(OT?) Phil Brabbs Good News

Submitted by cheesheadwolverine on

Just saw in the Daily that Phil Brabbs participated in the alumni game today and appears to be in remission.  I'm not an oncologist, and I don't play one on TV, but here's what he had to say for those of you that might be: “I’ve been off chemo for a couple months, but the cancer’s 97 percent gone... Possibly this week I might get a clean response, no cancer detectable." 

Sounds like good news to me, and that's certainly the tone of the article.

http://michigandaily.com/sports/brabbs-battles-multiple-myeloma-support…

PS I looked and didn't see this but if it is feel free to neg bang away (they don't work anymore, bwahaha)

BiSB

April 23rd, 2011 at 2:26 PM ^

It was my sophomore year. And I remember thinking as they lined up, "there is absolutely no way he makes this kick."  The kickers had already shanked several kicks during the game from considerably closer than 44 yards.

And then commenced the WOOOOOO.

 

Michigan4Life

April 23rd, 2011 at 3:17 PM ^

Correct me if I'm wrong.  I was terrified when Brabbs lined up to kick for a game winning FGs.  Just for that one kick, Brabbs have that one moment that he will always cherish for the rest of his life even though if he had made one FG, it wouldn't have come down to it.  His days went from terrible to a great day in one kick.

 

He became Michigan's kickoff specialist and he did a fine job of booting the ball to the endzone.  Hope he's doing okay in recovery!

IdealistWolverine

April 23rd, 2011 at 1:49 PM ^

I will never ever neg anything like this.  If we want to make 100 posts about someone recovering from cancer it will never get old!

Phil Brabbs started my love of the Wolverines, he was from my dad's hometown and we had just moved to Ann Arbor the week before the Washington game.  I remember as a kid thinking it was soooo cool that some guy from Midland just hit the game-winning field goal.

I really hope everything goes great for him.  He's truely taken a scary thing and made nothing but positive out of it with the whole 'Dominating Cancer' stuff. 

He is what a Michigan Man is all about!

Crazy Canuck

April 23rd, 2011 at 1:53 PM ^

I'm sure he does Blue. I hope that he beats his cancer. It was good to watch that clip. How they all ran on to the field towards Brabbs. Awesome feeling for him.

chrs5mr

April 23rd, 2011 at 1:57 PM ^

I was sitting at about the 15-20 yd line and the kick was to the endzone right in front of me.  It was also the 1st game ever for my buddy that has since been to many games w me.

The other thing I'll remember is walking out of the stadium and a bunch of students were singing a made up song:  'you had 12 men on the field, you had 12 men on the field'.

Wohlverine

April 23rd, 2011 at 5:44 PM ^

SO great to hear about this. I was at that game and only 12 years old. What a fantastic finish, and way to deal with adversity by Brabbs. I think I remember him running the ball once or twice too. On fakes obviously. Correct me if I'm wrong. If not that game, maybe one of the others that season.