Your Favorite Highlights Requested!
I send out a daily newsletter that includes the previous day's scores, news, and always include a Michigan athletics highlight (from YouTube) Monday-Friday. Would love to crowdsource any obscure highlights/memories you have. Any/all sports are represented, recent or forever ago. Special hat tip in the newsletter if you provide a YouTube link as well - or I'm happy to scour for it!
Ah, yes. I missed this one on TV because I had to do community service (shoveling horse shit at the fairgrounds) for a Minor in Possession violation. Thankfully, the supervisor let us sit in the car and listen to the end on the radio.
Probably the hottest game I ever attended. My girlfriend at the time fainted in the women's bathroom at halftime due to the heat. However she rallied just like our Wolverines. This was the first game in section 32 after sitting in section 10 for 19 years. Thanks Richard Bernstein.
Mine was Braylonfest.
Jourdan Lewis one hander against Wiscy. Hutch calling out the Ohio State tackle and bull rushing him into infamy.
as incredible as that pick was, it was 4th and 10 and was a 40 yd mistake in terms of field position.
Hutch calling out the Ohio State tackle and bull rushing him into infamy.
Creating this gif is one of my proudest accomplishments. Maybe someone could make it a bit better quality.
I can watch Hutch run this clown over all day long!!
It remains the best response to all the Stalions nonsense.
As a longtime college hockey fan (first "Frozen Four" I attended was in 1971 when it was played in a minor league rink in Syracuse, NY and only four teams made the tournament, two from the East and two from the West), this sequence in the 2009 NCAA men's hockey championship game was, as ESPN's Gary Thorne called it, "Unbelievable!"
Charles Woodson made one handed grab a thing before it was a thing.
Certainly Staeee qb was throwing the ball away but out of nowhere Woodson leaps like 10 feet, intercepts the ball one handed AND gets a foot down. Had to see the replay to recognize the insanity. It's no exaggeration when people say you could never throw to Woodson's half of the field.
April 28th, 2024 at 10:18 PM ^
This was queued up for tomorrow, but hat tip will be sent your way!
TOUCHDOWN MANNIGHAM!
April 29th, 2024 at 12:08 AM ^
I loved that earlier in the game JoePa got another second added to the clock based on replay/review. Good thing.
The look on his face after Michigan players rushed the field was priceless. Carr going 9-2 against him while winning 9 in a row might be the most underrated stat from that era.
Women’s gymnastics winning the national championship on balance beam
Let's give some upvotes to the OP!
I just noticed he's been an MGoUser since 2009 but just recently reached 100 points (the threshold to be able to post an OP). Unfortunately , though, [edited] someone decided to go "full McScrooge" and neg his post this afternoon for no apparent reason.
(edit @7:20: upvote the OP "nhirsch'', not me. He's at just 117 points and wants to use your suggestions in an online Michigan Wolverines daily newsletter that he publishes.
But upvoting the o.p. doesn't effect the point total, only thread upvotes count right?
An upvote of his OP counts the same (2 points) as an upvote of a comment.
April 28th, 2024 at 10:39 PM ^
Rob, I say this with much respect and admiration for all the work you do for this blog, and while I agree with your intent, I'm not sure about isolating a poster for downvoting a thread. God only knows how often I've irrationally downvoted a poster/posters for whatever reason. I just wouldn't want someone (especially a moderator) to call me out on it (and vice versa) to discourage any form of expression on any topic.
April 29th, 2024 at 12:58 AM ^
While on one hand I understand your concerns on this, my intent was to say it in a humorous way. That's why I included the "McScrooge" reference.
I'll go back and rephrase it.
It's relatively easy to feel not bad (good isn't the right word!) about negging someone. Don't neg for opinions, even if you don't like them. Instead, neg when the comment is out of line off topic, factually incorrect, or such a dumb response that it doesn't make sense and/or isn't credible (ie: speculation based on nothing and offered as psuedo-fact).
These are easy enough to spot. But I think there are far too many negs based on opinion - if they don't like what you wrote for whatever reason, they neg. That's cheap, as far as I'm concerned.
The most obscure highlight I can think of: I only remember it from a live viewing almost 25 years ago. Never seen a replay of it. At this point it feels more like a dream than a memory so I'm not sure how reliable it is. It happened during the Michigan-Penn State 1999 game. Anthony Thomas had the ball and LaVar Arrington spearheaded him in one of the most vicious hits I have ever seen. A truly massive collision between two college football icons. After the play Thomas got up like it was nothing. Arrington stayed on the ground for several minutes. No single play sums up the difference between Michigan football and Penn State football better than that play.
Oops. First I posted that it wasn't LaVar. But then I found it. So it happened twice in that game.
Here's the first one that's not LaVar.
Thanks for doing the hard work to trying to find the play Henson's Mobile, but I think you linked one of the videos wrong. They're both linked to the same hit (Thomas vs #10). I actually tried to find the play myself--no longer confident it even existed--but I found it. It occurs at the 1:55:52 mark. The Arrington hit is not as vicious as I remembered (my fuzzy memory had Arrington leaving his feat and spearheading him which obviously did not happen). In fact Thomas laid the wood more than Arrington on that play. Still an epic collision tho.
Edit: NVM your link appears to work now. My bad.
I'm not sure head injuries are an indicator of tuffness.
The videos Henson posted are both leading with the crown of the helmet and the player would be tossed today. And based on what we know now, I'd be okay with it.
The run by Forcier against ND (if you look real close there's a jockstrap on the field and it belongs to Darius Fleming... not a fan of Matt Millen but that was a great call) and Graham decapitating Glenn Winston. Still pissed RR didn't go for 2 at the end to win that game.
Denard Robinson's game winning TD throw in the first night game.
April 28th, 2024 at 10:49 PM ^
I was at Michigan Stadium in the student section. That game was a blast. Truly epic.
SAME!
I was with an ND man and he was running his mouth with 33 seconds left. I made him stay all they way through the celebration after.
We then went to a bar in the basement where Woodson and others from the 97 team hung out and I had the chance to shake his hand and thank him for all he has done for the University.
My parents visited to see the new baby - we almost woke him up with that play! Last game I ever watched with my dad...
Oh man, I woke up my newborn by screaming during that game.
This is one of my favorite vids on youtube. 4 different times in different eras that Lloyd Carr used the same trick play: a double pass back to his QB. Kinda crazy that out of Griese, Henson, Gonzales, and Navarre, freaking John Navarre was the only one to score.
That play was 20-some yards long, and it took 47 secondds to watch it. I think Navarre is still running!
^^^VIDEO SHOWS ALL FOUR PLAYS!^^^
I was at the Metrodome only one of the 4 I saw in person. AWFUL place for college football. MN fan wanted that game so bad. MN outplayed Michigan for much of the game but Navarre played very well coming from behind. After Rivas kicked the game winning FG the place was silent.
I love watching M win that Jug every time and a very undervalued rivalry.
The Olympic Games have offered me so many great memories since I first remember seeing part of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome televised in the US. I don't recall seeing the women's 100 meters and 200 meters events on TV, but I remember reading about Wilma Rudolph's remarkable victories in those events. LINK
Four years later at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Billy Mills of the US won the 10,000 meters in a major upset. LINK
Unfortunately, the IOC blocks those clips from being embedded, but the links should work.
This one never gets old.
Neither does this one.
Braylonfest! Henne, Hart, Avant, Long, and of course Braylon
To this day if I ever met BRABBS I would want to hug him. 36 and 42 the misses were not just misses they were hideous attempts. Redemption indeed because we we all hoping but confidence level was LOW.
He nutted that kick!
as seen below and my BAD!
Brabbs from 44
April 29th, 2024 at 12:26 PM ^
The redemption kick!!