There are...

Submitted by UM Fan from Sydney on

 

...days until Chris Perry watches the 2016 Michigan Wolverines dominate the Rainbow Warriors.

Yeah yeah yeah...Jamie Morris this, Jamie Morris that. Well, I was born in 1981, which means I did not get a chance to see Jamie's playing football. I was not into American football until around 1991 when my dad showed it to me. Chris Perry is one of my all-time favorite Michigan players.

That said, Chris played under Lloyd Carr from 2000 to 2003. His senior year saw 1,674(!) yards and eighteen touchdowns. He criminally finished FOURTH in the Heisman voting that year. He earned All-American honors and the Doak Walker Award. He was also named the MVP of the Big Ten. Against MSU (pictured above), he set a Michigan record for carries (51) in a 27-20 win. Chris finished his career with 3,696 yards and thirty-nine touchdowns. He was then selected by the Bengals in 2004, but his NFL career did not last very long.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Perry_(American_football)

Chris Perry tribute courtesy of Wolverine Historian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npcg5BQukDQ

 

 

Here is a picture of Jamie to make people who prefer him feel better.

 

Only twenty-three days, folks. Twenty....three...

And just two weeks from tomorrow is the first game of the NCAA season.

ijohnb

August 11th, 2016 at 8:02 AM ^

will go ahead and say it for the first time this year.  I am ready to put up the clubs.  I don't want to go to the beach or pool anymore.  I am sick of Oberon.  I am sick of Viennas.  I am sick of squinting as I look for my gas station sun glasses.  I want to watch some football.  I want to open the windows, drink an Octoberfest, go to the pumpkin patch, and then watch some football again.  Come on with it.

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UM Fan from Sydney

August 11th, 2016 at 8:20 AM ^

HELL YES

Oberon is bad beer anyway. I have already purchased some Octoberfest. I'm really excited for the pumpkin ale to be in stores. Bring on the 60 degree Saturday mornings!

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SAMgO

August 11th, 2016 at 8:27 AM ^

Only now?! I'm done with summer by mid-July. Once the humidity kicks in it's the worst weather stretch of the year, bar none.

ijohnb

August 11th, 2016 at 8:38 AM ^

is so unpleasant outside right now.  I don't even want to do fairly benign activities outside right now.  I try to convince my 9 year old to "spend some time outside" when all I want to do is turn on the air conditioner and read a book.  Not hard to believe that my pitch is not very persuasive to him.

(And I know that the real beer crowd frowns upon Oberon.  But I am simple.  People start telling me to get a six of "Brown Kangaroo IPA" brewed by so-and-so and I completely zone out).

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uncle leo

August 11th, 2016 at 8:54 AM ^

But never, ever ready for summer to be over. 

I think when you wait for something like football for this long, and especially true with college football, it is over in a FLASH! And then you are stuck with the last few weeks of watching the Lions get their rear kicked in, and then it's over. 

I'm hoping to take my life down to FLA or somewhere warmer in a few years as I am still completely unattached in terms of marriage/kids and want to do something that's "not Michigan" once in my life.

ijohnb

August 11th, 2016 at 9:18 AM ^

unattached nature is part of the reason you don't see a good reason for summer to end.  When you have kids, you realize that summer is only "care free" for kids and that it is actually by far the most consistently trying time of the year for parents.  School is out, the routine that gets you from point A to point B reliably for the rest of the year is no more.  Summer is a time of near consistent fatigue for parents of younger children.  You are forced to ad-lib all the time and make something out of nothing at least once a day.  Summer is awesome, but it is also very tiring.

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uncle leo

August 11th, 2016 at 9:30 AM ^

I know having children is supposed to be a life-changing event, but whenever I hear stories about sleeping 2 hours a night, devoting your life to the young ones, I'm not so sure sometimes!

ijohnb

August 11th, 2016 at 9:51 AM ^

is a difficult trade off, no question.  More people are deciding not to, and I can't say that I blame them, for a number of reasons (not the least of which is consideration of what kind of world the kids are being brought into on a macro level).  I am happy with the direction that I went, but I can certainly see and understand why it truly is not for everybody.

BlueMan80

August 11th, 2016 at 10:14 AM ^

My son was born when the wife and I turned 30 and our daughter was born 4 years later.  Actually, it's not a bad time to have kids.  You are getting closer to your prime earning years and you'll need those $$ to pay for everything kids need.  [I will omit the category of everything kids "want"]  You're kids will be done with college while you are in your 50s.

uncle leo

August 11th, 2016 at 10:21 AM ^

Maybe it's totally selfish, but I enjoy having a little bit of my own personal spending money. I value my downtime when it comes to finishing the day's chores and kicking back to watch sports or play video games. I'm not totally sure I want to give that stuff up now, or even in a few years. I might be better served to find a young lady who already has a somewhat mature kid and jump in that situation?

ijohnb

August 11th, 2016 at 10:48 AM ^

That is not the way to go at all.  You will have baby daddy to contend with which is guaranteed hostility and you will stuck with a kid whose conduct reflects upon you but will have almost no way to legitimately discipline them.  That is tough sledding right there.

As for the money, yes, unless you are part of the MGoBlog elite, you will be completely broke.  Particularly if you have two.  That is hard, but it does make the things you are able to do really special to you and your kids.  As for the free time, chores, video games, et. al., you will not miss that.  You will find the things you do with your kids much more fulfilling even if they do not seem like it in the abstract.

ska4punkkid

August 11th, 2016 at 10:58 AM ^

I'm 31 and have 4 kids (ages 2, 4, 5, 8 - yes I am Mormon). It is very exhausting but very rewarding. Sometimes I wished we had waited a couple years before starting to have kids but they will all be out of the home when I am in my mid 50's and I'll have money to travel with my wife and still not be too old. At least that's what I tell myself during the hard times haha

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huntmich

August 11th, 2016 at 8:54 AM ^

Growing up in Michigan I remember when sunglasses were only a summer thing. It was quite the revelation when I found out it is sunny most of the year for most of the rest of the country.

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amaizenblue402

August 11th, 2016 at 8:58 AM ^

Couldn't agree more. Bring on those fall days with a little bit of chill in the air. The leaves starting to change colors, the smell of burning piles of leaves. An Octoberfest in my hand and plenty of football. Go Blue!

uncle leo

August 11th, 2016 at 9:49 AM ^

There's always an early motivation playing for a new coach that has nothing to lose. I saw it with Idaho when they had Erickson a few years back on the road at MSU (want to say 2006, but that's completely off memory). Idaho was at least a 5 touchdown dog.

Obviously not saying Hawaii will win this game or come close, but I think they could keep it tight in the first quarter or half.

Hab

August 11th, 2016 at 8:37 AM ^

Perry's 51 carries against Staee remains one of my favorite memories of Michigan football that has happened in my lifetime.

umbig11

August 11th, 2016 at 9:00 AM ^

Senior tailback Chris Perry (Advance, N.C./Fork Union Military, Va.) carried the ball a school-record 51 times for 219 yards and a touchdown to pace the Wolverines to a 27-20 win. It was Perry's second career 200-yard game.
"It's the kind of a game you ask for (as a running back)," Perry said. "I told the coaches I could carry the ball a lot. Fifty carries feels great when you win. I'm not sure what it would be like if you lose.

http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/recaps/110103aaa.html

SBo

August 11th, 2016 at 8:58 AM ^

I read on rcmb this morning that Dantoni didn't want Hudson and that Hudson didn't have the grades to get into MSU. Yeah.