Favorite M vs. MSU Moment
So, I was thinking, with the big "Clash at Crisler" (see what I did there), looming on Saturday, I thought it would be interesting to share the MgoCommunities favorite Michigan vs. MSU moments. Whether that moment is in football, basketball, hockey, etc..doesnt matter.
For me that moment had to have been, in 2003 watching Chris Perry rush 51 times for 221yds, in East Lansing. I remember sitting in the upper section behind the Michigan sideline surrounded by Sparty fans who looked just like the Sparty defense, getting beat-up and warn down all the way to the very end. It was the only time I've been to a game in East Lansing to see Michigan pull out the W. So, walking out of there being able to give the big F U to sparty fans was a wonderful moment for me, especially since I grew up in the greater Lansing area and all of my friends from the area are die-hard sparties.
Let the recollections begin...
Braylon-fest 2004. My buddy and I were sitting in front of an obnoxious 12 year Spartan fan and his dad. Kid was whooping and hollering for the whole day, because obviously, and it's just getting more and more grating. Then Braylon went ham and woo. Everyone is celebrating the win and I turn around to see this kid with his head buried in his dads chest, sobbing. I nudge my pal and point behind me. He looks, grins at me and gives me a fist bump and we giggle like 6 year-olds.
Our classiest moment? No, but oh so satisfying... Remember Rule 32: "Enjoy the little things".
You hate to give credit to a guy who looks like Yosemite Sam
"I've beat wholesale ass for less than that. You get....45% power".
I had about 4-5 adults, 2 rows ahead of me just talking trash throughout the 1st half. No idea who these people were and they were turning around talking trash right in people's faces, mine included. Such a great feeling having them turn around as I was just smiling and seeing the look on their faces.
Agreed - that '04 comeback was unreal. I was working at scorekeepers during that game (gotta pay the bills...), which per usual was packed with visiting fans. They were unbearable for most of the game and then so incredibly silent as Braylon did what only he could. Such an amazing comeback.
Was there anyone who didn't experience the exact same thing with Spartans around them?
A similiar thing happened to me, but it was in 09 against ND and the guy who was talking smack was much older than 12. But he was still crying at the end of the game, and my buddy and I just laughed at him as we walked by.
Braylon-fest in '04 of course. Although, the '03 was fun too. I was at that game as well, and it was fun to watch the slow crushing of their collective souls after Perry just kept going near the end of the game, and they couldn't stop him.
I loved that game. I love that my celebration is forever frozen in highlight videos.
I loved having to explain how overtime works to the people on the field around me.
I loved hearing the deafening noise from the student section.
I loved gloating when people were complaining they left to get out of the cold and missed the Braylon show.
I love that there will probably never be a greater moment in this rivalry in my life time, and Blue is on the upside.
I love that when my future in-laws gloat about their Spartans, I can just play this game in my head and smile through the needling.
Was a great one for me. There were a couple sprartin fans in the room so that one was great.
Robo-Henne in 2007. (Braylon-fest is taken)
My vote is for this one as well. Henne's bum shoulder takes him out for a play in which the hot-head freshman comes in and almost fumbles the game away. Henne going back in and hitting Mathews and then Manningham for a picture-perfect finish was probably his most epic performance ever. Plus it was against Dantonio, which is a plus.
That moment was the most bonding I ever did with my freshman year roomate. Plus it inspired "little brother."
No way. it just isn't possible.
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<br>God.
Anything is possible
I think it does look like Hoke.
That's definitely Hoke.
Definitely this, gives me chills every time.
Seeing a sign when I was in high school that read (ABC covered game):
"A - lready
B - urning
C - ouches
In East Lansing! GO BLUE!"
Sorry double post.
<br>But to use this power for good...
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<br>My favorite was the drubbing we gave them the year after sparty-bob.
This.
Every other year, I'm exclusively satisfied with a win against those guys. In 2002, I wanted justice - pro-wrestling style. You know, chairs smashed over heads, multiple pile-drivers and the Ram-Jam for the pin.
But this. Anything else could have happened this season, but this needed to happen. Justice had to be served, but it had to be served in blood.
All of the above, and I look forward to many happy decades of dominance over our sheep-loving in-state rivals.
Amadou Ba shoving that idiot kid from the Izzone at the Breslin Center ('06 I think)
An athlete assaulting a fan before a game is your favorite moment in a rivalry? I hope you don't mean that.
It was more of a push than an "assault", plus the kid was basically on the court taunting him. It was hilarious seeing Amadou push the Brah.
Plus, Braylonfest was already taken.
Sparty only likes it when athletes assault students of the university for which they play. Whats with all the green-on-green crime over in EL anyway?
If a Michigan fan is on the court and taunting Kalin Lucas before the game tomorrow, I full expect Lucas to shove his ass right off the court and I would be totally cool with it.
I would hope Lucas would have more poise than that and walk away from the situation during a shootaround. The kid ended up in a hospital bed that night because his head hit collided against the court.
Having said that, what the kid did to provoke Ba was beyond stupid.
That day cemented Amadou Ba into Michigan lore forever. Who would have ever remembered him as the human victory cigar, especially in the post Darko age? Amadou barely moved, and I'd swear that drunken idiot flew 20 ft. I believe Michigan might have split the series that year, but we won the mascot war. Every time I see Amadou at a basketball game it brings a smile to my face.
Section to not leave with about 9 minutes to go in the 4th quarter of Braylon fest because we were 'coming back'
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<br>Everyone looked at me as if I were crazy. Showed them
and the place cleared out at that point. We decided to stay and watch it to the end, which thank god we did. I always imagined the them turning on sports center that night after a somber T-ride home and wondering how Michigan won 45-37 when they stopped watching the game with 9 minutes left and Michigan down 10-27. What a great halloween.
The Big Chill at the Big House was pretty great. Have not felt that good at the Big House in a rivalry game in awhile. Well, besides ND games
Big Chill definitely deserves some mention here. I know some have been kinda down on it since MSU wasn't that great this year, but seriously? 100,000+ doing the goal count cheer, watching the team completely dismantle Sparty, B-2 flyover, fireworks, the whole deal. It was a brilliant event, brilliantly presented, and the team was, well, you know.
http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/opponents_records.php?teamid=1988
67-35-5.
L. Woodley curb stomping D. Stanton sticks out to me recently.
Sweeping them in hoops, 2011.
Sweeping them in hoops, 2011.
I distinctly remembering watching that game and thinking to myself, "there is no way he brought that down in bounds."
He was by far the best player to grace a football field that year in CFB. The Peyton Manning Whiners can go to hell. GO BLUE (BEAT SPARTY)
With every word of that post
I was at that game and the silence in Sparty Stadium was awesome.
I still have a pic saved on my cellphone from that game: Right after that last TD, the Michigan cheerleader running across the Sparty endzone w the huge Michigan flag.
Ignore this post.
This game afforded me the privilege of responding to the texts sent to me by my Sparty friends and family following The Horror. I was watching the game at a pizzeria and the place was going crazy. A mass text ensued reading simply "Weeeeak!!!"
I was at that game in the Sparty student section, wearing my Maize and Blue! I thought we were screwed but Henne and Manningham went crazy and somehow we pulled it out. One of my best memories of that game was when Shawn Crable came from blitzing on the opposite side of the field and caught Javon Ringer as he was sprinting down the sideline about to score. Crable had some wheels for a linebacker.
I always thought it was weird that noone seemed to bring up the fact that Crable was the first to hit Ringer on that play, and was the guy who eventually brought him down. A very heads up play to get up and run to the endzone as soon as he missed the tackle.
Trick- or -Treating during the Braylon fest, and inviting myself into every house to watch.