustments.
November 1st, 2016 at 2:31 PM ^
Of these the worst is the Rutgers mistake - that was not in the heat of the moment under stress but a premeditated act that was scheduled months ahead of time. I suspect that Rutgers thought it would be nice to embarass Michigan in front of 200 recruits but instead they had their scheme explode in their face.
October 31st, 2016 at 10:59 PM ^
I'm glad the game didn't end on expired time with their idiotic shifting. Iconic moment in the rivalry.
November 1st, 2016 at 9:31 AM ^
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November 1st, 2016 at 10:32 AM ^
Would that have started a Gopher-Noe meme?
November 1st, 2016 at 11:59 AM ^
If necessary. Cue the JH post game back slap and get the hell out of MINN.
October 31st, 2016 at 10:25 PM ^
October 31st, 2016 at 10:35 PM ^
October 31st, 2016 at 10:36 PM ^
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October 31st, 2016 at 10:57 PM ^
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October 31st, 2016 at 11:13 PM ^
Worth noting: This November will be telling, but the early returns are good--contrast how we performed in stretch B1G games last season with this season. Minnesota and Indiana were ok, not great teams on the edge of bowl eligiblity, and we only beat them by the skin of our teeth. Even Maryland, a comfortable win, was a very sluggish game that took time to put away, and PSU was in question in the fourth quarter.
Now we're hanging 78 points on awful teams and running up 20-point leads on poor teams and demolishing average teams like Penn State. This is... noticeably better. And, on one hand, that seems like an obvious observation, of course we're better. But on the other, the fear as expressed after the MSU game is that there's something fraudulent to be exploited at OSU.
But this team has grown a lot in a year.
October 31st, 2016 at 10:28 PM ^
I had a different one
October 31st, 2016 at 10:33 PM ^
for making it all possible
October 31st, 2016 at 10:42 PM ^
October 31st, 2016 at 10:49 PM ^
I was there in person and it was one of the most exciting, albeit frustrating, games. Poor Minnesota still had to do their fireworks display after that.
October 31st, 2016 at 10:54 PM ^
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October 31st, 2016 at 11:01 PM ^
And along with the one year anniversary of the Minnesota Goal-Line Stand is also the one year anniversary of the first time Wilton Speight saw real game action.
While he did end up anchoring the comeback that night, in huge thanks to the goal-line stand, he did so while looking shaky, very much so at times. It's amazing to think of the progress that he has made in one short year!
October 31st, 2016 at 11:03 PM ^
Football-wise it was a classic night-game vortex where tons of things go wrong and the home team plays on another level with an energized crowd.
And somehow Speight, who looked lost at first, made those two plays. And then Minnesota roared down and made that diving catch right in front of me, and I thought they scored, and actually left my seat... and it wasn't over.
So we watched from the exit. Right there at the goal line.
And they made the stop. And my daughters said they had never seen me act so excited.
What a night.
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November 1st, 2016 at 10:34 AM ^
Maybe you shoud write a book. You could call it "THE STAND".
October 31st, 2016 at 11:12 PM ^
THAT was a last stand. Every man stood his ground and fulfilled his role. No player flinched or backed off. Every last increment of energy was harnessed onto the enemy. That's quintessential Meechigan Football encapsulated in a single moment. Bo is proud.
October 31st, 2016 at 11:25 PM ^
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November 1st, 2016 at 7:49 AM ^
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November 1st, 2016 at 11:35 AM ^
I had been drinking, I thought there'd be a commercial break and then Minnesota would kick a field goal. I mean, why wouldn't they? Michigan's backup quarterback hadn't looked all that good except for the touchdown and the two-point conversion and they still had their starter in.
So I answered the call of nature and when I came back downstairs the clock was at zero and the scoreboard showed Michigan on top.
November 1st, 2016 at 3:35 PM ^
Since I'm on the West Coast and the game ended at about 8 PM Pacific, I had planned to take my son out trick-or-treating after the game. If we had lost, I might have been too depressed to go out (especially since the previous game was the MSU debacle), and my wife would have had a grumpy 6 year-old and a grumpy 35 year-old on her hands.