There are...
...days until Ernest Shazor witnesses an epic beatdown at the hands of the 2016 Wolverines football squad.
Ernest played defensive back from 2002 to 2004. He was selected as a first team All-American in 2004 and a finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award. Over his career, he had 166 tackles, three sacks, eight pass breakups, five forced fumbles, and two fumble recoveries. Ernest (foolishly in my opinion) chose to leave early and enter the draft, but no team selected him; however, the Cardinals signed him in 2005. He was then released in 2006. Ernest moved on to the Arena Football League with the Orlando Predators, but strangely never showed for training camp. He was then put on waivers in 2007.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shazor
25 days....just 25 days
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Good luck and Congrats! Enjoy the next few months, when all they do is eat, sleep, and poop. And then they're mobile and require constant attention. Advice - whenever he cries, he's hungry or has a dirty diaper. There is no other reason...
Please tell me you plan to tell all his future girlfriends (or boyfriends, as the case may be) this fact.
August 9th, 2016 at 10:06 AM ^
a good name for a boy or a girl.....
August 9th, 2016 at 11:11 AM ^
We already have William and Eleanor and this one's first name is going to be Henry (Norman and Angevin names!), but we are strongly considering Fielding for the middle name.
The next 25 days will not really be individual "days" in sense that you are used to, it will this indistinguishable mass of sunlight and darkness that meshes together until "time" is a very arbitrary measurement. You will get to know your son very well before kickoff.
Congratulations on the birth of your son (in advance, if it hasn't happened yet)!
My dad is always fond of saying that parenthood was the best job he was never prepared for, but the time does indeed fly. Mine are 10 and 9 now, but it seems like last week we were brining them home for the first time.
Yeah, the next three weeks or so will be a blur (and many weeks beyond that), but as it will make football seem like it has arrived that much faster, it isn't a bad deal, I would think.
Thanks all! I guess I should have mentioned that this is number 3, so I am familiar with how quickly time passes. My son was born 6 days after the Sugar Bowl in 2012, and my daughter was born 2 days before the start of the 2014 season. Hopefully the trend of male offspring and success on the football field continues. I appreciate all the kind thoughts and prayers.
Awesome! It'll still make the days go by faster! Less sleep and more tired of course, but you'll definitely be distracted. Prayers for health!
August 9th, 2016 at 10:31 AM ^
August 10th, 2016 at 9:48 AM ^
I don't know. Did for me. But my kids spent the first 45/51 days in the NICU so I guess I missed the "fun" part. They're a distraction, good one at that, which to me, makes time go by faster.
So close, yet sooo far....
Yesterday's weather teased me. It was 62 when I left for work, and now it'll be back in the 90's. Fuck you, summer - die already!
looks a lot like Shazor when suited up.
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August 9th, 2016 at 10:11 AM ^
Dymonte Thomas' burned RS contribution
He blocked this punt.
I took the Game week off of work so I can properly prepare for the game!
I never take days off before football games even if they are all I am thinking about. It is just harder to wait and you are not occupied. Leads to heavy drinking.
One of the best Michigan players in my 30 years of watching. Dude was a bruiser!
Curtis played college football at the University of Michigan from 1967 to 1969. As a freshman in 1966, he played at the quarterback position on the all-freshman team.
As a sophomore, the Michigan coaching staff asked Curtis to move from the quarterback position to the safety position. Curtis told a reporter the following year, "It took a little mental adjustment on my part, but it was all right with me. I wanted to play, and it was pretty obvious I wasn't going to beat out (Dick) Vidmer." Curtis started eight games at safety and one at cornerback for the 1967 Michigan Wolverines football team. On November 11, 1967, Curtis had three interceptions against Illinois, which remains tied for Michigan's single game record. During the 1967 season (his first as a defensive back), Curtis totaled seven interceptions to tie the Big Ten Conferencerecord. In June 1968, Curtis received the Frederick C. Matthei Scholarship Award for sportsmanship off and on the field.
As a junior, Curtis started all 10 games for the 1968 team that finished the season with a record of 8-2. He totaled 10 interceptions in 1968, a mark that remains Michigan's single season record. He was selected as a first-team All-Big Ten player after the 1968 season.
As a senior, Curtis started all 11 games at safety for the 1969 team that was the first to be coached by Bo Schembechler. He intercepted eight passes for 156 yards in 1969. Two of his interceptions came in the Michigan's victory in the 1969 Ohio State game, regarded as one of the biggest upsets in college football history. He was selected as a consensus first-team All-American (selected as first-team by, among others, the United Press, Associated Pressand Football News).
With 25 career interceptions, Curtis still holds Michigan's all-time career interceptions record. (Charles Woodson is second with 18 interceptions.) His career total of 431 return yards off interceptions also broke the NCAA record set by Lynn Chandnois in the 1940s. At the end of the 2010 college football season, Curtis was tied for fourth place in career interceptions in NCAA Division I-A/FBS history. In an interview in 1968, Curtis said he know how to think like a quarterback after playing five years at the position. He noted that his ability to think like a quarterback and read formations helped make him successful as a defensive back. Asked years later about his skill at intercepting passes, Curtis said, "I'm not certain how I did it. It was a combination of instinct, great hands and quickness -- not speed."
In 2005, Curtis was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
+1. Was searching for this gif and did not succeed.
August 9th, 2016 at 10:11 AM ^
That is one of the most exciting games I have seen. Ernest really saved our asses.
Loved Shazor, still confused on why he left early and didn't get drafted. Another guy that was probably born too early, in this day and age of small middle linebackers he could have slid up a row and been even better with less coverage needed.
56-0 by halftime
HH was one of the first players I can remember from my childhood growing up and going to games with my dad. Rick Leach was the QB in that era if I recall, too.
Good times...
August 9th, 2016 at 12:38 PM ^
Yep, Lytle shared some time with Leach. Those teams are the first for which I have reasonably good memory. I do remember some plays, here and there, from Denny Franklin, but I was under 10 when they happened...
That Kenny Demens 4th and 1 stop in OT vs NW was the first thing that came to my mind.
Textbook!
August 9th, 2016 at 10:06 AM ^
Dat form tho
August 9th, 2016 at 10:09 AM ^
says they would call that a targeting call now...... bunch of b.s. ........
Sorry, couldn't find a photograph with the '25' clearly displayed on the deck.
and raise you a B-25...
It was used in the Doolittle raid on Tokyo.
And they launched from an aircraft carrier.
August 9th, 2016 at 11:33 AM ^
USS Hornet - CV8