Resurrection Day. What past MgoContent would you like to see brought back to life?
With Brian now steadily increasing he's written contributions to the site (yay!) and Alex emerging as a more than capable replacement to Ace (yay!) it got me thinking of weekly site features that are now gone, but not forgotten. One's that I miss and would love to see brought back to their former glory if time and inclination from the MgoWriting team exists. My top three are as follows:
This Week In Schadenfreude: Brian
Before there was Opponent Watch, This Week In Schadenfreude existed as the site's funniest weekly feature. Many have tried to copy, all have failed. When it came to mocking other team's fan bases insane internet comments Brian had no equal. This was actually a national article featured on EDSBS (Everyday should be Saturday), a mostly SEC blog that shut down in 2019 but was linked here weekly.
Blogpoll: Brian
These were so much fun. Brian would post his weekly top 25 with a few comments on the how & why he made the choices he did then had the board crowd-source his poll. We were able to offer our opinions and collectively we created an MgoTop25 poll weekly.
Best of the Board: Seth
Every Friday morning Seth would post the best Diaries & Board Posts for the week. For those of us making active comments/thread creation it was always a challenge to see if your pithy comment or especially insightful observation made the cut, so to speak, and was deemed by Seth to be one of the week's best.
September 6th, 2022 at 7:08 PM ^
The chronicles of CRex. Those who know know.
September 6th, 2022 at 9:00 PM ^
This my god yes. That series was some of the most superb writing ever captured in Western Civilization.
September 7th, 2022 at 4:55 AM ^
I still want to meet "Rambo", the Little Sister. Cracked me up. That's some of the best craic on the interwebs.
September 6th, 2022 at 7:13 PM ^
This Week in Schadenfreude
One Frame at a Time
September 6th, 2022 at 7:14 PM ^
Tom VH
Sometimes I just want to be held.
September 6th, 2022 at 7:14 PM ^
My favorite content by mgocontributers was This Week in Schadenfreude by Brian, even though it wasn't on the blog, and pretty much anything written by BISB and PPToilet.
September 6th, 2022 at 8:32 PM ^
I’m sure it was time consuming but I enjoyed the post with the Q&A for the weekly coaches’ pressers. I really enjoyed them and it kept me from recording Big 10 Network talk and news shows.
September 6th, 2022 at 8:40 PM ^
You can find this on 10 other websites though in written form. It was only cool when Haiko was asking Borges about bubble screens.
September 6th, 2022 at 8:39 PM ^
I miss em0's message board meltdowns.
September 6th, 2022 at 8:52 PM ^
After Harbaugh’s first season we had a gif tournament in the off-season. It was like One Frame At A Time but even better because it was a huge vote over the best gifs of the season, bracket style, until we declared one winner as a blog. I really wish we had that every off-season. Was super fun.
September 6th, 2022 at 9:17 PM ^
This Week In Schadenfreude, without question.
September 6th, 2022 at 9:23 PM ^
I'd like to hear from Jane C. or someone other than a nerdy white guy (I say this as a nerdy white guy myself).
September 7th, 2022 at 10:52 AM ^
WendyK (I think that is her name) is on here.
Don't want to assume pronouns, but guessing that's not the account of a nerdy white guy.
September 6th, 2022 at 10:00 PM ^
TWIS. Then also press conferences with Heiko and MGoBBQ.
September 6th, 2022 at 11:14 PM ^
monuMental's season wallpapers and weekly game wallpapers. The Iowa corn cob one will always stick with me for some reason, like those kernel skins that get stuck between your teeth.
Also the msu big brother-little brother wallpaper.
September 7th, 2022 at 9:21 AM ^
I would love to see more Unverified Voracity. Seems like it's the heir of This Week in Schad... I'm not going to try to spell it. TWIS was before my time started here, but I love the commentary on other commentary.
September 7th, 2022 at 10:01 AM ^
My wish is a simple one.
September 7th, 2022 at 10:58 AM ^
I miss the Stubb's Sponsored MGoBBQ tailgate recipes!!!
September 7th, 2022 at 1:40 PM ^
I still go into the MgoBBQ site and try something different every few weeks. I'd love for it to be back a day or so before game day as an idea for something to whip up for Saturday.
September 7th, 2022 at 11:32 AM ^
I do NOT want this resurrected (for obvious reasons) but the 2014 Post-Hoke SEARCHBITZ era was what convinced me to convert from longtime lurker to member/poster.
Give me some guy posting about his uncle working out with DJ Durkin's dad in some Powerhouse gym in Youngstown, OH, or some local sports guy in Phoenix whose best friend is the son of a guy who's golfing buddies with a UM Regent confirming Harbaugh's hire any day
September 7th, 2022 at 1:52 PM ^
TomVH
September 7th, 2022 at 2:36 PM ^
I loved the Blogpoll. It made so much more sense than the polls that were out at the time. Would there be enough different blogs now though? I think most of them have disappeared.
September 7th, 2022 at 4:18 PM ^
There was a post years ago, (Denard/RichRod era) at the start of the season IIRC or maybe before the OSU game or something that included a video of Michigan highlights set to some indie song I'd never heard before with a female singer. I can't remember the group or the name of the song but I loved the video. It started out all sad and stuff, showing clips of bad plays and general ineptitude from the season before then when the song really kicked in (there was an f-bomb I think) the highlights turned to sweet plays that made us hopeful for what was about to come. Anyone remember that or what the song was? I've been wondering about that for years.
September 7th, 2022 at 8:32 PM ^
The band was Rilo Kiley and the song was A Better Son/Daughter
September 10th, 2022 at 6:50 PM ^
That's the one! Thank you!
September 7th, 2022 at 11:39 PM ^
The one Ace did with all the GIFs.