meta: How did you find out about/become addicted to mgoblog
We're officially in OT season and there's not much going on 'round these parts if you don't pay that close attention to SB or BB. So, as we all anxiously await the next region in the GIF tournament, let's remiss about how we all got hooked on mgoblog to the point that we end up clicking on/creating threads just to have something to talk about.
I started using mgoblog regularly in 2014 while I was studying abroad in India for a semester. We didn't have strong enough of an Internet connection for me to actually watch games or anything. In fact we only had electricity for 4 or 5 hours a day, so streaming video or even getting a gif to load was a hassle. At that time it was basketball season and mgoblog was really my only connection to what was going on back home. The newspaper there had some type of sports section but they didn't even include the Superbowl score the Monday after, much less report on B1G play. So I kept up with it religiously, especially when I got homesick for American culture and needed an outlet for that. Once I came back I was hooked and don't think I've missed a post or a thread since.
Edit: as I read some of these, I think it'd be really interesting to hear from some of the users who are fans of other teams, especially the ones who have been around for a while. Gotta be a cool story behind it, right?
April 25th, 2016 at 12:39 PM ^
It was fall of *2007* and I was stuck in blog HELL as a commenter on Freep's Michigan articles. The trolls at Freep drove me bat shit...the App State debacle was particularly rough. I found MGoBlog during the RR coaching search but did not join until the fall of 2008.
I need to add that the Freep at that time rarely policed the blogs so the trolls (mostly MSU dickheads) had free reign. It was disgusting. I was suckered into so many downward spiraling pissing contests it makes me sick to this day. I can't believe I wasted so much time debating with complete morons. Ahh to be young and full of so much piss and vinegar.
April 25th, 2016 at 12:37 PM ^
I got introduced during the Harbaugh coaching search as I searched the web to keep up with my degenerate need for information. Been addicted ever since
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April 25th, 2016 at 12:34 PM ^
I was finishing off a 12-year stint for gun-running and white slave trade when I met a meth dealer in the exercise yard. He didn't go by a regular name—he just called himself "RDT"—and he had an odd tattoo on his left arm that read "MGOBLOG." He wouldn't tell me what it meant until I gave him my week's supply of smokes, but after that he loosened up and told me all about the heady early Haloscan days of "PeanutButterJellyTime" and "eeeeeBarwis." He talked about it like it was some sort of addictive cult, and once I got out I discovered he was right.
April 25th, 2016 at 12:37 PM ^
Total absurd silly fantasy.
RDT would never be caught north of the Mason-Dixon line.
I can only assume "wolfman" has a similary story but 100% non-fiction.
roll of T.P.
April 25th, 2016 at 12:36 PM ^
looked like a legitimate account, so when my real persona (Wolverine Devotee) needed me, i could spring into action and not be called out for being only a few days old.
April 25th, 2016 at 12:59 PM ^
April 25th, 2016 at 12:43 PM ^
I am kind of foggy on this but I believe someone mentioned it in a thread on Stadium & Main (Scout forum). I stumbled into that forum via internet search when RR got hired. When he was hired I was genuinely pissed and started following recruiting at that time just out of concern for my beloved team. I lurked for years before I created an account. Then a few years later I actually posted something.
I now only come here (several times a day) for my Michigan news and I guess other important world news. Unlike Jack Hammer, I cannot quit. I am weak.
April 25th, 2016 at 12:44 PM ^
I learned about mgoblog from some weirdo on a poker forum who is a Wazoo fan but also regularly reads mgoblog because he likes Brian's writing style
April 25th, 2016 at 12:45 PM ^
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April 25th, 2016 at 12:50 PM ^
Instead of starting a million dumb threads, people could just let OT season be OT season, and stop cluttering up the board as if this place were eHarmony
April 25th, 2016 at 12:56 PM ^
My best buddy, a ND alum in Chicago, told me about the site. It was during Carr's last season. I immediately became hooked and began lobbying heavily for Harbaugh to get an offer. Sailboats ensued.. rumors.. Miles...factions...and 7 years of misery.
April 25th, 2016 at 12:56 PM ^
I was addicted to UMGOBLUE.COM Forum and then it seemed like that place became a ghost town and was not having many posts so i googled for a few other sites to see what i could find and some how found a link to this and have been hooked ever since. This place is awesome because I live very close to PSU and dont have many Michigan fans to talk to around these parts lol
April 25th, 2016 at 12:57 PM ^
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"Addicted" is a strong word. I'm more of just a casual user.
It was Ha Noi. Summer of 2012. Me and the others were looking for a way to get higher than ever before. We'd had the usual--Mong Cai Mud, Ben Tre Brown Sugar, Da Nang Dank--but we were looking for something more real, visceral.
A friend had just crossed over from Thailand via Laos with what he promised would blow our collective minds. He opened his backpack and pulled out a laptop. We gathered round as the startup screen illuminated our makeshift slum shanty.
"What's the wifi password?" he barked.
"Hoke11and2," I answered. His fingers quickly massaged the keyboard and within a few seconds we were staring at a screen filled with boobs.
"Wrong window." Another few clicks and we landed on mgoblog. Never before had we seen a page so joyous. From the diaries to the OT's, but mostly the glorious comment sections, we had found Mecca.
Most of us stopped using the strong stuff after that, getting our endorphine fix on the internet ten, 20, sometimes 30 times daily. The F5 key was our new high.
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I think Varsity Blue was Tim Sullivan's website. TomVH's other website that I remember was URecruit.
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I think it was CNN that did an article about it in '08 and I clicked on the link. haven't gone more than a day or 2 without reading since.
My sons first game as a student was RR's first ( he knows --terrible timing) and would tell me stuff he found out on some blog. I slowly started lurking for a few years and only joined when I became an Event Team Member and had a few insider tidbits to add to the discussions. I probably have or will scan your ticket at some game.
Mostly read the football previews for several years, just got into having an account and reading everything recently.
What is haloscan?
using acoustic modems to access bulletin boards (ah, Bloom County), someone coined the term blog. Not long after that some hardy soul decided there needed to be "blog software". Some of those, like Blogger were clunky and left a bit to be desired. Thus was born Haloscan, one of the first third party comment hosting wares.
I was young, still in graduate school, with no clue about my future and even less clue about my womanhood. Then I met MGoBlog-- older, wiser, more confident-- and before I knew it, we were interlocked in the devils dance, my shy reticense replaced with a new aggression. Reading Mgoblog went from an exciting thrill to being the one place the full flower of my womanhood, my deepest cravings now made public.
Or something like that.
I had a common interest in that type of information. I didn't know of anyone else doing anything similar. And off it went from there. The start of "Picture Pages" only made me read more.
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Scott Hanson of NFL RedZone is an avid Michigan fan even though he went to Syracuse. He told me about MGoBlog back in like 2007 and still follows it weekly.
chronological library of The Wizard of Aaahs! Jim Harbaugh's Escapades.
Every other rewarding post provides worldly breaking news and intergalactic added value.
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knew I was a huge Michigan fan and thought a diversion would help me with my treatment for sex addiction, so he recommend this site. Little did he know he just encouraged another addiction.... The only thing it ended up helping was my time management skills. Now I mult-task.... don't ask.
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I found this place back when RR was coach, but only checked on things sporadically, mostly to get the game breakdowns and strategies. I was tied up with another blog that some friends ran, a spinoff from the way-old CNN boards that we got kicked out of. Good times on those old boards! But, as time went on, the group started disappearing, life got in the way. Now, there are maybe 3 or 4 of us that still say 'hi' every other day, or so.
I got more involved with this shack in the runnup to signing day this year. Lots of good info, great insight, and a very good subject (M football). My addiction, which had greatly waned the past few years, is now back in full force. Thanks.
sam mcuffie transfer rumors... i did a search on that back in 2008/2009 and found this board and i haven't left since... this place was crazy back then...
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I was a lurker since at least 2005 "The Year of infinite Pain" (*snort* as if), maybe even earlier. I linked over here from the M-Zone (funny as hell, may it RIP) and MLive.
I especially remember the pink banners and kittens for The Horror.
I became an actual member in 2007 for the post-Lloyd coaching search . . . the first of 3 coaching searches in 8 years.
Little did we know.
Back before ESPN created Wolverine Nation, which is now extinct, ESPN had message boards for each team's page. More and more people would post updates regarding recruits. Now back then I wasn't into recruiting at all. I didn't pay any attention to it. But the more and more this stuff was posted, the more interested I got. A name kept popping up that I didn't recognize. But when the name popped up, there was almost always good news and I would wonder, how the hell does this guy know all this information about these recruits? Well that guy goes by the name of Tom VH. Who the hell is Tom VH and how does he know so much? My curiosity brought me to Google where I Googled his name. The first page that popped up in the search results was www.mgoblog.com. The rest they say is history.
the Shane Morris concussion debacle, right about the time the first Harbaugh to Michigan rumors started up.
I never doubted Hoke was history and I never doubted Harbaugh would return to Michigan for the 2015 season. You can ask my wife.
I just wanted to be here to celebrate with all the other faithful.
I read for a long time before I joined. Back in those days, if you made a spelling error or a typo, I think people showed up at the front door after a quick stop at AAT&P. It took a long time before I ventured a post, or even a comment.
Never used this site until the coaching search this past year. Was literally on mgoblog 24/7 during the search because this was by far the best place to get quality information from. Go on it daily ever since
After I graduated in '01 I moved back to Los Angeles and as an early cord cutter I didn't have TV (or internet for a while) and my fandom lapsed with me only really watching the OSU game with my parents or ocassionally another game with them at some sports bar with the alumni club. During the coach search that would find Rich Rod I found myself following things on ESPN more and more, also by this time I had internet and it was becoming easier to find games online. My football fandom came back in force that year and basketball the next year. I would read the big ten blog on espn every day and they would frequently link out to other sites for their articles. I found myself really liking the mgoblog articles and eventually made mgoblog my starting point instead of espn.