In case you typically ignore the World Wide Leader... ESPN is conducting a college football 50 state tour, starting with Michigan. This essentially has boiled down to a poll of the state's greatest teams, games, and players. The only choices are from Michigan and Michigan State. As of now there have been about 2300 votes cast.The current leaders:
Best Team: 1997 Wolverines (69% of the vote)
Best Player: Charles Woodson (45% of the vote)
Best Coach: Bo Schembechler (74% of the vote)
Best Game: 1994 Colorado over Michigan (23% of the vote)
Best Finish: 1994 Colorado Stewart to Westbrook miracle (42% of the vote)
It is my personal desire to keep Michigan State buffered into the same younger and less talented sibling category as Central, Western, and Eastern Michigan. This appears to be happening. However, I really don't want or need to ever be reminded of the day Kordell Stewart silenced 100,000 people with a 64 yard scud witnessed close hand by Ty Law and Chuck Winters.
Please vote for the 2004 Michigan Michigan State Braylon Edwards game for both of these categories.
(HT: SiC)
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My personal voice is to silence the voice of the insane and intellectually retarded. All due respect and I love Bo, but how the fuck is he a better coach than Fielding Yost, perhaps the greatest coach of all time?! Of all the coaches on such a list how can one person, much less 70+ percent vote for the only individual on that list who never won it all (not that I'd ever vote for Carr seeing how he left the program). People really kill me inside sometimes.
Also, Saint Charles is just that, a saint with superhuman abilities, but he was not better than Ol' 98 Tommy Harmon who was a three way player. We all remember how Woodson clinched his Heisman, but the only reason for not knowing how Tommy won his is that glory is fleeting. Stats from the 1940 game in Columbus: 3 rushing TDs, 2 passing TDs, 4 extra points, 3 INTs, and 3 punts avg. 50 yards. Wikipedia GO! "In an unprecedented display of sportsmanship and appreciation, the Ohio State fans in Columbus gave Harmon a standing ovation at game's end. No Wolverine player has been so honored since." From standing O's to violent near riots... shows how far C-bus has come in 70 years. Tommy was also the Heisman runner-up his junior year losing to Nile Kinnick of Iowa (who was a senior and that did matter even more back then, and for whom Iowa's stadium is named after. Also, every Big Ten game coin has Nile's image as the Heads side.) despite Harmon leading the NCAA in scoring; something he did again his senior year and is the only one to do so twice.
Harmon was far better than he gets credit for because of time, and because his pro career was not a tale resembling that of a Red Grange, despite having galloping ghost abilities in college. Unlike for Vince Young-esque busts, this is quite understandable as both he and Kinnick, fates so similarly linked, would join the war effort and experience tragedy.
Kinnick was killed in a training excersize when his fighter caught fire and he decided to ditch his plane in the ocean rather than risk the crews on the deck of his aircraft carrier. When rescue teams approached the spot where his plane went under, they were unable to locate Nile.
Tommy was the pilot of a bomber also training in greater South America when his plane went down in the Amazon. He was the only one to survive the crash and barely survived a grueling four day march out of the rainforest. He eventually recovered, but opted to be a fighter pilot thereafter as he couldn't handle the loss of his crew. Tommy flew with the Flying Tigers in China and engaged multiple Japanese bogies before finally being shot down behind enemy lines. His blood chit helped him receive aid when he was picked up by guerilla forces, who helped him back over the Burma hump to Allied lines. His journey remains classified to this day. Tommy was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart for his actions in aerial combat the day he was shot down. He saved his parachute, whose silk was later used for his wife's wedding dress.
Tommy returned to America after the war and played for the LA Rams. His career was not long and lackluster, frankly. Though he had the will, it is told that his body just never found his famous driving leg strength that he lost, severely dehydrated and starving as he strove to escape the treachorous clutches of the Amazon.
OK, OK, I was on post again!
One more thing, and this is stupid commercial ESPN catering to the memories of it's more youthful audience, but how is '95 UM v. OSU an option for best game and The Upset of the Century in the '69 Classic not an option? To me that is obviously the SECOND best game ever played in the state behind the 1902 game where we wiped OSU 86-0 at Ferry Field. On the train ride home following their worst defeat ever a freshman defined OSU spawning their Alma Mater Carmen Ohio. Naturally such delusional things are written following the biggest humiliation in school history at the hands of your soon to be vaunted rival for all time.
Shorty,
No comment on 99% of your rant as you are an expert on your subject.
However, you don't know caca about music writing or what motivates the soul to respond to grief with verse and melody.
Sheesh.
Shorty. Amen. You have the wheel. The rest of us should just shut up and go for the ride.
One of the only things that has gotten me thru the last 5 years of hell followed by the singing od "Carmen Ohio" has been the knowledge of how the song was germenated.
I pity the fool who comes up against Shorty at "the line".
But you forgot another important contribution by Tom Harmon....
MARK HARMON
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_Harmon_1_edit1.jpg
sigh......
Yes of course T9, though I'm more interested if he has any grand daughters myself! ;-)
Whets, tru dat, tru dat. My slogan in life is, "I bring nothing to the table." At least as far as song writing goes.
Shorty,
My life slogan comes from Dirty Harry: "A man's got to know his limitations."
Quite similar, eh?
If my limitations are that I bring nothing to the table then yes, I guess you're right!
It's "knowing" you bring nothing to the table that makes one strong. Pride precedes the inevitable stumble.
I keep that one in the back of my mind for late November;-)
btw,
Of course when I say that I am referring to OSU... my word verification for this post happens to be 'swines'
I ended up voting for Yost. I like Bo but Yost was the man.
Mikoyan... sounds elvish for smart man.
Mikoyan is actually Armenian. He was the head of the Design Bureau that built the MiGs.....He was the Mi part of it...the G stands for Gurevich.
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