Wallpaper Wednesday: Buckeye Triple Play

This is supposed to be the biggest week of the season, but somehow it just doesn't feel that way. In celebration of "the game" -- I created three different wallpapers this week to remind Michigan fans that we have many moments to be proud of. I just hope someday soon Michigan can once again hold up our end of this great rivalry.

1940 - Tom Harmon


1969 - Bo vs Woody


1995 - Tim Biakabutuka

Go Blue !

Happy Birthday Tom Harmon

I can't think of a better way to start SPARTY WEEK 2009 than with a birthday party for Michigan legend Tom Harmon.

Today would have been Harmon's 90th birthday. Rather than recall his success on the football field where he had more yardage and touchdowns than Red Grange AND got a standing ovation from the buckeye fans in the horseshoe - I want to remember the service to his country.

After winning the Heisman, playing pro football and making movies... Harmon enlisted in the Army Air Corps at the start of World War II as a pilot. He flew P-38s and B-25s and was twice reported missing: once in South America in the jungles of French Guiana where he survived for four days in swamps and forests before being rescued by natives and once in the mountains of China after failing to return from an attack on a Japanese-controlled port along the Yangtze River. He pretended to be dead and then was smuggled to safety by Chinese friendlies.

Happy Birthday Ole 98!!