Wolverine Historian Appreciation Thread

Submitted by Zarniwoop on

I would estimate that I watch a video from Wolverine Historian at least twice a week. This week, its been every day as I've been eating in front of the computer. Thought it might be a nice chance to say thanks, list your favorites, or just have some damned football on the page for once.

My very favorite:

Edit: I can embed in every damned post I've ever made but this one. Have to do a link since the edit options appear to be limited if you're the first post in a thread. Yes, I can back that up with words if anyone cares.

https://youtu.be/XPoz8jDNblk

Wolverine Devotee

July 6th, 2016 at 8:09 PM ^

Embeds only work in the comment section for Youtube. That changed sometime last year.

Zarniwoop

July 6th, 2016 at 8:19 PM ^

You're saying I can't embed on this site now? I'm pretty sure I've seen embedded videos in the last week, let alone the last year.

Okay, it does work. The initial post and this thread are just a total loss pretty much =(

Brimley

July 6th, 2016 at 9:47 PM ^

Credit where is credit is due.  That defensive line was awesome.  Not Valley Girl awesome--Webster definition awesome ("inspiring great admiration, apprehension or fear").  He was in over his head as HC, but the guy destroys on the D line.

Wolverine Devotee

July 6th, 2016 at 8:26 PM ^

And yes, he's the originator of posting highlights of old games. All these classic games you see uploaded on YouTube are because of him. He started it all. 

A long time ago, you could only upload 10 minute of video on Youtube. Perhaps that's why he did the editing and cut the game down into important plays, but nonetheless it's still a style that I love today. I don't wanna watch/don't have time to sit through 2 hours of a game I've already watched. I don't care about false start penalties or commercials for Meijer Thrifty Acre.

When I first got internet access back in 2007, his videos on Youtube were what I lived on and watched all the time. That's where I could put the faces and moving pictures together with all the things I began learning about Michigan at the time when I really started taking an interest in the history. I'd save every video using a downloader and have them on an external hard drive that's my video library. 

My mgoblog name is based off of his. I changed it to what it is now back in 2011 because "MichiganFootballs2014Freshman" was lame. 

He stopped doing highlights of current games after the 2011 season since HD became a thing, and I try to make my highlight videos like he did back in the day.

You looked forward to that Sunday morning seeing a notification about the new video of the win from the day before.

I'd say he's probably the second-most influential Michigan internet figure behind Brian. 

drzoidburg

July 6th, 2016 at 9:09 PM ^

yeah i did that as well, partly because i was afraid they'd be taken down by BTN or whatever (even though they show like 5 games total)...which i think did happen at one point

when i consider that so many would never have seen any of the classic games if not for his efforts, and even older fans unable to relive them, i actually think he's the most influential

I watched some of his (and yours) highlights of the "10 year war" this past november with my dying father. He hadn't seen them since watching them live in 1970s and i hadn't seen them ever, so it meant a ton to both of us

WolverineHistorian

July 6th, 2016 at 9:50 PM ^

Second behind Brian is waaaaaay more credit than I deserve but I appreciate the kind words, regardless. 

I'm just sorry that Michigan football was starting its nosedive to hell when I started doing "current" games.  The majority of those wins are not really games that should be relived.  42-37 over UMass?  Break out the champagne!  Then break the bottle over my head.  It would be less painful. 

Avon Barksdale

July 6th, 2016 at 8:42 PM ^

That was fun to watch. That defense would be penalized out of games today with how physical they were. I loved it. They played the game how it was meant to be played.

umaz1

July 6th, 2016 at 8:49 PM ^

Agreed, I really like the tribute videos. If you happen to be taking requests, I would love to see a Jeremy Gallon tribute video.




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drzoidburg

July 6th, 2016 at 9:15 PM ^

i generally despise play by play, kind of insulting to my intelligence, but keith jackson had that ability to make me forget all that, like i was chatting with a friend at home about the game, or at the stadium

he was so unlike the forced hype assholes like mustburger

EGD

July 6th, 2016 at 9:12 PM ^

I don't watch often. But every once in a while I go on a binge and watch several hours of old M games at once. Thanks WH for enabling me to satisfy my vintage Michigan Football jones.

WolverineHistorian

July 6th, 2016 at 9:34 PM ^

'Aww, shucks' is the best response I could come up.

I'm glad people enjoy the videos.  In 2007, YouTube had a total of 2 Michigan football videos.  One of them a grainy video of Desmond's Heisman pose against OSU and Woodson's punt return, which was equally of bad quality.  I wanted to change that...and I might have gone a little overboard, but who cares? 

It was also a coping mechanism to deal with 'the Horror,' which I had just witnessed in person.  But we won't get into that. 

stephenrjking

July 6th, 2016 at 10:13 PM ^

Old sports highlights are one of the best things about internet video, period. The only entity that has not benefited enormously from them is ESPN Classic, which I never need to watch anymore.

Hard to believe that before Classic Sports came on the scene you basically had to know somebody with a videotape of an old game or you never, ever got to see old stuff again. (I quickly learned that Michigan lost any game I tried to videotape, so I stopped. That was right before '97, btw).

WolverineHistorian

July 6th, 2016 at 10:21 PM ^

I wanted to be the anti ESPN Classic given how often they gave us the finger. You can only see the Hail Mary from Kordell Stewart and those kickoff returns by Rocket Ismail so many times before you begin to wonder if it's on purpose.

And yes. I know that very few people can hold a grudge as well as me.




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Harbaugh is my…

July 6th, 2016 at 9:53 PM ^

Really appreciate all the content WH has put together. Does anyone know if he has done a tribute for Jarrett Irons? The guy is one of the best if not the best LB to ever put the winged helmet on.