Meryl and Charlie did it again tonight
January 27th, 2013 at 12:19 AM ^
Representin the U-M well. no matter the sport.
Some of you guys out there need to check yourselves and quit trying to call out people for knowing or supporting these things.
A real man doesn't need to prove things to anyone, especially strangers on a blog.
January 27th, 2013 at 1:29 AM ^
Evan Bates, another Wolverine, won silver in the same competition with his partner Madison Chock.
January 27th, 2013 at 8:26 AM ^
there somewhere, but I'm too hungover to find it.
January 27th, 2013 at 2:12 AM ^
Thanks for the support? From some of you anyway... and I see you David. Haha, for as much as I do this skating thing, I'm actually a bigger U of M football fan. I'm on this site as often as possible as it's a great distraction from training. I'm not much of a poster, but that doesn't mean I'm not clinically addicted.
Thanks again and-
Go Blue!
January 27th, 2013 at 8:29 AM ^
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January 27th, 2013 at 9:51 AM ^
The spelling and grammer in this post is way too good for just having won a National Championship. Hopefully you get a chance to celebrate appropriately sometime soon.
January 27th, 2013 at 1:55 PM ^
of you and your skating roomies with all the M decor to defend your macho cred. Big fan of the whole Michigan skating crew, and was actually watching the tape of yesterday when I saw the post title. (Yes, it gave the results away, but I wasn't surprised.) [Pause to watch your short program.]
Former dancer here who wouldn't possibly have the courage to make the impossible look so easy on the ice, and with those sabers on your soles. I confess to be one whose fascination/obsession with Michigan football often requires defense of my femme cred. Yes, it's possible to be a fan of both (but certainly not required or even expected). Having a home team to root for has much to do with the depth of the fandom.
So thanks to you and Meryl and your M-related practice-mates for prompting me to learn how far ice-dancing has gone since I watched as a child, and making American ice-dancing not only a part of the international discussion but bringing it to the pinnacle. You're a joy to watch.
January 27th, 2013 at 2:32 AM ^
January 27th, 2013 at 7:11 AM ^
Right now, I'd rather watch these two skate than the men's hockey team. 100% serious.
January 27th, 2013 at 8:41 AM ^
Whoever negged this sucks. Even if you don't like figure-skating/dancing you should respect the Michigan athletes that are competing at a world class level and be proud of how they're representing our University.
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Go play at MLive.
January 27th, 2013 at 11:00 AM ^
I explained why I negged it. I don't give a shit. (EDIT: that you're calling me out on it). Some people get jokes, even terrible ones. It doesn't mean that I don't respect them or their accomplisments. Even when I made fun of the dude after the olympics, I still respected him.
January 27th, 2013 at 10:37 AM ^
the snide comment at the end. I don't care about ice skating/dancing/cream. Congrats to two U of M athletes, but this isn't going to be something I bring up when debating athletics with friends or family that root for other schools. So to say that I am not a real fan because I don't follow ice dancing shows how juvenile some people here can be. "Oh, you don't like some 3rd or 4th rate athletic competition? Well, I do, so I am a better fan." Yeah, I don't know who the #2 doubles team in women's tennis is either, so I should probably start buying Buckeye gear. GTFOH
Oh, and I didn't neg this thread.
January 27th, 2013 at 11:01 AM ^
This is reason number 2 why I negged the thread.
January 27th, 2013 at 11:05 AM ^
I think people are taking that last OP statement a little too seriously and personally.
Look at it this way. If you considered yourself a true U of M fan, wouldn't you want to know about this? Wouldn't you be glad to learn of it?
I'll admit I didn't remember their names were Meryl and Charlie, but the OP reminded me and I didn't need to look it up. They were a major discussion topic on MGoBlog during the last Olympics as well. So, yeah, if you consider yourself a fan of the University, you should probably know about them.
If you only claim to be a fan of football, then maybe not. But, I don't necessarily have the highest regard for those that think UM is only a football team anyway, so perhaps I'm pretty biased.
January 27th, 2013 at 11:09 AM ^
I think you're taking negs too seriously. They don't mean anything. If I could, I would neg myself every post because it's funny that some people take it seriously.
January 27th, 2013 at 11:13 AM ^
going to be about before I opened it, so I'm not taking anything personally. Even though I was kind of hoping it was Streep/Sheen being batshit crazy. I just think it's RCMBish to question anyone's loyalty or fandom when referring to ice dancing. If this statement came at the end of a Devin Gardner, Trey Burke, or Jon Merril related topic, I would feel the same way. And I feel any fan should know who they are.
January 27th, 2013 at 11:37 AM ^
OP was a little trollish. Agreed.
You could have made that point without slamming a sport as "3rd or 4rth rate athletic competiton."
FWIW, Charlie White was a pretty decent hockey player, left the sport to pursue ice dancing more seriously. But then again I don't know where hockey fits in your ranking.
January 27th, 2013 at 11:43 AM ^
have the idea that differing opinons aren't welcome here. Because, for the life of me, I don't know where they would get that.
EDIT-And I meant it in terms of popularity, not that it doesn't require skill or athleticism.
January 27th, 2013 at 12:14 PM ^
I don't understand the gripe in your first sentence. Who's not allowing the board to have differing opinions? I happened to think your comment was, in its own way, also trollish, so I pointed it out.
That said, I do appreciate the clarification. If you said "ice dancing ranks 3rd or 4th in terms of popularity" I confess I would have thought that was odd (I'd put it lower than that, frankly) but I wouldn't have that that was trollish and I wouldn't have said anything to you. No sensible person on this board would attempt to argue with you that ice dancing is more popular than the sports normally discussed here.
FWIW I may not be only one who reads your post the way I did (as a slam on the sport). In the vernacular there is a definite connotation of a quality judgment when you use terms like "X-rate." It's obvious tha t"First-rate" would mean "best" but instead of just being an ordinal ranking after that, terms like 2nd,- 3rd, and 4th-rate are often used as a pejorative.
January 27th, 2013 at 11:14 AM ^
January 27th, 2013 at 11:17 AM ^
I don't know Charlie, but Meryl's parents are lifelong friends, and I've known Meryl since she was a baby - in fact, my daughters babysat her.
She is a down-to-earth, wonderful young woman. I'm proud she is part of the Michigan family.
Ice dancing requires tremendous athleticism and the training is incredible, as with any world-class sport. Some of the comments here are a little questionable.