Favorite Moments of the RR Era
To while away the time during the off-season, I put together my top five moments of the RR era. My list has the theme of "our heart is bigger than yours and we're also faster than you are". Feel free to theme your top 5 accordingly.
If I were better at uploading content, each would be accompanied by a video. Unfortunately, a youtube link will have to suffice.
So, without further ado:
5) Denard's first play. Obvious, but it is included for the Denard/Tate manlove that follows the play as well as Tay Odom's flying ninja block on the Western Michigan D-lineman. All heart (henceforth: hart).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1402kDBdTU
4) Brandon Graham knocks Glenn Winston back into 2008, and Glenn begs to be sent back to prison. This hit is amazing on a lot of levels, but the fact that it came so close to the goal-line highlights Graham's hart. He'll be missed. *Unfortunately, neither youtube nor google have this video available.
See also, the Ohio State goal-line stop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQfcytu6ItI (7:14) Again, hart.
3) Tate's two jumping endzone plays against Indiana. I believe dude injured his shoulder either on the first one or prior to it, and he still chucks himself into the endzone for a two point conversion. Dude's got ups. Gritty ups. Hart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igsmIi4V0EM (6:55-7:20)
2) RVB's hulk-out in the Indiana game. After making the wrong line-check that helped UM give up the 80-yard TD run, RVB is in on all three plays on the next drive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igsmIi4V0EM (8:00-8:12)
1) Tay Odom's block in the 2008 Minnesota game. The highlight of a miserable season. Odoms sprints past a fading Shaw just to put a block on a safety about 50 yards downfield in a season where nothing was going right. Odoms winded himself just for the possibility of putting a block on somebody and helping his running back into the endzone. Hart and speed, but mainly hart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MMosjutIyc (3:38)
Odoms punt return vs. Purdue, but that is probably because I was in the front row and he was running right at me. I was really hoping for a Lambeau Leap or would it be a Ross-Ade Rise?????
I definitely got a "Ross-Ade Rise" out of that one.
Without a doubt, it would have to be when Governor Stanford of Utah drove the last and ceremonial "Golden Spike" into the track that tied the Union Pacific and Central Pacific RRs together at Promontory Summit, on May 10, 1869, thus completing the transcontinental RR, and ushering in a new dawn of coast-to-coast American travel.
Oh, you meant RichRod era? Last two plays of ND: the pass that hit Savoy right in the numbers and came bobbling out...only to be followed by a rolling Forcier toss to Greg Mathews for the score. The Golden Spike that finished off the Golden Domers.
It was tipped
Bowl win over Florida. The first bowl win of the Rodriguez era... technicality for the win.
I was gosh-darn gonna say this samexactexactsame thing.
It showed me what you can do when you get talent and unleash it. And the potential of this spread offense with Michigan talent.
What made that game even sweeter was it showed you don't need an all-world defense to do great things. Howeva, I'll still take an all-world defense after watching the Oklahoma-Florida NC game that capped off the 2008 season.
BIG +1 for calling out RVB's Hulk Smash after his missed check. Shows he's in it 150%
So many great flashes of brilliance. So many glimpses into the (near) future.
The final drive of regulation in the 2009 MSU game. 92 yards in two minutes with no timeouts, in a driving rain. Tate gave it everything he had. Just epic. It sucks that we didn't end up winning.
The second half comeback against Wisconsin in 2008. I was so happy when we finally took that lead back.
Besides the ND winning drive, Odoms's TD catch against Indiana and punt return TD against Purdue in 08 were great. Also Wisconsin 2008.
Man, what a great blocker!
The day RR was hired was one of the happiest days ever................
Roundtree coming in and blocking the tar out of a safety as Minor sprinted in for a touchdown against Purdue.
Watching WRs and slot ninjas lay out safeties is my favorite part of football, and I see it so much more often in the RR era.
First time I saw Barwis in the middle of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8FJktfgFx8
I occasionally watch the highlights on YouTube and it still gives me the chills and brings me back to that great September day. Denard's first play against WMU comes in at second.
March 22nd, 2010 at 10:25 PM ^
Ahhh....September of 2009. Those were heady days.
Is a beast, he seems very over-looked. That is all.
March 22nd, 2010 at 10:34 PM ^
Right before he was hired. Are you people crazy??. Welcome to being boys with hard ons. Your love of Michigan Football is deep, really deep. (gives a glass of kool-aid to the young-uns)
Everything named RRod is a disaster, and you know it)
March 22nd, 2010 at 10:43 PM ^
I eagerly await your next post. It was an honor to be the first to neg this one.
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:00 PM ^
Neg it all you want............. I have 40 years under my belt. And now I have 2 years of you negging me because I don't think that what we have seen in the last two years is progress. And guess what?. Brian agrees..........you mindless craps. Sorry to be the one. HE KNEW. AND IF YOU THINK HE DIDN'T, YOU'RE AN ASS!
...the Freep wrote about Oklahoma State.
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:09 PM ^
And from what I can see, you don't have an original thought in that little empty head of yours, so congrats.
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:19 PM ^
You are 40 yrs old? Did you have a permanent case of arrested development at, say, around 13? Regardless, please tell me you aren't breeding.
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:24 PM ^
I have, and it's a TDP child. How did you do? That's what I thought. Nother wanna be.
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:25 PM ^
Insult me all you want. You not seeing the failure of the program makes you the idiot. Sorry. Do us all a favor, remain like you are, and don't breed.
But when this team goes 9-3, don't come crawling back. You want to hate on this team, that's your free will, I won't neg you for that, but don't be coming back when the times start changing. Don't come back when we go back to the top ten, to beating MSU four out of five games, as we introduce Brian Kelly with countless losses, when we stick it to Purdue, running up the score because, well, they asked for it, where after the game, our coach can proudly introduce their head coach to Roy Rountree, who just lit his team up for the second straight year, they're way... And don't come back when The Rivalry does what it always does, and turns itself over, and we start winning year in and year out. Don't come back.