There are...
...days until Bob Timberlake (QB 1962-1964) sees Michigan play the Broncos of WMU on September 4th at the Big House to begin the 2021 season.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Timberlake_%28American_football%29
Go Blue.
Meta for one quick sec: today's #28 puts a smile on my face as he was where my tenure with this storied MGoBlog tradition has its humble beginnings. We've come a long way.
Enjoy Mr. Timberlake and the '64 National Champs retain the Little Brown Jug, thanks to Bentley Historical Library's new football film archive...
https://bentley.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/t/1_1zzh2oa8
Enjoy!
In honor of one Fitzgerald Toussaint:
JWG - Just want to say Thank You for your dedication to this countdown. Glad you are doing it. Appreciate your enthusiasm.
Best of luck as you start in the MMB.
Maybe you can write a diary one day on your experience with that effort!?
Go Blue!
That would be awesome
More to come, don't worry. Planned some of it just before you posted this last night!
Just think, in rather short order, we shall be bitching about snowflake threads again....and I shall say the same thing I do every year, "Offer a suggestion that does not create more work and I will consider it", and in all that time, not a one. I do so enjoy it.
In all seriousness though, I was by the stadium yesterday in work-related travels. You certainly can get a hint of the football vibe, as it were, at this point. If nothing else, the gates which will divide us into long lines of people trying to get e-tickets to scan are now present.
2 8 but 3? 9.
There are...
times
days until speed in space comes to the Big House.
August 7th, 2021 at 10:05 AM ^
Ah, yes. A great year to watch Wolverine football. It was a great team, but the real difference maker was Timberlake, whose ability to scramble and make big yardage on the ground kept drives alive.
Let us hope we can find another fine QB among those on our roster, though we may have to wait a couple of years for them to develop. In 1964 Timberlake was a senior, and the team's record in prior years was unimpressive.
Go Blue!
August 7th, 2021 at 10:51 AM ^
The facemask on Timberlake's helmet reminds me of the first helmet I wore playing peewee football. Roughly same time period.
I didn't know leather helmets had facemasks or even a single face bar, neighbor! ?
I was out your direction heading towards Greenville Friday, what a huge improvement on that stretch of 14 Mile/M57!
And, of course, stopped for a Zain's ?.