Rank the Top Moments in Big House History on MGOBLUE.com
August 24th, 2010 at 3:19 PM ^
That was fun. I love seeing those moments and reliving some of them. Great history.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:21 PM ^
1.Woodson PR for TD against Ohio State
- Nat'l Championship season, The Game, Heisman Trophy
2.Goodbye...Hello Heisman
- For the sheer awesomeness of it
3.Anthony Carter
- No Michigan team should ever lose/tie vs Indiana. Anthony Carter made it so.
4.The Game - 1969
- Kicked off the Ten Year War. Turned the game into The Game.
5.Phil Brabbs FG
- Sentimental reasons.
6.Desmond Howard's catch against ND
- Simply because of the catch itself
7.Timmy B runs for 313
- One of the most impressive individual performances in any stadium ever, let alone The Big House
8.Henne to Manningham
- Remember watching it live and flipping out in my dorm room. Bonus points for sprinting across the hall and literally watching my ND fan neighbors throw a chair across the room after Leinart to Jarrett on 4th and then the Bush Push.
9.Braylon The Harsh owns Little Bro
- Love this game.
10.First TD ever
- Because it should be on there.
August 24th, 2010 at 5:27 PM ^
Good list.
I could debate the order, but not the list.
Nice.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:22 PM ^
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I think this is a direct link.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:38 PM ^
Tom Harmon OL'98 against Ohio State in 1940 UM 40---OSU 0. 139 yards 2 TD Rushing. 11-of-12 for 151 yards and 2 TD passing, 4 Extra Points, 3 INT's including 1 for a TD, and 3 Punts (Avg 50 yrds)
August 24th, 2010 at 3:40 PM ^
Insane game for ol' 98, but it was in Columbus. He got a standing ovation from the Buckeye fans. Amazing.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:48 PM ^
I just remembered the standing ovation given by the Buckeye faithful. Tom Harmon also was awarded a Purple Heart and a Silver Star in WWII. His plane was shot down over Japanese occupied China. He was truly one of those great individuals.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:33 PM ^
Personally, best and worst moments came about 5 minutes apart.
Best moment - winning the game
Worst moment - getting maced as I was one of the first intoxicated students to rush the field afterwards. For those that weren't students at the time, there was a big public safety announcement in The Daily the week leading up to that game trying to convince everyone that the athletic department would not tolerate students on the field.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:38 PM ^
Great to see that play on there. That was the cat's breasts.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:40 PM ^
I hate myself every damn time one of these is posted. Sold my Michigan State ticket to hang out with my (now) ex girlfriend and watched on TV as 3 OTs were played...learned that lesson the very hard way, never miss a chance to go to a Michigan game.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:48 PM ^
So many great moments. But what a nightmare to actually rank them.
Even though I wasn't alive yet, I had to put 69-OSU at #1. The circumstances going in to that game, the talent level of that Bucks team and a confirmation that Michigan was back as a power in college football, this has to be #1. Probably the greatest win in program history.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:50 PM ^
1. Syracuse beats the snot out of Michigan in 1998
2. 1997 Michigan-Ohio State
3. Dreisbach to Mercury Hayes vs. Virginia
August 24th, 2010 at 5:23 PM ^
Funny, I remember it as "Donovan McNabb beats the snot out of Michigan in 1998."
Even with one shoe.
August 24th, 2010 at 6:37 PM ^
I grew an intense hatred of Syracuse on that day. Not because of McNabb or the outcome of the game but because of the Syracuse students stealing the M Banner out of Crisler Arena. The only time to my knowledge in the last 40 years that the team charged out of the tunnel and had no banner to touch.
When we played them again the following year in New York, what was left of the banner turned up on the Syracuse campus the week of the game.
I've despised them ever since and have enjoyed their futility on the football field ever since. Don't mess with the banner.
August 24th, 2010 at 4:17 PM ^
National anthem and flyover on Saturday, September 22nd 2001, Michigan v. Western Michigan. Something I'll never, ever forget.
August 24th, 2010 at 5:29 PM ^
Strangest game I've ever been to. Sad time.
August 24th, 2010 at 4:17 PM ^
Because it was fantastic all by itself, and because anything that beats ND always ranks high on my list.
August 24th, 2010 at 5:26 PM ^
to rank these.
69 Ohio State game was the biggest Michigan win ever so it's #1.
Biggest (i.e. most meaningful with most on the line) moment was Woodson's punt return in 97 Ohio State game so it's #2.
Single most exciting play that I witnessed was Henne to Manningham so it's #3.
August 24th, 2010 at 10:09 PM ^
I know this dates me, but I just realized that I saw 17 of these moments in person!
August 25th, 2010 at 12:45 AM ^
I'll always remember Maningham '05 -- though in sadness not happiness -- because my cousin was diagnosed with cancer the same day (since cured, thank God) and somehow watching football returned me to earth some how (sick as that sounds, I promise it's not).
But the top moment for the program has to be the '69 OSU game (as per ESPN classic). OSU was the dominant program nationally at the time, plus anachronistic as it is, it was year one of the ten year war.