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September 29, 2001: Captain Michigan retires (for the first time) from leg wrestling, and becomes the first person inducted to the UMTailgate Hall of Fame before Michigan’s 45-20 victory over the Illini in the 2001 Big Ten opener. BJ Askew ran for 2TDs, John Navarre threw for 2 TDs, and the Bin Lotto rolled over to the following week (if you know, you know). Pics from the rest of that day are on the game page.
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I would have rather missed this Saturday’s performance than last, but alas, Godmother didn’t make me one drink, so I remained lucid and aware of the fact that Michigan gave us the kind of performance that would have resulted in a loss with any of the remaining teams on our schedule. Ah, but if I had gone full blackout, I would have missed that light show. I enjoyed the blue, especially the one with the Woodson interlude. Not so many things are directed at in-game fan experience these days, so I’ll take it. In the end an epic day of BBQ followed by Michigan playing that survive and advance card we’ve come to loathe yet appreciate from time to time, moving to 3-0 on the season, and 3-0 all time against the falcons, with all meetings falling within the UMTailgate timeline. So check out the game page here, and pop in on the photos from BGSU 2010 (The Bacon Tailgate!) and 2000 (Anthony Thomas AND Chris Perry had TDs, as did Ronald Bellamy and David Terrell)…gotta be a trivia question there somewhere.
September 13, 2003: 20 years ago today the group posed before a banner day where Chris Perry had 3 TDs, the defense got QB Carlyle Holiday benched for freshman Brady Quinn, and Michigan had a 19-play, 80 yard drive that took 10:25, still a school record. Michigan destroyed Notre Dame 38-0, and later that season would go on to beat Ohio State in the 100th edition of The Game en route to an outright Big Ten Championship. The rest of the pics from that day are on the game page here.
Poor Godfather was shut out of last week’s photos and he was very upset about it. Out of revenge, he had Pammy spike my drinks with extra alcohol. So I took a lot of pictures of the Godfather, and I took a lot of pics of myself because when I get drunk, I selfie more. The result is 100 photos, most of which either contain the Godfather or me. Long day of food and drinks and shotguns and bottle funnels and pushups. In the end, there was a game I don’t remember, and a lot of conversations that made little sense to anyone that was around to hear them. My sainted wife came through, somehow guiding this giant off-balance plodding beast of a man from the tailgate to the game and back without major incident, keeping the streak intact.
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September 14, 1996: There was a time that things were so historically great that something as random and stupid as Kordell to Westbrook was the worst moment in Michigan sports history (and probably the worst moment of my young life). The following year, the Wolverines headed to Boulder for what was known as the “redemption…vindication” game. The group poses here before Michigan defeated the Colorado Buffalos 20-13, properly knocking down a Koy Detmer Hail Mary at the end. The next day, Deion Sanders would recover a fumble and return it 22 yards for a touchdown for the Dallas Cowboys, but fall short of victory against the Colts, who were led down the field for a game-winning field goal by quarterback Jim Harbaugh. UM-Colorado game recap and the rest of the pictures from the weekend are here.
