Favorite MgoBlog satire
I haven't had an account with MgoBlog for very long but have been a reader of this site for well over a decade. There are several inside jokes (could be called sarcasm, I won't call it that) on this site that many new readers may not get. I wonder what are your favorites and may be provide a brief definition. Or is that spoiling the MgoBlog secret sauce? For example:
Justin Feagin - means lack of informative title
Counterstrike guy info - totally baseless information from random guy that we totally want to believe because it is pro Michigan
I never understood the Big Rolling rock in Opponent Watch....that remains a mystery for me...
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:38 PM ^
For me it's probably RDT or THE KNOWLEDGE.
Or Dantonio's "Red Lock"
October 22nd, 2020 at 10:48 PM ^
WIAB you mean
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:38 PM ^
Easy - Keith Jackson died.
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:40 PM ^
Wait, what? Keith Jackson died!!?? Why didn't anyone tell me?!
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:13 PM ^
I never got that one.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:16 PM ^
Keith! You’re alive! I knew it all along!
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:31 PM ^
I just don't get why people keep saying that. Yes, he's getting up there in years, but he is still playing golf in Florida with Nelson Mandela, Freddie Mercury and Tom Petty.
Let's not rush Keith to the grave.
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:39 PM ^
I think there are more than people realize. I used to order two copies of HTTV, one for me and one for my dad (who doesn't read blogs). But he never got past the first couple of pages because he didn't get all of the references to blog related stuff.
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:40 PM ^
I haven't updated this list in awhile but
https://mgoblog.com/content/mgoblog-glossary-terms-and-memes
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:50 PM ^
Thanks Seth! Not sure why I never stumbled on this before but this is great and hopefully some of the feedback today adds to this.
Don't know why but Never Forget is one of my personal favorites. Don't know why considering it was the bleak start to a run of Michigan football I want to forget even though we should Never Forget.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:17 PM ^
We've not only got a "Culture"®*, we've got a heritage!
* If every coach needs to have a "Culture"®, then WE need to have a "Culture"® too.
October 22nd, 2020 at 4:38 PM ^
I believe they call that...
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October 22nd, 2020 at 1:53 PM ^
First, this is great! I had forgotten about it.
Second, I feel like it is missing one of my favorites from the old days that still pops up in threads: "Hold me, TomVH."
October 22nd, 2020 at 2:52 PM ^
You need to add Keith Jackson and canned/jar gravy.
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:41 PM ^
TACOPANTS. end thread.
https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/tacopants-first-sighting
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:58 PM ^
Here he is with Jason Avant:
October 22nd, 2020 at 4:50 PM ^
It still doesn't make sense after it is explained to me.
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:42 PM ^
Calling Mark Dantonio Mork. I have no idea how that originated but it's hilarious.
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:45 PM ^
don't forget his embattled son, Kork Cousins
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:51 PM ^
How dare you mock Kork Coupons by misspelling his name!
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:12 PM ^
Because his name was misspelled many, many times by various TV and print outfits. He's been named Mike several times, and his last name spelling was mangled more than any other person I can ever remember.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:43 PM ^
Don't forget my favorite picture ever...
October 23rd, 2020 at 1:17 PM ^
No respect.
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:47 PM ^
The late great Keith Jackson
and.....
Mike Jones
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:32 PM ^
Ray Vinopal
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:50 PM ^
More meta, but after one particularly rough OSU loss, the entire site turned pink with kittens. It remains one of the funniest things I have ever seen on the internet, up there with school promotional video reviews from EDSBS (App State "Hot, Hot, Hot"). I think another time the site banner was the Hindenburg crash? That's quite a while back so my memory is fuzzy.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:06 PM ^
The pink emo theme was actually after the Post-Apocalyptic Oregon Game (another insider reference).
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:19 PM ^
Do you remember the year?
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:33 PM ^
Good point. I'm firing up the way back machine.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:54 PM ^
2007, of course. Right after App State.
October 22nd, 2020 at 2:00 PM ^
Also, this was posted on the blog in the aftermath of the App State game.
Amazing how different the world of college football was back then.
October 22nd, 2020 at 12:51 PM ^
The rolling rock is a nod to the character Sisyphus in Greek mythology whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder uphill only to have it roll back down, and then to begin again ad infinitum. I take it to metaphorically reflect the psyche of the average Michigan football fan in the last 15-20 years, but hey, we all digest our metaphors in our own way.
And by the way, it is not a boulder but a giant coronavirus cell. It was always thus, and will always be thus.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:00 PM ^
+1 to you sir.....thanks for the explanation although I feel like my pain goes back 30 years minus 1 brilliant season. Even that season we got jobbed by an old fart who was retiring. Looking at you Tommy Osbourne.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:08 PM ^
I had Sisyphus in college
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:34 PM ^
You had a Sparty crush too?
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:54 PM ^
I always understood "The Rock" to represent a certain sort of football team that philosophically played like they were still in the Stone Age. Offensively fairly inept and didn't exactly embrase the concept of the forward pass. Defensively good. A team that wasn't elite but neither an easy one to defeat, because they aimed to lure you to throw rocks right back at them too. But if you could just score 21, you'd probably be fine and win .......
Penn State 2014 was definitely "The Rock." Iowa is often "The Rock." Going back to 2014, nearly half the conference was "The Rock." Good God, that year had some ugly games.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:57 PM ^
The Giant Rock to me is basically any bad Iowa team. Strong defense. Ground oriented run game, big, intimidating, but only a threat to you if it actually starts rolling. Which is doubtful.
October 22nd, 2020 at 3:09 PM ^
In case anybody wants the real origins of the Rolling Rock, it started in 2011 when Heiko (remember him?) wrote the Opponent Watches, and it was about Illinois.
Illinois under Ron Zook was an iffy team at best, they went to the Rose Bowl, and went 5-7 the next year. They stomped us twice under RR, and then we won a shootout in 2010. 2011 was no different, as they became the first team to start 6-0, and then finish 6-6. But going into 2011, we didn't know what we would get with Illinois and so Heiko described them as such.
Right now they are as frightening as: A large rock. They don’t look threatening, but it’s going to take a lot to get them out of the way. 5. A large rock at the top of a hill. Nobody touch it, please. 5.5.
After they upset then No. 22 Arizona State, the rock changed:
Recap: Last week I said Illinois was like a large rock perched atop a steep hill. I also said not to touch it. I SAID NOT TO TOUCH IT!
So, Arizona State. You had to go ahead and touch it, didn’t you. Now look what you’ve done.
Then they struggled against Western Michigan:
Right now they are as frightening as: A large rock still. 5.5.
Note the angle of the slope.
This is much scarier, but Illinois isn’t there yet.
Had a close game against an eh Northwestern team:
Right now they are as frightening as:
Those things are a lot less scary if you can get them to roll the wrong way. 6.
The rock got skipped in Week 6, but returned in Week 7 after they lose an ugly game to OSU:
Right now they are as frightening as: A large, mismanaged rock. 6.
Week 8 they lost to Purdue:
Right now they are as frightening as: A large rock.
It’s coming at you – slowly – but you get a 50-minute head start. 5.
Week 9 they had a bye week:
Right now they are as frightening as:
5.
Michigan should worry about: Illinois has a bye week.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: They would be better off using the time to uncoach themselves.
And then we played them week 10, right after our ugly loss to Iowa on the road:
Right now they are as frightening as: Michigan apparently sucks on the road, so the rock needs one last revision …
The rock isn’t coming after Michigan.
Instead, Michigan is going after the rock.
6.
And then after we smacked them, we got the end of the initial Rock Saga
No. 24 Michigan 31, Illinois 14 (W)
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:07 PM ^
I mean, I think BPONE has to be near the top. And it's something to which we can all relate.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:07 PM ^
I can think of between 3-9 different MgoBlog satire examples.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:14 PM ^
Lloyd Brady - photoshop thread - still my all-time favorite.
https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-lloyd-brady-photoshop-thread
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:44 PM ^
I've never seen that thread. Thank you. It's a shame we can't still upvote those.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:15 PM ^
The first rule of inside jokes is you don’t talk about inside jokes.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:17 PM ^
Something about Michigan jerseys selling in ohio.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:18 PM ^
I've always been amused by Craig James killing 5 hookers
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:21 PM ^
allegedly
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:47 PM ^
I've never been amused by that.
On the other hand, everybody murders.
October 22nd, 2020 at 1:19 PM ^
"Hell people in Ohio are starting to believe him. Never in a million years I would have thought that. Selling Michigan jerseys is a good start."