BTN - set your DVR's for Meeechigan - Minnesooota
Set your DVR for the BTN's "Big Ten's Greatest Games" tonight at midnight.
This is the 2003 version of the battle for the Little Brown Jug. Watch the first three quarters to relive the last 7 years! Watch the last quarter to see what a hurry up offense looks like!
September 25th, 2014 at 12:24 PM ^
living in windsor when this game was played so it wasn't on TV anywhere so it was either listen to it on the radio or check the internet for score updates... started off listening to the game on the radio and i nearly threw it out of my window, and then followed the entire second half by refreshing the boxscore every 5 mins... so glad that i couldn't see that game on TV because i might have taken a bat to it...
September 25th, 2014 at 12:27 PM ^
I think Michigan will win this one
September 25th, 2014 at 12:36 PM ^
September 25th, 2014 at 12:33 PM ^
This game was so surreal because it was played on a Friday night, which never happened back then (because the Twins needed the metrodome for a playoff game).
I was in a daze watching it after rushing home from work. The team was in a daze the first 3 quarters as well. They could not adjust to Minny's cut blocking.
Then they woke up and the shit hit the fan. Hope to be able to say the same thing about 2014.
September 25th, 2014 at 12:33 PM ^
September 25th, 2014 at 12:38 PM ^
-1 for the "Meeechigan" reference/meme.
September 25th, 2014 at 12:40 PM ^
I'm an old school Meeechigan fan!
September 25th, 2014 at 12:43 PM ^
September 25th, 2014 at 2:05 PM ^
. and his COTTON-PICKIN' HEART! {honking horn in the background}
September 25th, 2014 at 3:22 PM ^
(IIRC). Not exactly PC by today's uptight standards.
September 25th, 2014 at 3:36 PM ^
COTTON-PICKIN' MAIZE AND BLUE HEART!
FTFY
September 25th, 2014 at 12:44 PM ^
Sorry but when did that become unacceptable? AFAIK that's a call back to the days when Ufer called games and we didn't have to worry about being terrible
September 25th, 2014 at 12:52 PM ^
the atmosphere on the internet if Ufer were still around. Wow!
September 25th, 2014 at 1:06 PM ^
The origination of the word was harmless and endearing, but modern use has been taken by the likes of Sparty and Bucknuts as a somewhat condescending term and is lumped in with other terms like "scUM". So, unfortuately, I associate the term more with them then I do with Ufer or Yost.
September 25th, 2014 at 1:15 PM ^
...or something. We cannot continue giving up words with perfectly good uses just because some people abuse them.
Also, you can only read "scUM" as such, not hear it. Don't read rival message boards. I think it goes without saying that anyone who would actually say "scum" in real life is not worth being around.
September 25th, 2014 at 12:52 PM ^
Bob Ufer would wack you upside the head with General Patton's horn.
September 25th, 2014 at 1:27 PM ^
Are you serious? Bob Ufer said, "Michigan football is a religion and saturday is the holy day of obligation." That makes you the anti-Ufer. If this was my site, you'd spend an eternity in Bolivian for that blasphemous comment.
EDIT: OK, I'm going a little over the top with my response, but the site sells this T-shirt:
September 25th, 2014 at 12:42 PM ^
Perhaps others had a similar problem, but for me, the first three quarters and particularly that third quarter, involved a certain amount of drinking to forget. The fourth quarter, however, made me forget why I had been drinking, although I was still drinking. The fact that I remember the details of the game speaks to a beverage plan which was obviously not aggressive enough, of course. Minnesota blew a 28-7 lead headed into that final quarter, and it ended up being a rather nice night indeed and a nice Friday at that.
September 25th, 2014 at 1:18 PM ^
I was in middle school, but I remember not knowing the game was on Friday (I always knew from my dad, but he missed it too). We both got that morning's A2 News and were totally stunned.
September 25th, 2014 at 4:36 PM ^
I could go to bed early on a Friday night, or watch a quarter of Michigan football, damn the score. I'm glad I chose to watch Michigan football.
To cap a long drive, Navarre tossed a swing pass to Chris Perry for a TD w/ 14:24 to go to cut the lead to a less gruesome 14-28 score. Then a few plays later, Jacob Stewart grabs a pick six and Boom!, we're in business, 21-28 w 13:30 still remaining.
What a quarter! 31 points!
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/playbyplay?gameId=232840135&period=4
September 25th, 2014 at 12:51 PM ^
in Ironwood, Michigan.
Wanted to turn it off at halftime and sleep but refused.
September 25th, 2014 at 1:10 PM ^
That was one of the weirdest games to watch live, mostly because Minnesota should have just choked Michigan out in the 4th quarter but just forgot how to play football all of a sudden.
September 25th, 2014 at 1:10 PM ^
I totally took for granted how many exiciting/close/comeback wins we had during that period. 2002 Washington, 2002 Penn State, 2003 Minny, 2004 MSU, 2004 Minny, 2005 MSU, 2005 Penn State, 2005 Iowa. All final-drive or OT wins. Lloyd pulled so many of those out. Now we have, what, 2008 Wisconsin; 2010-2011 Notre Dame, Northwestern last year? We're due for some big comeback wins.
September 25th, 2014 at 1:22 PM ^
The current offensive system has made it more difficult to get "big comeback wins." For the rest of this year, Michigan is probably going to need to get ahead and stay ahead or not fall behind more than one score, especially in the second half.
September 25th, 2014 at 1:30 PM ^
Probably true. I just never understood at the time how spoiled we were with exciting games that usually went the right way.
September 25th, 2014 at 4:39 PM ^
for big comeback wins in 2014.
As I used to say about my studies, "The sooner you get behind, the more time you have to catch up!"
September 25th, 2014 at 1:33 PM ^
I'm not going to lie, I almost bailed on that game during the third quarter.
Viva Buffalo Stampede.
September 25th, 2014 at 1:40 PM ^
I was watching the game and my wife was in the basement doing something. She comes up when the game is in the 3rd quarter, looks at the TV and asked me if I was still going to keep watching. I grudgingly said yes.
September 25th, 2014 at 1:40 PM ^
Decided to watch and one of the first comments from the game is that John Navarre had not won on the road against a ranked opponent. It would appear that our road woahs have existed for over a decade now :(
September 25th, 2014 at 2:02 PM ^
Remember that year? We fucked up at Oregon AND Iowa, two games we really SHOULD HAVE WON. Ah...punt formations. See? Nothing has changed. ;-)
Yes, that was an overall great year (with the exception of the bowl game), marking the most recent time Michigan won an outright B10 title, but we really should have been playing for a NC that season.
September 25th, 2014 at 1:40 PM ^
did UM run a screen pass in the 4th quarter that went for huge yards???? it had to be a handful of times.
September 25th, 2014 at 2:32 PM ^
I'll remember that one as long as I live. I was 21 and had just gotten back from Iraq, so I was in the hometown on leave. I had wanted my friends to meet at the bar to start early that night, but it was of course a Friday and various responsibilities kept many of them from getting there too early. I, however, wasn't missing a minute of the game and was firmly on a barstool well before it started. I was trying to take it easy so I wasn't hammered before everyone showed up. By mid-3Q I was pretty much saying, "Fuck it," and concentrating more on imbibing. Glad I stayed just sober enough to comprehend the fourth. What a night.
What a season, really. I missed the loss to Oregon, but I was able to watch the Iowa loss on American soil. So close that year, and many of the years immediately preceding it. For all the bitching I've done about the latter half of the Carr era, the last few years have definitely helped me put it in perspective. Due to my military service, I missed a lot of the 2000-2002 seasons, part of 2003, and then most of 2005 and 2006. Looking back on some of the games I missed via YouTube (cheers, WolverineHistorian!), man, it just seems like he was snakebitten at times. On the other hand, I know there were also plenty of other losses that were just head-scratchingly inexplicable. And of course there was Tressel, that was always the real problem. If Carr could have gone even just 3-4 against him, I think we'd look back on that era a lot more fondly, and people wouldn't have been so furious that they wanted a change as stark as Rich Rod.
September 25th, 2014 at 2:44 PM ^
at a local Fricker's with some friends who were Purdue alums but Minnesota natives. My wife and I left at halftime from the mental butt hurt and planned to just go to bed. But I wanted to subject my brain to more pain so I kept watching.. and watching... and watching until I was curled up in the sitting fetal position on my La-Z-Boy like a 6 yr old girl watching Frozen for the first time. Then Buffalo Stampede happened. It was magical. Let it go...Let it go... can't hold back Navarre anymoooo-ooo-re
September 25th, 2014 at 4:16 PM ^
Was following the score on my flip-phone (archaic mobile browsing with blocky text and huge hyperlinks) instead of getting busy at my 1st ever high school dance as a freshman. Ahh priorities.
September 25th, 2014 at 7:40 PM ^
I remember watching this game like yesterday. I was a senior in high school playing in the state golf tournament in ohio. Early in the day, I shot 66 at Ohio gray course and was leading the state tourney. That night I watched the game with fellow teammate also Michigan fan. I remember jumping on the bed in the 4th quarter comeback in the hotel in Columbus. Also remember the next day waking up and it being quiet around lobby with my Michigan stuff on. Just a great day and one that I will always remember rest of my life. Go Blue!
September 25th, 2014 at 11:01 PM ^