Fandom endurance badges: 2006 Michigan-Northwestern (Video vault)
It was cold, rainy, at times snowing.
#2 Michigan took on a terrible Northwestern team under first year coach Pat Fitzgerald.
Northwestern could not stop turning the ball over in this one it felt like. And you really started to see us start to pack things in a lot quicker once it was clear we had the game in hand.
This was the final stretch before The Game where we played Northwestern, Ball State and Indiana. Really conservative play calling in all of those.
This is actually a remastered copy of a game I uploaded years ago when I first started doing videos. This game is special to me because it was one of the earliest games I attended.
End of the game when the sun came out-
I earned my badge at a "Non-Michigan" game. My best friend is a huge Clemson fan. He bought us tickets to 2015 Clemson vs. Notre Dame. We watched the entire game in a hurricane. We were soaked head to toe. I will never forget it.
Shiet, I earned my Fandom Endurance Badge watching that game on TV in A2. Couldn't imagine actually being there.
I love/hate the fact that *that* game is one of the "I'll always remember where I was for that" games. I had to follow it on twitter and occasionally WatchESPN because I was a damn Boston College shit show of a football game vs. Louisville because my sister went there. I spent the whole tailgait seeing the gifs of our insane amount of blunders.
plus 1998 @ Evanston could've been Endurance Badge #1 - Fargas!!!!
my wife is a NW fan so we've attended every M vs NW football game the last 20 years - excited for 2018 and a return to Evanston - MOON ends on the first drive of the game I predict
What strikes me is how good Frank Beckmann was compared to the present play by play calls. As a play by play guy, Jim Brandstatter makes an excellent color commentator.
Does 2008 Toledo count for an endurance badge in that I had to endure that entire awful game? Plus it was the first game I ever got to go to
I think I was the only one from my floor that went to the game. I sat/stood with a bunch of guys I never met before and wouldn't recognize them after that day.
When I got back to South Quad, all my friends were dry and full from the pizzas they ate while I froze and starved during an epic Carr/Colletto battle.
first semester on campus so I stuck it out too - maybe I was one of those guys :)
What I remember most about that day is that the morning really wasn't too bad. It was cloudy, maybe even close to 60 degrees, but then just a bit before the game, that cold front or whatever.....it got windy, bitter, rainy then snow combined with that punishing sleet. The only season missing in those four hours or so that I was in / near the stadium was summer.
It was a Pure Michigan moment. I probably only narrowly evaded frostbite by the end of the game, having dressed for the morning weather.
Quite a tilt it was.
This was also my first game. My badger fan husband was so miserable but didn't ask to leave early. He's a keeper.
Yup, I was 11. My first game was when I was 9. 2004 SDSU.
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Adrian Arrington. Goodness, that guy was such an incredible receiver.
I always wished he would have stayed around to help the transition.
He probably knew that the QB talent wasn't there though and I don't think he and Manningham (or anyone on the team) ever really liked Mallet.
He continued the tradition of Michigan receivers making incredibly difficult catches.
I attended features Dennis Franklin at QB.... Yeah... Old. I did start pretty young though.
I remember that game so vividly. Made it all the way through. It warmed up with about 5 minutes left.
I went home and was literally cold the entire day, I couldn't stop shaking from it.
But for me, the worst was at Penn State in 06. I was treated so poorly.
We got tickets for 10$ apiece, solid seats too. I chose to go to this game on the thinking that it was the only game we would definitely win. Midway through the game I was drunk, tired, and extremely bored / frustrated with the game.
Trailing 13-10 in the late stages of the game, many chose to exit. I stayed and got a glimmer of hope. We somehow drove into FG range (thanks to Sam McGuffie) and I was sure that we would convert and win in OT. We missed.
Toledo fans heckled us the entire way back to the hotel. I was under the impression that we were staying til Sunday in A2, but my gf drops a bomb saying we have to drive straight back + 4 extra hours to go to her nieces baptism. So we leave A2 at 6pm, arrive at her brothers at almost 5am, having to be up at 630 for baptism.
After the baptism I had nothing left, but the gf had to work so we left and drove straight home. Get home just to realize that my gf was off. I was so fed up lol.
I slept for 16.5 hours that night. I have never been so tired / frustrated in my life.
But was that the game with the only TD coming from this crazy long Steven Threet run??
Edit: Think I am thinking about Wisconsin??
Second Edit: I still think I am wrong. Who the hell did he have that big 50+ run against?
to set up the McGuffie touchdown to put us up 8.
Skip to 3:11.
Still the craziest half (really, just a quarter-plus) of Michigan football I've ever seen.
I had a gut feeling I was right with my 2nd guess.
I was going nuts with that game. I was basically in a coma for 3 plus quarters with how piss poor they were, then all of a sudden it came together.
To bad in the long run, didn't mean shit.
that things have never been worse for you.
CU hail mary game. Came out to the game with three other friends from Colorado. I remember sitting next to one of my buddies and early in the game UM was up pretty big and he was like hell I wish we could at least give you a game. I told him it's a long ways from over and UM usually finds a way to let opponents back into the game.
Well the hail mary pass was completed and he was the only one cheering in our section. Probably 108,000 quiet people and maybe 2,000 cheering I sat there in disbelief that I had just witnessed that comeback and play.
We flew to AA from Denver on standbye and had to fly standbye home. Waiting in Detroit to catch a flight home I heard the gate people say we have 4 seats left just give them to the party of 4 waiting on stand bye. They called us up and said get on the plane. I was first one on the plane and they said go back until you find the last open seat and then everyone fill in forward. The last open seat was in the last row, between two very overweight people and one of them was sick. I had to squeeze in between them and put my carry on under my feat because there was no place to store it. Well, the other three open seats were in first class and that is where my buddies sat on the flight back. I was like what a perfect ending to a crappy weekend.
What was fun though is we came out last September for the CU game and I got to enjoy the game a lot more this time...
This is one of my go-to games for rewatching. I remember there being many sacks and TFLs. Northwestern had negative rushing yards and six turnovers. That D-line was great.
Well, now it is. It's the only full copy online.
At one point there was an every-defensive-play video. That's what I watched. But thanks for uploading this!
started as a lovely, warm early autumn day... but a cold front came through in the second half and by 4th quarter as darkness fell, temperature had dropped about 25-30 degrees in what seemed like a few minutes. Most people in the student section were short-sleeved and teeth-chattering was rampant while Braylon was doing his thing. Still... LOL Sparty. Still one of my top 3 in-person games ever.
Was there for 2002 Washington/Brabbs kick and got sunburn of my life, does that count?
Also 2011 WMU opener, game called in 4th after getting deluged with heavy thunderstorms. Was such a hot day it actually helped make it more comfortable, though.
Utah 2014 anyone? Weather wasn't bad for the first three quarters and change but the play on the field was miserable. Then came the 2.5 hour lightning delay that sent just about everyone home.
When it was announced the game would be restarting, Michigan down 26-10 with seven minutes remaining, I was the only among my crew to head back. Hopped in the car and put the radio on as I took the short trip up Stadium. Lots were empty so I parked right up front as we were driving with the tiniest sliver of hope. Just as I opened the door, I heard about 1000 people groan from within the Big House; the PA announced that Shane Morris had fumbled.
Decided it wasn't worth the badge. To those who remained, I salute you.
1994 Colorado for a wedding, 1995 Virginia (not part of the student ticket package), 1998 Wisconsin due to the flu- tried to leave my house twice to get there and got sick both times, The Horror, 2010 Connecticut for the birth of my daughter, 2011 WMU and 2013 Minnesota.
Wisconsin - ridiculously cold, snow and sleet all day. The stadium was near empty by the end of the game. The only thing that warmed things up was watching RoJo rush for 347 yards. Also my first Michigan game.
2014 Maryland, MInnesota, and Utah
stayed through every one
My 11 year old son & I attended that game ! It was his first Michigan football game experience :) .... I remember 3 things: 1) It was very cold & very wet. Not a good combo. 2) I made a point to stay until the very end, despite the weather & the incredibly boring play calling. 3) my son William was thrilled about the entire experience :) .... Thanks for reminding us ! Seriously .
Sept 17, 1989. I was in the 10th row, on the north 35 yard line, on the Michigan teams side. It was raining LIKE CRAZY. The Rocket created a life- long hate for NDinside me that day. So something good did result from that crazy day.
everyone was in the restroom at halftime thawing out there feet.
1980 Northwestern...cold and rainy, no poncho...was numb all over..suprised I didn't get hypothermia, and a horrible, sloppy game that we barely won.