Roll Call - UM fans attending/staying home & reasons

You serious, Clark?

Love the superstitious outlook.  I'm watching at home on my good luck TV with my good luck clothes. 

I was watching the Rose Bowl with my mom at her house.  I bought a new TV for the game because besides being too small her TV was bad luck.  Saw the Georgia loss there.

As far as showing up in person for bowl games I am only 3-5.  I'm 0-5 in South Bend so I probably shouldn't go there anymore. 

Watching from home.

Reasons:

1. Spent a billion dollars to attend Rose Bowl

2. I want to experience watching the game with my kids

3. As much as I would love to see Michigan win the National Championship in person, the Pasadena experience was the real bucket list item for me. Watching a prime time game in a fully commercialized NFL stadium pales in comparison to the tradition of the Rose Bowl

I’ll be watching from home. I’ve attended none of the Ohio State wins the last 3 years or the Rose bowl. I’ll do my part by not attending. 
 

i did go to Indy but they were more like scrimmages. 
 

I also work in finance and I have a meeting with the CFO on Tuesday that would be career limiting if I skipped. 

I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks. I do, I do, I do, I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks, I do, I do, I do, I do!

I've got work, otherwise I'd have gone.  Boo.

Work.  

Calling off at the last minute is unprofessional, especially when you have a 6-8 week waiting list (am a physician).

My kids are current students at Michigan.  I will drop them off for the winter semester tomorrow (Sunday).

They went to the Rose Bowl and will be “out and about” in Ann Arbor - watching / enjoying the game at a fine campus haunt.  I’ll join them & their friends and plan to pick up the tab.

As for superstitious stuff - I’ve worn my maize 1/4 zip Nike Jumpman pullover for every game this season.  I’ll wear it on Monday evening too.

Go Blue!

Already took two trips this year to see the team play (Minnesota and B1GCG). So I’m past my allotment for spending money on football (I also have Lion's season tickets). M is 9-0 when my wife and I are in attendance though (knock on wood). So I will be watching it at my neighbors where I watched the Bama game. Also I like having replays in big games.

I have young kids at home. Im in that range where I’m old enough to have kids but not old enough for the kids to be on their own. 

Can't go. Have to stay home or at relatives where I can frantically leave the room during crucial moments and ensure victory. Works like a charm. No thanks necessary.

With such paltry ticket prices I and my entourage would have been on the 50 otherwise. BET!

that was weird.

My first game as a season ticket holder was App State, behind the field goal post. I was at the Toledo loss, the Trouble with the Snap loss, and multiple MSU & OSU losses.

These days I stay away from the stadium.

Attending.  I think we all know the "reasons."

I've been a Michigan fan since I was old enough to know what football was, But I have a hundred other things in my life that the few thousand dollars for nosebleed tickets alone could go towards instead.

Stop rubbing it, Nanook.

I’ll be watching at a local theater, most likely surrounded by UW fans. I would love to see the game in person but there’s no way I could afford that. 

Not attending: too far to travel for a game best viewed on a comfy couch with snacks on demand, private bathroom with no waiting lines, and a superb ability to a) fast forward through commercials, half time, and b) mute talking heads. My presence at or absence from the game imparts no benefit(s) or issue(s) whatsoever.

My thinking? We got this.

Mulled it over until yesterday afternoon and decided to stay at home. 

The combination of price and pain in the ass getting there was just slightly too much for the juice to be worth the squeeze. 

Have safe fun everybody traveling and go blue! 

Going with my son (flights willing).

In favor of us going

Me

-Student from 91-95 (2-1-1 vs OSU and ND, 1-1 vs UW in the Rose Bowl)

-7-1 in games attended since (1-1 bowl games, 2004 Rose and 2011 Sugar)

Son

-He started following UMfb in 2021, and is 2-0 in person

In favor of us not going

-Have not yet been cured of BPONE (in remission, but still in window for recurrence)

-TCU did not baptize him with UM fandom and I'm worried he's due

Watching from home because my wife and I just bought our first home and can’t afford a $5k+ trip :(

On the way down now! Don’t have our tickets yet because the market dictates that I should keep waiting. 

Games I’ve attended…

1997 OSU

2016 Citrus bowl

2021 OSU

2023 Penn State

I’ve had great luck at games. I have no ticket for Monday night, but if anyone wants to give me one for free and it’s a good seat, I will take one for the team and buy a plane ticket to the game. 

I lived in San Diego (from 2008-2020 and was beyond bummed to not go to Rosebowl. Lived there 13 years and we didn’t even sniff it. 

Watching from home.  Would have been awesome to do the Rose Bowl thing, but was there for the tour in '97 and the win on Jan 1 so kinda checked that box.  

Wanted to do the NCG but just missed the cut for the MI tix and the price didn't come down enough while was in SanAn to warrant changing flights to stay for it.  May wind up wishing I'd just choked down the higher price tag but couldn't pull the trigger.

My partner will be at the game with the band--I'm holding down the fort here.

I will be in the black t-shirt and running shorts that have worked for the B1G championship and Alabama game.  That feels like the right gear for this win.

As a human, it is important for me to feel like I can influence events over which I objectively have no control.  Just because I'm a professor doesn't mean I can't be a mindless fan too.  :)

Go Blue!

Staying home, unfortunately. 

Was presented the opportunity to go, but I passed. We had to pay for a new furnace due to the old one breaking down right before Thanksgiving. Right after that, we had to install a new faucet for a kitchen sink, and then we’re about to start redoing our deck in a month or so after getting our insurance claim payout (tree fell on our deck during a monsoon and absolutely destroyed it), but we know we’re going to have to come out of pocket to do what we want to do instead of just rebuilding it back to the way it was. 

So basically, it’s been a really freaking expensive last few months, and shelling out another few grand to go to this game just isn’t in the cards.

I have determined that I have watched all but one half of football in the last two years outdoors.   Either at the game or on my porch TV.    That half was TCU at an alum watch party and we realized as the half closed the last watch party we attended was 21 MSU so we politely excused ourselves and went home.

Went to Pasadena but NRG is indoors so will be watching on the porch no matter the weather.   Not to mention I also spent a billion dollars on the Rose Bowl.

And I’m not really superstitious but at this point why take chances.

If it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have no luck at all.

Closing on a new condo Tuesday or else I'd be there.

This hits home for me...still mulling it over. I can swing the $4k (no humble brag), can always be spent on other things - but this experience doesn't come around often.

That being said, the flight from Chicago, being by myself, 2 kiddos at home (1 and 3, but have wife's blessing), logistics, lines, worse viewing experience. Potential for delays with weather.

Contrasted with electric atmosphere, 2.5 decades in the making, and some awesome eating...could out fly Sunday or Monday. It's really a 50/50. 

I may try envisioning the whole thing, good and bad. I'm on the razor's edge!

I will be there and I will be loud. Can’t wait. I am 1-1 in national titles for Michigan so hoping we get that to 2-1.

I am watching from home for the best of reasons. In October 1995 I started an unbroken streak when Northwestern upset us on their way to the Rose Bowl. Since then it has been my misfortune to witness in person loss after loss, pretty much one each year for a decade or until I decided to stop jinxing the team and stop putting my butt in the bleachers. (You can't blame me for Rich Rod; he did that on his own!) Nearly 30 years without seeing a win in person!

But I am watching from home, and that in itself has a story. In '97, not only did I not attended any regular season games, I didn't watch any on TV live either. Work got in the way every Saturday and I only listened on the radio and/or followed the game summary on the interwebs. I was torn about watching the Rose Bowl given "respect the streak", but I watched, fingers crossed. We won, and I haven't been superstitious about watching since.

Go Blue!