What's your dream game day experience?

Anything with a 3:30 kickoff

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for each tailgate.

1997 vs. Ohio State. (Though UTL was close)

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Kate Upton yet.

That's my dream. With a return trip to Baton Rouge the following year.

Oh wow...let's see...clearly I've thought about this before:

• OSU game, Michigan #1, OSU #2, OSU 10-1 because I don't want to play them again next week. Let's say we'll face an 11-1 Wisconsin if we win.
• Sleep at the Campus Inn.
• Get a new hat at Moe's on North U.
• Binge drink for 30 minutes for free on State St.
• Slice from Bell's.
• Swing by the golf course and orange lot to meet up and tailgate with friends.
• Throw football.
• Condescend about Buckeye fans.
• Eat brats, pork tenderloin, and standard football sides like meatballs, chips and dip.
• Have Maker's, Palm bottles, and Natty cans.
• Shotgun Natty.
• Run into Allison WIlliams on the way and she turns out to be a Michigan fan. She digs me.
• Allison and I sneak into the locker room during warmups and to do some 'stretching' before the game.
• We finish stretching and I go stand next to the people holding the banner. I don't really want to hold it, just watch. /that's what she said
• Meet up with my college housemates to sit in section 23-25, rows 25-45. I think these are the best seats, Matthew.
• Someone brought airplane bottles of Makers for our Cokes.
• Close win that is sealed with a punt return going North to South down the East sideline.
• Lloyd Brady is in the row in front of me (up in my row for some reason) and I'm on TV going crazy with my friends after we run it back. Lloyd takes a picture with us.
• Tailgate some more in orange lot and be rah rah with people as they leave.
• Coach Hoke stops by like in mgrowold's story and we take a picture doing epic double points.
• Recover at the hotel.
• Skip lines at the bar all night because the bouncer is Eskimo brothers with someone in my group.
• Female bartender has a thing for me so we drink for free.
• Allison meets me at the Campus Inn to celebrate the win with more stretching.

I think that covers it all...

Sit in the 4th floor suites and meet Lloyd Carr.  Nevermind, that happened to me last week!

But anways, my full dream day experience would be:

-Somehow fall asleep early the Friday night before being sober and be able to wake up early on Saturday ready to go:

-Start boozing and grilling out at 9:30 AM out in front of an RV in the Ann Arbor Pioneer Parking Lot, while playing bags and testicle toss for a couple hours.   Listening to tunes and fight music the entire time.

-Meet someone famous that stops by my tailgate.

-Go to game at 3:30pm and watch Michigan win.

-Party afterwards

 

Yeah....that's pretty much it.  If I have some booze, food, fight music, and with Michigan fans before going to the game, I consider it a successful gameday experience.  Michigan must win of course.  I don't have an RV, usually don't park in  a good tailgating lot, am usually hung over, I got a rare opportunity to sit in a suite level last Saturday that probably won't happen for a long time, but I still have a blast usually. 

Caveat: My wife (not alum but insane fan) comes with me when I go to AA so less binge drinking than most posts in this thread.

Stay in campus inn.

Breakfast at Angelo's.

Spend a few hours walking the campus and stock up on some new Michigan hear from mgoblog approved moe's.

Stop off at mr spots on the way to the game because in the 15 years since I graduated, I still can't find comparable wings.

Do the stadium walk with 110,000 like minded fans.

Find way way to my seats - row 35 on the 50 yard line where, shockingly, the entire section is filled with raucous fans (you said ideal).

Watch M pummel #3 ranked Ohio en route to a 1-loss season. Denard throws for 325, 3 Tds, no picks and runs for another 225 and 2 Tds to cap a heisman season. The win seals michigan's place in the MNC game where we get a rematch with consense #1 bama (we win, by the way).

I get back to my hotel room and as a present for my bday, my wife brought me Kate upton.

The sad thing is that I may actually be more excited for the second to last paragraph than the last.

...Michigan has more points than the other team when the clock hits 0, my day is pretty complete, regardless of any other activities.

Two chicks at the same time

.....yeah....

Wake up and hit Afternoon Delight for a breakfast burrito or a muffin as big as my head.

Walk back towards campus, stopping at Moe's or MDen. I cave and buy my son the most expensive jersey in the store. Afterall, he is my only son, and what's $90 for a jersey?

The temp is 64 degrees. The leaves are in full fall colors. It's perfectly sunny.

Play football with my husband and kids for a while, then realize it's time to eat again.

Blimpyburger. The line moves supersonically fast. We do not get yelled at.

Head down State St. towards Hoover with 110,000 fans. By the time we get to Revelli Hall, the step show is just starting. We manage to get a front row seat. This time, my kids do not think it's boring. 

After, we walk in with the band. Our seats are in Section 23, the 24th row.

For the next three hours, we beat up on Michigan State. Le'Veon Bell gets 20 yards rushing. Denard gets 200, Fitz another 130. The two Devins each get 2 TD's a piece. William Gholston is knocked out of the game early with concussion-like symptoms after a "tussle" with Taylor Lewan.

After the game, we hit Middle Kingdom for some old school Chinese and then Stucchi's for old time's sake.

Final score: 35 - 3.

 

 

I don't have it all figured out but if we could do the impossible:

1. Wake up w gf at my parents house where Dad and sister have made the special maize & blue pancakes with numbers in the middle my next-door neighbors join us and we caravan to the game.

-Pre-game meal at Crazy Jim's where I eat massive Blimpy burger

2. Sit in sec 2 row 81 with my immediate family + gf w uncles, cousins, and grandpa w both great-uncles. As well as dad's w. quad roommate and his family in the row in front of us and next door neighbors sitting, well, next to us.

3. As Denard breaks one 100 yards against Ohio (striking the much deserved pose in the endzone) I get to hear my Grandpa and his brothers argue how, now that they have seen him up close, whether Denard could have beaten Jesse Owens in a sprint which leads to my great-uncle telling the story of competing against Owens at the BTC when he was setting world records. My father, gf, uncles and I have to settle for debating/pontificating on who did the best pose before being mobbed by teammates of the 3.

4. Mich shuts out Ohio, to clinch trip to BTC only this time we all do run on the field (unlike 97 when I didn't), including my Dad and great uncle, neither of whom needs cane/wheelchair. Don Canham walks by and he and my grandpa yell their usual greeting to each other, "Hell I thought you were dead!" -only this time, they are both right, at least other than this day.

5. Canham then gets us back to the locker room to watch the interviews live. My great uncle sees Brock Mealer and they compare notes on how to walk again after a wheelchair, while my grandfather yells at him to stop listening to a Buckeye! Arguments ensue and they are hilarious.

-post game dinner at the Gandy Dancer where all of the 3 generations of great family M stories are told over again, climaxing with my Grandpa telling his crystal-clear recollection of the great coaching search that brought Crisler to Michigan. There is enough Bo and Woodson wine that the night never ends.

Can anyone talk a little about the stadium walk with the band?  I'm going later in November to Iowa with my mom and I'd love to get the whole experience.  How long before kickoff does it start?  

I had my dream experience last year. We flew up for The Game for my first ever game at the Big House. We got to the golf course for tailgating a little after 8. Met up with some awesome fans and drank and ate with them until game time. Headed over to the stadium around 11. Had great seats to watch us finally put down OSU and took the field after the game to celebrate. Decades of dreaming about being there finally came true and I got to hit the field too. It was surreal. I'll never forget it, especially the view when first walking into the stadium.

A win

Obviously it is two girls at one time!

#peterman!

 

- Rent the entire house with MGoPatio for the whole weekend.

- Invite my brother, a few close family members and old college buddies to stay there.

- Wake up with no hangover despite all sorts of untold revelry from Friday night partying.

- Uncle has been up for 2 hours prepping a huge breakfast spread and a full Bloody Mary bar.

- Friends I haven't seen in years come by the tailgate an party all morning.

- Drive to pick up food at Mr Spots for lunch. No traffic. Perfect parking spot waiting for me on State St.

- Stop into Campus Corner to say what's up to the brothers. They still remember me by name despite graduating 10 years ago. Give me a bag full of airplane bottle liquor for free.

- Swing by my soph year house at 931 S State. Tell the kids living there I'm a former resident. They don't think I'm a creepy old douche. We all bong beers and sing the victors before heading back to Main St house.

- Warch noon games on the MGoPatio with multiple HD tvs.

- Walk to the Champions lot at 2:00 and tailgate with a bunch of players from the '97 team who are there because they are being honored at halftime.

- Hold the M Club Banner as the team takes the field.

- Take a picture with Woodson and Lloyd Carr on the field.

- Walk up to seats in Section 24 row 30.

- Kate Upton is sitting next to me with 5 VS models. They think I'm the funniest guy they've ever met.

- M beats OSU in a hard fought game that is sealed by a 4th qtr punt return for TD.

- Return to the house. Relax for a few, with our new friends from the game.

- Steak dinner on Main St. Crush a salty bone in ribeye cooked to perfection.

• and realize I am Denard Robinson.
• I put my pants on two legs at a time.
• Wheaties for breakfast.
• Check my watch...only thirty minutes until the team meeting.  Gallup over to Mott's Children hospital...still only thirty minutes until the team meeting.
• Bring unicorns and rainbows to every child.  Pass nerf footballs to future wolverines. Sign autographs.  Leave everyone feeling better about themselves and about life.
• Only two minutes until the team meeting
• Run back to Shembechler Hall...take my seat with two minutes to spare.
• Game plan for Ohio *
• Encourage my teamates by telling them:   We Got This!
• Get taped up, suit up, check my laces to make sure they are footloose and fancy free.
• Gather in the tunnel with the team.  It's senior day so I make my way to the front.
• Grapentine announces the Michigan Wolverines and we take the field.  I race out front and touch the banner first as the Big House goes batshit crazy.
• We steamroll the Buckeyes 35-0  I rush for 200 yards and a touchdown and throw for 200 yards with 3 Touchdowns and no interceptions.
• The fans storm the field and tear down the goalposts while I walk around with a rose between my teeth ala Charles Woodson.
• Hoke points at me to lead the team in the singing of the Victors.  I do and the team raises the roof with bellowing cheers.
• Congratulate all my teamates.

*  I know Ohio is on the road this year but this is supposed to be a dream right?