The last time we played in Evanston
September 28th, 2018 at 2:47 PM ^
Why would you do this to us?
September 28th, 2018 at 2:51 PM ^
That game was a hilarious example of anti-football. It got to a point where it was so ugly, it was beautiful.
Plus we won with a heroic stand on the two-point conversion!
September 28th, 2018 at 4:27 PM ^
And...it was Brady Hoke’s last win as our coach. Woof.
September 28th, 2018 at 5:36 PM ^
I'd say it's a good reminder of how far we've come.
September 28th, 2018 at 10:12 PM ^
It’s best to remember your history to make sure you don’t repeat it.
September 28th, 2018 at 2:50 PM ^
I forgot the MOON game was on the road.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:03 PM ^
NooM?
September 28th, 2018 at 2:50 PM ^
the sequence with the snap into a motioning funchess, then gardner getting tripped by the rb had me cracking up. it’s not every day you see a 1-2 punch of pure incompetence like that. what a shitshow
September 28th, 2018 at 3:26 PM ^
omg me too...it's SOOOOOO BAD
September 28th, 2018 at 10:38 PM ^
It probably was the nadir of our collective existence...
September 28th, 2018 at 2:53 PM ^
I remember watching that game at a friend's house and just being massively depressed about the state of the team.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:28 PM ^
Same, only it came full circle for me. It was so depressing, we just started laughing. What else could you do? It was so, so bad.
September 28th, 2018 at 5:09 PM ^
This was definitely past the point in the 2014 season when I stopped watching. It was a great decision.
September 28th, 2018 at 2:54 PM ^
One of Hoke's greatest hits.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:58 PM ^
"Northwestern Moon". Great hit.
It built off the success of "10 Man Return Team" and "10 Man Return Team Part II" and "10 Man Return Team Part III"
And don't forget concert staples "It's Just A BooBoo" and "Clap Your Hands"
"My Quarterbacks Are Crying" was a real tearjerker.
But he did have some derivative stuff: "27 or 1 Per Rush" was a blatant Chicago ripoff, and "Are You Fully Aware??" was pretty clearly a Flaming Lips homage.
Still better than Nickelback
September 28th, 2018 at 4:16 PM ^
Well, it was a good week of practice before the game, right?
September 28th, 2018 at 4:21 PM ^
Different album. That was on "I Wanna Hear You Football", which was recorded on a different label.
September 28th, 2018 at 2:55 PM ^
Egads, look at our record. I think I was at that game.
September 28th, 2018 at 2:56 PM ^
Such a fitting ending to that game.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:02 PM ^
I remember cheering at the game when NW went out for the 2 pt conversion. Either way that game was about to end and I was all for it.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:04 PM ^
What a terrible fucking football game.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:05 PM ^
Some more recent history on the series. Since the Anthony Thomas fumble game in 2000 (our last loss in Evanston), Michigan is 10-1 against NW with the lone loss in 2008 by a score of 21-14. The results in Evanston are as follows:
2003: 41-10
2005: 33-17
2007: 28-16
2011: 42-24
2013: 27-19 3OT
2014: 10-9
Outside of late era Brady Hoke, Michigan has handled their business at Michigan Stadium west.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:26 PM ^
To this day I vividly recall the 1975 Northwestern game, where Michigan prevailed 69 - 0. By the end it was a raw, wet day and a lot of people had left. To me -- 16 years old and rabid in my Michigan fandom -- it was glorious.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:35 PM ^
Michigan prevailed 69 - 0. By the end it was a raw, wet day
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
September 28th, 2018 at 3:54 PM ^
I remember listening to that game on the radio. All I remember was how ridiculously one-sided it was. NU was like a decent H.S. team in those days. At one point in the 2nd half, Bo put in a lot 2nd and 3rd teamers including freshman DE Tom Seabron, who added to the rout by sacking the QB, stealing the ball from him, and running for a TD.
September 29th, 2018 at 12:29 AM ^
Attending those late Hoke era games has given me an innate sense Michigan cannot lose there.
Michigan is responsible for Ryan Fieldhouse ergo they owe us all the wins. It's the only thing that explains UM v USA in 2013 and M00N.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:07 PM ^
This made me realize something, This was a bad Michigan football team, as well as the 3-9 season, truly bad Michigan teams. But, I was born in 1970 and grew up with Bo as the coach and truly became a big fan of M footbal when Harbaugh was QB, I lived most of my young adult life never seeing a bad Michigan team, Ive seen bad losses but never a truly bad team overall, (I think we made a bowl game every year for like 38 years in a row or something.)
This is really a bad team, it makes me enjoy the success that we have today a little bit more knowing how bad we were, the music really captures the essence of suckage that this team portrayed lol Go Blue!!
September 28th, 2018 at 3:12 PM ^
We were bowl-eligible every year from 1968-2007 (40 seasons). Under Harbaugh it's like old times - going 8-5 last year was a catastrophe in our eyes.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:17 PM ^
Yes it is, Harbaugh has brought the old Michigan back, 8-5 wasnt that bad but we lost to both msu and osu thats what people remember.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:12 PM ^
I remember that game like it was yesterday. It’s about the time I tailspinned into the absolute rock bottom of fan despair, thinking we’d never see our way out of it.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:18 PM ^
Never forget
September 28th, 2018 at 3:19 PM ^
4-5 vs 3-5 ... yeah.
I don’t see us laying an egg like that again tomorrow, nor do I see a Dileo slide/snap/kick/up and good FG forcing OT.
What an unforgettable dark era of football.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:25 PM ^
This was a game where at some point, you just had to start laughing at the ineptitude. It defied belief that so much ugliness could be packed into one game, on both sides. It was like the two teams decided to troll the viewing audience.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:34 PM ^
If I remember correctly I said “to hell with this game” and finished putting new rotors/break pads on both the front and rear of my old truck ... finished and went back inside just in time to see OT.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:40 PM ^
This one didn't go to OT (the 2012 and '13 NW games did). Pat Fitzgerald decided to avoid OT this time around and go for two to settle it - and it ended in perfectly fitting fashion.
September 28th, 2018 at 4:35 PM ^
Ahh. Thanks.
I just remember seeing M00N for so long I said “fuck this.”
September 28th, 2018 at 3:37 PM ^
Good Lord. Was at this f'ing game with my buddy's nephew for his 1st football game ever. We had to tell him that football normally isn't that shitty on numerous occasions.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:40 PM ^
So our avatars are essentially the same and we basically posted the same thing at the exact same time. We must be on the same long strange trip.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:55 PM ^
Trippy man
September 28th, 2018 at 3:37 PM ^
If I didn't know better I would assume that video came from a game played in a freezing rain storm with howling winds.
My buddy and I took our 4 year old sons to this game. I honestly felt guilty exposing my young child to it and feared that he might form a lifelong image of Michigan football based on it. Thankfully he forgot the particulars and is pumped to go tomorrow with me... and my buddy... and his son. Ohh god, I hope we don't cause that to happen again.
Everyone was so bored and agitated that I got a hearty laugh from both NW and Michigan fans in our section when I screamed at Fitzgerald for calling a timeout to ice our kicker before our (blocked) FG attempt at the end of the 1st half. Ahh, memories.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:56 PM ^
I'm not going to the game so if there was a cosmic connection because of our mutual attendance then it shouldn't matter tomorrow.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:39 PM ^
Please don't forget about this gem from Hoke's squad....
2013 was ugly too...ugh!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VouvJB_mOYE&ab_channel=BudLaCombe
September 28th, 2018 at 4:44 PM ^
My longstanding hot take is that the 2013 game was a worse football game than M00N. All field goals in regulation and one was after a shanked punt. They then decide to play more football. At least M00N was confined to 60 minutes.
September 28th, 2018 at 4:55 PM ^
That tying fg is actually a pretty dang good play. The holder slides in , catches, holds and he drills it with no time left. So many things could have gone wrong on that play.
September 28th, 2018 at 5:05 PM ^
Also, that was about a 45-yard FG, by no means an easy kick.
September 28th, 2018 at 6:49 PM ^
Drew Mother Fucking Dileo
September 28th, 2018 at 7:06 PM ^
I was not there for that 2013 game, but I wish I had been. The Dileo slide-hold (and Gibbons kick) is one of the top 10 special teams plays in Michigan history, in my book. We should have won that game and we did.
Funny thing, seeing that video (and thanks for posting it) is that I remember immediately after that play, was thinking that it looked like two pickup teams, with good players, but neither of which had any coaches. Just guys making up plays on their own. And that might not have been too far off, although I have a lot of respect for Pat Fitzgerald.
September 28th, 2018 at 3:40 PM ^
There also was this:
September 28th, 2018 at 3:44 PM ^
LOL that dude in the white shirt and tie behind the refs, vigorously declaring the field goal was no good...
September 28th, 2018 at 3:57 PM ^
I've always liked Drew Dileo sliding safely into home to take the snap and make the hold for Brendan Gibbons on the game-tying field goal with time running out in regulation.
Everything had to go right at that time, from Jeremy Gallon getting the ball to the official after his catch near the right sideline, to that official getting the ball to the position where it could be put in play, to the field goal unit getting on the field quickly, to Dileo's slide, to the clean snap and finally to Gibbons' kick.