I'd collapse as well if my alma mater was facing a juggernaut such as the 06-07 Buckeyes. (emoticon)
But seriously, scary stuff. Hope Bo makes it through all right and is able to enjoy, well watch, the game tomorrow.
Full Version: THE GAME game thread - 11/18/2006
QUOTE (Chemistry Schmemistry @ Nov 17 2006, 10:15 AM)
This can't be good.
http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/9810358
Best wishes, Bo.
Poor guy would hate missing The Game more than dying itself.
http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/9810358
Best wishes, Bo.
Poor guy would hate missing The Game more than dying itself.
Word is, Severe Heart Attack. Though that's just a rumor.
Ugh, not good news on the eve of THE GAME.
T&P
T&P
Best wishes to Bo and high hopes for a speedy recovery. Rivalries are no fun without a worthy foil, and very few did it better than Bo.
Betting Line
Michigan +7!!!
TMR
Michigan +7!!!
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FEATURED GAMES
Michigan at Ohio State
Hype finally becomes reality Saturday in first meeting of these two schools as #1 versus #2. No secret that Buckeyes feature slightly better offense and Wolverines slightly better D. Star senior QB and weapons at WR for both squads, but difference here will be in trenches, where Wolves have all the edges. UM run D ceding less than 30 ypg, while OSU’s very good but not impenetrable—at least not for a back like Michigan’s Mike Hart, who missed most of last year’s snaps with injury and will be fired up to carry the load here. Have no doubt that even on a defense like Michigan’s Troy Smith and Co. will connect on a big pass or three, but Hart destined to be difference as OSU can be run on while Wolves absolutely cannot. Motivation not a question for either squad, so the best team will likely win. Despite media love for OSU, numbers and results thus far suggest that team is Michigan. Should be a tough game on the road, but UM has been better team all year and will prove it to remaining doubters Saturday.
Michigan 24 Ohio State 17
Michigan at Ohio State
Hype finally becomes reality Saturday in first meeting of these two schools as #1 versus #2. No secret that Buckeyes feature slightly better offense and Wolverines slightly better D. Star senior QB and weapons at WR for both squads, but difference here will be in trenches, where Wolves have all the edges. UM run D ceding less than 30 ypg, while OSU’s very good but not impenetrable—at least not for a back like Michigan’s Mike Hart, who missed most of last year’s snaps with injury and will be fired up to carry the load here. Have no doubt that even on a defense like Michigan’s Troy Smith and Co. will connect on a big pass or three, but Hart destined to be difference as OSU can be run on while Wolves absolutely cannot. Motivation not a question for either squad, so the best team will likely win. Despite media love for OSU, numbers and results thus far suggest that team is Michigan. Should be a tough game on the road, but UM has been better team all year and will prove it to remaining doubters Saturday.
Michigan 24 Ohio State 17
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Sounds like Bo has DIED! Channel 7 in Detroit is reporting this. Sad news.
Wow, simply terrible news. A huge black cloud over THE GAME.
It's not sad, Bo knew that this was the biggest game in the history of the rivalry and knew it wouldn't be fitting unless he could be close enough to Woody to stick it to him. T&P
Just broke on ESPN right now. Damn, as if they needed any more emotion for the game tomorrow...
He has passed away. Link
You know, this is a fitting farewell to a guy who really defined a big piece of this rivalry. I am glad that he will get such a grand platform for his farewell as opposed to slipping away in the middle of June and getting a 30 second spot on Sportscenter.
Farewell Bo, ugliest damned helmets in football.
Farewell Bo, ugliest damned helmets in football.
QUOTE (Rick Burlesons Yam Bag @ Nov 16 2006, 08:57 PM)
I would have thought that was the kind of thing that sprouted from your ass.
No, that's where the materials for your next Hot Carl come from.
Jokingly, my dad said "they" planned it that way so they have a ready-made excuse for their inevitable defeat at the hands of the Buckeyes.
Now THAT's cold.
*****
Back in the 1960's, my dad and a partner of his published an Ohio football magazine, focusing on mostly the MAC teams, but included stuff on tOSU as well. One day, he was able to get into a private function at the Michigan-tOSU game. Schembechler planted himself in front of a huge bowl of potato chips and a huge bowl of dip, and held court there. Every time he took a chip to the dip, he heaped it up to the breaking point. Everybody notices this after a while and start ribbing him about it. He chuckles and says, "Hey, I'm gonna go sometime, right?"
A big loss for both Michigan and Ohio State and college football.
t&p&c
Now THAT's cold.
*****
Back in the 1960's, my dad and a partner of his published an Ohio football magazine, focusing on mostly the MAC teams, but included stuff on tOSU as well. One day, he was able to get into a private function at the Michigan-tOSU game. Schembechler planted himself in front of a huge bowl of potato chips and a huge bowl of dip, and held court there. Every time he took a chip to the dip, he heaped it up to the breaking point. Everybody notices this after a while and start ribbing him about it. He chuckles and says, "Hey, I'm gonna go sometime, right?"
A big loss for both Michigan and Ohio State and college football.
t&p&c
A punk band called "The Dead Schembechlers," which dresses like Woody Hayes and sings anti-Michigan-themed songs, is supposed to be performing tonight in Columbus as a precursor to tomorrow's game. Given the circumstances, I hope the venue putting it on has the good sense to cancel the show.
QUOTE (Rick Burlesons Yam Bag @ Nov 17 2006, 11:21 AM)
Ok, I'll play - what will Lloyd Carr be saying repeatedly as Ted Ginn blows by him time after time?
"I wonder who's winning the Harvard-Yale game?"
QUOTE (David Laurila @ Nov 17 2006, 02:51 PM)
A punk band called "The Dead Schembechlers," which dresses like Woody Hayes and sings anti-Michigan-themed songs, is supposed to be performing tonight in Columbus as a precursor to tomorrow's game. Given the circumstances, I hope the venue putting it on has the good sense to cancel the show.
While the band's web site is shut down for exceeding its web traffic limit, they have expressed their sympathies to the Schembechler family and I believe canceled the show without being asked.
Stuff like that is just part of the rivalry. This week is always insane in both Ann Arbor and Columbus. No one really wishes ill of the other - I remember when Woody Hayes died he was honored at Michigan. And they will have a moment of silence tomorrow at the Shoe before the game.
I'm a native of Michigan and a UM fan, but it needs to be noted that Schembechler had a brief and inglorious tenure as president of the Tigers. The firing of Ernie Harwell has been widely attributed to him. I also recall him having less than complementary things to say about Tiger Stadium.
Schembechler may have been an icon, but at least when it came to baseball, he didn't have much respect for icons.
Schembechler may have been an icon, but at least when it came to baseball, he didn't have much respect for icons.
The Dead Schembechlers have Chad Henne PEGGED!
TONIGHT'S SHOW WILL BE THE FINAL AS THE DEAD SCHEMBECHLERS: The band has announced that tonight's show will be their final under their name. If they do continue as a musical entity in the future, it will be under a changed moniker. They have also announced that all of their profits from tonight, along with those of Watershed and B.A. Baracus, will be donated to a charity of the Schembechler family's choosing.
TONIGHT'S SHOW WILL BE THE FINAL AS THE DEAD SCHEMBECHLERS: The band has announced that tonight's show will be their final under their name. If they do continue as a musical entity in the future, it will be under a changed moniker. They have also announced that all of their profits from tonight, along with those of Watershed and B.A. Baracus, will be donated to a charity of the Schembechler family's choosing.
QUOTE (Boomer Scott @ Nov 17 2006, 11:32 PM)
TONIGHT'S SHOW WILL BE THE FINAL AS THE DEAD SCHEMBECHLERS: The band has announced that tonight's show will be their final under their name. If they do continue as a musical entity in the future, it will be under a changed moniker. They have also announced that all of their profits from tonight, along with those of Watershed and B.A. Baracus, will be donated to a charity of the Schembechler family's choosing.
Which gives them more class than ESPN. Of all the slimy things that network has done over the years, the marketing of Schembechler's death has to be up there with the vilest of them. It's one thing to cover the man's death as a news story -- and I don't question it's news; nor do I question that the timing of it has a certain surreal impact.
It is another thing to go on and on, as ESPN is doing: not out of respect for the man, or out of respect to the story, but to prime the pump and drive the hype for ABC.
Game day!
RIP Bo & GO BUCKS!
RIP Bo & GO BUCKS!
Go Blue!
Hail! To the victors, valiant,
Hail! To the conqu'ring heroes
Hail! Hail! To Michigan the leaders and best
Hail! To the victors, valiant,
Hail! To the conqu'ring heroes
Hail! Hail! To Michigan the champions of the West!
Hail! To the conqu'ring heroes
Hail! Hail! To Michigan the leaders and best
Hail! To the victors, valiant,
Hail! To the conqu'ring heroes
Hail! Hail! To Michigan the champions of the West!
Right down the field and in. 7-0 Michigan.
Wow.
Wow.
Yawn, no big surprise. I said at the beginning of this week Michigan is going to throw all day.
Way too easy an opening drive. Bucks must get pressure on Henne because it seems their DB's had a hard time covering Mich's WR's.
Looks like it will be a passing show today. 7-7. Somewhere Bo and Woody are just shaking their heads.
Buckeyes are going to put 56 on the board if Michigan can't cover any of the receivers. Four-for-four on third downs makes for a long, long day. I'll take Michigan's front seven over any in the country. Their seconday is very overrated. As bad as that drive was, it could have been worse, because the supposed first-round pick, Leon Hall, was beaten like a rug long by Ginn.
Hey, a stop!
how many drops is the for ginn? 3? athlete.
Remember Henne missing a wide open Manningham. He hits that and Manningham walks in for a TD. Big opportunity lost
I just hate Henne. I'm another irrational Michigan fan, I know. He seems to think he's Vince Young, but he has all the elusiveness of Drew Bledsoe.
I know it's still tied, but I don't have a good feeling so far. Like Curt throwing seven strong innings and seeing Timlin in the bullpen.
I know it's still tied, but I don't have a good feeling so far. Like Curt throwing seven strong innings and seeing Timlin in the bullpen.
What in the fucking fuck was that play call on 3rd and a half yard? What the fuck. Idiot Carr.
That was a terrible spot on 2nd down, he clearly had the 1st down since momentum and the tackle brought him a yard past the marker.
Goddamn fuck this fucking shit to hell. This fucking game is fucking over.
If M can't do anything with this massive break, they're screwed...
ohio state, not a team with tom obrien's military discipline. 
Roughing the center?
The pussification of football.
The pussification of football.
I think Ohio State can take USC.
What I don't understand is on 3rd-and-7, near midfield, why do you throw a 6-yard pass if you don't intend to go for it on fourth down? The Wolverines need a momentum swing. Now, if OSU drives on them and scores, it's a hole they can't come out of.
What I don't understand is on 3rd-and-7, near midfield, why do you throw a 6-yard pass if you don't intend to go for it on fourth down? The Wolverines need a momentum swing. Now, if OSU drives on them and scores, it's a hole they can't come out of.
Yeah...this one is over.
If the Pats even remotely think of taking Leon Hall, I hope they watch the tape of that pass play. Let the guy get wide open in scramble drill, then try and arm-tackle him with no one behind to make the play.
I'm sick. Just sick about this. Fuck a rematch. They didn't come to play today, they don't deserve one.
I'm sick. Just sick about this. Fuck a rematch. They didn't come to play today, they don't deserve one.
welp, this sucks.
QUOTE (Lars The Wanderer @ Nov 18 2006, 04:41 PM)
Roughing the center?
The pussification of football.
he has no way to protect himself. real smart.
The pussification of football.
What a defensive struggle this one is turning out to be...
not dead yet.
beautiful
absolutely can not allow ohio st to put point up here.
absolutely can not allow ohio st to put point up here.
OSU might score 60 pts. Mich defensive is non-existant.
QUOTE (SoxScout @ Nov 18 2006, 04:59 PM)
beautiful
absolutely can not allow ohio st to put point up here.
absolutely can not allow ohio st to put point up here.
I'm following this at work on CBS sportsline, and every time I check the gametracker there are really long blue or red lines going across the screen and another TD.
The ABC marketing department must just be loving this right now.
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