THERE ARE...
...days until Matthew Godin (DT 2012-2016) sees Michigan Football start anew for 2019 against the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders at The Big House.
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Welcome to another summer, and thus another season of "There Are". If you don't enjoy these posts and their glances into Michigan Football history as we get prepared for the upcoming season, kindly do not click on them, just to keep yourself happy and healthy.
Since this season is a year where offseason hype needs to be shoved aside as we look for nothing except some serious accomplishments on the field when it matters, I am going to try not to get you pumped up, but simply remind you that in the distant future lies a day when all of that meaningless talk can be put aside, and "The Team, The Team, The Team" can have a fresh start to prove themselves worthy of the Michigan glory displayed throughout the countdown.
Go Blue!
Shoutout to Pierre Woods (who I gave the first “There are…” post to last year), and all the other players who wore 99 for the Wolverines.
Per usual, these posts come with a video, and this one is for Robert Thompson, and Bob Ufer's tremendous call of his sack in Columbus back in 1980:
Thanks for the awesome videos WolverineHistorian as always and enjoy!
ufer: butch, don't call me harold, woolfolk
classic.
freshman year. a number of friends in that highlight reel. and while the 'there are' threads aren't my favorite, the pay off is spending a couple of minutes watching these old tapes.
go blue.
BRING OUT THE COOKIES MILLIE, DADDY'S COMING HOME WITH THE VICTORY!!! Grew up with Ufer the most entertaining announcer ever.
GO BLUE!!
There are 1201 days until...
Putin gets ass ass inated.
Maizen moves out of her mom's basement.
Wait, is Maizen a woman? Makes no difference I guess, I just had always imagined the legend that is Maizen to be a cranky middle-aged man.
No clue, guess I should've put his/her.
To be fair, Shawn is a unisex name.
Lets go!
Bottles of beer on the wall?
Yes, I know, I know ... I'm old.
Seems way too soon. How many more days until it actually feels like summer?
Yes. It’s almost here boys and girls. Only 3 more shitty months where you have to pay attention to family and focus at work.
Crap. I'm supposed to be doing what?...
100, actually. My countdown app to 8/31 says 100.
Triple dipping. *GoT “shame”*
I mean, you're not wrong. It is 100 days until Sat Aug 31
Yep. Definitely not wrong, mistake on my part when I read my countdown clock!
I'm gonna take one day off before I post ol' 98.
OP: I have another idea. Maybe this year you and your friends could clutter up the board with something halfway useful and not worn-out.
I thought the "There are ..." posts were clever the first time I saw them. That was a long time ago. Now? They're like the old restaurants in Ann Arbor that are running on fumes. Or, maybe like the announcement of the Slippery Rock score at Michigan games, a "tradition" that lost its charm years ago and is meaningless (or just silly) to a big percentage of the audience.
Avatar checks out.
He should probably change it to Old Man Yells at Cloud.
When you're that old, countdowns are a bit depressing.
Now, to be fair, the "There Are..." threads have typically been more entertaining that the mid-July "OT: Flushed My Keys Down The Lavatory. HELP!" threads
Cinnabon cinnamon rolls is the correct answer for both threads. It's also the correct answer for "how to get diabetes fastest" and "how to lose all your teeth without doing meth."
Point taken.
Now in this scenario are you the stick or the mud? I guess it's irrelevant, you get the point.
The beautiful thing about a blog, is to simply not touch a topic you want skip. As to cluttering up the blog with a single line on a list is way less clutter than a rant about traditions being irrelevant, which of course is an irrelevant comment itself.
Get off Jasper's lawn!!!
So I'm definitely not always a "glass half full" kind of guy when it comes to the football team. This long drought has made me cynical.
However, yesterday (for whatever reason) I suddenly got the urge to listen to Journey's Don't Stop Believin'....well, a whole day of that song on repeat later (cause it's an awesome song) and I'm not going to lie, I was really feeling it for this upcoming football season. All I could imagine was the team finally beating OSU and standing there in Indy accepting the B1G trophy...everyone cheering, crying, celebrating...thinking and saying "We finally made it! It's been a long hard journey, but this program has finally achieved redemption!..." or something like that.
Any how...yeah, I'm really stoked for 2019 after yesterday. Let's go get em' bois! Show em' some speed in space!
Now that's the spirit!
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN IS HERE!
The final countdown is also off by a day.
