2023 MGoPhotos of the Game (Week 7): Indiana
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Michigan Football vs Indiana 2023 (Patrick Barron)
Michigan Football vs Indiana 2023 (Bryan Fuller)
Well here we are again, the 7th blowout win in a row. I'm running out of unique and clever things to write about here, but there's always at least one gimmick in these games, so let's spin the roulette wheel and see what it ends up on:
**RAIN GAME**
Oh.
Not even an apocalyptic rain game like 2019 Notre Dame. That game was an experience that was awful enough to be memorable. But given the results, I suppose it was fun bad? I'll never forget getting dropped off at the airport immediately after that one and the third shift TSA guy took one look at me and my rain soaked everything and asked "...you came from the game didn't you?" Turns out wet clothes set off everything in the body scan machine.
No, this game endured a generic drizzle that you don't quite notice until you get back to the car and realize you're soaked and cold and your ticket stub is just ruined enough to look different from the rest of the season's ticket stubs in your 2023 collector's case.
Michigan Indiana football games are often unmemorable but for about 25 minutes of gameplay this was almost starting to look like an uncomfortably memorable game. "That 2021 Rutgers game" but with rain.
But the game reverted to the mean late in the 2nd quarter and in this case, the mean was Michigan scoring 52 unanswered points.
So now here we are, Michigan is 7-0 and it feels like we're still waiting for the season to start.
Since this blog is secretly a Lord of the Rings fansite I'll go ahead and say it. This season is like watching Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in theaters (so you can't just skip to the end). The last 30% or so is going to be some of the best cinema ever recorded, but until then we gotta get through the Aragorn and Arwen dream scene. Some people really like Treebeard and traveling to Nebraska, some just think it's filler. Harbaugh was even gone for a while and came back ala Gandalf the White.
And now we've apparently got the Rohirrim, too.
None of this is bad, oh no. Lord of the Rings at its worst is better than New Star Wars at its best (shame me in the comments, Andor fans). All things Rohan are awesome and there's still nowhere else I'd have rather be on Michigan Indiana day than at the Michigan Indiana game. But we're like... at the scene where they're traveling from Edoras to Helms Deep and I'm realizing an hour and 45 minutes have passed and I'm getting a little anxious to just get to the good stuff.
We're almost there. Next week is the warg attack scene where *realizes what happens to Aragorn* THIS WAS MAYBE A BAD METAPHOR I WILL END IT NOW.
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[More Lord of the Rings references after THE JUMP, but you probably already knew that]
Next week, I JUST HOPE BOTH TEAMS HAVE FUN.
October 15th, 2023 at 6:43 PM ^
Mason Graham wears a different kind of shoe.
October 15th, 2023 at 9:53 PM ^
I was trying to figure out if he was just in socks and tape.
Also did anyone else notice him give the Shadeur watch flex with his club hand in the turnover pic? Hilarious.
October 15th, 2023 at 6:52 PM ^
Nothing bad happened to Aragorn in the book, so your analogy is still ok. It’s weird to have James Franklin as Saruman, although the white-out thing would sort of track.
October 15th, 2023 at 6:59 PM ^
Picture this? Picture this!
Thanks. Great stuff again.
October 15th, 2023 at 7:14 PM ^
Great, great photos!
October 15th, 2023 at 7:57 PM ^
I, for one, do not want both teams to have fun next week. I want one team to have fun and the other team to continue their dejected trudge toward Ultimate Suffering.
October 15th, 2023 at 9:51 PM ^
40 years, marching aimlessly in the football desert. hungry, thirsty, abandoned, no hope. that ought to cure the felony-tunnel aspect of that team.
October 15th, 2023 at 10:42 PM ^
The pride is gone. The time of the fall has come.
October 15th, 2023 at 7:59 PM ^
In my version of LoTR as Michigan football, the Big House is Minas Tirith, the OSU stadium is Barad Dur, and Ryan Day is The Mouthpiece of Sauron with his oversized choppers and whining demeanor.
October 15th, 2023 at 8:18 PM ^
""Theoden King stands alone." "Not alone." " combined with that picture = priceless!
October 15th, 2023 at 8:30 PM ^
You got the club scoop! Amaizing!
October 15th, 2023 at 8:56 PM ^
I got negbanged into oblivion for this a few years ago, but my attempts to redeem MGoPoints for premiums haven't been working of late, so what do I care?
Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring advanced filmmaking. It was brilliant.
His Two Towers was okay.
His Return of the King was a crime against literature.
His Hobbit thing was okay to watch once, I guess.
And..... ""Theoden King stands alone." "Not alone." [Patrick Barron]" above gave me the hardest chuckle I have had in quite some time.
October 16th, 2023 at 12:54 AM ^
I agree with you, except that I think The Hobbit was not good.
October 16th, 2023 at 1:34 AM ^
Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring advanced filmmaking. It was brilliant.
His Two Towers was okay.
His Return of the King was a crime against literature.
I'm curious to hear your reasoning.
At any rate, I've come to the conclusion that Two Towers and Return of the King would be infinitely better if you cut out Frodo and Sam...
October 16th, 2023 at 9:34 AM ^
"At any rate, I've come to the conclusion that Two Towers and Return of the King would be infinitely better if you cut out Frodo and Sam..."
This exactly. The battle scenes were beautiful to watch. But Jackson didn't seem to understand what made the Hobbits effective to Tolkien. Jackson tried to turn them into warriors, which was precisely not the point. Their strength was being loyal and "good." The same with Faramir, which I assume you are including as an extension of Frodo and Sam.
Jackson's Hobbit films were not good. I didn't mean to imply that. I just felt those to be less irritating than TTT and Return of the King. Hobbit was basically insipid -- not worth any emotion.
But, to Jackson's credit, Fellowship was one of my favorite films of all time. I especially enjoyed the extended director's cut.
October 16th, 2023 at 1:33 PM ^
Fellowship was brilliant. I put TT and ROTK on the same level as films. They were okay. I would say TT was better overall, but have to bring it down a notch for Gandalf being a literal exorcist while Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas are rumbling in the Bronx in the background. Jackson took one of the most interesting scenes in the book and turned it into a cheese-fest.
But the ROTK has the army of the dead becoming Ghostbusters' Slimer and just eating through the siegeworks like acid cutting through styrofoam. So more cheese there. Again, took a great book scene and made it ridiculous.
For me, those are the biggest offenses of the films.
October 15th, 2023 at 9:31 PM ^
The warg attack scene is not in the book. Neither is the Aragorn/Arwen dream sequence.
October 15th, 2023 at 10:34 PM ^
I did specifically mention the movie version!
October 15th, 2023 at 10:57 PM ^
The Hobbit at its worst is better than New Star Wars at its best.
And The Hobbit is a fucking terrible movie.
October 16th, 2023 at 1:28 AM ^
Hot take: the new Star Wars sequels (VII, VIII, IX) are way worse than the prequels (I, II, III). Yeah, the prequels had issues with writing, particularly dialogue (Anakin's was particularly bad) and characters (Jar Jar), but at least they had coherent stories. The new ones are complete garbage all around, not to mention that in many ways VII and VIII felt more like reboots than sequels.
And The Hobbit is a fucking terrible movie.
I still don't understand how they managed to turn a 300 page book into three movies...
October 16th, 2023 at 2:48 AM ^
There exists online somewhere a fan-cut version of the trilogy that brings it down to one four hour film that more closely follows just the book and it's pretty good. There is a good movie hidden in the trilogy, it's just riddled with clutter and pointless action scenes (and that love triangle).
October 16th, 2023 at 9:55 AM ^
that take is so lukewarm it probably matches the internal temperature of a tauntaun.
The sequels are *horrible*.
Sincerely yours, a Legends/EU fan
October 16th, 2023 at 5:40 AM ^
Two photos from the full albums jumped out to me:
Patrick Barron's Album:
I can almost feel Karmello looking in that ball. The focal plane is beautifully done, and the shutter speed captured the rain drops in mid-fall. Outstanding photo.
Bryan Fuller's Album:
The sense of anticipation in that photo really jumps out. If we celebrate this offensive line -- and we should -- that photo could serve as the cover shot for an article. Again, outstanding photo.
October 16th, 2023 at 7:44 PM ^
They still have ticket stubs?
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