October 25th, 2019 at 4:56 PM ^
I'm going to send a strongly worded letter telling them to be better!
October 25th, 2019 at 7:01 PM ^
Pro tip, avoid talking about their hair styles.
October 25th, 2019 at 11:37 PM ^
I'm going to walk on to the team and win the Heisman Trophy. That should be helpful.
October 25th, 2019 at 4:56 PM ^
I gave up making emo threads on the mgoboard. So far I don't think it's helping.
I'm going to try chili with extra beans tomorrow.
October 25th, 2019 at 4:58 PM ^
staying away from mgoblog.
October 25th, 2019 at 4:58 PM ^
Always wear my Woodson jersey so I'll switch it up and start sacrificing cats, you're welcome.
October 25th, 2019 at 5:04 PM ^
Oh yeah, that’s why I’ve been killing cats too...
October 25th, 2019 at 5:59 PM ^
Cats annnddddd......
October 25th, 2019 at 5:03 PM ^
I havn't watched field goals since 2009.... year of the Broekhuizen/gibbons house of horrors. Had a good run for a couple years but back to kicking BPONE lately.
October 25th, 2019 at 8:03 PM ^
My family used to watch with tons of friends over. Me and my brother (and anyone who would join) would pull our pants (I know...this isn't starting good) down around our ankles for every field goal attempt. Underwear remained up, but no matter who was in the room, he and I would always drop (our own) pants.
Btw, I'm happily married (to a woman) with 4 sons!
October 25th, 2019 at 5:05 PM ^
I used to have a ton of things I did over the course of an entire week but after The Game last year I decided to give all of them up because none of that shit was working if we've been this bad against OSU. It also got to be way too much to remember and I was stressing out way too much over shit that in most cases I had little control over. So I've embraced the mantra "traditions over superstitions".
Wear the same thing every game (Blue M hat, jersey we're wearing, khakis, Jordan socks that match the jersey we're wearing), apply Huron River water as a metaphorical eye black/war paint on my face, run outside and touch the Go Blue banner above the front door.
October 25th, 2019 at 5:10 PM ^
So many questions... do you bottle this river water, store it, and break it out for said ritual?
October 25th, 2019 at 5:13 PM ^
It's in a glass jar with Block M's all over it. Every summer we go on the river to kayak and I bring a bottle to get a new batch for the new Football season.
October 25th, 2019 at 5:22 PM ^
You’re shittin me.
October 25th, 2019 at 8:15 PM ^
Why do you keep river water in a weed jar?
October 25th, 2019 at 8:42 PM ^
That's Huron River water, baby.
October 25th, 2019 at 5:21 PM ^
Roger that.
Superstitions are mythological.
Once I realized I had absolutely no control over the outcome of a game no matter what I did, I found I enjoyed the experience that much more.
October 25th, 2019 at 5:49 PM ^
Maybe you should start drinking the water instead?
October 25th, 2019 at 6:07 PM ^
Already did that this past summer when I wiped out tubing down the cascades at the ARGO.
October 25th, 2019 at 10:38 PM ^
I like this guy.
October 25th, 2019 at 5:17 PM ^
If I attend they always win ugly terrible games that vaguely resemble football (ex: M00N, Sugar Bowl). The @Northwestern games are always stupid because I live in Chicago.
To help the team I will ask you all to pay me a sizable salary to attend games. Make your money back betting the ML not the spread.
October 25th, 2019 at 5:18 PM ^
Make my hover helmet rotate counter clockwise as opposed to clockwise.
October 25th, 2019 at 6:32 PM ^
That might be too big of a change. Let's try something a little less dramatic.
October 25th, 2019 at 7:55 PM ^
I'm about to destroy my hover helmet. I bought it just before the Orange Bowl, against FSU. It's failing miserably. But damn if I don't like having it on at my desk at work. Fuck me...
October 25th, 2019 at 5:21 PM ^
I switched the liquor I drink to numb my pain watching our offense...M looked better in the 2nd half last week so there's that
October 25th, 2019 at 6:12 PM ^
You’re an example to us all
October 25th, 2019 at 11:44 PM ^
How much did you drink? How do you know for sure that Michigan looked better?
October 25th, 2019 at 5:26 PM ^
I really do not have any superstitions, but this week I'm thinking of messing with someone who does. My Father In-law is a huge Notre Dame fan. He and his wife light tons of candles for every ND football game. Contemplating going for a visit tonight and hiding all there candles.
October 25th, 2019 at 8:22 PM ^
You should replace them with secular saint candles with guys like Woodson and Harbaugh on them. After a quick search the best I could find was Tom Brady. If we continue the ND games it would be a great prank for the future. I think you can get custom made ones so you could really mess with them.
EDIT: On Etsy there are multiple vendors that customize them.
October 25th, 2019 at 5:46 PM ^
I changed seat cushions on our sectional, did not help......
October 25th, 2019 at 5:47 PM ^
My pre-game and half time blunts may be the problem, I’ll try a sober game and you guys can thank me after the W...
October 25th, 2019 at 6:37 PM ^
Watching this offense sober? Bold move.
October 25th, 2019 at 6:05 PM ^
The team is undefeated when I’m at the game. (8-0)
Harbaugh 1-9 vs. top-10 teams? Guess which game I was at.
October 25th, 2019 at 6:15 PM ^
Same with my girlfriend. 10-0.
Her record at all Michigan Athletics events is 64-10.
October 25th, 2019 at 11:47 PM ^
Are you going tomorrow?
October 25th, 2019 at 6:18 PM ^
That if I put on my one piece of Michigan regalia--on old t-shirt, they are gonna lose, even if as usual I am watching on the porch with everyone else long gone because I am living and dying with every play and my wife and daughter are taking pity.
How I reverse this one I'm not sure--wear it for ND? I do have a Sauce Castillo t- that I recently got at 20 percent off from mgoblog. Maybe that is my ticket.
Did I mention that I really dislike Brian Kelly? With a kind of dislike I normally think is not worth wasting on anyone?
EDIT: Of course I could break precedent and go and watch with the Tallahassee M Club at the Hobbit Grill. Then Sauce will be a likely go.
October 25th, 2019 at 6:27 PM ^
The wife and I don't have sex at all during the week of a game, so I'm thinking of switching that up
October 25th, 2019 at 6:39 PM ^
I'm sure that isn't different from any other day though...
October 25th, 2019 at 7:02 PM ^
Something's gotta give...and I have an idea of what it won't be
October 26th, 2019 at 11:09 AM ^
Curious what her take might be? If she's secretly rooting for Michigan to lose then you have a mind-boggling conundrum in front of you.
October 25th, 2019 at 6:29 PM ^
I try not to wear any red on Gameday. Go Blue!
October 25th, 2019 at 6:30 PM ^
Ask for better coaching. Over and over again.
October 25th, 2019 at 7:11 PM ^
I’ve given up all my pre game traditions/superstitions. None work. Still retain my post game tradition to compel god to answer why he has forsaken me.
still no reply, just a haunting laughter that echos in my mind all Saturday night before fading to a dull chortle by the following Friday. Rinse and repeat for 12 weeks.
October 26th, 2019 at 12:09 AM ^
Probably because you use lower case letters for His name
October 25th, 2019 at 7:29 PM ^
Used em all...nothin works
October 25th, 2019 at 7:41 PM ^
I’ve already changed all my shirts during the Wisconsin and Penn State games. Perhaps the solution is obvious: no shirt.
October 25th, 2019 at 7:53 PM ^
I tried pretending like I don't care...whatever it's just college football anyways.
Didn't work, the universe still knows I care and the losses eat me up.
October 25th, 2019 at 8:00 PM ^
Michigan underwear has about a 72 percent success rate