OT: Yearly MGoAvatar Roll Call
As noted by LSA, the end of the OT period is on the horizon and frankly I've never been so ambivalent towards the beginning of the CFB season. I have no idea what to expect and BPONE-induced drinking seems likely going into Harbaugh's... --checks notes-- 7th year? We'll cheer, we'll cry and we might even get laid if that waitress at Shenanigans stops spurning my advances. All hope is not lost!
With that said, indulge the MGoWorld and let us know about your goofy, likely Michigan-themed avatar and why it "checks out".
I'll go first: Mine is David Wooderson and the gang from the film Dazed and Confused standing outside the Emporium. If you haven't seen the movie, it's a coming of age film based around the hijinks following the last day of school in a small (I believe Texas) town. Fun film and good soundtrack with the classic quotes you've all heard before. My avatar has no connection to my username or UM sports and just a random picture honestly.
What say you?
August 23rd, 2021 at 4:48 PM ^
Tried to get a photo of me and my son, but someone photobombed the picture?!!
August 23rd, 2021 at 4:48 PM ^
No avatar
August 23rd, 2021 at 4:52 PM ^
I don’t think I need to explain mine.
August 23rd, 2021 at 7:53 PM ^
This is my annual hat tip to your avatar picture, which never and I mean never fails to make me laugh.
Also my avatar is the organ in Hill Auditorium.
August 23rd, 2021 at 9:00 PM ^
....actually I think you do need to.
August 23rd, 2021 at 4:52 PM ^
Ernest Shazor's game sealing forced fumble against Purdue in 2004. (7:00 below) It's one of my earliest memories as a Michigan fan.
August 23rd, 2021 at 4:52 PM ^
Mine is Lake Louise in Alberta.
August 23rd, 2021 at 6:50 PM ^
A truly spectacular place. It's one of those places where one's expectations are exceeded upon seeing it in person for the first time. The Grand Canyon is another.
August 23rd, 2021 at 4:54 PM ^
My username is Curly Howard as Heavyweight Champ in “Punch Drunks” (1934), the Three Stooges 2nd Columbia short. It’s preserved in the Library of Congress as culturally significant. He turns into a punching dynamo when Larry plays “Pop Goes the Weasel” on the violin (Larry could really play).
Avatar is General Specific, the antagonist animated character from “Sheep in the Big City”, from the early 00’s. He speaks thru clenched teeth. I thought it was fitting. Other notable characters are Private Public, and Major Minor.
August 23rd, 2021 at 4:55 PM ^
My avatar & username equally suck.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:12 PM ^
....we just wish your team did also.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:13 PM ^
A honest and fair self-assessment.
August 23rd, 2021 at 4:56 PM ^
My username is pure lack of creativity. Alum living in NC.
Avatar is from my younger days with a combination of the themed Absolute bottle ads and the Red Wings glory years. It's tiny on this site but the bottle says Absolut Ownage.
August 23rd, 2021 at 4:57 PM ^
Clarence Boddicker, Crime Boss of Old Detroit, about to make some snarky-ass remark because that's mostly what I do here. I chose it after going with something else for a while (Vermont Wolverine?) because Robocop was shot in Houston but set in Detroit, and Ann Arbor is, like, 40 miles from Detroit, which I did not know until I was enrolled. Perhaps because Michigan doesn't really publicize that. So, yeah, I'm honoring Detroit in my own special way. And Robocop is, of course, one of the best films of any kind ever made. And I will cut you if you disagree with that.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:18 PM ^
He's Red Forman to me...
August 24th, 2021 at 9:00 AM ^
Don't touch me, man!!
August 23rd, 2021 at 4:58 PM ^
Mine is a picture of Tai Streets because he's my hero
August 23rd, 2021 at 4:58 PM ^
mine is in reference to the all UofM Apollo 15 crew. i edited a stock moon landing photo to add the M flag
August 23rd, 2021 at 4:58 PM ^
Mine actually looks more like my mother. The blog sometimes seems like a frat house (and I mean that in the best way)…thus the name.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:11 PM ^
I feel you. The 'What Cha Drinkin'?' threads. The Jessica Alba and Kate Upton gifs. Our obsession with the Yay Girl. The fact that, unlike a lot of other college football sites, most people here seem to have gone to college, and many at the school we actually root for [side-eye to the OSU fans on here].
August 24th, 2021 at 3:36 AM ^
You may have joined after sexy bits ended, but I could not look at this site while at work it was so R to X rated.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:03 PM ^
I've never had one. Because I'm old and it seems complicated?
August 23rd, 2021 at 7:01 PM ^
I've actually never changed mine, joined during Rich Rod era, so I forget if it was difficult or not. Mine is Jarrett Irons. I still have his jersey that I wore to many a Michigan game.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:03 PM ^
I like to party.
P.S. BPONE is for weaklings.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:04 PM ^
Mine is self explanatory but I've changed the picture a couple times on a whim.
Once, I changed to the Arby's logo when Brian was having an "I hate Arby's" meltdown and another was of the Carolina Disco Turkeys because I think their logo is awesome.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:08 PM ^
My avatar is a painting of the Michigan campus circa 1855, by a certain Jasper Francis Cropsey; image lifted from Wikipedia.
My pretentious username is somewhat connected to Sir John Falstaff, an iconoclast from some old plays. (Gee, I guess I've made him an icon.)
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:11 PM ^
I adopted a picture of Drew Henson waltzing into the end zone against OSU for the winning touchdown on a....wait for it....Naked Bootleg.
August 24th, 2021 at 12:36 AM ^
Easily the best play in football.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:12 PM ^
My name is Brad but call me B-rad although I have never been to The Bu (Malibu) and no longer live in WestPalm either..
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:15 PM ^
At the height of the Borat popularity I joined the board. I got put on a timeout for awhile and when I got back on I put Borat back on as my avatar. Timeless comedy and pretty much I post like I could be him in real life.
Here is to Great Success in 2021!
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:16 PM ^
I am Mark Dantonio in a Noid costume (affectionately named the Dantonioid).
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:24 PM ^
Mork Dantoni has never smiled that big in his life...
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:20 PM ^
Just don’t do it.
August 24th, 2021 at 11:26 AM ^
Kevin is that you?
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:22 PM ^
On point: mine is Buzz Killington. ‘Nuff said.
Checks out. Just here for the BPONE.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:23 PM ^
Mine is a Desmond Howard as a squirrel. For obvious reasons.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:26 PM ^
My avatar is Gert B. Frobe, I live in Silvertown.
Don't disagree with it or I'll stab you in the face with a soldering iron. Hey, tell me, does your mother sew? BOOM. Get her to sew that!
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:32 PM ^
Your tone... its all wrong.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:27 PM ^
Jack Shephard (played by Matthew Fox) from one of my favorite shows of all-time, LOST.
It was ending right around the time I picked it for this blog, and if Michigan ever wins a Big Ten title in football again, I will pick a new photo a clean shaven photo where he doesn't look so haggard.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:37 PM ^
Jarvis Cocker because JC is Lord.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:39 PM ^
Late Detroit-area news anchor Bill Bonds.
Avatar comes from this commentary on the eve of a 1980s matchup vs OSU (I'm pretty certain it's 1985, but can't confirm).
August 24th, 2021 at 3:45 AM ^
As a kid growing up in the 70s I always liked Bill Bonds, since I remember him as a reporter in the movie "Escape from the Planet of The Apes". He was an anchor in LA at the time but when he came to Detroit I remembered seeing him in this movie when I watched back in the early 70s when I was 8.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:40 PM ^
I think we used to have signatures on our profiles years ago, and I think mine was "I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm."
This is someone's yearbook pic from Pioneer High School in about 1965. Later attended UM briefly before a storied career in entertainment.
August 23rd, 2021 at 6:29 PM ^
He hasn't changed a bit.
August 23rd, 2021 at 9:29 PM ^
I'm the runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb. I am the world's forgotten boy, the one who searches and destroys.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:46 PM ^
Many believe that Dazed and Confused was based on Linklater’s Huntsville, Texas, high school. He denies it. There was a lawsuit over it. The suit was dismissed. As a lawyer, who went to high school in Texas, I would consider it a badge of honor to have attended the high school depicted in Dazed and Confused!
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:47 PM ^
My younger bro and I at the top of Winter Park on a bluebird ski day circa 2016 (I'm in the blue jacket). My bro (i.e., his wife) valued a good deal over proper choice of apparel color.
Username - we live in Fort Collins. Any Front Range/CO MgoBloggers (or any flying in for a ski week!), feel free to hit me up for a ski-day meet up - given enough notice, I'm generally up for any mountain within 3-4 hours. If you want to do Telluride, that'll take some planning :)
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:48 PM ^
Mine is Gritty, just for the hell of it.
When Tatar was on the Wings, it was a picture of him and Nyquist, which probably fits more.
August 23rd, 2021 at 5:49 PM ^
Keanu - I really cant recall why....but I like it.