Why did you pick your MGoAvatar?

Submitted by UMProud on

Why did you pick your Avatar?  What or who is it if it's not obvious?

 

I'm a Sons of Anarchy fan and after using a few different ones I came across this and loved it.   49er fans had the same one when JH was out there with their team info of course.

BakkerUSMC

April 30th, 2017 at 9:55 PM ^

To be honest, I looked through the google results for "Harbaugh" for a solid half hour. Chose the most random one I knew wouldn't have been chosen before. No regrets, really, can't go wrong with Harbaugh.

maxwage

April 30th, 2017 at 9:56 PM ^

and was born in Indiana.  Michigan football has been a mainstay since I can remember sport.  Plus I'm a woodworker and I've made my avatar many times over for gifts to loved ones and fans.

Lee Everett

April 30th, 2017 at 10:00 PM ^

I made an account that had the same name as another poster, Night King.  I switched to the video game that I would play while the Walking Dead show was in between seasons.  The protagonist is Lee Everett, and he's one of the best characters I've ever seen.

The feels.

Bigku22

April 30th, 2017 at 10:10 PM ^

I am a white guy who played basketball, and like most, was not very good at basketball. 

Watching Nik Stauskas play, for me was like the first time you see a solar eclipse. It's so rare and you can't believe what your eyes are actually witnessing. The swag, the athletic ability, the pure jumper, also had a smoke show girlfriend while he was at UM. 

So I forever commemorated his brilliance with this photo. Will never change it.

Well, unless Duncan Robinson drastically improves and starts dating instagram models (highly unlikely). 

WolverineHistorian

April 30th, 2017 at 10:10 PM ^

It's the holy cathedral of college football. I've also got a framed version of this, bought from the old M-Den outside the stadium. That same M-Den also used to have a huge framed poster of Remy Hamilton's field goal (while it was in the air) to beat ND in South Bend in '94. I never bought it because it was $300. But I loved that thing and always wished I could get it. Haven't seen it at any of the new M-Den's post-renovations.

MMB 82

April 30th, 2017 at 10:10 PM ^

assembled from license plates cut into strips. Obviously it spells out "Go Blue," I bought it at an Art Fair in Flagstaff, AZ a few years back. The wall hanging is currently in my home office. The artist also did things like assembling one that said "Route 66" from the states that Route 66 ran thru, in order.

Sam1863

April 30th, 2017 at 10:21 PM ^

My avatar is the monument of the Union Army's Iron Brigade. I have an ancestor named Sam who was in the Iron Brigade (24th Michigan), and who was wounded at Gettysburg in 1863.

The Civil War - when "Go Blue" meant something totally different.

Evil Empire

April 30th, 2017 at 10:28 PM ^

I own the RATM album but I'm not devoted to it.  I have used the handle on various UM message boards for longer than Wolverine Devotee has been alive, I think.  Back in the 1990s I noticed Sparty fans referring to our school as "the evil empire" or even "ee."  I liked it so I co-opted it.  The cover art seemed like a good choice.  TV show producers have done worse.

I've considered changing it but never got around to it.  I like the pun-based handles, esp those based on prominent UM athletes.  Foote Fetish comes to mind.  A MoJo hallmate of mine does not participate here anymore but had the handle Yale Van Dynamo.  I thought about using  picture of Devin and becoming The Constant Gardner.

oriental andrew

May 1st, 2017 at 11:57 AM ^

I definitely had a different username which I used on IRC boards. So if anyone remembers, DdaB0ng from back then...

(sidenote - I didn't realize why I was so popular, as it was intended to be just a random Korean word meaning, "Right on" or "Okay"; then someone pointed out they thought it was a drug paraphanelia reference and I was like, "Ooooh, now all those random messages and comments make sense!")

You Only Live Twice

April 30th, 2017 at 10:31 PM ^

I changed my avatar and screen name after people were hostile towards me during a time when the climate here wasn't favorable to women participants. (I'm one of those people who should get a bumper sticker that says "Mean People Suck")

"You Only Live Twice" is a lyric from a great song by Atlanta Rhythm Section.  "So go on and roll the dice, you only live twice, do it or die."   dice... Vegas, the avatar.

uminks

April 30th, 2017 at 10:35 PM ^

3 hot waitresses were Michigan fans and wanted their picture taken with me but once sexbits occurred, I changed it to my license plate block M.

BornInAA

April 30th, 2017 at 10:37 PM ^

This could be a picture of me - or my son - doesn't matter - the tradition lives on, and we look exactly the same at that age.

It's the shit eating grin of a Michigan fan in the middle of fall, before Halloween, where the bodies of the lessers lay behind us and the Spartans and Buckeyes lie in wait and the possibilities seem endless.

And yes, I was Born In Ann Arbor.

 

NowTameInThe603

April 30th, 2017 at 10:38 PM ^

Received the banhammer for the lamest reason. I said something about spearing someone off their high horse with some expletives after we lost the state game. Mods took their frustration out on me