Is there a Banner Curse? j/k but maybe not?
I'm wondering when Juwan Howard got photoshopped into the MgoBldg banner and if the timing of that coincides with the team's current nosedive.
Yes, this is pure superstition. Cue the Stevie Wonder...
January 28th, 2020 at 4:29 PM ^
I mean short of the Bursley/Baits bus we're running out of stuff to put in the hero banner
January 28th, 2020 at 4:40 PM ^
If Pitbull and Mel Gibson are your heros... you've got problems...
or did you mean to say "zero banner"?
If beards turn you on and make you horny? Wait... I'm all confused by the banner again... yeah, or maybe "shocking the world" has something to do with utilizing the trident as a sex toy?
OK I GIVE UP ON THE BANNER...wait...I think the Mel Gibson guy is holding up a picture of the HIGHLANDER!!!!
Now I get it, if I have a beard, watch cheesy sci-fi, and say out loud "There can only be one", I'll magically be transported to a year when Michigan actually beats Ohio State. So I'll carry around a large trident and wait for Pitbull to tongue punch my anal cavity!
(oh you guys are sooooo nifty and 3lite)
January 28th, 2020 at 5:35 PM ^
"wait for Pitbull to tongue punch my anal cavity"?
January 28th, 2020 at 5:36 PM ^
I guess you could have just meant this...
January 28th, 2020 at 6:48 PM ^
"In web design, a hero image is a large web banner image, prominently placed on a web page, generally in the front and center. The hero image is often the first visual element a visitor encounters on the site; it presents an overview of the site's most important content."
January 29th, 2020 at 1:01 PM ^
"IT PRESENTS AN OVERVIEW OF THE SITES MOST IMPORTANT CONTENT"
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
January 28th, 2020 at 7:23 PM ^
I'm all confused by the banner again.
I'm all confused by your rant.
January 29th, 2020 at 12:57 PM ^
Your priorities are flummoxed
January 28th, 2020 at 4:34 PM ^
Nope...
But the banner makes about as much sense as our football teams gameplan on any given Saturday.
I guess we're smarter and more coy than we know (or anyone knows for that matter), and therefore PWN'ing ourselves...true Michigan fashion.
January 28th, 2020 at 4:40 PM ^
Meta prefix.
January 28th, 2020 at 4:44 PM ^
Since the banner usually results in negative outcomes just put Saban, Dabo, and Day on the three stooges and call it a day. I’ll try anything at this point
January 28th, 2020 at 4:50 PM ^
A thread about the new banner was posted on 12/20/19, just after a heartbreaking, yet still encouraging, loss to Oregon. Since then, the team is 3-5, dropped out of the rankings, and have had its top players hurt and suspended.
Launch Pitbull, Lovie Smith's Beard, Mel Gibson, and niche MGoHumor into the sun...((jk)...not really)
January 28th, 2020 at 4:50 PM ^
The bammer is cursed
Take it down
January 28th, 2020 at 5:08 PM ^
When you believe in things you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way
January 28th, 2020 at 5:11 PM ^
Yes, let’s blame the banner on some random sports blog. That’s better than facing reality.
January 28th, 2020 at 5:40 PM ^
This is the dirty feces of the original dirty-est banner ever for MGoBlog. The curse is just a carryover from PitBull days. And yes, I'm serious, and yes, Bryan is the cause.
January 28th, 2020 at 5:40 PM ^
This is the dirty feces of the original dirty-est banner ever for MGoBlog. The curse is just a carryover from PitBull days. And yes, I'm serious, and yes, Bryan is the cause.
***accidental double-post - I was going to edit it but realized it probably needs to be said at least twice and until Brian makes a public confession and repents.
January 28th, 2020 at 6:12 PM ^
No problem. Each time I get to read the word “feces” in print is a blessing.
January 28th, 2020 at 6:13 PM ^
The board in its current content form first appeared in June of... 2008.
Maybe it's us. Maybe the board is the curse.
January 28th, 2020 at 6:15 PM ^
I discovered this blog during the coaching search after Lloyd announced his retirement.
I blame myself for everything.
January 28th, 2020 at 7:27 PM ^
I found it because of a michiganzone.blogspot.com reference during Cowherd's whining when he was being accused of stealing material from that site.
Now MZone is dead.
Sorry Yost.
January 28th, 2020 at 7:05 PM ^
Brian founded MGoBlog in December 2004 . . . just days after our 42nd Big Ten championship in football.
January 28th, 2020 at 9:59 PM ^
Refresh my memory, how many do we have now? RIGHT?
January 28th, 2020 at 10:05 PM ^
BTW Brian's second sport has always been hockey.
In 2005 a loaded Michigan team confirmed a disappointing season by choking away a huge lead to Colorado College in the quarterfinal in Van Andel.
They followed this up with the Billy Sauer experience, the first two years of the Red tournament streak in which Michigan failed to make the quarterfinal round, concluding with a soul-crushing loss to Notre Dame (in OT, of course) in the Frozen Four.
Then Michigan as the #1 seed lost to Air Force.
Then we were robbed in Fort Wayne by the refs against Miami (quarterfinal, double OT, soul-crushing).
Then we lost in the final in OT in St. Paul (I still see this highlight every time I go to a UMD game and I still hate it). Then we lost in OT in the first round to Cornell. Then the program hit the skids. There were some promising signs - the Kyle Connor year (lost to North Dakota in the QF) and the FF in Mel's first year (good: Not an OT loss! bad: Lost with one second to go!) and now.. whatever the team is now.
To be fair, Michigan had a long history of OT tournament disappointments before Brian founded the blog, so I don't think he's completely at fault here.
January 28th, 2020 at 10:34 PM ^
We did have a strong decade in men's basketball in the 2010s so maybe it only applies to certain sports. But when it does, it comes on strong.
January 29th, 2020 at 3:12 AM ^
Hey, do you remember when Probert & Kocur used to beat the hell out everyone & then the 15 years after that? It seems like it only lasted for 5 years.
January 29th, 2020 at 12:54 PM ^
Ugh.
This is such a depressing fact. I'm one of the original, regular visitors to MgoBlog from 2004.
The 2005 football season (8-5) was labeled the Year of Infinite Pain.
15+ years later, not another single Big Ten title in football. Woof.
We were all so delicate and innocent back then.
Sigh.
January 29th, 2020 at 6:15 AM ^
oh, it’s a curse, alright.
January 28th, 2020 at 6:13 PM ^
I am now convinced that Pitbull personally kicked Livers in the crotch.
January 28th, 2020 at 6:38 PM ^
This board is filled with No Fun Police. Michigan sportz r srs bizness.
January 28th, 2020 at 6:42 PM ^
Why can’t the banner be used to show photos of current Michigan athletes during each relevant season? Would a banner using photos of Isaiah Livers, Naz Hillmon (leading scorer on the women’s basketball team), hockey’s Jake Slaker, Will Lockwood or Strauss Mann, wrestler Mason Parris (junior world champion in freestyle at 125 kg), and a men’s and women’s gymnast be a reasonable alternative to the current one?
January 28th, 2020 at 10:08 PM ^
Might be a few too many athletes to fit, but not a bad idea.
Now that I think of it, there's a recent pic of Livers from the last game he played that might be a perfect header pic for this blog...
January 29th, 2020 at 12:53 PM ^
Because we're too coy and smart for that trivial and "obvious" type of shit, like putting our star athletes on the blog banner *insert holier than thou laugh*. We have to create our own memes and act 3lite via inside jokes and nonsensical correlations between random pop culture references.
January 29th, 2020 at 3:17 AM ^
Automatic thumbs-up for Stevie Ray.
Hey Frank, you're a weirdo, but we love ya man.
January 29th, 2020 at 4:17 AM ^
I think the banner should be a collage of Glen Rice photos ... an homage to a UM player who could actually hit a three.
January 29th, 2020 at 8:28 AM ^
I don't believe in curses, but the banners have been graphic crap for many months. It's not hard to create a banner that leverages the great parts of our athletic history—recent and past—but apparently that's too obvious.
January 29th, 2020 at 9:21 AM ^
The problem with banner/Madden type curses is you will usually appear on them around a high point...which inevitably means most occurrences will have a drop off after appearing.