This is funny. Apparently there was a mix up back in 1998 and People Magazine was to photo shoot Rich Gannon, who was the “Kansas City Chiefs” quarterback according to the photographer. So who does he shoot? A one Elvis Grbac, also QB for the KC Chiefs. Check out this article!

The start time and TV details have been announced this week for Michigan’s first three games this upcoming season:

• September 5th – Western Michigan – 3:30 PM – ABC
• September 12th – Notre Dame – 3:30 PM – ABC
• September 19th – Eastern Michigan – 3:30 PM – BTN

I want to use your comments to come up with an ultimate Top Ten Greatest Michigan Plays since 1990. Feel free to suggest any I may have left out!!

The beginning memories of watching Michigan was in the early nineties, during Desmond Howard’s run of a couple great seasons as a wolverine. As of right now, these plays are in no particular order. As more Big House memories come back to me, I will assemble the list, and what a top ten list it will be!

Desmond Howard’s diving catch on 4th and 1 to put Michigan ahead of Notre Dame 21-14 midway through the fourth quarter

Mr. Charles Woodson picks off a pass that MSU QB Jeff Schultz was simply trying to throw out of bounds. This was a play that truly showed the Michigan faithful and the rest of the country what an amazing athlete Chuck Woodson was. Amazing play – definitely has it’s place on this list.

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When Michigan played Penn State in ’08 Brandon Minor ran like a man possessed, like the police were chasing after him! His physical, upright style of running really takes me back to some of Tyrone Wheatley’s better days as a Wolverine. Let’s hope he stays healthy and makes a huge impact to help out our young QB’s….

Bad things have happened. Real bad. Word UM fans cringe at hearing are the words, “You lost to..!!” …well let’s not even mention them. Let’s be honest, things have went a bit off course after what seemed to be a dream season in 2006. Who can forget stomping on Brady Quinn and Charlies Weis in South Bend – ND didn’t have a chance that day. Manningham for a deep TD seemed to happen a couple times in every game. Mike Hart was staying healthy and racking up one 100yd game after another. DEFENSE. In 2006 we had a defense that stopped some people – that was nice. Haven’t seen one of those in a few years. Win after win, then came the “Game of the Century” as ESPN so eloquently coined it. Hell of a first drive, it was even better as I sat and gave my suckeye fan of a brother hell for thinking the suckeyes would come out and stomp UM. But he sure had his moments to throw some dirt on my fire as Troy Smith and a spread attack walked up and down the field for a healthy lead. So, UM loses the game of the century. A weak debate ensues to the effect of a rematch. UM loses this debate. UM also loses the bowl game handily to USC. I freakin’ hate losing to USC.

3-9. Man was that bad. I mean I was excited walking in to that Utah game. I’m thinking that a new offense, talent moved around to fit that pretty new offense – this could be good. The crowd was excited. You could feel change was in the air. Then, the skills, or lack thereof, of a one Nick Sheridan was put on display. Tossing the rock and just hoping that someone caught it. It was ugly. Very ugly.

Needless to rehash or say to any degree, the rest of the season was just a tire fire. Turnovers, blown opportunities, bad tackling, no defense, etc. Continue reading "State of the Program"→

So when is the last time Michigan has had an offense that CONSISTENTLY put up at least 35 points. Michigan offenses have came into seasons heralded as top in the country, but typically the performance on the field doesn’t quite live up to the hype. Nothing against Lloyd Carr, but dynamic wasn’t exactly his favorite expression when it came to the playbook. Clumsy offensive play typically led to long third downs and too many stalled drives for the talent that was out there on the field. Now, last year’s offensive display was THE WORST I could have ever imagined – after having so much confidence and built up excitement going into the Utah game. That’s what you get when you start a quarterback that literally was incapable of moving an offense forward down the field. Seriously, think back to the Penn State game. It was 17-17 late in the third quarter and Sheridan had to relieve Threet and you just knew that the offense had literally no hope of moving forward. Anyway, enough on Sheridan and inept play at the position, I want to get at what this offense could be with the right athletes. Not only will it be exciting, we are going to see speed and depth at the skill positions like never before. An opened up playbook that will give Tate – or whatever athlete that is playing behind center – options on every play. Like Tate was quoted in saying that in this offense there should never be an incompletion. Let’s hope he can at least be around or above 60% completion.

Bottom line: when the system is working . NOBODY will want to play Michigan. And I’ve said it before, I want the Big House to be a place where teams dread coming to. It’s time to get some serious winning streaks started in the big house….