Wolverine Historian Appreciation Thread
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.
knew him from YouTube long before I'd ever heard of this blog.
Embeds only work in the comment section for Youtube. That changed sometime last year.
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 =(
in the comment section.
You cannot embed within your OP.
Thanks for clarifying.
How does he even get video from all of those older games? Great Youtuber anyhow.
early baby boomers were fascinated with VCRs. some of my friends' parents would have shelves of recordings, and they would all be sporting events (mostly umich games).
Three cheers for Wolverine Historian!
Hip, hip......
Seriously though-awesome, awesome dude.
Hooray!
Yup.
Watched the Woodson and Wheatly highlight videos today. I've seen them both a number of times but they never get old.
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Works here. But as an initial post, it will not work no matter what I do. If you dont get it right the first time, you cannot recover in the initial post apparently. Just fyi.
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.
Yes.
But it's also worth noting that the '97 defense learned technique under the previous DC--Greg Mattison.
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.
awww Wolverine Historian has a fan boy!
Sadly that's what giving someone their deserved credit is taken as in 2016.
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
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.
That will at least knock you unconscious for a while.
And all snark aside, your posts are pretty much the only thing I watch on YouTube. Well done and much appreciated.
/use cheap champagne
I think after this season you'll have to at least make another one of those "2016 Defense: Every Play" videos.
Not only was that an all time team, but an all time name team. I mean Steele, sword, gold, Woodson.
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and if he'd only had one more year of eligibility, you could have had Irons in the mix. I'd actually vote for '96 as the all-name team for that reason.
irons
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.
without his stuff. Simply cannot be thankful enough we've got someone like that in our fanbase.
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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Cloaking device on!
He has done us a great service in return for no tangible reward that I know of.
as one of the true MVPs of both the MGoBoard and YouTube.
I have spent many an hour watching his Michigan videos and don't consider any of it to be wasted time.
I watch his videos every night before I go to bed starting about this time of year.
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and it was so nice to hear Keith Jackson call practically every game that season.
Yeah looking back on it, so true. At the time I took it for granted but watching the 1997 highlights it's so great to hear him
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
I must have watched this video a million times. Thank you WH for all your videos!
Derrick Alexander tribute
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.
I just watched one of his videos like a half hour ago
Well, is WH going to come accept his recognition or pull a Beyonce?
Biakabutuka vs OSU 1995!
I could watch that shit every day!
This is an appreciation thread riddled with negs.
Thar be assholes in them there waters.
Well, we are Michigan fans after all.
'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.
No such thing as overboard when posting Michigan football video footage.
I appreciate what you've done. I've enjoyed many hours of it.
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).
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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is never enough
WH, thanks for all that you do!!!
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.