All 5 phases: he was a ball boy at Michigan as a little kid when his dad coached here. I believe there is a photo of Harbaugh jumping on Rick Leach's back in the end zone after a touchdown. Nobody loves Michigan football more than this guy.
I'm not going to qualify myself as a leading gourmand here but both of my favorite A2 restaurants have closed recently.
1) China Gate was the one on South U and Church (not Middle Kingdom). Almond Chicken like I've never found since.
2) Red Hot Lovers which became Rays Red Hots (also now closed) over a number of ownership/naming disputes. Specifically the chilli cheese fries were so good: waffle fry; stand alone worthy chilli (not some paste), individual order melted cheese (not a tub of cheese wiz). RHL was the zenith when the chili fries could be purchased for maybe $8 and satisfy (e.g. un-digestible) for the whole day. This was critical in my grad school cost benefit equation. I'd go there in yesterday's clothes b/c the place was grubby and you smelled like deep fryer after. I'd go as often as I could afford.
Our strategy doesn't make a ton of sense. Teams 1, 3, 5 are allied and are all attacking us and so.. we are preoccupied with preventing the #2 team from winning. Texas A&M doesn't border us. If they take the lead they become a big problem for Wisconsin and OSU, who will have to divert resources from us. OSU may very well decide to lose the game rather than let us win it but why would we make that same decision about Texas A&M? All of our resources should go to winning Canada and the midwest. Nothing against Texas A&M. Heck, I'd ally with A&M. When OSU is under real pressure from the South maybe they cease fire with us. Wisconsin can get eliminated.
Yer goddamn right about that. As 4th gen descendant of a UP copper miner, my family has heated debates out crust making (lard vs crisco), veggie preparation (never use a food processor... cube that properly yourself), rutabega is universally accepted, some put on ketchup (sacrilege IMO) but NOBODY puts gravy on it. Also, I'd never order one in a restaurant. They are meant to be made en masse by 3 generations starting early on a Saturday morning in fall so the first ones are coming out for lunch at Kickoff. Others are frozen and enjoyed for rest of the season.
I went to Detroit Catholic Central. All boys. My experience is more relevant to when you son is in middle school and beyond. On the social development front, I would have zero worries about that. We had plenty of opportunities to interact with females - teachers but also peers in social settings. Girls from the surrounding area will find your son at sports and dances, the neighborhood, etc. The enormous benefits of not having teenage girls around is that there is zero competition among the boys for their attention. This fosters brotherhood and ability to focus on school and as a prior poster said a willingness to try things with far less concern about social status tied to them. I think this had a knock on benefit to your second question around socio economic status. Without girls around, and with a dress code, who was there to impress in the hallways with our wealth or whatever? My dad was a factory worker. I couldn't tell you who in my class was particularly rich, it just wasn't any sort of a factor in my day to day interactions with classmates. My school very intentionally tried to teach values and foster brotherhood. I don't know the culture of your son's potential school but you could ask some questions along those lines.
1I have so many good memories in which Blue Front played a pivotal role in my delinquency as a minor.
1) We used to buy cases of Weidemans there, a bottled beer cheaper than Busch cans, whose empty cases served as furniture (end tables, coffee tables) all over our apartment. Classy! Never seen that beer anywhere else. We thought it was good...would probably gag me now.
2) As an 17 year old freshman I looked maybe 15. I bought booze for 3.5 years at Blue Front for everyone I knew on the strength of a ridiculous fake Ohio ID in which I was standing in the cut out of poster board size replica of a license. Nobody under maybe 30 years old on here as any idea how shitty fake IDs used to be. Never a problem at The Blue Front! Until that one time while standing in line some new guy opened that second register right in front of my spot in line and stuck his hand out for my ID, instantly chucked in the trash telling me to beat it and all I could say was "I've been buying here for 3 years with that ID" (not "hey I need my license back, I won't be able to drive").
To all the guys buying news papers there... LOL... very different experience.
I don't know that teams getting knocked out of 2 or 3 games make the season a farce. It makes a determination of a national champion problematic. But it already is problematic. I'd watch 8 games of Michigan football this season and be content that no B1G or national champion is crowned, or that it disputed. If it is unsafe for them to play, and therefore they should not play any games (and this is probably the case), then I'm fine without a season. But if they are safe, I'd like to see college athletes striving to be their best on the field. Weird season ending records, statistics and titles be damned. If we take safety first and they can safely play 5 games, play 5 games.
Everyone loves Everitt. I have a couple safe for work stories that aren't great but you might enjoy since we all like the main character.
Steve Everitt lived lived on my hall freshman year (8th floor Huber, South Quad) about 2 doors down and across. Very colorful guy and a good hall mate - he was a minor celebrity as a freshman starter but hung out with us on the hall. One of my fondest safe for work memories was playing Techmobowl with him in my room. We sat on egg crates in middle of the room in front of crappy TV sitting on top of a mini fridge in front of the window. He looked preposterous perched on an egg crate and I was all of 5'9" 135lbs sitting next to him. From the doorway our profiles had to look like the bugs bunny cartoon. Each time I'd score or win a game he'd give me a playful nudge or tap on the back that would result in me being ejected from the egg crate.
On another occasion me and 7 other guys (similar slight statures as me) teamed up to haul/drag two kegs from Blue Front up Hill Street to the back stairs that led up to Huber Hall. It about killed us. Someone ran up to 8th floor and brought back Everitt and his roommate Bill who each hoisted a keg on a shoulder like it was a boom box, no trouble at all, and walked up the 8 floors. He was a regular dude just very very big.
One more... he and his roommate had questionable laundry habits. Mounds of cloths all over the floor. There was a terrible stink on the hall for like a week getting worse and worse that was so strong it was hard to tell where it came from b/c it was everywhere. Eventually the hall mates demanded to search his room and a very old half eaten box of pizza was found under a laundry pile. It had to have been there for weeks.
I enjoyed rolling around in their misery for a while. “Even better if” there could be a score timeline to pair the comments against so we can see exact moments where the suffering becomes more acute. Well done.
Kinda wished we saved that fake punt for OSU as well, however, putting out two fake punts this year - especially this one - ought to have hidden dividends on defense vs. returns. Right? Foes watching that film have to be concerned with putting some beef out there and keeping it on the line of scrimmage, not running back to set up blocks. Seems like the ability to fake is an advantage with this formation so I'm glad to see we are taking it.
Love the Joyous Child. Looks about 8 to me. Mine is 5 years old now. Rutgers was her 6th game and the first one where she generally knew what was going on, cheered at appropriate moments (half of her experience is junk food and people watching), and lasted until her parents wanted to leave. I am on pace to have mine fully weaponized in 3 more years like that little girl and then, no matter how much an A-hole she decides one day that her dad must be, we will always have Michigan football together.
As a Steelers fan I can believe Rapelesburger contributed but Brown had to go. What I can’t forgive is getting a 3rd rounder in return from a team famous for getting fleeced in trades and being oblivious to character issues.
As a Steelers fan I can believe Rapelesburger contributed but Brown had to go. What I can’t forgive is getting a 3rd rounder in return from a team famous for getting fleeced in trades and being oblivious to character issues.
Love the writing in this piece ("I guess the worst that can happen is you'll throw a pick six (he threw a pick six)") and the cyan circle on the coach. Hilarious. Thanks Mgoblog for making work suck less.
You are getting a pretty late start on indoctrination. My daughter could sing Hail To The Victors when she was 1 b/c I sang it during diaper changes and would clap her feet together and raise one up for the hails. She will be 4 Aug 30 and will attend her 4th annual installment of the $5 September opponent that is designed for taking your kid to the big house. We live close by so it's no big deal if she's toast by half time. She likes the tailgating, the cheerleaders, frozen lemon ice, the band, and people in our row fussing over her. She knows that the blue ones are the good guys and that blue and yellow are daddy's favorite colors. Finer points (the actual game) will be taught later. When we drive by the stadium we compete to be the first to notice the great big M (scoreboard). The University of Michigan is a source of a great deal of happiness for me and I try to impart every bit of that onto her in the hopes that it is something we can share.
I like the play at the end were they seem to be forward lateraling to the running back. If Chase doesn't simply intercept it, he or Gary could disrupt that play for a fumble. Now I'm imagining plays in a game that is +2 weeks away. Hooboy. I need to find a good book or something.
I care. The team I root for plays football, in the midwest, against MSU. The scale and that some of victems were on the USA olympic team should make it relevant to most anyone else.
I'm as irritated as everyone else about the time travel breaks from reality and am critical that the writers went too slow for 6 seasons and left themselves with too little time resolve things realistically in the final seasons.
That said, the writing is still very good. Loved the dialogue as the characters marched North last night. More so, I love those characters and was convinced we were getting to see some of them for the last time last night. A major difference between the "just a TV show" and GOT season 7 (even with some loss on the story telling end) is that underneath the movie quality cinematics, we really care about the characters due to the great writing and long build up to these scenese. We believe any of them could die. I was edge of my seat tense when Bronn was shooting at Drogon a couple episodes and just a bit gut sick last night wondering which of my favorites wasn't coming back from North of The Wall. I haven't cared about characters in TV or movies like this in a long time. Especially in special effects driven movies.
I'm going to forgive them the time travel, suspend disbelef on it (the earned some mulligans) and simply relish the fiinal episodes of some the best TV ever in a genre I love and rarely get to enjoy at this quaity level.
Its true. My daughter, pictured at right, needed to get the pictured helmet to correct a flatness from sleaping her on her back. The only solace we had as parents putting their baby in a helmet for the next 3-6 months was that the UM Medical Center brochure showed a kid in a Michigan helmet - maize and blue with wings and all. That made it a bit less horrible. Well, turns out they recently had to stop selling Michigan helmets for babies b/c the athletic department insisted that the UM Medical community pay a licensing fee to continue selling the helmet. My bill has a block M on it and both of baby's parents are season ticket holding alums but we couldn't get the nice helmet.
I got this log in to tell the world: Dave Brandon is a peice of shit human being.
You know that tear jerker commercial where the violin version of The Victors plays and kids at UM Hospitals are overcoming the odds... well Dave Brandon wants to monitize them. POSHB!!!!!!!!!
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All 5 phases: he was a ball boy at Michigan as a little kid when his dad coached here. I believe there is a photo of Harbaugh jumping on Rick Leach's back in the end zone after a touchdown. Nobody loves Michigan football more than this guy.
I'm not going to qualify myself as a leading gourmand here but both of my favorite A2 restaurants have closed recently.
1) China Gate was the one on South U and Church (not Middle Kingdom). Almond Chicken like I've never found since.
2) Red Hot Lovers which became Rays Red Hots (also now closed) over a number of ownership/naming disputes. Specifically the chilli cheese fries were so good: waffle fry; stand alone worthy chilli (not some paste), individual order melted cheese (not a tub of cheese wiz). RHL was the zenith when the chili fries could be purchased for maybe $8 and satisfy (e.g. un-digestible) for the whole day. This was critical in my grad school cost benefit equation. I'd go there in yesterday's clothes b/c the place was grubby and you smelled like deep fryer after. I'd go as often as I could afford.
Our strategy doesn't make a ton of sense. Teams 1, 3, 5 are allied and are all attacking us and so.. we are preoccupied with preventing the #2 team from winning. Texas A&M doesn't border us. If they take the lead they become a big problem for Wisconsin and OSU, who will have to divert resources from us. OSU may very well decide to lose the game rather than let us win it but why would we make that same decision about Texas A&M? All of our resources should go to winning Canada and the midwest. Nothing against Texas A&M. Heck, I'd ally with A&M. When OSU is under real pressure from the South maybe they cease fire with us. Wisconsin can get eliminated.
Oh man. That Game Day special on Meechie... so many allergens in my basement right now. Fortunately nobody else around to be exposed.
Yer goddamn right about that. As 4th gen descendant of a UP copper miner, my family has heated debates out crust making (lard vs crisco), veggie preparation (never use a food processor... cube that properly yourself), rutabega is universally accepted, some put on ketchup (sacrilege IMO) but NOBODY puts gravy on it. Also, I'd never order one in a restaurant. They are meant to be made en masse by 3 generations starting early on a Saturday morning in fall so the first ones are coming out for lunch at Kickoff. Others are frozen and enjoyed for rest of the season.
I went to Detroit Catholic Central. All boys. My experience is more relevant to when you son is in middle school and beyond. On the social development front, I would have zero worries about that. We had plenty of opportunities to interact with females - teachers but also peers in social settings. Girls from the surrounding area will find your son at sports and dances, the neighborhood, etc. The enormous benefits of not having teenage girls around is that there is zero competition among the boys for their attention. This fosters brotherhood and ability to focus on school and as a prior poster said a willingness to try things with far less concern about social status tied to them. I think this had a knock on benefit to your second question around socio economic status. Without girls around, and with a dress code, who was there to impress in the hallways with our wealth or whatever? My dad was a factory worker. I couldn't tell you who in my class was particularly rich, it just wasn't any sort of a factor in my day to day interactions with classmates. My school very intentionally tried to teach values and foster brotherhood. I don't know the culture of your son's potential school but you could ask some questions along those lines.
Cure - Friday I’m in Love. They had to have been forced to make that song at gun point. Absolutely the antithesis of a Cure song
1I have so many good memories in which Blue Front played a pivotal role in my delinquency as a minor.
1) We used to buy cases of Weidemans there, a bottled beer cheaper than Busch cans, whose empty cases served as furniture (end tables, coffee tables) all over our apartment. Classy! Never seen that beer anywhere else. We thought it was good...would probably gag me now.
2) As an 17 year old freshman I looked maybe 15. I bought booze for 3.5 years at Blue Front for everyone I knew on the strength of a ridiculous fake Ohio ID in which I was standing in the cut out of poster board size replica of a license. Nobody under maybe 30 years old on here as any idea how shitty fake IDs used to be. Never a problem at The Blue Front! Until that one time while standing in line some new guy opened that second register right in front of my spot in line and stuck his hand out for my ID, instantly chucked in the trash telling me to beat it and all I could say was "I've been buying here for 3 years with that ID" (not "hey I need my license back, I won't be able to drive").
To all the guys buying news papers there... LOL... very different experience.
I don't know that teams getting knocked out of 2 or 3 games make the season a farce. It makes a determination of a national champion problematic. But it already is problematic. I'd watch 8 games of Michigan football this season and be content that no B1G or national champion is crowned, or that it disputed. If it is unsafe for them to play, and therefore they should not play any games (and this is probably the case), then I'm fine without a season. But if they are safe, I'd like to see college athletes striving to be their best on the field. Weird season ending records, statistics and titles be damned. If we take safety first and they can safely play 5 games, play 5 games.
WD - love your posts. Schedules, apparel, opinions... all of them. Good content from a passionate fan. Need more of that and less fan on fan snark.
WD - love your posts. Schedules, apparel, opinions... all of them. Good content from a passionate fan. Need more of that and less fan on fan snark.
Everyone loves Everitt. I have a couple safe for work stories that aren't great but you might enjoy since we all like the main character.
Steve Everitt lived lived on my hall freshman year (8th floor Huber, South Quad) about 2 doors down and across. Very colorful guy and a good hall mate - he was a minor celebrity as a freshman starter but hung out with us on the hall. One of my fondest safe for work memories was playing Techmobowl with him in my room. We sat on egg crates in middle of the room in front of crappy TV sitting on top of a mini fridge in front of the window. He looked preposterous perched on an egg crate and I was all of 5'9" 135lbs sitting next to him. From the doorway our profiles had to look like the bugs bunny cartoon. Each time I'd score or win a game he'd give me a playful nudge or tap on the back that would result in me being ejected from the egg crate.
On another occasion me and 7 other guys (similar slight statures as me) teamed up to haul/drag two kegs from Blue Front up Hill Street to the back stairs that led up to Huber Hall. It about killed us. Someone ran up to 8th floor and brought back Everitt and his roommate Bill who each hoisted a keg on a shoulder like it was a boom box, no trouble at all, and walked up the 8 floors. He was a regular dude just very very big.
One more... he and his roommate had questionable laundry habits. Mounds of cloths all over the floor. There was a terrible stink on the hall for like a week getting worse and worse that was so strong it was hard to tell where it came from b/c it was everywhere. Eventually the hall mates demanded to search his room and a very old half eaten box of pizza was found under a laundry pile. It had to have been there for weeks.
I enjoyed rolling around in their misery for a while. “Even better if” there could be a score timeline to pair the comments against so we can see exact moments where the suffering becomes more acute. Well done.
Kinda wished we saved that fake punt for OSU as well, however, putting out two fake punts this year - especially this one - ought to have hidden dividends on defense vs. returns. Right? Foes watching that film have to be concerned with putting some beef out there and keeping it on the line of scrimmage, not running back to set up blocks. Seems like the ability to fake is an advantage with this formation so I'm glad to see we are taking it.
Love the Joyous Child. Looks about 8 to me. Mine is 5 years old now. Rutgers was her 6th game and the first one where she generally knew what was going on, cheered at appropriate moments (half of her experience is junk food and people watching), and lasted until her parents wanted to leave. I am on pace to have mine fully weaponized in 3 more years like that little girl and then, no matter how much an A-hole she decides one day that her dad must be, we will always have Michigan football together.
As a Steelers fan I can believe Rapelesburger contributed but Brown had to go. What I can’t forgive is getting a 3rd rounder in return from a team famous for getting fleeced in trades and being oblivious to character issues.
As a Steelers fan I can believe Rapelesburger contributed but Brown had to go. What I can’t forgive is getting a 3rd rounder in return from a team famous for getting fleeced in trades and being oblivious to character issues.
Onwenu is 350 in the same way those Chernobyl meters were reading 3.6 “equivalent to a chest x-ray”
Actually, Blondie said that first. (Replying to HotelPutingrad)
Love the writing in this piece ("I guess the worst that can happen is you'll throw a pick six (he threw a pick six)") and the cyan circle on the coach. Hilarious. Thanks Mgoblog for making work suck less.
You are getting a pretty late start on indoctrination. My daughter could sing Hail To The Victors when she was 1 b/c I sang it during diaper changes and would clap her feet together and raise one up for the hails. She will be 4 Aug 30 and will attend her 4th annual installment of the $5 September opponent that is designed for taking your kid to the big house. We live close by so it's no big deal if she's toast by half time. She likes the tailgating, the cheerleaders, frozen lemon ice, the band, and people in our row fussing over her. She knows that the blue ones are the good guys and that blue and yellow are daddy's favorite colors. Finer points (the actual game) will be taught later. When we drive by the stadium we compete to be the first to notice the great big M (scoreboard). The University of Michigan is a source of a great deal of happiness for me and I try to impart every bit of that onto her in the hopes that it is something we can share.
I like the play at the end were they seem to be forward lateraling to the running back. If Chase doesn't simply intercept it, he or Gary could disrupt that play for a fumble. Now I'm imagining plays in a game that is +2 weeks away. Hooboy. I need to find a good book or something.
I care. The team I root for plays football, in the midwest, against MSU. The scale and that some of victems were on the USA olympic team should make it relevant to most anyone else.
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Total Reddit Noob. Use me as cannon fodder
I'm as irritated as everyone else about the time travel breaks from reality and am critical that the writers went too slow for 6 seasons and left themselves with too little time resolve things realistically in the final seasons.
That said, the writing is still very good. Loved the dialogue as the characters marched North last night. More so, I love those characters and was convinced we were getting to see some of them for the last time last night. A major difference between the "just a TV show" and GOT season 7 (even with some loss on the story telling end) is that underneath the movie quality cinematics, we really care about the characters due to the great writing and long build up to these scenese. We believe any of them could die. I was edge of my seat tense when Bronn was shooting at Drogon a couple episodes and just a bit gut sick last night wondering which of my favorites wasn't coming back from North of The Wall. I haven't cared about characters in TV or movies like this in a long time. Especially in special effects driven movies.
I'm going to forgive them the time travel, suspend disbelef on it (the earned some mulligans) and simply relish the fiinal episodes of some the best TV ever in a genre I love and rarely get to enjoy at this quaity level.
Its true. My daughter, pictured at right, needed to get the pictured helmet to correct a flatness from sleaping her on her back. The only solace we had as parents putting their baby in a helmet for the next 3-6 months was that the UM Medical Center brochure showed a kid in a Michigan helmet - maize and blue with wings and all. That made it a bit less horrible. Well, turns out they recently had to stop selling Michigan helmets for babies b/c the athletic department insisted that the UM Medical community pay a licensing fee to continue selling the helmet. My bill has a block M on it and both of baby's parents are season ticket holding alums but we couldn't get the nice helmet.
I got this log in to tell the world: Dave Brandon is a peice of shit human being.
You know that tear jerker commercial where the violin version of The Victors plays and kids at UM Hospitals are overcoming the odds... well Dave Brandon wants to monitize them. POSHB!!!!!!!!!