SIAP: Michigan vs Alabama Rose Bowl - A Game To Remember
I did not create this video and I apologize if this has already been posted, but this is great with the Gladiator style background music (it is 30 minutes long). I go in spurts but I cannot stop watching YouTube videos since the National Championship game. It is amazing to watch these videos back and remember my reaction, who I was with, and where I was at throughout each highlight and video. What a wild ride of emotion this game was. Go Blue!
Nice score, but not as powerful as "my heart will go on" on the recorder.
OMG!!!
My ears are bleeding 😱
Someone call 911😮
IMO, the only enjoyable/listenable rendition of that awful song.
I think I have seen all the clips-multiple times.
but this is great with the Gladiator style background music...
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
Well I remember telling my wife with about 4 minutes to go that if we win this Rose Bowl I am streaking the neighborhood. We came back and won and I owned it. None of my neighbors said anything which was good. I still haven't watched the video yet that my wife took. I mean nobody wants to see that even me...lol.
Go Blue!!!!
April 18th, 2024 at 12:04 PM ^
Well, the neighbour haven't said anything to you but you know...
Sadly they said, "Nothing to see here."
Say Joey, have you ever been in a cockpit before?
it is amazing we won that game. We made so many mistakes. what a ride. i will never forget it
It just amazes me the amount of dumb shit that always happens to Michigan in the Rose Bowl, even when we win. As if missing a normal chip shot field goal and spotting Bama their first touchdown thanks to a fumble wasn't enough...to almost lose that game because of a muffed punt....losing that way would have felt like trouble with the snap multiplied by a thousand.
In the end, what made this championship the best (other than beating OSU again) was beating the beast of the SEC in the grandaddy of them all, a program so dominant that they had special treatment forever (remember the arguments against Michigan in 2006 did not apply to Alabama in 2011) and also the fact that having to share the title with Nebraska in 1997 and how insufferable Husker fans were about that -- to go into Lincoln and destroy them the way we did felt much more meaningful than if that game were at the big house.
Credit to Jake Thaw for quickly recovering from his mistake and avoiding disaster.
And remember the closeup of him on the sidelines after that play, breathing heavy and looking like he's trying to keep from throwing up. It pretty much summed up how we all felt at that moment, given what almost just happened.
I agree with most of what you wrote, but I don't recall any missed chip shot field goals in the Rose Bowl. IIRC, Turner's only miss was from 49 yards.
he may be referring to the bobbled XP
Having UCLA as a member of the BIG will expunge all bad juju, as we will become more comfortable in our west come stadium
I dunno. Given that Nebraska's program has completely fallen off a cliff (and will likely never recapture its 90's-era glory, given how drastically the recruiting landscape has changed since then), I take no special pleasure in beating the Cornhuskers, '97 travesty notwithstanding. They're not even mediocre; they're just plain bad now. These days, beating Nebraska by any less than double digits is cause for concern. That, plus their fans are such genuinely nice people--in stark contrast to the fans in Columbus, East Lansing, State College, and Madison--that it's impossible to dislike them.
You're not as petty as me. I heard all the compliments of their fans before and after their downfall. Total douche-nozzles in 1997. And given that their football program spent decades joyously running up the score on every opponent they could, it's not hard to enjoy watching teams give it back to them. Even their new coach last year waited until about 4 weeks after we blew them out to hint that our "sign stealing," helped us out tremendously. As if they ever had a chance in that game.
I'm going to keep rooting against them, despite their fans. Because they don't act like Buckeye fans...that's setting the bar as low as it can possibly go.
lol, fair enough.
I guess I'm of the mind that 'resentment energy' is a finite resource, and these assholes in East Lansing (and, to a lesser extent, Columbus) have drawn so much of mine that I just don't have any left for Nebraska.
I'm about to open another account just so I can upvote you twice
April 18th, 2024 at 11:35 AM ^
I see someone paid no attention to the Carol / Scott Frost dynamic as it pertains to the Maize and Blue.
Nebraska does indeed have nice fans, we can simultaneously recognize that and still thoroughly enjoy it every single time we make those very nice fans sad, that program deserves every bit of the lumps and suffering they're receiving right now.
Also we would've beaten them by two TDs in '97 even if the game was played on Tom Osbourne's lawn.
We didn't even play our A-game. Special teams were a disaster. The offense disappeared for the entire third quarter and much of the fourth quarter. The only unit that was consistently great throughout the entire game was the defense. And yet, we still pulled off a win against the most perennially talent-loaded, most well-coached program program in college football.
Remember this comment during the 2024 season. I suspect we'll see more games where we win a far-too-close contest with great, consistent defense.
April 17th, 2024 at 11:09 PM ^
Per the recruiting rankings, that Alabama team was the most talented team ever assembled.
And yet when you watch the highlights, Michigan looks like the more talented team. Which they actually were.
sat next to a guy while I was wearing a block M pullover at a restaurant bar in SLC last week. He said, "don't hate me if I tell you I went to Alabama". I said, "why would I? We won".
He kinda stepped into that one.
I had plans for those 30 minutes, but they were nowhere near as good as the 30 minutes that I just spent watching this video. Thanks for sharing! Those are such treasured memories.
There's an alternate universe where we lose that game on the final punt and I'm soooooooo glad I don't live in that universe.
If the first offensive play would have been an interception, it may have been a different game altogether
We would all be living in that universe, but Jake Thaw must own a flying DeLorean or something.
April 17th, 2024 at 11:05 PM ^
In the real-but-kind-of-alternate universe, Thaw committed to Delaware today. Kid loves him a winged helmet.
Thanks for the memories. One of the best victories in my 40 years of rooting for UM. Suspenseful and nerve-racking all the way til the end. With so much on the line, I was so happy for the Team and the fans when we won in OT. Go Blue!!
That catch by Roman....jesus, what a freakin gamer.
Never apologize for sharing this masterpiece of a game. One that I’ll never forget. The moment we stopped Milroe, paralyzed with emotions, became lightheaded. As a lifelong fan, this was an experience I’ll never forget and appreciate being able to share with friends and family.
My family and I were fortunate enough to have been there, and it was the greatest sporting event experience I've ever had and will likely ever have.
My boys first Michigan game. Are you freaking kidding me?
welp after the " whats the best win under Harbaugh" post I was at 1003x watching highlights of the Rose bowl, national championship , last 3 Ohio state games, big ten championships , 2021 game vs Wisconsin and 2023 Penn state.. I'm now at 1004, matching the number of wins michigan has.
Finally got my Rose Bowl program and ticket
What a game !!! One of my favorite games
I lost my shit when Blake scored in OT
This was, bar none, the best Michigan game I EVER attended in person. It was simply a glorious day, and a glorious game. I'm slightly embarrassed to admit how often I have watched clips of this game. I could have possibly gone to the National Championship in Houston, but it was somewhat anticlimactic after the Rose Bowl. This was my third Rose Bowl, having been in 93 and 04, and nothing compares. I'm a happy man.
April 18th, 2024 at 11:51 AM ^
I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that I feel no embarrassment whatsoever at how often I watch clips of this game.
I love this, but when it's 2nd & 10 or whatever I want to know how did we get to this down & distance?
If you don't have the time, I understand. Otherwise, there are full game replays.
Beating Bama, like that, in that setting, despite those mistakes, after THAT season of adversity, is the greatest fan memory of my life. Followed very closely by OSU 2021.
I don't cry, probably because I'm a soul-less jerk but I will absolutely admit that the voice wavered and things got misty. It was the next level of weight being lifted after that OSU game. To finally set aside all the bullshit in previous Rose Bowls, all the weird voodoo shit that strikes Michigan in bowl season and the near decade and a half of grief the program went through. It was so unbelievably cathartic.
Those kids went out there and despite all of it said 'not today bitches' and punched fate right in the dick. Absolutely glorious.
I've seen this entire game probably 200 times already
April 17th, 2024 at 10:07 PM ^
So you've just started?
April 17th, 2024 at 10:06 PM ^
This game tracked like every single big Michigan loss ever . . . until it didn't.
It's like the football gods were saving up for that one big Michigan redemption, and this was it.
Thank you, Oh tormenting yet eventually benevolent football gods. You work in strange and mysterious ways.
Exactly! Still shudder why we were fielding a punt at the end of regulation??
^^^^^
This exactly. There never should have been an attempt to catch that punt.
It wasn't like we were going to return it to set up the winning score.
What happened to the rule you never field a punt inside the ten yard line.
April 17th, 2024 at 10:14 PM ^
If anybody has a maize Michigan pom pom from the Rose Bowl, I will buy it.
I could not find one on the internet, so I bought a "defeated" Alabama red/white Rose Bowl pom pom. It's actually kind of cool to have it. A Mr. Brightside beats Dixieland Delight sort of thing.
I am that obsessed.
I do. And you can have it. And I don't really want money for it. Maybe just help getting a ticket or two at a decent price (face?) to a future game? srkass at fifcc dot org.
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