Repressed Sports Memories
Hey guys, I am curious if this is something that is unique to me or common in fandom. I feel like I repress especially poainful sports memories. I have wanted to post this for some time but didn't have the points.
I realized that I had completely forgotten how that game went, however as soon as I read one bad detail, the entire game came flooding back. Every play, every detail, and all the emotions associated. Does anyone else experience this? I thought it was from drinking, but I went through the last few seasons and realized that every win I could talk about almost every touchdown and how we got to the score, but all the losses it was a little foggy until I looked at the box score. Then the details came flooding back, filling me with a mixture of pain, anger, and what ifs.
Am I just a weirdo or is this common?
I have repressed the last 11 Novembers.
going through the Rich Rod years to test how badly I do this and at first blush I didn't remember hardly anything. Start looking through the details...all came back. I think I have a tiny bit more appreciation for what PTSD is and how painful it must be.
Michigan games give you PTSD? That's unfortunate.
Kordell Stewart.
1993 was the Ricky Powers fumble trying to close out a home win vs. Illinois. The next week, he fumbled in the red zone as we gifted Wisconsin a win. Those two 3-point losses kept us out of the Rose Bowl.
1994 was the Hail Mary and a tough loss to Penn State.
I guess that after five straight B1G titles, we were due for some disappointment.
Lack of reading comprehension makes you get snarky on the internet? That's almost as unfortunate as your custom logo.
My gums bleed for you. Rooting for the Yankees is like going to a casino and cheering for the house.
Actually, the striking thing to me is how much we forget about all games we've experienced. There are games that I know I attended that I couldn't tell you a single significant moment from, and others for which my only real memory is one play or event.
Try to remember, for example, the Michigan-Penn State game in 2000. It was an easy win--Penn State was terrible that season with Rashard Casey at QB and basically nobody else. What were the significant plays? What do you remember?
If I read a story or watch highlights, these things come back. But without that the memories just aren't readily accessible.
FWIW I feel like recent memories are easier to access, both due to recency and due to reading UFRs and in-depth play analysis here, which tends to ingrain certain things in memory.
Nope, just no. I do not need a big ol bag of depression today!
Harry Oliver hurt for a second then went home and played Atari.
Yeah, I'm getting old!
"Bird steals the inbound pass!!"
I've unsuccessfully repressed Johnny Most.
I batted 24th one game - my buddy told me it was ok bc I was the 6th cleanup hitter.
Wait, Michigan repressed memories? Wisconsin sinking a near half court shot to beat us at the buzzer.
Not really for sports that I've watched. I do from sports that I've played though. When I reminisce, a lot of times I can actually smell the environment. I've played competitive tennis my entire life and on hot summer days when I'm walking in a parking lost, the smell of the baking asphalt will bring back memories as well.
I've repressed the entire RR/Hoke era and don't like to remember it or talk about it. I also feel a bit of guilt in doing so as Denard was my favorite Michigan player to ever watch - and I go back to the mid 70's as my first recollection of Michigan football.
I feel like it's the opposite for me in the sense that I very clearly remember the demise moment/ending, but can't remember anything else about the game beforehand.
I was at OSU 2016 and MSU 2015 and I can vividly remember my feelings during the horrible endings, but it's hard to remember things from the first half or early second half.
I guess Notre Dame 2014 would be the one exception where it was so bad I truly remember nothing.
OSU 2016 was interesting though in that my ability to feel anything about the game was completely shut down in the moment and for the entire drive home afterwards. I didn't feel sad/disappointed/upset until I got home about 5 hours later. It was very much just put two feet in front of the other and get out of there. Mental self defense mechanism, I guess.
Yes.
...but it would change my wifes life.
Of games I've attended and wish I could repress...
- M @ OSU 2006
- M @ ND last time we played
- Red Wings @ Blackhawks game 7 in 2013
- M @ UMD frozen four championship
- M vs. Louisville final four championship
My First Michigan FB game..I was 10 ...1973..Michigan Ohio St the famous 10-10 tie..It rained the whole way down and was miserable cold..The rain stopped at Kickoff somehow and after the game we left thinking we were going to the Rose Bowl...We all know the rest of the story
Because you repressed it........right?
/s
Whites fumble in the Rose Bowl.Talk about a bad call.
M beating the crap out of Jimmie Johnsons Cains most of the game to end up losing.
16-0 Minn Ricky Fogey game maybe.
Lots of others.
Missed most of The Horror and MSU 2015 because of work. I wouldn't rewatch the end of Colorado game for years. For sheer repression, though, best candidate was the RR era, particularly 2009. I honestly couldn't give you a single football memory that I'm confident was from that year.
Nominee, Non-UM category: Curtis Granderson slipping on the turf in Game 4 on the 2006 World Series.
I'd forgotten how bad the Shawn Crable call was
The ones that hurt the most are the ones where you both have the better team and outplay the opponent for the majority if not all of the game.
but, oddly enough - some seasons are shorter than others.
I've repressed them...meaning I can't share them here. Michigan is undefeated in my mind. Some seasons are just shorter than others.
...this motherfucker still haunts me in my dreams. Hence why I'm up at 2:45 in the morning.
