Your earliest Michigan FB memory

Bo's first year.  I remember the stadium was not full and I went with some friends and ran around in what was then box seats, the first 4-6 rows where not many people were sitting that day.  This was a time where your parents could drop you at the stadium and it was like $3 or so to get in for students (K-12).  You would go with a bunch for friends and have free roam of much of the end zone.

I remember watching the OSU game on TV.  I have vague memories of us killing Iowa and Arizona in those early years 

As far as a specific memory/event, it's the 1988 Miami loss. I had been going to games since I was about 2-3, but my first real memory was at age 5, and it was not a good one. As the stadium cleared out, I just stood on my seat and cried.

I definitely remember watching and cheering for Jamie Morris before that, but no actual images are crystallized in my brain from that early.

and how they rarely worked....

Next thing I knew Kordell Stewart hurdled a 65 yard pass...

My first time to the Big House to watch them play against Iowa in '97, when my older brother was a Freshman on campus.  I'll (hopefully) never forget that game.

Similar to many others, my first memory is of Desmond Howard. I have a vague recollection of all the players on both teams being in one mass in the middle of the field; Desmond entered the pile on one side and somehow emerged from it on the other and raced for a touchdown.  my guess now is that it was a kick return.  Needless to say, as a 5 or 6 year old, I was amazed.  

My earliest memory of a distinct game was the Remy Hamilton FG to beat ND in '94.  Although, the previous November I did cut out all the detnews article about the 28-0 victory over OSU and tape them to a sheet of notebook paper (my idea of how to preserve that game for posterity sake I guess).  I will always associate Chuck Winters interception with that game because of those articles. 

I was brainwashed from a young age, but the first time I really remember being truly influenced by the outcome of a game was Desmond being tripped in the endzone against MSU on the 2pt conversion when I was 11.  I was a Michigan "fan" before that, but my fanatasism was born on that day.  I was in a terrible mood the rest of that weekend, and to this day, my wife leaves me alone for hours after a tough loss.

The first really vivid one I have is watching the 1977 Rose Bowl in our basement family room in Canton, MI. UM lost 14-6. My father banged the radiator and my mother yelled a lot. It was at that moment that I realized just how incredibly important Michigan football was in the grand scheme of things.

My earliest memory is of the 1989 ('90) Rose Bowl vs USC.  I was ten, and was at my grandmother's house in Dearborn.  We had the game on, but people were only partially paying attention.  I remember glancing at the slightly hazy television just as Leroy Hoard got the ball up the middle.

He broke a tackle in the backfield, sidestepped two more, then cut towards the left sideline.  Two more USC defenders went down.  He was finally tracked down after 61 yards.  I had always loved the helmets of course, and had been a fan, but for some reason that play was the first truly vivid thing I remember about Michigan football.  From that point on, no one was getting in the way of the TV.  I was hooked.

Ufer on the radio for 10+ years.

Every televised game.

A 1979 31-21 victory over East Dakota.

The night my parents told me I was moving to Michigan.  After they told me, I turned on the TV to watch Tom Brady beat Alabama in overtime.  Great game.  First Michigan memory.

early memories as my Dad and I would work together on Saturdays when I was young. We would always be working silently while listening to the  Michigan game on WJR.

The first one that really sticks out and still brings me chills when I think back was Ufers' call in '79 of Wangler to Carter vs. Indiana.

Before the last play my dad had stopped working and was just standing there frozen, so I did the same. We heard the last play together and we both went crazy.

The only feeling that has come close is Henne to Manningham vs. Penn State in 2005.

Go Blue!

I watched the 1996 Ohio State game upstairs at my grandmothers house.  I was previously a Miami Hurricanes fan because of my dad, but after that game...I found my soul

Photo courtesy of mgoblog Ohio State Hate Week: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/osu-hate-week-downloads

It was cold as all get out and I nearly froze my feet off ushering at the stadium.

My earliest memory is the 1988 Hall of Fame Bowl, I was almost 7 years old.  The confusing part about the memory is that I remember it being a big deal that Bo wasn't coaching the game due to health reasons.  But if it's my first memory, how did I know the significance of Bo?

they just anounced on the radio that MSU voted to send OSU to the Rose Bowl instead of Michigan, man that was a long day.

I vaguely remember the Rose Bowls against USC back in the late Bo years - I was 6 or 7 - but the earliest thing that I actually remember clearly was Rocket Ismail tearing us up with all those kickoff returns.  Yeowch.

Early 70's, my Dad was always a fan and I was too, I remember Dennis Franklin getting hurt which led to "the vote", I remember my Dad telling me how nasty a man Woody was. I remember always listening to WJR and Bob Ufer, I still for the life of me can't figure out why WJR turned traitor.

I rem. watching the 1976 Orange Bowl. We had moved to Oklahoma from Taylor, Mi. when I was in kindergarten. All my friends were Sooner fans and I was cheering for the Wolverines. The dreaded Sooners won and made my life tough for awhile. I rem watching the game in vivid black and white. We got our first color tv that summer.

The first, in the long, long line of spectacular Michigan wideouts.  He was as good as any that we've had.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A9K4450nzc

I know I had been a Michigan fan before that, but we all gathered at my Grandma's house for a Rose Bowl party. I suppose now we know why I'm such a HUGE fan.

First vivid memory of Michigan football was watching Rob Houghtlin kick 4 field goals giving Iowa a 12-10 win over us in 1985.  I was 14 and that was the first game I ever remember watching straight through on TV.

My earliest memory of a Michigan game live was Jim Harbaugh's 77 year TD pass to John Kolesar to seal up the OSU game 27-17 in 1985.  That was awesome.

1991 I was 11, OSU Vs. Mich. I remember flipping through the channels and seeing the helmets, the commentators were talking about the wolverines and I was trying to figure out how the helmets meant the wolverines, I saw the 3 stripes in the back and figured they were wolverine claw marks??? 5 minutes into watching Desmond returns the punt, "Hello Heisman happens, and the rest is history. Next day I begged my parents for a Starter Half Zip Michigan winter coat, I got it and wore the shit outta that thing.

November 16th, 347 yards in the freezing rain. This is the game that sits atop the single game rushing record chart. 'nuff said.

I'll share two, since I don't know which came earlier--I was around 4-5 at the time for both:

1)  It was the game when FSU came to the Big House, and My Dad's old seats were in the endzone, right by the student section.  M lost, and I clearly remember the students chanting "F*** You" to the rythym and tone of the Seminole war chant whenever it was played.  I remember asking my Dad what they were saying, and him muttering something incomprehensible.

2)  Our old neighbors had a son who went to Purdue, so we would often go to games @ Purdue and tailgate with them (we lived in Chicago).  It should be mentioned that our neighbor was old enough to be my Grandpa, and  he liked both women and the sauce.  What I remember was during the halftime show, our neighbor shouts as loud as he can, "SHAKE YOUR ASSES!" at the cheerleaders, and my Dad gives him the WTF look and then nods in my direction.  Pretty funny in retrospect...

I have been a Michigan fan for as far back as I can remember.  Like many it was the helmets that sucked me in.  I was born in Michigan and one day I was watching football with my dad (tOSU fan).  Michigan was on and I told my dad I loved their helmets and since they were called Michigan which is where we lived I was going to root for them.  He wasn't real thrilled by this but I think he figured I would grow out of that and like OSU.  To this day I still love Michigan and to the point where it is almost unhealthy.  What is it about this team that demands such passion? 

I remember being really little (not old enough to read the Michigan shirts my grandparents gave me yet) so I'm not sure what game I was watching with my dad, uncles and grandparents, but I was still not grasping the NCAA/NFL difference because the teams all had big people and was very confused that Michigan could not go to the Super Bowl.