OT: What is the highest moment of your fandom?
We've got some time to kill before season previews start....
Good Friday, March 2013. Drinking Bud heavies with my mom at a townie bar in the middle of nowhere. Trey Burke hits the shot and Michigan subsequently beats Kansas in OT. A flurry of text messages and phone calls that dont say anything but AHHHHH.
So, what is your happiest sports moment?
Hard to pick one, but worth saying in retrospect that attending Michigan from '88 to '93 was very good fortune. Excepting the rocket and Desmond getting tripped there was a lot of winning going on back then. I guess if I had to pick it would be AC in '79 just because it taught a nine-year-old that anything is possible.
Removing sentimentality UTL 1 rises above. The entire game was memorable. So many unique details (pom poms, scoreboard not working, history, finish of course). Yeah. Damn that was fun.
24-12 Win my freshman year.
I was there - it was sweet. Didn't want to leave the stadium.
I also was at the game in Columbus the previous year and had to go to a party afterwards... All I heard was Rex Kern, Jim Otis, Jack Tatum - they were going to kill us in Ann Arbor.
17 point underdogs at home! Ohio State unanimous No. 1 - They never trailed in a game all year, and everyone had written us off.
Chicago Tribune story lead after the game - "Someone forgot to tell Michigan that Ohio State was the greatest team of all times..."
Don't know if I will ever see another one like that one - 1998 Rose Bow (National Champions) was close.
The 1997 win over OSU. The importance of the game, the last time Charles Woodson played at home, and the last game I saw in person with my father (he passed the following spring).
Hands down.
Greatest in person Michigan Fandom moment was the comeback against Virgina (and the Barber twins) back in 1995, my junior year.
I was attending law school at UCLA but never missed a game in 1997. Just an amazing run lead by a transcendent talent. Every game was better than the last.
Greatest Professional Sports moment was the Red Wings winning Game 4 of the 1997 Stanley Cup Championship and hoisting the Cup. I worked in the Arena on game days. That day, we took every old, discontinued item out of the back of the mechandising warehouse and put it in a stand outside of the arena. They put me in charge of selling all of it. Folks were in such a Wings frenzy, I sold every peice of that junk mid-way through the 2nd period. They allowed me to watch the entire 3rd period from Standing Room in zone that McCarty scored the eventual game winner. Literally have never experienced anything like it.
Low point was the Punt Block. I thought losing to my alma mater in the Horror was bad because of the shit I had to here in NC but I had several friends call an hour or so after the punt block to make sure I was still alive!
That 2004 game is underrated for how fun it was. Overshadowed by the Minnesota games before and after, plus the MSU game that year. But it was a fantastic game.
That was insane. And that team should have gone undefeated.
August 2nd, 2017 at 10:53 PM ^
light it up...like it's dy-no-mite.
August 3rd, 2017 at 12:44 AM ^
Every time I hear that song, I automatically think of UTL I.
I forget that it was an actual song and not just something written specifically for UTLI, that's how much I associate it with that game.
There is a close second in my heart and that was the 1992 Rose Bowl where Wheatley came through the middle of the Washington defense, their entire team trying to catch up with him while he pulls away. I only knew then we were gonna win that damn Rose Bowl finally.
August 3rd, 2017 at 12:47 AM ^
We won the Rose Bowl in a 38-31 shootout, something I never thought would be possible at the time.
It wasn't some 10-7 slugfest, and we didn't lose.
One of our coolest wins ever.
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August 2nd, 2017 at 10:45 PM ^
January 1, 1998 was the pinacle of fandom for me, with April 1989 a close second.
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August 3rd, 2017 at 12:54 AM ^
Being at the Rose Bowl in 1998 was a very close second.
After the Iowa game in 97 I realized no one was going to beat us.
The OSU game that year is brutal to re-watch, but it was the absolute peak of my Michigan fandom.
Tate's run against Notre Dame on 4th and 4(I think) is probably the single greatest moment of my life. I thought it was going to be a sure sign of things to come.
I was at the Rose Bowl when Michigan beat Wash St for the National Title..It was a surreal AWESOME day
August 3rd, 2017 at 10:47 AM ^
Being in Melbourne this year at the Federer vs. Nadal 5 set final match. I may never be able to top it.