What is the best piece of Michigan football history you have in
your collection. Number one for me.
1. Detroit newspaper with headline "Bo To Import Old Staff From Miami" .... found under the stairs in the basement while remodeling a home. Nothing wrong with importing your braintrust. Can you guess the names?
2. Autographed Rom Kramer book
3. Blue paint chip from the goal post we ripped down
4. UM helmet I made when I was 11. Gotta get those decals back for for great defensive plays.
Go Blue !!!! Can't wait to tailgate with everyone !!!
January 16th, 2011 at 10:23 AM ^
I still have a piece of the 40 yard line in a sandwich bag.
January 16th, 2011 at 11:31 AM ^
Yup piece of turf from 97 OSU game.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:12 PM ^
My wife's friend pulled out some of the benches they tore out when they did the rennovation a while back when they were lowering the field.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:13 PM ^
My absolute favorite is a fairly cheap, laminated yellow sign urging students to stay in their seats and not go on the field after the conclusion of the '97 tOSU game. Needless to say, the sign didn't work and I got pepper sprayed as a result. Ripped the sign off the perimeter chain link fence at Michigan Stadium afterwards and still treasure it.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:15 PM ^
I DO have a "Student Section" sign I found in storage at the back of Savage Hall from Toledo's Glass Bowl, which had broken and somebody had tossed into the dumpster back there, but having never gone to M, I was never able to accumulate stuff like that.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:24 PM ^
Until after the brave heroes like you took one for the team...I can remember watching the misfortune of the first few students to jump on the field...
January 15th, 2011 at 7:35 PM ^
No real courage, just the buzz from tailgating. I swear Aftershock has a half life of 72 hours.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:14 PM ^
My granddad attended UM from 1901 to 1905, and he got to witness the first four seasons of Yost's tenure. One of the photos in his photo album (taken by a commerical photographer, not my granddad) from the time is a shot taken from the sidelines of the November 1904 game with Chicago in Ann Arbor. Many of the players are blurry, but Germany Schulz clearly stands out.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:24 PM ^
January 15th, 2011 at 7:15 PM ^
A real football helmet with some small red paint marks (from contact?), a photograph with me and Denard, a baseball cap with a bunch of players signatures from last year (Tate, Denard, Kev Koger, Troy Woolfolk, etc..), my Michigan sweatshirt that I wore to the 1987 Rose Bowl, plus my original 1985 Bball Big Ten Championship t-shirt.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:15 PM ^
Bo Schembechler passed away. I bought a copy of the Free Press with Bo's beautiful face gracing the cover and put it under my mattress in Alice Lloyd Hall. I like to think that it is still there - protecting whoever is sleeping in that gross, uncomfortable bed.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:17 PM ^
January 15th, 2011 at 7:17 PM ^
Bo's autograph, AC's autography, and Ricky Leach's autograph all in one little book.
Also, pretty much the entire 86 Big Ten Champion hoops team signed on one basketball. Tarpley, Glen Rice, Butch Wade, Gary Grant, Garde Thompson, need I go on?
January 15th, 2011 at 7:18 PM ^
I have dirt and yellow grass from the "M" in the end zone where Woodson scored his TD vs Ohio St. in 1997.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:18 PM ^
January 15th, 2011 at 7:20 PM ^
It's in a briefcase. Jon Travolta and Samuel Jackson are holding it for me.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:20 PM ^
What?
January 15th, 2011 at 7:39 PM ^
I know that. Hence the, "What?"
January 15th, 2011 at 8:42 PM ^
English Mother F***er, do you speak it!
January 15th, 2011 at 8:44 PM ^
Say "What" one more time
January 15th, 2011 at 8:59 PM ^
January 15th, 2011 at 10:12 PM ^
Do they speak English in What?
January 15th, 2011 at 7:20 PM ^
It's in a briefcase. Jon Travolta and Samuel Jackson are holding it for me.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:38 PM ^
and no you cannot date my daughter! Ever
January 15th, 2011 at 7:20 PM ^
A piece of the goal post which we students tore down after Michigan clinched the 1979 Big Ten title with a victory over Purdue. We had to drag it halfway across campus before we found someone with a hack saw.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:27 PM ^
January 15th, 2011 at 11:46 PM ^
You may be right. I couldn't decide whether it was 78 or 79, but I know we beat Purdue for the title.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:28 PM ^
Pouring out of my Maize and Blue soul right now. See, this is the stuff my generation will probably never ever get to experience. There is no way in hell that UM security, event staff or AA police will let students just haul around a goalpost looking for a hacksaw nowadays. <sigh> Those were (or rather, must have been) the days.
January 15th, 2011 at 10:47 PM ^
You can't pull them down, anyway - they're buried deep in concrete now.
January 15th, 2011 at 11:06 PM ^
January 15th, 2011 at 11:50 PM ^
Yes, we routinely did things as "college fun" that are now considered criminal acts. I don't mean anything violent or harmful, of course. I will say that A2 police beat us up pretty badly while we were pulling it down. I got smashed across the ribs while hanging from the crossbar. Luckily, I was well medicated. Once it was down, they let us (a mob of about 100) make off with it. Sorry for the hyper-litigious society we've become.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:21 PM ^
signed by the 2006 football team
January 15th, 2011 at 7:22 PM ^
is the 1965 University of Missouri yearbook, with Lloyd Carr in a couple of action shots at QB as well as the team photo. I got Lloyd to sign it during the 2004 car wash for Mott Hospital, and Mike Hart, Andy Moeller, and Jim Herrmann signed it as well.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:33 PM ^
You win... for the rarity alone
January 15th, 2011 at 8:29 PM ^
It was Ron Johnson's 347-yard day versus Wisconsin. It always surprises me that it didn't get soaked that day.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:24 PM ^
My HD capture of the basketball win vs Duke
January 15th, 2011 at 7:26 PM ^
It's my dad's jersey and they were really sweater like back then. I also have the program from the first game I attended (I was two weeks old so I don't remember the game so the program helps).
January 15th, 2011 at 7:26 PM ^
Every ticket stub to every game I've been to. Starting with the 1989 game against Wisconsin (my fr year of H.S.), every home game during my 4 years at UM, and as recent as the Illinois 3ot game this year.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:26 PM ^
My Uncle took me to the MSU game in 1972, I was 9 years old! The year before I became a big Michigan fan. It was better than Christmas Eve, I couldn't sleep the night before the game. I remember it was a very low scoring defensive struggle and we won 10 to 3 ? or 10 to zip!
January 15th, 2011 at 7:28 PM ^
I have a small maize and blue foam football signed by Ricky Powers, Desmond Howard, Elivis Grbac and a few others I don't recall.
January 15th, 2011 at 10:50 PM ^
Avatar fraud is a serious offense...
January 15th, 2011 at 7:31 PM ^
Weird that this thread was posted today... I was just cleaning out my basement and found a laminated newspaper coverpage of the Detroit News (?) from January 2nd, 1998 with a picture of Charles Woodson and the headline is "Perfect Season."
January 15th, 2011 at 7:31 PM ^
I have a puck signed by Red. Also have programs and tickets from last couple of years (including ND from last year and Illinois from this year...both really memorable games for me).
January 15th, 2011 at 7:32 PM ^
Two 1970 "Goody Goody Bo Beat Woody" bumper stickers from Ann Arbor Bank.
January 16th, 2011 at 4:09 PM ^
You had two choices -- $25.00 or $50.00 dispensed in little cash envelopes.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:37 PM ^
Tom Harmon and Gerald Ford autographs.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:54 PM ^
I have the game ticket of the last time we beat OSU in 2003 (AHHHH), along with the last time we won a bowl game against touchdown Timmy on Jan 1, 2008 framed and on my desk.
January 15th, 2011 at 7:54 PM ^
From the south end zone. We used to stay after games when I was young and the security wasn't as tight to run around and throw on the field. One time they accidentally left 1 pylon in the south end zone. It sits next to the tv for games.
January 15th, 2011 at 10:14 PM ^
He signed my copy of his book. It was cool as he actually made it out to me with a personalized note vs. just scribbling his name...