Your earliest Michigan FB memory

My first memory of Michigan football was a bad one.  I vaguely remember watching the Michigan/MSU game from 2001 and seeing TJ Duckett catch the game winning TD.  I remember getting so mad so I must have watched games before that one.  I must have been too young to remember.

The first memory of going to a game that sticks was the 1994 Colorado game. ugh. I wish it was a better memory.

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My first memory was the '97 Mich-OSU game when I was 9. Ever since then I have loved the Maize and Blue. Unfortunately, my first game was the Toledo disaster in '08. Oh well this is the year we start getting recognized as the best team in the land again.

with my father. I was 14. I innocently stated aloud " that Gordy Bell was as good as Archie Griffin" (which he was) and this old Buckeye fan about tore my head off...screamed in my ear and pointed his finger. I thought he was stroking out. I kinda liked the Wolverines going into that game, but that dude cemented my loyalty for a lifetime.

I was born at UM (I have Cerebral Palsy), and the Hospital saved my life.  I guess you could say I was born swaddled in Maize and Blue.

As for a memory, I remember my Dad carrying me on his shoulders into the Stadium in the late 80's.  I can't recall who the opponent was, but M waxed them pretty good.

I later attended, and graduated from, the Greatest University in the World.  I guess you could say it was meant to be, despite my Mother being a Sparty.

My dad took me to my first Michigan when I was about 8 and we had student section tickets for the ND game. I was overly excited and when we arrived, my dad insisted that we sit in our actual seats.  After much verbal and mental abuse (I truely thought I was going to die right there) we squeezed into whatever seats we could and took in the game. The swear words I learned that day as well as the drunken smells are still with me today. I cannot remember the outcome or if i was able to see past the shirtless crowd in front of me, but I will always remeber that game.

I remember watching Michigan football on TV and thinking about how cool Leroy Hoard and Jarrod Bunch were.  I look back on the history and realize that they hadn't done much nor played much together, but for some reason both of them stuck out to me when I was younger.

The year was 1989,  i was at my grandparents. The NCAA tournament was on the tv, Rumeal Robinson was at the line against Seton Hall. I remember the crowds reaction to this day.

Edit: I was at work and streaming media is blocked. This YouTube has it's embedding blocked by request. So here is the link of one of my earliest Michigan memories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkukr6FgzpA

Drew Henson being QB against Illinois,

It was a special moment because I had previously seen Henson play double-A ball, half an hour from my house. 

From when I heard them announce Drew Henson at QB, I became a life-long Wolverine fan.

The Come back from being down by 17 is my first memory of watching Michigan football.

All I remember from the game is telling my dad that I wanted to go to Michigan for college because I liked the winged helmets. I was 7 years old then living in Colorado. It just so happens I did end up going to Michigan coming all the way from New Orleans (we moved there when I was ten). I had to give my parents a better reason for going out of state than winged helmets.

But my first complete memory is actually the 1995 Alamo Bowl against Texas A&M.  Michigan lost the game, but they made a pretty good comeback.  So a bad memory almost was a great one.  But it's hard to say if the memory would have lasted if they just would have won like usual rather than lose, though I probably would have remembered it if it was like the 77 Michigan - A&M game (Michigan won 41-3) My first memory at all (though I remember very little) was the 93 Rose Bowl victory, so at least I have that.

I was like six or seven when I saw that. I remember having my Dad come outside to play catch with me after the game and I kept telling him to overthrow the balls so I could dive for them like Des- which probably annoyed the hell out of him because he's a HUGE ND fan.

First game I attended was a Northwestern game in the late 70s during the height of the Big 2 little 8 days.  Michigan put up about 70 points.

I spent most of the 70s and 80s going to Central Michigan games since CMU was closer and my parents were alumni.

was  a season ending home game against OSU i had to be about 9 or 10 and it was cold afternoon and we were losing and then all of sudden John Kolesar catches fire with a long punt return and a long touchdown. cant exactly remember the year but it was between 87-90 and we ended up winning the game like 26 -28. That was not the sensational part of the story, my grandfather actually left his keys in the car door and to our suprise no one stole it and they (M fans)even tucked the keys under the wipers. I thought wow it must be like this all the time when they beat such a hated rival. I knew then that I wanted to be a UM fan.

I started getting into sports at the end of the 1996 season.  It started with me watching hockey (go wings!), and very quickly spread to UM football.

I remember watching bits of the penn state game on the display TVs at ABC warehouse while my parents bought something or the other (their interest in michigan football has come about solely due to my fanaticism, even though my dad has three fucking degrees from the university  -_- ).  The next weekend, I sat in the car, listening to the radio while my parents helped some family friends move.  It was cool because I was learning about football on the fly.

And then 1997 happened.

I was 6 and went after halftime with a neighbor and his dad (they opened the gates at halftime back then). I remember Michigan's helmets and Navy's gold helmets. I believe Navy won the game with Roger Staubach as QB.

Sadly for me the earliest memory I have is the 01 OSU-UM game in Tressel's first season.

A shellacking of Maryland a long time ago. I believe it was my first game.

It has been said before but the first memory was watching this team wearing maize and blue on this 10 inch screen at a New Years Day party when I was 8. 

The Rocket Ismail game.  Ugh.  I was just shy of my tenth birthday, and while I didn't fully understand what was going on, I knew I was supposed to be pissed at something afterwards.  I remember SI having an article on the game afterwards.

By the following year, I had a firmer grasp of the game of football - and was doubly upset when we again lost to the Irish despite outplaying them (and SI again rubbed it in, this time on a cover story).  I learned to work up a healthy dislike of ND early on.  The Desmond game the next year was sweet, sweet revenge.

Both my parents went to MSU and tried their best to get me to be a state fan, but suddenly in 92 when I was 9 I became a Michigan fan because of the fab five.  I watched alot of games, but my first vivid memories were Biakabutuka in 95 and Tai Streets long touchdown in 96.  I can remember my grandfather (who went to UofM) at our house in 96 outside not watching the game because they werent supposed to win. (I think he would have gotten a little upset in front of me if they lost)  After that touchdown I ran outside with this huge Michigan flag and ran around the front yard.  He came back in of course and was on pins and needles.  Now I never miss a game.

I was again at my grandparents house for thanksgiving weekend. This is what we watched. Bo was regal, even in his last game. Bo is the reason i became a Michigan fan. I loved the way he carried himself, and the respect he commanded. I have been obsessed since this game.

Film Courtesy of WolverineHistorian

Has to be Carter's catch against Indiana.  I fell asleep during the game to be awakened by my dad jumping around to the radio. 

I remember sitting on the couch wearing my Michigan sweatshirt watching the game with my dad a few months before my fifth birthday. I was estatic after they won, but I couldn't understand how we could win and not be the only national champion.

After the game I remember playing football in my basement while taking turns with my friends pretending to be Woodson and Griese.

I would have been 9 years old at the time.  I don't know what was wrong with me that I didn't start watching Michigan games at least by age 5 or 6.

I watched my first Michigan Rose Bowl game when I was a high school senior back in 1971 (seems like yesterday).  I had already accepted enrollment at UofM and was eager to see how the team would do against the Stanford team from the Pac 8 (before UA and ASU joined).  The game was close for 3 quarters and it was only during the closing moments of the game that the outcome was decided by a FG.  We had lost in an exciting game to an exceptional Stanford QB who later had a great NFL career.  His name was Jim Plunkett.

That's why college football is so great to see young atheletes develop into great players/.

I watched my first Michigan Rose Bowl game when I was a high school senior back in 1971 (seems like yesterday).  I had already accepted enrollment at UofM and was eager to see how the team would do against the Stanford team from the Pac 8 (before UA and ASU joined).  The game was close for 3 quarters and it was only during the closing moments of the game that the outcome was decided by a FG.  We had lost in an exciting game to an exceptional Stanford QB who later had a great NFL career.  His name was Jim Plunkett.

That's why college football is so great to see young atheletes develop into great players/.

I was 12 years old, just watching football with my dad, a Michigan grad.   He went off when Woody went for 2.  Never saw him get upset over a game he wasnt playing before.   Listened to all the Woody Hayes "school up north" stuff.   Heard of sportsmanship and impending payback.

Realized this is serious shit.   Went to Michigan in the late '70s.....strinko, dufek, franklin, leach, lytle

Son is a Wolverine now.

Id have to say Charles Woodson and the REDICULOUS INT he had against MSU. I was 7 years old and I was watching it with my uncle. It was the first Michigan game I watched seeing as my dad isn’t in to football and I’ve been hooked ever since.