OT: Origin of your sign in name/how long have you been reading

I think it's pretty obvious where my sign-in name came from...lol. I was hoping I would spot Brian on Saturday so I could introduce myself and just say "Hey, I'm the other Brian!" As for reading, I can't for the life of me remember how I came across the site, but one of the first posts I read was Brian's "New Math" post after the 05 Penn State game. Been hooked ever since.

WolverineinLA was too long. I've been reading for a little over 3 weeks now. I LOVE IT!

I became obsessed with Mike Hart after his first game in his freshman season. And his number is 20. Started reading off and on during last year's offseason (after Signing Day). Been religiously reading since the season began, finally signed up right before the Purdue game.

From ayso soccer. The numbers show up a lot in my life, po boxes and ID numbers, stuff like that. I really started heavy reading during the coaching search, but I had been here every now and again before that.

Mine is just a play on my last name. I was born in Ann Arbor so I've always been a Michigan fan, but I started reading right around the time Lloyd Carr retired and couldn't stop. Before MgoBlog I would peruse other forums and such to get my Michigan info. But I've always enjoyed Brian's work.

Good post. I'm from Scranton PA, and it is psu and notre dame country here,and i have a serious hatred for both. I started loving UM also when it was 97, and for some reason i get every single UM game on tv. My name is just random, and completely forgot that there is a band called house of pain. And i started reading right after the 2007 season.

I live in West Texas (Midland), so hence that part in my name. An alumni mag I got a month after graduating in '05 had an article on MZone, so I thought I'd check it out. Got addicted to that website; there were a few articles which linked to Brian's website. Came here to MGoBlog eventually, and have been a loyal reader for nearly 4 years now.

i generally picture people who cruise the internet regularly to closely resemble the world of warcraft character from south park. so, i was thinking it'd kinda be like looking in the mirror while coming on mgoblog for half of you guys. oh, and i feel really, really cool when i find myself visiting mgoblog 5-10 times a day. anyways, growing up in a2 and then going mich = the love for mich is self-explanatory.

My handle came from the fact that I live in the UP for 5 years while I went to school there. While there, I fell in love with the land and Lake Superior. I would be living up there if work and family allowed it. The number 63 came from my college football number I had while I was at school. I started reading the blog somewhere around the recruiting class of '07. I think it was a ROJO link that brought me here from The Victors board where I had been lurking for some time. Someone posted something like "check out Funky's (Funkymoses is Brian's handle on The Victors board, for those that don't know) update about ROJO on his blog". So I went and have been hooked ever since.

which I couldn't believe was available, I thought that was pretty cool. I graduated in '99 and to commemorate the new millenium/world is my oyster/future is so bright kinda attitude choose victors2000 as my e-mail name.The rest is history. I don't know how long I've been reading Brian's blog, it's been several years for sure.

and I've been reading this site for about a year or two. More frequently since the coaching change. I'll hang up and listen.

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My initials are MVP so I use them a lot. It is pretty easy for people to remember... I found the blog in the middle of the 2006 season and have been reading religiously since. UFR had me at hello. I used to post a ton on umgoblue.com but got tired of the same discussions again and again. I found mgoblog to be a much better source of info than having to root around the messages on other sites.

It all started when I was but a wee tike, and my dad took me to a few games in 1969. I was five at the time and I remember some of the old-timers who I assumed had been coming to games since before electricity. I remember hearing the phrase "Maize and Blue", but being overwhelmed by the size and the din in the air all I kept hearing was "Amaze in Blue". I came across the site around recruiting season in '08. I read for awhile and realized there was a whole other world of M fans as obsessed as I am about this program. One of my favorite moments was last season at the Utah game when I arrived at my seats (Season tickets I have had for four years now, next to my brother's seats which he had passed down from my dad four years ago) and while waiting for the band to start a gentleman slides into his seat two rows in front of me. The curious, humorous and mostly ironic thing was the maize t-shirt he was wearing. It had something about his son's undergrad degree from UM costing $$$ and his Engineering degree from UM costing $$$$ and at the very bottom of the shirt squeezed in was the line about 'my son chucking the education to start MGOBLOG...PRICELESS!' I thought I was going to die. Hilarious! I didn't get a chance to talk to him, but at that point I became daily reader and occasional poster here.

I've been a hockey player for a long, long time... and there was a time in the 90's when I got on a team that already had a player wearing my usual number, #6. So I ended up wearing 60 and it stuck-- today both numbers are very special to me. Lots of people ask me how I became a UM fan living, like House of Pain, in the heart of Nittany Lion country with a fair amount of Catholic football fans peppered here and there. It basically comes down to one afternoon of watching Jim Harbaugh rolling out in a winged helmet. I was a kid, of course, and it was right around the same time that I decided I needed a college football team, and that's pretty much all it took. It just seemed... right. As for MgoBlog... For years upon years I used to religiously visit Mlive and TheWolverine, week after week to read press conferences along with the official press releases. But then the info started leaking about Lloyd's coming resignation, and I just couldn't find enough information online about my team. I ended up finding this place, and I became hooked pretty quickly... although for months and months I never felt compelled to join into the community and voice my opinions. Up until the week before the first game... and the rest, they say, is history.

... I'm 4godkingandwolverines. Not sure why, but I've always liked that triumvirate and had really been into 20th century warfare history (also explains my FDR signature) at the time. In retrospect the name is way too long, and if I ever clear my cookies I have a terrible time remembering it, but it's who I am. Became a big reader about 6 months before I signed up (so a little over a year now). I originally found the site when drudging the internet to get free recruiting updates. I just happened across the site from a google search. That was a good day.

My name is my Deadspin handle, which is a rather obvious play on legendary NBA bust Yinka Dare and childhood game show Double Dare. Been reading this site since sometime during the 2006 football season.

i've been reading mgoblog more or less since Brian started. i found it via the MVN michigan blog that was running (but sucked), iirc.

I discovered MGoBlog at some point my first year of law school. It was during the season of infinite pain and having Brian explain our shittiness to me made it a little easier to stomache it all. It has been my homepage ever since. My handle is just the same as my uniqname when I was a student at Michigan.

dankbro is my umich account... which is a story in and of itself: I originally tried to get dankbrown (which Dan K. Brown is my name, common enough that I don't care if it's on the internets) and they only allowed 7 characters, so I took the truncated version, which, unbeknownst to me, would become a running joke with everyone that knew it (i smokey the reefa now n' then). My RA freshman year never called me Dan, just dankbro. So, when it came time to make an account I thought I'd use that. I added the "go blue" because that's a common cheer for the Michigan Wolverines. I got the D Warren pic because he's the top player of my class, 2011 (Manny Harris makes me proud too), and I think he's going to be ridiculous his junior and senior year. The first time I came across MGoBlog was in '06 when the (at that point) perfect season had renewed my obsession with Michigan football in full force. I read Brian's preview for the Ohio State game and was absolutely dazzled by how it captured my emotions for the game, and how it was so much more genuine than the ESPN articles I'd been reading. I started reading religiously though, during the coaching search

My friends were joking around about being in the Russian mob, and since I'm big and burly, they said I should be a bodyguard. We decided that Magnus would be a good name, even though it's not Russian. I've been reading since the spring of 2006.

I think that I stumbled upon the Mgoblogosphere after stumbling upon the Mzone (after it gained fame from the wonderlic/ESPN fallout). medals is a spin-off from my name.