M Squared

October 14th, 2016 at 7:15 PM ^

As a collective, we do an awful job of coordinating our colors.  Did we try to do maize outs pre-Brandon?  I don't recall.  

Take the Rutgers game as an example, I was surprised to see so few maize colors in the stands, only to realize later that the other half of Michigan fans were in dark blue, which blends in with the Rutgers black and therefore makes no impression.

Even in our home games, we call for a maize out but all of our benches are colored in blue, and in part for that reason, the maize out always looks weak outside the student section.  

When it comes to this issue, it's like we are playing tic tac toe and schools such as Tennessee are playing chess.

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truferblue22

October 14th, 2016 at 2:55 PM ^

If I were any of you, I would advise against standing with the Bros in the student section. Especially if things go our way in a big way. Having said that, if they do, the students will be gone by halftime.

Joined: 06/30/2008

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Hard-Baughlls

October 14th, 2016 at 4:45 PM ^

a terribly mysoginistic conversation using words like slammed, ravaged, whore, etc regarding coeds.  They will accept you as one of their own, despite your allegiance to another institution. This is a classic camoulflage technique.

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The Maizer

October 14th, 2016 at 3:15 PM ^

I don't know if this is still the case, but when I bought a student ticket to go to a UM vs. MSU game in East Lansing, you actually borrowed the student ID of the person you bought it from. The ticket guy at the stadium gave me a funny look when I -- a large guy garbed in UM gear -- handed him the ID of a skinny MSU girl. But had no trouble getting in.

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JonnyHintz

October 14th, 2016 at 3:57 PM ^

Is that strictly an MSU thing? At Michigan, you don't need a student ID. You simply take the student ticket to will-call and pay an activation fee (price depends on the game, it was $25 each for the Hawaii game) and then BAM. Student section seats. If you have a Michigan student ID (UM-Flint and Dearborn work as well) then you dont have to pay the activation fee.

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tjohn7

October 14th, 2016 at 2:59 PM ^

Wonder if we could convince some wealthy alumnus(a) to buy up a large amount of seats and then give them to families and friends (obviously Michigan only) of patients at Mott?  Double, maybe triple whammy to Sparty.

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UM Fan from Sydney

October 14th, 2016 at 3:00 PM ^

Not that I care, but I have never seen someone type "dollars" in that format instead of just typing $154.

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sum1valiant

October 14th, 2016 at 7:49 PM ^

Correct. Verbalizing punctuation or a symbol has no bearing on how it is written in text. Also, I believe that the dollar sign was originally placed in front of the number to help avoid forgery of early paper cash and checks. For our sake, picture a check written for one hundred dollars, and how easy it would be to change the value of the check if the $ symbol were after the number. 100.00$ easily becomes 1100.00$, while one can't add numbers after the decimal.

Joined: 09/01/2009

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Evil Empire

October 14th, 2016 at 4:29 PM ^

it has made it simpler for me to figure out what things cost.  It's close enough to 20:1 that my brain can deal with it.  I was lost when 1 USD was16 or 17 pesos.

In the early Daily Shows they used to give the weekly box office report in lira.  A big opening weekend for a blockbuster would be around 100 trillion lira.

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