When did Go Blue! get added at the end of The Victors?
August 12th, 2019 at 11:35 AM ^
It was sometime between the banning of marshmellow tossing and the advent of "you suck" after the band plays when there's a third down stop.
I actually wondered the same thing WD. It definitely did NOT exist from 78 to the mid 2000's.
August 12th, 2019 at 11:40 AM ^
I can confirm it wasn't happening after the Victors in 1979.
August 12th, 2019 at 12:03 PM ^
This is a video of team running out during the 2004 SDSU game and you can’t hear it if they’re doing it at all.
August 12th, 2019 at 1:14 PM ^
I was a freshman in '04 and I think the student section was doing it then (maybe you can hear it in the video?), however it was 15 years ago so it is hard to remember. I honestly can't recall a time that it wasn't said at the end of The Victors, but it is a very odd thing to stick in the back of your memory.
August 12th, 2019 at 1:42 PM ^
I was also a student in '04 and we were definitely doing it. Funny, I assumed it was always there... The 'You suck!' thing was still up for debate if I remember correctly and a lot of us didn't really buy into it (particularly when we yell it at an unranked team that was beating us at home).
August 12th, 2019 at 1:47 PM ^
Student section did all sorts of things back then (03ish). There were lots of go blues, but I don't remember the stadium picking that up like the wave at that time. Wondering if the others here talking 03-4 were also student section.
August 12th, 2019 at 4:12 PM ^
i'm one of those talking '03 and yep, was definitely in the student section then.
August 12th, 2019 at 7:27 PM ^
I seem to remember it starting after TDs in the 1990s. I think if you go back to 98, 99, you will find it.
August 12th, 2019 at 7:07 PM ^
What's really new is the addition of the word "b-tch" after the "you suck" I had season tickets in undergrad from 2012-15. The first couple years there was no b at the end, the last year we had a few random freshmen in the back adding it. Fast forward to 2018, I was sitting in the section to the right of the students, and literally all the students were saying "you suck, b"
August 12th, 2019 at 11:51 AM ^
When I was wrapping up college in the mid 1990's I think it started then, or just after that around the time Michigan won its title in 1997. If you scour YouTube for home game TD highlights you may hear it in the crowd.
August 12th, 2019 at 12:23 PM ^
I do not recall this happening in 1997. The first time I noticed it was 2007, but I’m not a season ticket holder and cannot recall which games I attended in the mid 2000s.
I have the same curiosity as the OP.
August 12th, 2019 at 12:38 PM ^
I remember it sprinkling in during the late 90's. It was just a handful of die hards throwing in a Go Blue back then.
August 12th, 2019 at 1:45 PM ^
Same memory.
I graduated you in 99. Recall it sometimes.
Seasons in 07, definitely heard it then.
August 12th, 2019 at 4:48 PM ^
I was an undergrad in the mid-late 1990s. I seem to remember a smattering of it now and again from a small group. Ten years later, I remember hearing it loud and clear.
August 12th, 2019 at 2:43 PM ^
I graduated in 2003 and don’t remember hearing it then. It seemed to catch on right around the Carr/RichRod transition time.
I’ve never cared for it - it causes the “champions of the West” part to be de-emphasized. People rush through that line to shout out “Go Blue”, when that should be the best part of the song, bragging that we were Western Conference champions.
August 12th, 2019 at 4:14 PM ^
maybe this was a deliberate tactic then to de-emphasize a claim that no longer makes any geographical sense?
August 12th, 2019 at 4:31 PM ^
Michigan is considered to be in the Midwest, no?
"Western Conference" was just the old nickname of the Big Ten. It's no less logical to use it as a name than, well, "Big Ten" for a league with 14 members.
August 12th, 2019 at 9:01 PM ^
Well if so, they’re screwing up the rhythm of the song. The point is to rhyme “best” with “west,” not “blue.”
August 12th, 2019 at 11:52 AM ^
It did not happen '73 - '77. No marshmallows then either. There was active "pass her up" crowd surfing and heavy drinking and toilet paper roll throwing, beach balls and the wave, though.
I have seen it in the locker room amped-up version sings often.
August 12th, 2019 at 3:06 PM ^
The "passing her up" thing still existed my freshman year, 1979, but was discouraged and discussed a lot, including editorials in the Daily. By my sophomore year, in 1980, it disappeared.
I also remember the throwing of toilet paper rolls when I went to games before going to college. I am pretty certain that it still was a thing during my first few years of college, but by the time I graduated from graduate school and law school (I was on the 8-year plan at Michigan), I think it was gone as well.
There was certainly no "Go Blue" at the end of the Victors back then. I noticed it when I started going to games occasionally around 2007-08, and obviously it is omnipresent these days. I have also wondered when it started. Certainly after 1986, and apparently no later than 2004 (based on other reports here).
August 12th, 2019 at 4:57 PM ^
Don't forget the fourth quarter passing up of the Boone's Farms bottles to the top row. The sight of hundreds of bottles shining in the sun was spectacular.
August 12th, 2019 at 5:22 PM ^
My mom was a "pass her up" victim but she said some dude could see her panic and brought her back down to Earth before she got to the top. I think by the next season it was gone (1980 grad).
August 13th, 2019 at 6:11 PM ^
I wish this was still going on when we were in school.
August 14th, 2019 at 9:04 PM ^
That's because you're the king of grabass.
August 12th, 2019 at 11:54 AM ^
Indeed we should be able to collectively narrow this down. :-)
It WAS happening when I was a senior in 2003.
BTW - The "You Suck" chant is the trashiest chant Michigan has added to football. It's so MSU-esque. Really wish we didn't do that. Only thing I don't participate in. I'm ok with that trash (and worse) for hockey, because, I mean, it's hockey and the sport, especially Yost, was made for that. But Big House football? Nah.
August 12th, 2019 at 12:02 PM ^
Especially in the Dark Ages from 2008-2014 when holding a team to a punt, while Michigan was down 31-10.
August 12th, 2019 at 12:07 PM ^
Agreed. It's even worse when we're losing.
August 12th, 2019 at 12:57 PM ^
Not a fan of the chant either but, in defense of the fans, if a Rich Rod defense ever did hold the opposing offense to a punt, that offense probably did suck.
August 12th, 2019 at 1:51 PM ^
Completely agree on "You suck". I even emailed Brandon about it and got a typically arrogant and sarcastic response to a nicely worded message. This was at the time that all the emails from Brandon to various fans came out on this site. I just didn't feel I needed to pile on, but his douchebaggery is off the charts.
August 12th, 2019 at 2:34 PM ^
Everywhere he goes he runs sh!t into the ground.
August 12th, 2019 at 1:59 PM ^
Are you insinuating that football is high-brow while hockey is not??
I don't like the chant; I'm not defending it and I don't do it at games but.....come on...
August 12th, 2019 at 2:24 PM ^
Couldn't agree more. I actually refuse to chant it - I say "Go Blue" instead, and that seems to have caught on a little bit in 36 where I sit. If everyone who hated "You Suck" would chant "Go Blue," we would drown out the "You Suck"ers.
August 14th, 2019 at 10:37 AM ^
It's official. I will start doing this!
August 12th, 2019 at 12:13 PM ^
i'm gonna say it was 2003. i don't remember it being there when i was a freshman (2002) learning the Victors (sorry, my dad raised me a ND fan), but it was a mainstay by the time i graduated. so paired with DualThreat's comment, it had to be '03.
please note that excessive amounts of alcohol may have rendered all of my memories from college unreliable.
August 12th, 2019 at 1:07 PM ^
Raised a ND fan, but went to Michigan.
You chose wisely.
August 12th, 2019 at 12:18 PM ^
Go Blue.
August 12th, 2019 at 12:22 PM ^
The extra chant may have started around 2003, but it was popularized by RR in 08. That's definitely when the locker rooms started picking it up.
I never add it. My fight song has been the envy of college football for about 100 years and it doesn't need a postmodern twist.
GO BLUE is a great thing- just not at the end of The Victors.
August 12th, 2019 at 2:29 PM ^
The band is still playing after the word “West” so it fits.
I draw the line at the “let go blue” and double fist pumping in between chorus verses.
August 12th, 2019 at 12:31 PM ^
At some point in the late-2000s/early 2010s a lot of stuff that had been sort of ad-hoc became standardized. The motions during the intro to "The Victors" became standard in the student section, and the Blues Brothers song and its associated motions moved from Yost to the Big House. While I personally think I remember saying "Go Blue" at the end of the Victors as a little kid, my guess is that it went from a thing some people did to part of the song during that round of standardization.
August 12th, 2019 at 1:03 PM ^
Most accurate comment so far imo.
August 12th, 2019 at 1:48 PM ^
Blues brothers at big house definitely was happening in mid 90s already.
The non student participation seems way higher than before because alums have spread to stadium and it reached critical mass last decade.
August 12th, 2019 at 2:52 PM ^
The Blues Brothers song used to only be played once a year, when the MMB went in its legendary “Birthday Cake” formation in the pregame. It didn’t become an every-game thing until about 10 years ago. (For the record, I think this is a positive development.)
August 12th, 2019 at 12:31 PM ^
Doesn't everyone end every sentence with Go Blue?
Go Blue.
August 12th, 2019 at 1:22 PM ^
I definitely do not finish all of my sentences with Go Blue.
August 12th, 2019 at 1:26 PM ^
that was a question
August 12th, 2019 at 12:40 PM ^
I recall hearing it occasionally in the late 90s
August 12th, 2019 at 12:40 PM ^
Late 2006/early 2007; with 85% confidence.
August 12th, 2019 at 12:49 PM ^
I was at Michigan 1999-2003. I do not ever remember noticing it as a new or weird thing. I feel like this is the kind of thing I would notice if it was new. However, I have no specific memory one way or the other.
Looking at the other comments on the board, I definitely could believe this is something that was around for a long time but became very mainstream overnight due to a specific event. Kind of like calling MSU Little Brother.
August 12th, 2019 at 12:53 PM ^
Of all the posters who could've possibly asked this question, you, WD, are probably the last poster I would've expected to ask it.
Not that I know the answer, but you're someone that I would've expected to not only know the answer to this, but tell us all the date it was agreed upon, where, and who agreed to it.