September 14th, 2010 at 11:12 AM ^
Total win.
He crosses the goal line and immediately falls to one knee, as if God was up there tapping on his watch and Denard had to apologize for taking so long.
September 14th, 2010 at 11:14 AM ^
YeSSSSSSSSS Thank you for posting this. I was checking out his older stuff yesterday, hoping he would come back soon.
September 14th, 2010 at 11:17 AM ^
shit, here. Wow chills yo
September 14th, 2010 at 11:18 AM ^
...but I have a feeling the poster who hates analogies, similes, and metaphors isn't going to appreciate it at all.
September 14th, 2010 at 11:40 AM ^
That's too bad. A vote against RBUAS is a vote for satan himself.
September 14th, 2010 at 11:19 AM ^
Sorry Brian, but you're only my second favorite sportswriter. Johnny RBUAS is such an amazing writer, it's incredible.
September 14th, 2010 at 11:19 AM ^
Man, for 10 months I've been seeing that "She might be in Tangier" post at the top of the blog and wondering when new content might arrive. This was a welcome addition to my morning reading...
He is like trying to hold a beach ball submerged underwater. Eventually you just lose. You are working against one of the principle dynamics of the universe: Denard Robinson is fast. If you’re behind him it won’t end well.
Awesome.
September 14th, 2010 at 11:20 AM ^
and how can you not love the set of images immediately following it?
September 14th, 2010 at 11:37 AM ^
EEEEEEEEEE! I haven't read it yet but I'm already getting chills just thinking about it.
EDIT: Done. Wow. I haven't ever been this purely happy for anyone I've never met.
September 14th, 2010 at 11:23 AM ^
I was just looking for a new post earlier today; I must not have missed it by much. Thanks for the link!
September 14th, 2010 at 11:31 AM ^
I just happened to notice it in my feed reader and had a feeling that folks over here would be happy to see it. Great stuff.
September 14th, 2010 at 11:35 AM ^
RBUAS certainly has a talent.
September 14th, 2010 at 11:40 AM ^
The Saturday morning before last I woke up on an inflatable mattress on the floor of a friend’s apartment in Ann Arbor. You know how the rest goes.
awesome.
September 14th, 2010 at 12:00 PM ^
Also, +1 go Geaux Blue for this comment:
The surrounding storm of chaos and hype that has struck pundits, fans, foes, your grandma... it has a center. Where it is calm, nearly oblivious. It comes upon the destruction and wonders "what happened?" Denard's record-breaking efforts have blown us all away, while at the center of it all remains a person quiet. Still. Ready to keep moving and unaware of all around him.
The the true mark of great writing is just this: someone reads what you have written, and has been so absorbed by it that they can't help but respond in the same vein.
My favorite line:
“I don’t like being caught from behind,” he says. He’s not being coy. He’d just prefer that it doesn’t happen.
Thank you, Johnny, for putting into words why we love this kid.
September 14th, 2010 at 12:06 PM ^
RBUAS is a decent writer, but he's also a bandwagoning piece of shit, which negates any sort of props I would give him for his saudades musings.
September 14th, 2010 at 3:09 PM ^
I didn't realize the only way to be a Michigan fan is to write 3,000 word soliloquies on the internet.
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September 14th, 2010 at 4:36 PM ^
I also seem to remember multiple columns from last year well after it was obvious we sucked.
Yeah, and they were mostly pining for the good ol' days of LLOYD CARR MIKE HART MIKE HART. Mike Hart is a Michigan legend, but he's gone, so is Lloyd, and it took Johnny until now (when there is something to be YAY about) to get over it.
He hasn't written anything in nearly a year, and was completely nonexistent in 2008. He is the definition of a bandwagon fan.
http://umichedme.blogspot.com/2008/11/after-gold-rush.html
These days, the coach's once-hypnotic charisma feels hollow and trite. At press conferences he seems embarrassed, like he’s still a little detached from it all and doesn’t have to cry with, or for a team he just met. Maybe it seems like he’s fighting for them when he’s being irascible and short-tempered, but this team is a reflection of who he is as a coach. He’s defending himself as much as he’s defending them.
Yeah, I still remember this, the moment when Johnny jumped off the bandwagon. If he wants back on, that's fine, but let's not pretend he isn't a giant douche because he waxed poetic about Denard.
September 14th, 2010 at 12:30 PM ^
Wow. I suppose he's over the fact that Mike Hart isnt walking thorugh that door.
Welcome back, I guess. There's always plenty of room on the bandwagon. Hopefully, he sticks around this time.
September 14th, 2010 at 1:41 PM ^
I don't mean to the blogosphere, I mean on the Michigan bandwagon. Glad you were able to get on because it's filled up pretty quickly. Hope you're on for good now- those who stay (fans) will be (rooting for) champions.
September 14th, 2010 at 1:42 PM ^
Of course RBUAS is around. Things are going well. It's not a coicindence that you on't hear from this jackolope when M is losing. Guy is a bandwagon fan of the worst sort. Also, he's the Nicholas Sparks of M blogosphere.
September 15th, 2010 at 7:58 AM ^
Pardon my ignorance, but who is Nicholas Sparks?
September 14th, 2010 at 2:27 PM ^
first he's invited into the ND pressroom, and now RBUAS resurfaces; what's next, Lazarus rising up...again?
September 14th, 2010 at 4:11 PM ^
... Even if those retards at WLA don't like him.
He and Brian are the best writers in the M blogosphere
September 14th, 2010 at 7:18 PM ^
Absolute bliss. I was craving one of these posts like a crack addict searching aimlessly for his next fix. Absolute class.