Unacceptable Attempt to do the Wave
As a Michigan student who was appalled by the attempt to do the wave during the Notre Dame game, I would like to thank those sitting in Section 20 for killing both attempts. The lack of sense shown by whichever group of students to start the wave was appalling. Apparently, after last year we forgot the rules.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:04 PM ^
Man, you're not kidding. A couple of turds snuck down to our seats and crammed in beside us during the fourth quarter; I'm pretty sure one of them had spent the first three quarters smoking meth. They kept demanding the wave and a swarm of brahs finally shut them up. That was unacceptable.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:51 PM ^
I automatically read your signature first and lol'd.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:11 PM ^
let me say that I never even saw the attempts to start the wave despite looking over at the student section from time to time during the course of watching the game. When did the student section try to start it?
Regardless, not making excuses for Section 20, but given the back and forth nature of the game, it was a difficult game to get the wave going IMO. The wave is much better suited for games like Western where you can relax and pay slightly less attention to the game.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:19 PM ^
I was being serious. Also, it was during the fourth quarter with Michigan up 31-20 and ND having gotten into UM territory. I believe it was somewhere around the 11:00 mark but I really cannot be sure.
September 14th, 2009 at 8:38 PM ^
That is not the game for the wave. You can't expect the fans to care or notice what the student section is doing during that type of game. That was top two games I've ever been to. Everybody had their eyes glued to the field and we weren't looking away. The wave needs to be saved for a game like EMU or Indiana or Deleware State. You will get some serious fan participation then. On a side note, we did get 3 or 4 balls kicked by Notre Dame during halftime thrown out of the stadium.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:15 PM ^
The Western Wave was awesome, it's cool to see 100,000 plus doing it, especially the slow motion wave toward the end.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:44 PM ^
The Western wave was one of the lamer waves that I have seen. The fast wave was an epic fail, as was the dual wave. The blue hairs killed it every time.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:18 PM ^
i was in section 36 and never saw the wave develop. kudos to anyone who helped to nix that wave.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:21 PM ^
I'm in section 26 and I saw nothing.
September 14th, 2009 at 9:01 PM ^
and i was down in row 19 and when we saw the wave being started everyone around me waved it off. there were probably i dunno 30-40 people all attempting to wave it off and it worked pretty quick. they only attempted it twice from what i saw.
i don't know why people were trying to start it in the first place(other than the aforementioned meth brahs doing it). i feel like i need to bring a big sign that says "WE DO THE WAVE WHEN WE'RE UP BY 14+ IN THE 3RD QUARTER"
September 14th, 2009 at 6:30 PM ^
Unrelated, but someone should totally try to execute this (if/when appropriate). Everyone keeps their hands in the air until the inverse wave hits their section. Would be awesome, maybe whenever TCF/bank-of-the-week hands out those damn pompom things.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:46 PM ^
You think it's hard getting the blue hairs to stand up and do the wave, think about how hard it would to get them stay standing (or even just keep their arms up) for that long.
Besides, I think it would look kind of weird. From the air the stadium would look less maize-ish and more... flesh-tone-ish.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:35 PM ^
I always hated that when a game was close. Saw it happen way too many times last year thanks to the dumbass students who also like to start loudly cheering when the offense is on the field. Made me upset to be a student on days like those.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:42 PM ^
I was in section 31 and I saw it trying to be started... it was some section 31 to the left of where I was. However, most people in my section squashed it.
Who knows... maybe some of the current seniors are unaware of the correct wave procedures since there were hardly any opportunities to do so last year.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:47 PM ^
Current seniors know how it's supposed to be done- they were around for 2006. I was in section 26 and saw them trying to do it.
I think it was just a few idiots. Correction, a few "brahs!!!".
September 14th, 2009 at 6:49 PM ^
yeah, i was in 37 and i saw it. but the same was pretty close, and it usually isn't done for close games.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:56 PM ^
it was the people in section 33 and 32 (like rows 15) that tried to start it.... i tried to yell at them with whatever voice i had left and made sure no one around me tried to help start it.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:01 PM ^
I was in the middle of the student section and I'm glad I didn't even notice. WTF!
September 14th, 2009 at 7:28 PM ^
I'm glad the wave didn't go around. Don't get me wrong - I love the wave - when we're up by 20. It gets the crowd involved, but not in the game. People are just focused on splitting the wave, or speeding it up. Instead, people's attention stayed on the game, which was way too close to lose the home field advantage that leaves with the wave.
September 14th, 2009 at 9:03 PM ^
the wave is cool but it totally takes the crowd out of the game. last week when we tried it western was driving and no one around me had any idea what was going on on the field
September 14th, 2009 at 9:27 PM ^
It was my section 31. A few guys in front of me. I yelled at them. It quickly died.