Snowflakes: airplanes flying overhead pregame.
September 21st, 2014 at 5:05 PM ^
Who was that old dude billed as the "professional" announcer during the flyover? Yeesh.
Did love the standing O for the Korean War POW. That's good stuff right there.
September 21st, 2014 at 5:15 PM ^
September 21st, 2014 at 5:20 PM ^
assumed he likes to party MSC style.
September 21st, 2014 at 5:36 PM ^
Two separate times during the game, Mr. Grapentine was replaced and other people were given the PA for no apparent reason. Both times were disasters.
The "air show" announcer went back and forth from trying to fit 45 seconds of material into 10 seconds, and then trying to expand 10 seconds of material to fit 45 seconds. His information was not geared to the audience, and as far as I could tell nothing at all was done to tie the planes in to the work done at the University. I could be wrong; the announcements were only occasionally audible.
Of course, his announcing would have been preferable to whatever was going on during our band's halftime show. Memo for anybody who ever has to do something like that in the future: that thing you're talking into is a microphone. It amplifies your voice, so you can just speak at a normal level, rather than screaming at the top of your lungs.
Amazingly, at least one of the two women who shared the band show announcing duties speaks into microphones for a living, so you would think that she would be aware of this fact. But apparently not.
Mr. Grapentine, we missed you. Don't ever let anybody take your microphone away from you again.
September 21st, 2014 at 5:39 PM ^
Don't forget that time Special K played music over the starting lineup player intros, or that time whoever was talking had to talk over some stupid HAIL ad. It was a clown show.
September 21st, 2014 at 6:57 PM ^
how the Utah players didn't make it out in time for the national anthem? They were standing in the tunnel, with their hands over their hearts. It was weird.
September 21st, 2014 at 5:06 PM ^
Cool Thread, Bro
Maybe make it a "game atmosphere in general" thread, though?
September 21st, 2014 at 5:08 PM ^
Difficult times around here give you the opportunity to get your username out there and your stupid thread read. Were you rooting for Utah yesterday?
September 21st, 2014 at 5:21 PM ^
September 21st, 2014 at 5:24 PM ^
God help you if you think this thread stands on its own merits.
September 21st, 2014 at 5:16 PM ^
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September 21st, 2014 at 5:57 PM ^
a roll, as the planes circled south of AA they had to kind of dodge a rain shower, which sent them on a longer path.
Also I'm sure the announcer couldn't see what planes were coming from his field level view. Why he didn't have a script of the planes arrivals I don't know.
September 21st, 2014 at 5:49 PM ^
Speaking of airplanes, I posted this deep in another thread but seems more appropriate here. Here's my interpretation of all of our hopes for Hoke before the season, and now:
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:20 AM ^
That is awesome.
September 21st, 2014 at 5:48 PM ^
the MC for the airshow needed a hell of a lot more gain on his microphone. Obviously there are probably limitations without going full Mary Sue Coleman on feedback/distortion but it took away from the show because I could not hear his articulation and I thought he had interesting things to say no matter what the timing issues were between the program and the actual planes.
September 21st, 2014 at 6:59 PM ^
He loves all things aviation. And my daughter in 6th grade is studying Amelia Earhart, and her Lockheed Martin plane was there. So it was very cool to some of us. Yay Aero Engineering! Michigan rules!
September 21st, 2014 at 7:58 PM ^
We were sitting on the west side of the stadium and it was difficult to see many of the planes as they appeared to be flying behind the press box. Football wasn't the only thing that wasn't well orchestrated yesterday. I actually thought the informaiton on the planes was interesting but it could have been better delivered.
September 21st, 2014 at 8:34 PM ^
September 21st, 2014 at 8:32 PM ^
One of the departments most famous grads, Kelly Johnson of Lockheed Skunk Works, designed some of the 20th centuries most influential planes - including the P-38, P-80, U2, F-104, and Kelly's magnum opus, the SR-71 Blackbird. The first aircraft he worked on for Lockheed, the L10 Electra, was part of the flyover. As a grad student he tested models of the L10 in the UofM wind tunnel and developed its distinctive twin tail, which became something of a Lockheed trademark. The Electra was the plane in which Amelia Earheart disappeared. The L10 that flew over the stadium was used in the production of the film "Amelia".
September 22nd, 2014 at 8:22 AM ^
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