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I thought about you more…

I thought about you more than once last Monday. It's nice to see your prose here again and I hope this year brings you as much happiness as you can handle.  

"Just like football!"

"Just like football!"

Stats: 13 years, 11 months…

Stats: 13 years, 11 months. 250 mgopoints

Favorite on field memory: Milroe stop. It was like the end of 67-65 but better in every conceivable way.

Angry on field moment: Roman Wilson getting targeted against Maryland but not getting the call (it's cool I had to think so hard about this).

Surprise: Mullings and the fact that I'd get affirmatively excited when I saw him in the backfield because I suspected he was going to truck someone.

Favorite feature: Game columns.

I found my way here the Monday after the Oregon game in 2007 and was immediately hooked. I think Brian is one of the best writers writing about *anything* out there at this point. His DFW remembrance was perfect. I flipped on the TV Monday about the time the national anthem started and was surprised but also kind of not surprised by how emotional I was. Thinking about all of the OSU losses, about Toledo in 2008, the 2009 collapse, and the stupidity of the 2014 season. I thought about walking into a Celtics game in December 2008 and being very bummed that Sam McGuffie was transferring. Who knows how long this feeling lasts, but my feet are still a couple inches off the ground. Had I been in Houston, and had I seen Brian, I would have been one of the folks telling him how this crazy website made my life better than it'd be otherwise. Heck of a season. 

Charlotte's Web, toward the

Charlotte's Web, toward the end. Not sure if my daughter could tell I was losing it while reading it to her, but goodness did that book move me.

If you compare the numbers on

If you compare the numbers on Stauskas's freshmen season with Robinson's current one, they're pretty darn similar. Regardless of how this year ends up, that portends good things for next year.

Word usages I hate: (1)

Word usages I hate: (1) disrupt for anything other than the creation of an actual noisy disturbance, and (2) curate for anything other than the organization of a literal museum exhibition/collection. Also get off my lawn.

I read IJ in 2014. I still

I read IJ in 2014. I still struggle to collect my thoughts on it. It's not easy and parts of it are infuriating. I found it deeply moving. There are passages, lots of them, that are as well written as anything in the English language. I found it hard to get attached to the characters, but once I was I had a lot of trouble letting them go. I think it may be one of the five best pieces of fiction I've ever read. I think it has a plot but I'm still not quite sure. Sections of it are compelling enough that your heart will start racing, much less that you won't want to put it down. Other sections of it are like a peacock strutting its stuff for no apparent reason whatsoever. I understand why some people hate this book. I love it so much, though.

Belting out "The Victors"

Belting out "The Victors" with a bunch of complete strangers in the tunnel on the way out of the Rose Bowl on January 1, 1998.

If I am ever 1/3 as good at

If I am ever 1/3 as good at anything as Jim Hackett has been at this, well, I will have been extraordinarily good at something. Writing coherent MGOposts will not be that thing.

Get well soon! Now excuse me

Get well soon! Now excuse me for a second while I try to come up with a wildly off-topic, inappopriate discussion thread to take advantage of your absence. (Seriously, though: get better).

Condolences. I cannot even

Condolences. I cannot even begin to imagine.

I love this line: "It's a

I love this line: "It's a game with really neat young people and a ball that's not round, and that's what creates the drama."

I have a feeling the

I have a feeling the committee is going to find itself smitten with the B12 teams.

1. Baylor

2. LSU

3. TCU

4. OSU

5. Clemson

6. Alabama

That release was aimed pretty

That release was aimed pretty squarely at keeping Peppers in the recruiting fold, IIRC.

Right. And as an aside, I'm

Right. And as an aside, I'm hearing we still have a shot at RoJo FWIW.

Man.

Man. #SmoothitronforNobelGifPrize.

If ever there were a time for

If ever there were a time for deployment of "SMDH", this is such a time.

My first reaction after

My first reaction after reading, before (I swear) reading the tag at the top, was "this is actually happening."

Woodson by a mile. He was the

Woodson by a mile. He was the most dynamic athlete I've ever seen in person.

Boston, MA.

Boston, MA.

I was wondering what the heck

I was wondering what the heck the rule is there. We know that if you land on top of another player you're not down. But does landing on the in-bounds portion of a player who is half out-of-bounds mean that you're out-of-bounds too? This is a burning question, I tell you.

This may have been mentioned

This may have been mentioned elsewhere and so I apologize in advance for stealing anyone's thunder, but has there been any consideration to changing the name of this feature to "MAILBAUGH"? I'll show myself out.

That show was indeed

That show was indeed excellent and for some reason scared the living crap out of me as a tyke. RIP

Okay Ace I ran the image

Okay Ace I ran the image search and was immediately traumatized by the actual, physical mascot guy. But then I realized that his haunting grimace is a function of having to make sure that the person in the nightmare-inducing suit can actually see where said person is going.  So (like all things) when you factor in the practicalities, it's not that bad.

I second TomVH. His reporting

I second TomVH. His reporting was and continues to be very, very solid. And the "Hold me TomVH" meme was always good for a chuckle.

He looks a little
Bit like

He looks a little

Bit like Lloyd Christmas, for sure,

But he wins and wins

WHOA. Congratulations, you

WHOA. Congratulations, you would be very proud of yourself if you were an actual human being and not some sort of automated script. However, if you do have an in with JH and you can gently nudge him I would be forever in your debt.

The Bill Walsh photograph

The Bill Walsh photograph kind of reminds me of Faux Pelini's twitter avatar. Also I wonder what piece of critical information in my brain has been displaced by my knowledge of Faux Pelini's twitter avatar. 

I'd like to congratulate

I'd like to congratulate Hunter Lochmann on winning the 2014 Annual David Brandon False Dichotomy Award. Tell me where I should ship your box of bees!

Fair question. I guess

Fair question. I guess because it feels a bit to me like our initial instinct is to hope the guy assigns a higher priority to Michigan football than he does to the well-being of his family. Don't get me wrong: I don't think anyone here would straight-facedly express that view. But the combination of our obsessive fandom and the continuation of this process appears at times to affect our ability to think with anything other than our lizard brains.  

I read comments like this and

I read comments like this and I nod along and then I realize (again) that we're losing all sense of proportion not to mention our freaking minds.

Your "reason" and "logic"

Your "reason" and "logic" have no place here, friend. I'd respond at greater length but I have to go make a sacrificial offering to the college-football-coaching-change gods.

Get well soon, Ace.

Get well soon, Ace.

Those tribute clips got me to

Those tribute clips got me to thinking: does Harbaugh have any eligibility left? Would he consider coming back to play QB instead of to coach? Or both?

I think I would settle for

I think I would settle for "good" or even "not bad".

I mercifully missed that last

I mercifully missed that last Gardner INT because I was unloading the dishwasher or some such thing. Thank goodness I was unloading the dishwasher. I <3 dishwasher.

What I'm finding  tiresome in

What I'm finding  tiresome in some of the more national commentary is this idea that if the football team were 7-1 or 8-0, nobody would have been calling for Brandon (or Hoke) to go. That's a bad argument. Our football team is bad because our (thankfully former) AD and (probably future former) head football coach just haven't been all that good at their jobs. Letting people who aren't good at their jobs go is kind of how the world works, for better or worse. Even at the top of the food chain.

Brian, after reading this I

Brian, after reading this I want to make sure that you're aware of the "BRAT" diet, which is what one is supposed to observe after tossing one's cookies. "B"ananas, "R"ice, "A"pples & "T"oast. Stick with that for a few hours and you should be good to go.

OK I'll say it if nobody else

OK I'll say it if nobody else is going to: HOLD ME, TOMVH.

Brian, if there's blood

Brian, if there's blood trickling from the corners of your eyes, which I think is a real possibility after the amount of time you had to spend watching this shit show, please go to the hospital. Also crying is a totally acceptable and even cathartic reaction to things that make you irretrievably bummed out. Just FYI.

There's logic to what you're

There's logic to what you're saying, but I think the leash needs to be pretty short. I'll admit that my thinking is colored by the fact that I'll be pretty disappointed if the coaches start Morris on Saturday. DG has been shaky, to be sure. But I think he gives the team a better chance to win than SM. SM hasn't exactly blown us away with his in-game performances, even against lesser competition.

Goodell is getting taxed on

Goodell is getting taxed on his stupidly high salary, a lot of it at the highest marginal tax rates. So there are taxes being paid. And expenses related to palatial offices are deductible even in the for-profit context. There are so, so many reasons to criticize the league. This isn't one of them.

I'm both left-leaning and not

I'm both left-leaning and not a fan of the NFL as an organization. The league is dysfunctional, hypocrtical, and opposed to accountability on just about every conceivable issue. But I think this tax exempt argument is baloney. League-level revenue (for stuff like licensing etc.) gets passed through to the teams, which are not tax exempt, and the players, who pay (or should pay) income taxes. Goodell gets his (exorbitant, preposterous) salary and he pays taxes on that. There's taxation happening here. It's just not happening at the level where there isn't actual taxable income.  

They get credit for no blood

They get credit for no blood spatter. NU set the patriotic-uniform-bar rather low.

"Elsewhere" = why I've been

"Elsewhere" = why I've been reading this blog more closely than just about anything else for the last seven bizarre-assed years. So, so good. 

The real question for Adidas,

The real question for Adidas, though, is how it's going to look when it's ripped to shreds on a routine tackle.

September 3, 1994

Boston College at Michigan. First play of the game was a 74-yard BC TD reception. It was an appropriately searing introduction to twenty years of deranged fandom. We went on to win, but still.

"From Westbrook to Brust: 20

"From Westbrook to Brust: 20 Years of Heart-Rending, Last-Second Losses"

Great idea

I think this is an absolutely fantastic idea, though I wonder how Woodson's '97 UFR numbers would look since teams mostly tried to stay the hell away from him (and with good reason).  I also think you might mean "retrospective".  

Plural!

Per Ace's tweet yesterday evening, it was TUBES plural.