Group Therapy Time: Your Worst Moment
So my wife admitted last night that with HARBAUGH on board, hopefully leading us out of the wilderness, she's a little worried that I will revert back to watching Michigan games as a raging lunatic in the way that I did when the team was relevant. I think she has secretly enjoyed the last few years as I've become more and more detached, watching out of a sense of duty more than any real hope of a return to glory. The discussion led us to my lowest moment, the Crable hit on Troy Smith in the epic 2006 game. I had invited my parents over to watch with us, and my poor mother is still embarrassed by what I yelled at Mr. Crable. SO...at what moment did the team make you lose your mind the most? Come on, it'll help to talk about it!
Dixon and McNabb. The Oregon and Syracuse games were 2 of the ugliest games in Michigan Stadium history. Also the Brad Banks Iowa game as well.
Most games was a play here or there, a drop, or a bad call. Those games were just horrible all the way through.
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and then put back in the game. I can get down after a loss, but that whole scene made me sick. Worst day ever as a Michigan fan.
I completely lost my shit then. I usually am pretty reserved, with occasional yelling and threatening inanimate objects, but I was not a happy camper during that sequence of events. I could not believe what I was witnessing, and I think I blew either my jugular or carotid possibly.
2013 and 2014 MSU were pretty awful. Was at both. Last year I tried to force myself to laugh at how terrible everything was.
Yeah. After talking about the Crable hit, my wife asked me "do you REALLY want them to be great again knowing that the losses will hurt like they used to?" The fact that I couldn't respond immediately was depressing.
The 2005 Alamo Bowl. Fitting end to what was, by the standards of those days anyway, a miserable year.
More recently, the ND game when Denard was a turnover machine. I swore, was upset at my wife and got banished to the 19" Zenith TV in the basement. I now have a 65" Samsung in the basement, ready for any contingency.
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Anytime that you turn your team off is a low point.
Lowest point was UM getting hammered by Oregon, I was out at MSU at a party that day.
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Damien Anderson dropped a sure TD on 4th down for Northwestern. Thought we had it wrapped up after that. A-train fumbles without anyone even touching him. Seriously the worst fumble I have ever seen in my life. Skip ahead to 6:00 for the ridiculousness.
Passing: 27-40-0-322, 2 TD runs, 2 TD passes and 2 pt conversion pass for the win. He played ridiculously well that night. Also, NU tailback Damien Anderson had 268 yards rushing.
Northwestern had 644 yards of total offense - evenly split (322 pass, 322 rush)
I still can't believe it.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/scores100/100309/100309402.htm
"In November, games with the championship on the line, you know
you have to play good defense in order to win and we didn't do
that today," Michigan coach Lloyd Carr said.
"I was trying to get the first down and I saw a seam and something bad happened," (Anthony)Thomas added.
And the very next week, that same Northwestern team lost 27-17 to a crappy 9 loss Iowa team, with a very less than impressive offensive display.
This was a common trend during the Carr years. Teams would bring their absolute 'A' game against us and then absolutely sh*t the bed the next week against a crappy opponent.
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Dude, my name is Tyrone and so much this! I used to cry, roll on the floor, curse uncontrollably, do the Rick James laugh and point in people's faces!. This was in joy! Then we started losing... I didn't know what to do with myself. I got a real job, acting like a responsible adult, Saturdays meant free time, I started paying attention to my lady like she was the #1 thing in my life. <whisper> Kansas, I became a shell of my true SELF!
Btw, it wasn't me Rhonda!
Now that Harbaugh is back... Fuck that shit! It's UM all day, all the time baby. Go Blue Bitches!
Hopefully, I have learned my lesson.
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I'll be back later...I have a list for both
Yeah, that was another fucking treat for me and my family. I was still clearly angry and sad about the Horror. My mom was flying in from DC to visit here in Iowa, and we went to pick her up in Cedar Rapids and then go to the Iowa-Syracuse game (same day as UO-Michigan; mom's a Syracuse alum). We ate dinner where I could see U-M getting demolished, my spirits sinking by the minute. Finally, my mom nearly smacked the shit out of me for being such a baby, deservedly.
Iowa proceeded to crush Syracuse, and so the Iowa contingent were brutal, but my mom took it like a champ, further illustrating how much of a loser I was.
But I still blame the drunk Oregon frat brahs that kept bumping me. I lost it. Wasn't pretty.
a wooden stool, just picked it up and slammed it to the floor. Absolutely lost my mind on that one.
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All of last season is a horrible blur of crap.
I can't remember which day it was but Desmond said on Gameday that he went to the Michigan practices that week and didn't like what he saw. Something about Peppers looking like the only player that was putting any effort in.
...it probably could have been any of the weeks. Hence the horrible blur of crap.
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if you were you could combine the thread from last week and send everyone the season pocket schedule and poster and just hide the pills in there or tape them to the back of the schedule.
perfect sig
I have to take Zoloft so I don't keel you mothafuckas.
/IronMike
2013 OSU game. I'd never been so livid, but at the same time, so emotionally crushed after a sporting event. Say what we will about all of Hoke's faults; his teams came ready to play when OSU was on the other side of the field.
I was pissed, sure, but I just felt so bad for Gardner. He played on one good foot after being bruised and battered all year, and he still looked like an All-American. Nearly willed Michigan by himself to what I believe would've been the biggest upset in the history of the rivalry. After the year he had, I would've loved nothing more than to see him carried off the field by his fellow students in triumph.
Leaving the stadium and watching the OSU trash wrap their arms around each other and sing that god awful song carmen was bad enough. But as I was walking up State St by the Union, what I'm sure were a few drunken OSU undergrads walked up to me, did a lovely little crotch grab, and shared a few words that would probably upset their mothers. I really hope that they were the ones Lewan squared off with that night.
by modern era you mean 2007. We kicked more asses than ours got kicked before that.
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Anybody wants to relive the 2009 Purdue game, it's on Big Ten Network now.
I get the idea that a lot of the "Classic" games of other teams will come from this era. Ugh.