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4 days 21 hours ago	Unforgettable game	I actually don't remember my first game. I was much younger than you were at your first game, though (probably 5 or 6). The rest of that year, though...
4 days 23 hours ago	I don't know about 2008 Wisconsin	The first half was one of the worst games of football I had ever seen a Michigan team play (at least up until then). I looked at the box score--Threet ended 12 of 31 for 96 yards and about half of our rushing yards came on two plays (Brandon Minor's touchdown and Threet's long run). Despite the win it was pretty clear it was going to be a long season. I agree completely about those 2009 and 2010 games, though. I thought we'd turned the corner both years (sigh).
5 days 7 hours ago	Who won 25 straight games from 1946-1949	Which includes a national championship in 1948 and arguably one in 1947. (Just to add some details to your point.)
1 week 1 day ago	Looks like Cardale Jones	/s
1 week 1 day ago	I didn't see the first one	For pretty much the reasons you gave. I'm sure I'll see them all at some point, but I just can't get excited about it.
1 week 1 day ago	I think that's a pretty accurate description	Parts of the UW-Madison campus are lovely (such as Bascom Hill), and so are individual buildings. The campus as a whole? Not so much. Miami (NTM), on the other hand, has a beautiful campus. I went to school there, and the surrounding town is little more than an afterthought.
1 week 1 day ago	2013 - 47 = 1966	So his math is perfect if he meant Michigan State's Rose Bowl trip on January 1, 1966.  I agree with the sentiment, but come on.
1 week 2 days ago	Well, except for the 1988 Rose Bowl	MSU 20, USC 17.
1 week 3 days ago	Anthony Carter from Florida	I think from the Miami area, though.
1 week 5 days ago	Yeah, they're another good example	Probation even kept them out of the 1979 Rose Bowl.
1 week 5 days ago	Not necessarily true	In the B1G, Illinois comes to mind. They've been on probation a number of times and frankly never had a lot to show for it. I believe they were on probation twice in the eighties, and managed one Rose Bowl trip. In 1983, they were 10-1 going into the Rose Bowl against 6-4-1 UCLA, but managed to lose 45-9.
1 week 6 days ago	There's also the LCBO	Manufacturers can also sell, but I don't really understand it. Not a big fan of the system, frankly. I think it's one of the reasons why Ontario's craft brewing industry lags behind the US.
1 week 6 days ago	While I agree with you about Tressel	I don't think you're being entirely fair to John Cooper. Aside from his well-documented and glorious trouble beating Michigan, he only had two bad years at the end (6-6 in 1999 and 8-4 in 2000). In 1998 he not only beat Michigan and won a BCS bowl but could have made the BCS title game with better special teams play against Michigan State (28-24 loss). There's no way Ohio State would have fired Tressel after one year, though, without him having done something pretty awful off the field.
2 weeks 2 days ago	Dotty Dumpling's Dowry	I haven't eaten there in probably 7-8 years at this point, but they used to have great hamburgers, too.
3 weeks 2 days ago	Brady's first pass was against UCLA in 1996	Otherwise you're right--it was indeed returned for a touchdown in a 38-9 win.
3 weeks 5 days ago	John Wangler	If he hadn't hurt his knee in the '79 Gator Bowl my fantasy is that Michigan would have swept the table in 1980. As it was, they started 1-2 but won the rest of their games, including the Rose Bowl.
3 weeks 5 days ago	Sociopaths are often very charming in person	Not entirely /s
4 weeks 1 day ago	Yeah, I was afraid we were going to be nicklerolled	<Shudder>
4 weeks 4 days ago	It was Quebec or the Newfies	Not us in Ontario.
5 weeks 5 days ago	Trust me, it was 1972	We did play UCLA in 1982 (and a second time in  the Rose Bowl on January 1st, 1983) and it didn't work out nearly that well. Tom Ramsey was the QB on the 1982 UCLA team.
5 weeks 6 days ago	Ernie stayed in Madison	Per the terms of his probation agreement.
6 weeks 3 days ago	Attending my company's annual sales conference	Which I dread. I support sales people but am not actually in sales myself. Because of previous sales conferences I have missed the 2009 Delaware State, 2011 Iowa and 2012 Nebraska games. (The 2010 conference was during a bye week.)
6 weeks 4 days ago	Bob Ufer died in 1981	/pedant mode /resisting the urge to zombie Ufer jokes
6 weeks 4 days ago	It's kind of a tradeoff	My first name is "Michael." It's not so bad since I moved to Toronto, with its huge population of immigrants, but growing up there were always at least one other Mike in all of my classes and as many as five. (Now I work with three other Mikes on the same team. Only one of us was actually born in Canada. One was born in the Philippines, another in Romania and I was born in Ann Arbor.)
6 weeks 5 days ago	Ufer for Michigan games	Jackson for anything else. Normally I'm not a big fan of homers, but Ufer was both completely over the top and on my side. I strongly suspect I'd feel different about him had he done the play by play for Tennessee or Minnesota or Texas or (and I feel dirty even suggesting this) Ohio State. Jackson, on the other hand, was a true professional and brought the same charm and enthusiasm to every game he covered no matter who was playing.
7 weeks 5 days ago	Exactly	The Lions do not need another Titus Young.
7 weeks 5 days ago	Grind the weed	Fit more in the bong/pipe/etc. I think. Haven't smoked pot in a long time and never really tried to optimize it.
7 weeks 5 days ago	“We have strict and clear standards"	“We have strict and clear standards regarding these types of behaviors,” Chryst is quoted as saying in the article. So what, no more than 5 bag of heroin?
7 weeks 5 days ago	I think Mathieu is self-medicating	In other words, pot is not the underlying issue. There's clearly something else going on with the guy, which makes me think he's a risky pick. Not to say he shouldn't be drafted, but that I wouldn't want to pick him up too early.
8 weeks 5 days ago	Your odds of getting killed by a terrorist	Are still dwarfed by the odds of getting killed driving to the stadium. My recommendation is to stay home and wrap yourself in bubble wrap, since the odds of getting killed in an accident in your house also far outweigh the odds of getting killed by a terrorist.

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