OT: Favourite Mgo... post
Wanted to change the topic and ask folks for their favourite all time mgo post (blog, board, diary).
Think it’s been a while since we celebrated the best contributions to this blog over the years.
My suggestion isn’t new nor unique (its mgoblog hall of fame after all) but CREX’s series about his Korean GF/Wife clearly stands out. I estimate Lil Sis is 27 now. Would love an update...
https://mgoblog.com/diaries/ot-crex-lost-content
What you got?
(and bronxblue I like your diaries so much I first searched your Nic to track this down thinking it was you...obviously not...but quality of writing the same).
I don't think it's been updated since Harbaugh was first hired-ish, but here's the old "official" user Hall of Fame
Well, there was the time I Rick Rolled the board and lost all my points. That was a fun one that no one but me appreciated.
My son Rick rolled me 2 weeks ago...no I know. +1
The very first person to rickroll someone may have deserved a smirk, then it was never funny ever again.
I enjoy being Rickrolled. I'm not proud of it.
I don't know if this is my absolute favorite, but it's up there. https://mgoblog.com/content/eleven-swans
Unfortunately, that game didn't work out the way we would have liked. But that very last line of the post still comes to mind regularly for me:
There's only one thing left. Play. Fight. Win. Please.
Regardless of the outcome, that was great writing. Great add.
With the obvious Canadian spelling, ("Favourite"), just a question. Are you in Fergus, ON? I am heading there next week. Lol
Wife day game preview.
+1 for Wife Day
Jessica Alba in the sack. Everything else is fighting for the silver medal.
Agreed!
The first neg bang thread or the dogs anal glands thread are some of the best stuff on the internet
THIS IS NOT MICHIGAN response to Shane Morris situation always stands out to me.
Anybody remember when this place was basically a porn site with all the sexy gifs??? Yea.
Can't find the exact post, but it was when WD just went on this crazy apologetic rant about Michigan and how you really aren't a fan unless you blindly give your entire person to the program. Then he posted really ugly Nike gear. Wait....I think that was every post WD ever made.
The first reply to this post always stuck out to me, though it was partially lost with the site changes.
Seems to me that the rate of random high-quality posts and jokes has gone down over time. It's likely a combination of maturity of the board and internet culture in general, becoming more mean, angry, and cynical in general, and this board itself not allowing as much fun since we're in BPONE over the football team year-round. I wish we could go back to that, but that's like wishing we could all be in college again. It's not happening.
The LLoyd Brady - historical thread. Still my all-time favorite. I see some of the pictures are no longer there, but it was fabulous back in 2010 when created.
https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-lloyd-brady-photoshop-thread
I had forgotten about that. I felt bad it impacted the guy in real life because I think it was overall pretty innocent fun.
I posted this thread before seeing your post. So yes, you have my vote.
The post game thread of the 2011 victory vs OSU
OT: Showering
An absolute classic that appears lost forever.
I miss CRex's content - just great stuff. ST3 also used to put out box score reviews after games that were always interesting, and the BiSB Opponent Watch articles are always fun and Steel was a fantastic read. And when any one on the staff just gets ahold of a topic and digs into it they tend to produce great work.
Thanks for the compliment and I'm glad you enjoy them. Honestly, I think the stuff I write has a shelf life of about a month before I just start to cringe re-reading it. Like, there were some B&W stuff I wrote during the later Hoke years where I assume my hair smelled like a sewer because my head was so far up my own ass.
Totally agree about Steel (the women's gymnastics national title post by BiSB). Recency bias be damned, it's the best thing I've read on a blog that features remarkable content on the regular.
I'm a little partial because I started the thread, but the wacky coworker thread had stories that had me in tears from laughing so hard.
https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-wacky-coworker-stories-threa
This piece is kind of brutal to recall because it was published at 1am on the night/morning before football Armageddon, 2006 (with the OSU and UM #1 and #2 in the country). Was that the last night of my life where Michigan Football was pure and good and strong and beautiful and hopeful? Yes. Yes it was.
I remember reading this when I woke up in the morning and thinking, "Brian Cook is the only human being on earth that gets me." Also, it features a really good song by Sufjan Stevens.
I mean, this has to be a contender, no?
Good times. We were all so innocent and didn't know the pain that awaited in our future.
LORD BRADY PHOTOSHOP
https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-lloyd-brady-photoshop-thread
How about my all time worst post that still comes up on a daily basis that includes "BPONE".
Agreed.
BPONE needs to go away.
Half the time now it's just used as a pejorative when someone disagrees with someone else's opinion.
for whatever reason, one of my favorites is this random column after a rutgers game in a season whose ending we had no way of anticipating at the time.
I think it's just the peak of what I come to this site for–the great writing that's put out quickly after events that seem very important to us at the time, even though they become obsolete within days.
It's really hard to get everyone pulling in one direction. Everyone reading this knows that in their bones. In Juwan Howard it seems like Michigan's found a guy who can pull up the guys who need it, leave the guys who don't alone, and gather everyone to him, past, present, and future.
it made me feel even more lucky that we'd hired Juwan, and it's the final word on how perfect he is for michigan at exactly this point in time, with 30+ years of context coming together.
Pretty much anything by MeanJoe has me laughing my ass off.
Where he (assuming) comes up with some of his rants is beyond me... and underneath all the "I did stuff to RGard's mom that you wouldn't do to a barnyard animal", dude is pretty smart.
Every now and again he'll throw out something so poignant, you're like, where did that come from? Kinda like when you see someone drop dead gorgeous with someone really goofy.
I have to agree with this one...Everyone loves a poo chucking contest, especially between these two jokers.
Are tshirt sales in Ohio still going strong?
I can relate to the parents showing up at the house routine. My girlfriend and I had to hide that for two years from her parents. Pretty stupid in retrospect.
Probably not a board favorite, but one of the most acutely hilarious threads in the last several years was the one where someone requested shirtless / workout photos of a couple basketball players, and instead got about 200 creeper memes. Better still, that person was genuinely PISSED at the nature of the replies. I don't know that I've seen them post much since quite honestly.
The first time WD custom designed his name into an avatar specially for mgoblog . Someone responded with “wait, you created your own avatar.”