Stop jinxing 2014!
As a fatalist (and a soviet), you all are making me VERY uncomfortable with your 2014 bally hoo'ing. It is well established that whenever anything good is happening, we all need to be even more dilligently looking around for the other shoe to fall. It's the only civilized way to live.
So please, take your 2014 success like a soviet; ignore it and wait for the world to fall apart.
Thank you.
January 10th, 2014 at 7:38 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 7:39 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 7:39 AM ^
Yes, let's just kill the "year" meme. This is Michigan (FGS) and we earn our success, it is not handed to us by some measly year.
January 10th, 2014 at 7:46 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 7:49 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 7:58 AM ^
As one who doesn't believe in magic, neither the year nor any potential jinxing thereof seems an interesting topic of conversation. But at least the collective fanbase has stopped cutting itself about Borges, which is nice.
January 10th, 2014 at 7:58 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 8:03 AM ^
Be humble before the Gods of arbitrary capricious sports luck . . . for they are vengeful.
January 10th, 2014 at 9:56 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 8:05 AM ^
BTW, what a long strange trip it must have been to go from a Soviet to a hard core Michigan College Football fan.
Do tell.
January 10th, 2014 at 8:40 AM ^
we immigrated from USSR when I was young; moved shortly thereafter to ann arbor where I went K-12 and also to Michigan undergrad. Not too unusual nowadays where you can't swing a sickle without hitting a Russian immigrant.
my father is the infamous (on this blog) "Igor!". His story is probably more interesting since he never went to college in the US but transfered his crazy fandom from soccer to American football.
January 10th, 2014 at 9:09 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 9:11 AM ^
I can see it
January 10th, 2014 at 9:16 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 1:00 PM ^
Have to refresh. And that video is pretty awesome, looks fun.
January 10th, 2014 at 4:08 PM ^
how'd you get my home movies?
that was my best friend bear "Medved"; we had a great time wrestling and playing in the snow when we were young....
he was delicious.
January 10th, 2014 at 10:09 AM ^
Not too unusual nowadays where you can't swing a sickle without hitting a Russian immigrant.
/Tests theory
/Is jailed for attempted murder
January 10th, 2014 at 8:20 AM ^
about not changing what's working. We may anger the 2014 Gods.
January 10th, 2014 at 8:21 AM ^
Win it for Mother Rus....
I mean, Go Blue!
January 10th, 2014 at 8:37 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 8:23 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 8:25 AM ^
Like it needs to be appeased. People started damning 2013 months before it ended and worse things kept happening to us. Maybe positivity breeds desirable results. We all know doing the other thing just makes us all miserable.
January 10th, 2014 at 8:42 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 8:53 AM ^
Self-fulfilling prophecy. Except it's more like a year-willing prophecy. But same concept.
January 10th, 2014 at 10:05 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 8:44 AM ^
How could 2014 be better?
January 10th, 2014 at 9:14 AM ^
could induce a seizure.
January 10th, 2014 at 8:47 AM ^
Not sure why people didn't realize this in the first place, but it's all about how we distribute our good luck.
We obviously used up all our "good karma" early in 2013. For example, starting at the beginning of the year, we had an allotment of 100% and used probably 80% on basketball. Seriously, 25% of it was probably used on Trey's shot against Kansas alone.
We just need to better allocate this mojo more equally. Spread it out evenly.
January 10th, 2014 at 8:51 AM ^
They gave our normal allotment to MSU. We need to get our normal allotment back and we should get extra to make up for last year. Fuck MSU.
January 10th, 2014 at 8:51 AM ^
At the rate we're going, everyone is going to get hurt in the spring game. Pump the brakes people!
January 10th, 2014 at 8:52 AM ^
Props to the OP, this is a much needed dose of perspective coupled with humor. Thank you for that. As for me, I have no problem with being happy that the end of 2013 is over, but there's a long way to go and I recall all of us being similarly happy about Michigan sports at this point last year. Let us appreciate that the dickpunch of the football season is over and we have a chance to write a new story, but always with the knowledge that things may still, in fact, suck.
(That said, the fact that the football program actually acknowledged a clear problem and too defined steps to deal with it is an awfully nice change of perspectiove from thedoom and gloom of thinking that Hoke was comfortable enough with what happened last year to not make changes despite clear cracks in the foundation).
January 10th, 2014 at 8:56 AM ^
"If you believe you're playing well because you're getting laid, or because you're not getting laid, or because you wear women's underwear, then you *are*! And you should know that!"
- Crash Davis
January 10th, 2014 at 9:14 AM ^
Celebrate like its 1999! The world could end tomorrow. Every little victory counts.
January 10th, 2014 at 10:14 AM ^
/phork declares for NFL draft
January 10th, 2014 at 11:35 AM ^
I mean, 1999 was Bob Davie and 5-7.
January 10th, 2014 at 9:34 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 9:41 AM ^
is that because he's Soviet/Russian, he is prone to being more cynical than most others.
True?
January 10th, 2014 at 10:24 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 10:00 AM ^
January 10th, 2014 at 10:11 AM ^
but you must be new here.
January 10th, 2014 at 1:03 PM ^
Not in the cards, my man. One thing this place knows how to do is to thoroughly beat deceased equines to a pulp.
January 10th, 2014 at 10:15 AM ^
This feels GOOD! GO BLUE!!!
To Hell with 2013! (and ND)
January 10th, 2014 at 12:03 PM ^
Old school
January 10th, 2014 at 12:55 PM ^
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January 10th, 2014 at 12:58 PM ^
(I wish there was a gif with someone yelling noooooo in slow motion to infer impending doom)
January 10th, 2014 at 1:07 PM ^
There is no such thing as a jinx and I must say I don't much hold with unwarranted optimism. Neither are reasonable or logical.