OT Thank You MGOBLOG

This blog and the content and community created has been a daily part of my life for many years. Go Blue and thank you!

I think an appreciation thread is a good idea.

Through SignGate, this became my only sports news site for a while (to avoid garbage hot takes), and the connection I've felt to you all has been wonderful.

Thank you!

You're welcome. 

oxford high school, holy wow. thanks for being an educator, so sorry you had to experience the hell of a school shooting. i'm glad you have been able to find bright spots. 

impossible to express true condolences in a place like this, but my utmost respect is yours, OP

Definitely not OT.

I'm the same as you, not a grad but have been a Wolverine fan since before I could walk.

Many thanks to everyone on the blog from me as well.

Well...most everyone.

This Michigan of Ours. 

-- Fielding Yost 

Go Blue. 

Tell your coworker Christa I say hi and Go Blue. 

I've thought of doing this before and I am glad someone else did it. This site provides good coverage of U-M athletics and was a great respite when the national media were losing their minds over this Signgate bullshit.

We should stop and think for a moment about how this football team has not lost a regular season game in OVER TWO CALENDER YEARS. That level of domination is unheard of in college football. What a great group of players and coaches we have had.

I have been an avid fan for about 25 years and have experienced the worst of times and, now, the best of times. What an extreme joy these last three seasons have been. And how great it is to have this site accompanying us through it all.

Ditto from Romeo. Wife's coworkers kids were both there then and the son was the boyfriend of a girl who lost her life. Still affects them to this day and likely always will.

A needed break/refuge here from tribulations. Really fun part is seeing the long rumored Brian laugh/smile on Sam's podcast with Seth and Craig. Like hen's teeth, four leaf clovers and unicorns.

Definitely not OT

Hear, hear!

Go Blue!

I love this place, and couldn't give it up if I tried.

As a son of two public school teachers (tenures 42 and 33 years respectively) I salute you, sir.  Underpaid and usually underappreciated but such an important part of the community.  Thank you.

I need to add a special thank you to KansasBlue, who sent me here years ago, and I never looked back.  This is a unique and amazing community.

I couldn't have gotten through all this without you guys/gals. The last 3 years have been much, much more enjoyable spending it here!

Sure the site is great but when is the camping trip going to happen?

My cousin-in-law and fellow UM alum is a teacher in Oxford as well. 
 
Once upon a time, I'd do regular updates of Freep/sports/wolverines, maizenbrew, TTB, etc. 
 
MGoBlog has made them all superfluous.  Thanks, guys.

I lurked here as a teenager for many years. I'd say from Carr's last season onward. I was just becoming a die hard fan (perfect timing) and this community shaped nearly everything I know and love about not only Michigan, but the sport itself. There are many posters here that have helped me during down years of my life and they don't even know it. 

I may take breaks occasionally but 'll never truly leave this community. Thank you Mgoblog.

Cdat33, glad you had something to help keep you afloat during that dark time. Like teaching high school isn't hard enough, and being around teenagers all the time isn't hard enough. And thanks to the MGoBlog community. Spending time with all of you is always enjoyable. As a gal, it's hard to find people outside of my husband and brother who I can discuss sports with. Cheers! 

This is the best football blog ever.  Information gets here at the speed of light.   I'll come here for updates before any other social media.  This site, as a collective, seems to sift through the BS super quick.  And the laughs, priceless! 

Amen to this.  The dark times we've had as fans make the last few years feel really special.  I rely on this blog for most of my Michigan sports content, and it keeps me sane.  I was not here for 'The Horror' (although I was at the game), but I was at MSU 2015, where we went from the joy of Coach Harbaugh's return to the worst loss I've even had to witness (yes, worse than 2007 App State).  

The truth is, I've never seen a replay of that play, ever.  I saw it live from a bad angle, and when the TD was scored, turned and walked out.  I avoided ESPN, pregame, postgame, anywhere I might have to watch it.  Kept my finger on the jump button all year!  

Experiencing sports like this has actually taught me to not get too caught up in the horrible news cycles we get sucked into (and this would include the roller coaster Cdat33 references - bless you);  Sometimes you have to step away, tune out, and focus on real life.  

OP: If you are passionate about it, which you are, you are one of us! 
 

We have a big tent!

Agreed that game in 2021 really changed the course of so many things, and the visual of the snow and the celebration will be in our minds til our last days.

p.s. let's enjoy the last few weeks together as Brian has sold the website to a pet boarding provider.  Please don't let Keith Jackson know about that, it might darn near kill him.

Fate is a random and fickle thing.

Shortly after my  family moved to Saline from Ann Arbor in the middle of 7th grade(early 90’s) I experienced a couple of incidents  that looking back now foreshadowed the horrors of what was to come in schools throughout America.

One kid was expelled from school for having a handgun in his backup. What he intended to do with it I don’t know. But the experience was quite unlike anything I had experienced in Ann Arbor.

A second,more personal experience was sitting next to a kid who had access to 13 guns(so he claimed). He told me one day while we were at lunch that he wanted to “shoot everyone in this room”.  At the time as a 14 year old I didn’t put much thought into his words. But as I have gotten older and have seen the horrors perpetrated in Columbine, Sandy Hook, Oxford, and far too many other places I have come to realize that my life and the lives  of dozens of other kids unknowingly to us stood on the head of a needle. All that separated us from possible violence was the mind of a bullied teen with access to guns and an obsession with the military.(He later would become a Marine)

This kid never followed through on his threats of homicidal violence. Thank God for that.

But I can’t get over the capricious nature of it all. Why did kids at Oxford, Columbine, and Sandy Hook die? Why did we  in Saline escape? We were in no better place than any of the victims of school shootings in terms of prevention. Yet we were spared from the horror and death that so many were victims of.

 I can’t say I was fortunate because going to school without fear of being slaughtered shouldn’t be a real concern in a properly functioning society. We have so far to go as a country and society.

I've been a part of this community since Harbaugh arrived and this place has carried my Michigan fandom to this day. Growing up in Texas, there was always something so comforting about being around and interacting with fellow Michigan fans from all sorts of places, and it's crazy to think that I was a high schooler when I first joined and to this day, halfway through graduate school, I still find myself lurking around here daily and occasionally commenting. I'm eternally grateful for a site like this, and I still plan to be on this site for a whole lot longer

42!

Meh. Place hasn't been the same without the_knowledge.

For they're some jolly good fellows

For they're some jolly good fellows

For they're some jolly good fellows...that nobody can deny

CDAT, thank you for posting this.  It so sums up my own appreciation.  BET!