OT: How did you become a Michigan fan?
Title says it all.
Whether you signed on when you got an acceptance letter or the first thing you saw coming out of the womb was a Block M.
I was raised a Michigan fan.
My first game was September 18, 2004 against San Diego State (W 24-21). Mike Hart's breakout game.
I really really really got into it to the point where it became my one and only interest with a bullet when I got my first history book when I was 11 years old. Just looking through the history and records amazed me, seeing the 1901 team just kill people 119-0 and 128-0.
It inspired me to write down the results against opponents on spiral notebook paper so I could organize records against teams from what conference and then erase team records and write in new ones when they were broken. That notebook eventually became the SuperGuide.
"Because they have cool helmets".
I was a fresh eight years old. The only thing I really knew about football at that point was:
1. You can run and throw a ball.
2. My dad LOVED it.
So my love of the team started with something simple. And I didn't have to conform and love the Sooners like 98% of everyone else around me.
national title game in 1996, dreamed of being Brendan Morrison when I played street or travel ice hockey. After that, I saw a local of my hometown in David Terrell attend this fine university. It kickstarted a passion for this university that is hard to describe. I attended Eastern Michigan because I didn't have the grades to get in and thought that being 5 mins away would be better than 9 hours. My first football game was the 2002 Utah game and was the reassurance of how great it is to be a Michigan Wolverine.
Nothing to see here.
Literally my whole family is full of Sparty fans, besides my older brother and myself. So I guess I followed my big bro's lead and rooted for the boys in Blue. What really got me was the Fab Five. I was 8-9 years old and just becoming a sports nut at the time. I cried myself to sleep the night that they lost Duke in 1992. A love for Michigan football and hockey soon followed and I've watched every basketball/football/hockey game that I've been able since. I've also followed the wrestling team very closely, mostly cause I wrestled in school growing up and I think that Michigan is a potential top 5 program perenially in the nation. Go Blue, love the content and all of the personalities I get to see everyday on MGoBlog!
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Dad went to grad school at Michigan with no prior sports passion and gradually became a casual fan of the football team and a bandwagon fan of the basketball team. So as I grew up he would always watch the football games, and I watched with him at times. Slowly but surely I became a fan. The earliest game that I remember and that cemented my fandom was the win over Penn State in 2005, when Manningham caught the game winner.
"TOUCHDOWN, MANNINGHAM!"
March 29th, 2017 at 12:41 AM ^
...it took about one week on campus and 30 minutes of MICHIGAN STADIUM football to go ALL BLUE. Even when Bo kept kicking the ball to $*%damn f^ck!ng Rocket Ismail, which was ALMOST as bad as witnessing the SILENCING of 106,000 by Miami AFTER we wore out "Hey, Hey, Hey, Goooooodbyyyyee!" 50+ road wins in a row by the Hurricanes (last road loss having come to Michigan), and we couldn't nurse a 30-14 lead late in the 4th.
As an aside, the therapist says I'm doing WAAAY better now, but he's a tool, 'cause seriously, why shouldn't that still be upsetting? Anyway, I've grown, matured (which is a weak euphemism for those avoiding that they have AGED), and probably should go take a nap.
Good topic, WD.
Carry on with Dignity.
Also, FOSU!
March 29th, 2017 at 12:46 AM ^
From kindergarten through college. Was a huge sports fanatic at a young age. Started following Michigan football probably as early as 1st grade. It's been 40 years of excitement, hype, glory, pain, anticipation, frustration, bliss, hope and many other things. I only applied to one school.
GO BLUE!!
I'm from Ohio. Nearly my entire family are Ohio State fans. The few family members that live in Michigan are Michigan State fans.... So yeah the choice was pretty clear for me on which team would be my favorite.
Bob Timberlake.
My parents both went to Wisconsin and were big proponents of the Big Ten schools generally. Academically, I knew I wanted to go to the best public school in the Big Ten, and I fell in love with Ann Arbor. Also, when I moved to Michigan from the East Coast half way through high school, I was in an area surrounded by Sparty swarms (just outside of EL), which, as a contrarian, naturally turned me off to MSU and gave me UM sympathies.
My acceptance letter in 2011 sealed the deal; attending U of M was the best thing I've done in my life to date. Will always be a massive proponent of the entire university and city; I'm in love with the maize and blue.
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