What are your favorite Mgoblog features?
What features would you most miss if MGoblog stopped providing them?
During the football season UFRs are definately my favorite (even after a loss). I personally love the addition of the PFF stuff this year - seeing how many snaps people played as well as the grades to compare to Brian's is a great addition. Its awesome to see an already great feature evolve to become even better.
27 tickets may be my favorite non-regular feature. For me, Brian hit a homerun here in finding a nontraditional way to make depth chart projections.
Hello posts are another place the blog excels in my mind. I love both the format and the content.
If I was asked to rank all the types of content on the blog, I think these would be my personal top three (but I suspect others may make cimments that make me consider others)
Draftageddon
SHUT IT DOWN! This is the answer of the day!
Apparel threadz
UFR. And it's not even close. I could read them all year. Brian, et al, doesn't get enough credit for the work that goes into the UFR's.
I literally laugh out loud through the entire feature every time. BisB is great at capturing the feel of every game in the season with outstanding comedic timing.
like all of the super hot girls in the Bad Idea T-shirts on the left part of my screen. That is a good feature.
One idea that I think I think would be cool is having some archived columns posted on the front page, "Throwback Thursday" or something like that. Sometimes I like to read old game recaps or other memorable front page content but can't really keyword search it that well.
I don't get those anymore (!?). But my work computer is clean (present company excepted).
don't know why I get them. I go like here, Rotten Tomatoes, and sometimes some random news article or show review.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but I'll bring up the "This month in MGoBlog History" diaries that Maize.Blue Wagner does. Looking back to the articles/program of 10 years ago is sometimes depressing, but always an interesting read.
The super psychic ability to recognize who posted a thread just by reading the title
Smart and funny commenters in the threads, followed closely by smart and funny writers. The people really make this blog.
I also enjoy the opposite of what you like.
Maizen fan, eh?
J/k Maizen. I admire your courage.
Posbang Fridays, and Hello posts
Opponent Watch - this section usually has me bursting out laughing at my desk at least once every few weeks during the season. We have some truly great writers who run this site.
Previews - I learn about when I get to worry, or when I get to cackle with knowing glee.
Hello posts
All of WD's new apparel threads
Snowflakes thread - we all celebrate together, or wallow in our misery together.
Anyone reading 17776 by Jon Bois?
Also, its the UFRs and Season Preview.
My favorite is Brian's post-game write up. I also like Best and Worst by Bronxblue and also really liked ST3's Inside the Box Score before he hung 'em up last year.
If WD can come back from self-imposed exile, perhaps I can be coaxed out of diary-retirement.
UFRs are the features I keep refreshing to see posted. But I'm a fan of most of the featured articles.
Opponent watch. So much snark in such a succinct and scrollable synopsis.
Magnus
WD
The Jesus people. "Ohhh look at me and my best friend Jesus! We're so cool! Too bad you don't have HIM in your life!! Hahhaha!" Assholes.
EDIT: I seem to be a bit confused.
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1. Opponent Watch (whichever team is deemed the rock in particular)
2. Muppets
3. Hello
4. UFR
5. OFAAT
6. Guess the Score Win Stuff
7. Neck Sharpies
Best and Worst, from diarist BronxBlue, never disappoints.
Unverified Voracity is usually a good read, and typically links to points I would otherwise miss.
Brian's game summaries (not the UFRs, which are also good, but the narrative write-ups).
Clever photoshop threads.
Shit-show Board Posts that somehow morph into something wonderful - like the posts regarding expressing one's dog's anal glands.
UFR
Unverified Voracity
Recruiting Updates and Hellos
From the Diaries, I also love Best and Worst and The Knowledge
One Frame at a Time
Best & Worst (diaries)
UFR
Unverified Voracity
Monday game write-ups
Hello! posts
(honorable mention to Muppets, but only because it means an awesome M victory has happened)
1. Opponent watch
2. Brian's 1,000,000 word season previews
3. UFR
4. Game previews
1. Brian's game column. It's still the most pure MGoBlog part of MGoBlog. He should publish an anthology of every column, win or lose, every few years. His ability to find some life experience metaphor for how fans feel at a given point is unparallelled.
2. Opponent watch. For yuks per sentence of content, this wins hands down.
3. UFRs. So we can find out this week's reason why the running game was clogged up. In the Hoke years, this was usually a type of primal screaming.
4. Hello, Rashan Gary. Obviously.
Re: your suggestion to create an anthology, I enjoy going back and reading old game columns and UFRs. Some of the most interesting are the game columns from Hoke's final season, as things devolved into a pit of despair (interesting in retrospect because now we know that things got better quickly), and the UFRs from Denard's first few starts when we were trying to figure out how this supernova hit.