One Frame At A Time: Maryland
As you may have noticed in today's game column, I'm trying a new format for GIFs: gfycat, which load faster, have much better quality, and allow you to do stuff like speed up or slow down playback if you click through. I hadn't switched over before because uploading and tagging was cumbersome; now the program I use has integrated that entire process. Today's post mostly features the old format as I do a test run with a few gfycats. If all goes well, I'll do the complete switchover next week. Feedback is encouraged.
[Hit THE JUMP for the rest of the Maryland game in GIFs.]
For GIFs, click the links/stills to open each GIF in a lightbox, and right-click then hit "save link as" if you want to save them. Gfycats should play automatically, and you can have fun with slow-motion and the like if you click on them.
HONORABLE MENTION
Gedeon/Peppers TFL.
Gedeon/Taco/Peppers converge on QB.
ButtYAC.
Doink.
Evans not-quite-a-TD.
Harbaugh disagrees with OPI.
Panda misses pickup, makes up for it.
Delano receives gift.
Kinnel TFL.
Speight scramble.
Chesson touchdown.
Winovich sack.
McDoom jet, Asiasi pancake. (gfycat)
John O'Korn pancakes a guy.
Kekoa Crawford's first career touchdown.
10. Butt Truck
Much like that rudely dispatched Maryland defender, every other tight end in Michigan history is now behind Butt. In his rear-view mirror, so to speak. Passed like the wind between... okay fine I'll stop.
Butt.
9. Trampled Turtles
While not quite on par with Chesson Goes Bowling, that's a nice two-for-one for Kekoa Crawford, Chesson's heir apparent as wideout-who-will-wreck-you.
8. What Are You Doing?
After being targeted on consecutive, doomed fades, Jourdan Lewis asks the question on all of our minds.
7. Panda In Flight
The most graceful member of the ursidae family.
6. No Class Double Pass
For all the trickery, this play still required a hell of a throw by Wilton Speight.
Ensuing Jabrill Peppers first down signal:
He's fun.
5. Route++
Extra crispy.
4. Air Wilton
Full play:
Just the dismount:
10/10.
3. Not Safe For Testudo
Enhance.
I never, ever want Michigan to have a mascot, but I'm so happy so many of their opponents made a different choice.
2. Hat In Orbit
The lack of reaction from anyone in the background, save for Devin Asiasi trying to catch Harbaugh's hat when it (finally) returns to Earth really puts this over the top.
FRAMES OF THE GAME: TEAM BELLY RUB
This is only the second-best Mo Hurst belly rub moment of the game even though he seemingly apparates into the hole, chases down the QB, and rips off a piece of his jersey before the celebration.
That comes in second because Jabrill Peppers joining in on the belly-rub action qualifies this—which I stitched together from two different clips because I'm very dedicated to the belly-rub cause—as arguably the MGoGIF of the year thus far.
It's beautiful.
VOTE
November 7th, 2016 at 3:16 PM ^
AIR WILTON!
You could frame a picture of Speight at that moment and proudly hang it on your wall.
November 8th, 2016 at 10:46 AM ^
inwardly cringing in anticipation that someone was gonna light him up. Glad to see everyone stayed away!
November 7th, 2016 at 3:18 PM ^
Tiny Dancer.
November 8th, 2016 at 8:40 AM ^
Danza you say? I don't see the resemblance.
November 7th, 2016 at 3:22 PM ^
Big fan of the faster loading GIFs. Also really enjoy the auto-play feature.
November 7th, 2016 at 3:23 PM ^
Gfycats seem less like gifs, more like video. Which I think is a good thing.
November 7th, 2016 at 4:42 PM ^
It basically is video (HTML5). It's way way more efficient than gifs. Kudos MGoBlog for switching, my bandwidth thanks you.
November 7th, 2016 at 5:23 PM ^
"Gfycat" sounds like a rude thing to say/text to someone.
November 7th, 2016 at 10:53 PM ^
November 7th, 2016 at 3:24 PM ^
Mo Hurst/Glasgow destruction of pulling guards against OSU will be crucial in stopping their offense.
PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASESTOPTHEM
November 7th, 2016 at 3:25 PM ^
Both Hat in Orbit and the Double Belly Rub are strong Gif of the Year competitors. I assume Hat in Orbit will be a 1 seed in the 2016 Harbaugh Gif Tournament
November 7th, 2016 at 3:25 PM ^
November 7th, 2016 at 3:28 PM ^
November 7th, 2016 at 3:45 PM ^
Hat In Orbit won't even open in the app for me. Doesn't even look like it's there. Everything looks great on the web though.
November 7th, 2016 at 4:14 PM ^
November 7th, 2016 at 3:26 PM ^
+1 for the gfycats.
November 7th, 2016 at 3:37 PM ^
I don't usually click through on these posts because trying to view everything slows my browser down too much. But gfycat appears to play well with everything. Looking forward to the switchover!
November 7th, 2016 at 4:17 PM ^
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November 7th, 2016 at 3:33 PM ^
I was really hoping for an endzone shot of Speight from straight on showing that pose.
November 7th, 2016 at 3:34 PM ^
Can we rename Hat in Orbit as "Graduation Day"? I also like "Deja Vu" for Harbaugh's 2015 Penn State performance.
November 7th, 2016 at 4:31 PM ^
asiasi watches it go up, come down, and then says "fuck it -- too far away...." makes me laugh every time...lol
November 7th, 2016 at 4:51 PM ^
I like the two guys over on the far right of the frame, as well ... just kind of looking ahead, business as usual ... and then a non-chalant "oh hey, there's Jim's hat" as it falls in front of them.
November 7th, 2016 at 3:35 PM ^
It feels a little repetitive voting for belly rub every week but here we are.
November 7th, 2016 at 3:38 PM ^
I love me some sad mascotz...
November 7th, 2016 at 8:51 PM ^
November 7th, 2016 at 3:39 PM ^
Man, on the Panda misses blitz pickup, Hill just destroys that poor DB at the end.
November 7th, 2016 at 3:39 PM ^
November 7th, 2016 at 3:39 PM ^
I voted for the belly rub duet because of course, but my second favorite one was the enhanced Testudo gif. When I was a student at Maryland, I always wanted to be the mascot (and I probably would have been pretty good at it), so it's amusing to imagine myself in those shoes watching my dream school and all-time favorite football team beating up on my actual school. All of the mixed feelings.
November 7th, 2016 at 3:46 PM ^
Huge fan of the gfycat. Also Flying Panda, because how, what, I can't even... damn.
November 7th, 2016 at 3:47 PM ^
Like how only the Mascot knew getting to the one meant nothing on that play. The cheerleaders looked to be celebrating, not knowing it was end of the half.
November 7th, 2016 at 3:52 PM ^
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November 7th, 2016 at 5:05 PM ^
That was the rare Surrender Mascot.
November 7th, 2016 at 4:16 PM ^
Surprised at the lack of support for Panda in Flight. I find it very soothing.
November 7th, 2016 at 5:06 PM ^
Looked to be clips straight from Fantasia.
November 7th, 2016 at 4:20 PM ^
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November 7th, 2016 at 4:30 PM ^
It's the same as mine i'm sure on Saturday.
November 7th, 2016 at 4:34 PM ^
You can get some real Benny Hill moments with that speed it up feature.
November 7th, 2016 at 4:34 PM ^
I would have enjoyed a "Get your shit together" from Harbaugh as an honorable mention, though I understand the audio is most of hte fun.
November 7th, 2016 at 4:56 PM ^
The Evans non-reversal?
EDIT: Yes to that. Let me also take the opportunity to say I'm disappointed in those of you not voting this #1. This is the only comment I will be making this week vis-a-vis voting.
November 7th, 2016 at 4:50 PM ^
The not safe for their mascot one. That's the face of a fanbase for whom all hope of competing in the game has died. So sweet...when it's someone else's team. And it's somneone else's team practically every week!
November 7th, 2016 at 5:03 PM ^
I really liked the "What Are You Doing?!" because I said it out loud at the same time and the only "person" that heard me was my dog. Even she had this look on her face when I looked over...
...she's a golden lab though.
November 7th, 2016 at 5:10 PM ^
To think I was actually worried as I scrolled down... wondering if Ace had somehow missed the double bell-- oh thank god. I would love to see the student section all doing the belly rub in unision while loudly humming "MMMMMM!" ...Unless they already do this and it hasn't been on TV yet?
November 7th, 2016 at 5:14 PM ^
This season is so fun to watch. I can't pick just one.
I let the future Wolverine sitting next to me choose - and she went with the sad turtle zoom.
I loved Crawford's obvious awareness in his double bowlig adventure. Guy on right? Noted. Two guys on left? Primary target. Full speed, decision made, well played.
And the Mo/Peppers belly rub... Well, that one will make me laugh for years to come.
November 7th, 2016 at 5:29 PM ^
That poor kid is always in the line of fire and has to basically pay out the slack at a moment's notice whenever Harbaugh desides to go ballistic. I saw a play in the 2nd half where Harbaugh went way on the field; the kid basically just had to drop the cable to prevent Harbaugh from getting yanked backward, and a bunch of players had to jump the cable like the deck crew on an aircraft carrier when a tailhook cable snaps.
Please, there has to be some kid of wireless technology out there. For the children.
November 7th, 2016 at 5:21 PM ^
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November 7th, 2016 at 5:24 PM ^
Let's get to Iowa now shall we. To Infinity and Beyond!
November 7th, 2016 at 5:31 PM ^
Did anyone catch the play where the blitzer just bounces off Wilton during a TD pass?
I was expecting to see it Gif'd but apparently did not make the cut.
The basic setup is, during one of Wilton's TD passes, he was being blitzed and just as the camera pans to the receiver (Darboh?), you can see the blitzer bounce off Wilton and he just kind of glances at him in the way I would look at a leaf that blew into me. I haven't had the chance to go back and try to find on my own (I expected here!).
Did anyone else catch this?
November 7th, 2016 at 5:43 PM ^
Unless I missed it, I'm disappointed to not see a GIF of Durking keeled over his knees in disbelief after (I believe) the Chesson TD.
November 7th, 2016 at 6:24 PM ^
Love watching his reaction to JH throwing his hat.
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