It was the kind of game one writes a fight song about. Time for new version of the Victors, anyone up for writing it?
What a game full of emotion. We won, no we lost, OMG we won it again. Pandemonium breaks loose at Dan McGuinness Pub. Those who left at halftime thinking we had lost, missed the most exciting ending of a Michigan game in this century. I lost my voice. And went to sleep thinking about ways to put Michigan Flags on my Notre Dame's neighbors front porch. My son tried to talk me into going over to the Cathedral with a ladder, some duct tape, and our M Flag, and tape the flap, flagpole and all, onto the outstretched hand of the Statue of Mary that guards the front door (our pastor is a diehard subway alum of Notre Dame). We thought better of it, but it sure would have been fun to watch all the faces of the Notre Dame faithful walking up the steps as they noticed it.
The Irish mauled and manhandled the Michigan offensive and defensive lines. Yet we persevered.
Rees to Floyd, made mincemeat of the our secondary. Yet we kept on trying.
The sweeps of their running backs were demoralizing. Yet we never gave in.
We adjusted, and adjusted again, and adjusted again. We forced some turnovers when we absolutely had to. We built momentum, bit by bit. "Not in Our House" became the battle cry.
Then we set Denard Robinson loose. And it all came together. With 8 seconds left.
It's going to be one heck of a fun season. We may not win any titles but we're sure going to have fun losing them.
It's good, to be, a Michigan Wolverine.
Go Michigan, beat the Hurons, I mean Eagles.
Go Blue.
Somethings I learned about Notre Dame Alums and fans this week:
--They refer to the Wolverines as the "skunkbears" (I kinda like that)
--The Big House is called "The Outhouse" (sticks and stones may break our bones but names will never hurt us)
Somethings I learned about the Michigan Team this week:
--We are still learning to play both offense and defense.
--We are not yet a good team. We'll get there soon.
--This game gives the entire Big Ten a game plan on our weaknesses. How to beat us.
--What happened to our Running Backs? And the slippery fingers of our recievers.
--The coaching staff is incredible. We don't have close to Notre Dame's talent, but our coaching staff is superior and outcoached the Brian Kelly and company. They are coaching the team to become men, which is what it is all about.
--This team has heart. The Heart of Champions.
Somethings I learned about the Big House:
--The ghosts of Crisler, Yost and Schembechler stalk the sidelines on our behalf.
--The Big House looks cool under the lights. All those yellow shirts and pompoms, looked great and were kind of intimidating. I credit at least one turnover to the crowd.
--The throwback uniforms look silly.
It seems to me that we won cause no one on the nd defense can tackle, our receivers had 338 yard on eleven total catches. when Denard throws it looks like a high school quarter back, I've seen tighter spirals in B league intramural games. I think what we can do is rely on denard to make plays. defenses want to contain him, have the d line stay in lanes as opposed to going at him. I think denard should just mill around behind the line of scrimmage and hit receivers that are completely open, and if no one is than run. maybe try gardner and denard in at the same time cause our running backs are kind of useless
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