JWG Wolverine

August 11th, 2022 at 12:13 AM ^

A recent topic of discussion in this year's countdown was a running back who beat Ohio State in a top-10 game at the Big House to spring the Wolverines into a Big Ten title.

Let's commemorate the running back who did that BEFORE Hassan Haskins...

Thanks WH. Enjoy!

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moldee_raspberry

August 11th, 2022 at 10:32 AM ^

In the 03 osu game, Perry was slow to get up after taking a huge hit and shredding their D all afternoon, and the entire stadium started chanting Perry, Perry, Perry, like the colosseum summoning Maximus was I think how SI compared it in the article titled “Maizing Grace” at the time. I was fkn there, what a game.

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BLUEinRockford

August 11th, 2022 at 10:36 AM ^

Had the opportunity to meet and talk to Chris Perry at Picture Day his freshman year (2000). My season tickets buddy took a picture of us. He was very polite and humble as we discussed the upcoming season. When asked if he was going to redshirt, he promptly responded "No way, I'm playing". Also met Dave Brandt and Norm Hauer. 

Side note: the Monday after the 51 carry game against staee, I wore a Meeeechigan hat with the picture of me and Chris attached to it. I worked with a lot of staee grads and fans and thought they would like to look at him all day Monday, too.

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Grampy

August 11th, 2022 at 9:16 AM ^

Memorable Moments I have seen (sort of) for #23:

 - #23 Chris Perry carrying the ball 51 times to beat Sparty in their shithole stadium

 - #23 Jamie Morris running directly over (like, foot planted on the chest of) an Alabama safety at the 4 yard line to score in the 1988 Hall of Fame bowl (I saw this one on TV, though) 

 - Best of all, #23 Lawrence Reid 'fumbling' the ball out of bounds with :06 left on the clock and no timeouts against Indiana in 1979 to set up the AC touchdown of notoriety.  It was less of a fumble and a lot more of a spiral lateral directly to Lee Corso on the Indiana sideline.  Lee caught the ball and went crazy when the refs ruled it to be a fumble.  Yeah, baby!

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