SIAP: NYT on Mr. Brightside

I graduated in May 1998. I do not believe that we had a song like that for that championship season. Maybe Fly by Sugar Ray or Tubthumping by Chumbawamba could have caught on.

still get chills thinking about that moment, the refs even waited for us to finish singing before starting the 4th quarter

Interesting that that it happened in 2017. I was at games early in 2018, and they were not doing it, but I remember in the 2018 season, when we were blowing out Penn State, they played it, and the stadium sang along when coming back from a commercial. I thought that was the first time it happened.  

Thanks for the news flash, Gray Lady. Permit me to pitch a piece on how they play Jump Around at Camp Randall. 

It's super dumb and it makes me cringe

Wife and I were at this game, her first one. I didn’t know that was the night it started, but I remember us laughing and singing it. Too bad the way that night ended.

This was my youngest son's first trip to the Big House....  What a memorable night (sadly, the game was terrible)...

We were all Mr. Brightside, hanging on hope that after almost two decades of bpone our Wolverines wandering through the proverbial desert of dispair....they would soon find the promised land..

Low and behold..... just four years later, it happened!

It's a fun new tradition-  some may not love the song or the topic it deals with but the resigned semi happy semi melancholy spirit of the song seems to match our experience as Michigan football fans since 2005.

Michigan State seems to draw power from direspekt!

Michigan draws power from:  infinite pain!

I was at the 2018 Wisconsin game, 2019 Notre Dame game and do not recall Mr. Brightside being played at the end of the 3rd Quarter (could have been the booze)?

First time I heard it was 2021 Washington, and was a sight to see with the Maize Out!  Still watch the video I took often.

It's peak millennial and as that generation will make its march into middle age and then old age, the song will probably stick around as a song played at Michigan Stadium.

The question though is what happens If it's only the dads in the expensive seats singing it, will it survive as a song where people can claim 'the whole stadium is singing it' (it's in reality probably never been more than 10%, but that's a lot of voices at Michigan Stadium)? There's usually a critical mass required for a song to keep that singalong momentum.

Dixieland Delight has survived a long time at Bama, but then there's also a local pride element to that which creates a lasting connection to the fans no matter the age and whether they've ever listened to an Alabama song in a different context. Sweet Caroline is maybe more comparable, but you could say that it has entered the American standard repertoire as a celebratory tune played at all kinds of events, so it will forever get recognized by enough people to get that critical mass of people singing.

At this point I think it could still fairly easily fade into the background in a few years. The main problem with the song is that as catchy as it is, its primary emotional mood is 'despair', which is hardly suggestive of a long future as a sporting event song for a winning team.

There was not an anthem in 1997. I was a sophomore. Wyclef was the jam at that time, in all house parties. I retroactively designate “Gone til November.”

hey that's me 

I was a junior in '17 - we sang it every home game that year (Brian wrote about it I think in the Cincinnati game recap) but that game just reached a different level. IIRC UM was still undefeated and ranked in the top 10 - but was already down Speight. That game, football wise, was so terrible. Absolute classic Dantonio game, but it was a one score game basically the whole way. At a certain point in the 3Q it began raining harder than I've ever seen in Michigan before, and there was no way anyone was leaving before the 4Q. Only thing left to do in the student section was to belt that song and try to lift the team in any way.

Even though both the actual game and results sucked, that was probably my favorite game I attended in my time at UM. I remember walking back to my house on Division St. and taking my shoes off and realizing they were completely full of water. Good times.

Has there ever been a concert at the Big House?  
 

If not, I propose the Killers break that seal.