Blue By Ninety - MICHIGAN FOOTBALL GOES BACK TO BACK TO BACK

Episode Date: December 5, 2023

BIG TEN CHAMPS. AGAIN.

This is the University of Michigan. Touchdown, Michigan! The beat of Michigan ball! And they've caught extra pass. And it goes for the win! The three-pointer by Jordan Poole! Down the sideline! Peebles-Jones!

Touchdown, Wolverines! Alright, welcome back to Blue by 90. I'm Justin, joined by Jack, Tanner, and Kalen today. It is December 4th, 2023, and Ohio State still hasn't posted the score. Are they ever going to post it? Will they ever post it? I don't know. Did you tweet it, Ohio State, after Iowa posted the final score, or was that somebody else? I did not.

I don't know who did. I saw somebody quote tweeted the final score that Iowa put up, and it was like chirping Ohio State somehow. I mean, I think this has got to be like our forever joke right like it's just this is an evergreen joke you've made it a thing now yeah if you were posted it yeah no one no one cares just take the ratio it's not even your main it's not your main account you're not it's not like some poor social media intern or manager is like just dealing with the response to switch to your other account and no one cares.

They just think if they never post it, it's like it just never happened for them. That's what I don't understand. We all watch the game. Everyone has the ESPN app. You can see the stats and the score. I agree with you. You post it. You take the L, literally and figuratively, and then you move on.

That's all you have to do. Why have people on social media not learned this by now? Like maybe it's because I spend 23 out of the 24 hours of the day on Twitter that I know how this works, but I feel like we have to know how this all works by now. Dude, I want to know what's going on at Ohio State. Transfer portal day one, they already got, what, 12, 13 guys in there? That was absurd, including Kyle McCord, including Julian Fleming.

Yeah. Holy, including Cam Martinez, who still is spinning after Cordelia Johnson's post route from 2022. Oh, man. They're in shambles. Did we break Ohio State? after Cordelia Johnson's post route from 2022. They're in shambles. Did we break Ohio State? Let's lead off with that. They are broken. I think so.

Real quick, on the point of posting the final score, I was so ready for some just elite just trolling in the post game. Remember know, the remember 2020, 2021 basketball season, just the, the, the, the final score raids. That was an elite time on Twitter. Just the shitty memes.

Like, just like the, I mean, I think I can't even remember them all, but they were just incredible. I'd like to go back through and just see all those, but Wolverine corner and that whole crew. Yeah.

Yeah. So I'm, I'm in a group chat with a lot of those guys. So I know that they were ready for that, and then unfortunately Ohio State took their ball and went home. I mean, can we talk about how powerful that we as Michigan Twitter have become that we have forced Ohio State not to post the score? That is a feat.

I mean, they posted it last year. Like, they posted it last year. They didn't make a feat. I mean, they posted it last year. Like, they posted it last year. They didn't make a graphic. They just put you read X emoji 45 OSU 23. Just do that and move on with your lives. Like, you've made it a thing now, and it's weird. Hey, it's honestly better for us. I'd rather have it this way.

It makes for better content. It makes for us to you know we we then can dunk on them more because of this right like if they posted it then then we dunk on them that day the next morning you know you quote tweeted a couple times blah blah blah now it is you just continually dunk on them for another 365 days until the game next year do you think that there's like somebody that you could potentially enlist for a job to go and like see and like be discreet about it and like make sure that whoever runs that account is okay like is there is there something you can go out and hire like i don't know the term for it but like you know i just

imagine like like a private investigator oh yeah like the social media guy he's probably in the transfer portal too so i mean i want to make sure that they're okay yeah so that's the private investor yeah like magnum pi yeah that would be that would be tight um to make sure that they're okay i just well missing person ryan day's got a guy so we we can hire Ryan Day's guy. That's a good point. That's a really, really good point. Third day. Third day.

Well, it's been a third day since Michigan won the Big Ten. My bad. That's confusing. Saturday, Sunday, Monday is the third day. My brain's in a fucking blender right now, boys. That's what I meant. There's such a subset of Michigan fans. Justin, you're talking about being on Twitter. My rotation is like twitter 247 on three rivals repeat tiktok and i come back i'm like did anything happen in the last 12 seconds you know so my brain has been i hope

your boss i hope your boss isn't listening right now yeah wait what do you watch on tiktok for like 12 seconds uh you know whatever is on the for you page yeah three tiktoks um yeah i mean it is i i do think jack that's a good tweet i think the is is ohio state social media manager in the portal that's a good tweet i'll probably put that out i like that so when people listen to this and they've already seen it, they can understand how these tweets happen in real time. We love that. Hey, I got to take a moment because Caleb wanted me to call someone a dork on the podcast, but I'm actually not going to use the word dork. Eliya, Eliya, head coach at Missouri,

made a Connor Stallionion joke on ESPN. Eli, you're a fucking dweeb. You're just a dweeb. No one cares about Mizzou. You went 10-2 playing nobody. You're a dork. So I had to get that out there for Caleb. Shout out Caleb Walden.

Shout out Caleb and Jordan. Had to get that one in there for Caleb, you know? Love that. Yeah, absolutely. He actually is a dork and the only way that he's staying relevant right now is to mention Michigan every few days

because everyone, Missouri, they had their best year maybe in program history at least in the last two decades and everyone already forgot about him you know so they're trying to cling on to any type of relevancy well let's not say everybody i you know every now and again i think about chase daniel and jeremy macklin true you know glory days those were the glory days yeah wait did jeremy macklin go to missouri pretty sure i remember he had a

huge head yeah that team on NCAA was sick. Oh, they were sick. Chase Daniel made so much money. I feel like they had another good receiver, too. Or maybe a good running back or something. So, on the subject of Missouri football, I just looked it up. They haven't won a conference championship since it was the Big 8. I think that was like 30 years ago.

So, shout out to the Big 8, RIP. Nice. The Big 8, RIP. Also, the Pac- out to the big eight. RIP. Nice. The big eight. RIP. Also the PAC 12 RIP. Now for real, it's over. What a sendoff though.

That game was amazing. That was a great game. Um, I, I enjoyed that one. Uh, yeah. I mean,

there was a lot of good football on Saturday for sure. Um, the the the early games were not as exciting i texas alan bowman shout out to you because that was cool to watch still unbelievable every time i say yeah our four-string quarterback last year played for a conference championship this year and our backup would have if he wasn't hurt against us right like the the that's that's just a wild statement to say like it's really crazy but um texas definitely just threw all over them uh quinn ewers a quinn ewers bomb where he just throws it as high as he can 50 yards down the field is very pretty I'll say beauty yeah that's fun to watch they played their themselves into it shout out

to Quinn Ewers for screwing over Ohio State by transferring out because they would have been a different team if he did not transfer this past year. And then he screwed them because he won, and he ended their season. After we ended their season the first time, they then ended their season the second time. So shout out Texas football. So that 2021 Ohio State recruiting class that had guys like JTT, Jack Sawyer, Marvin Harrison, Emeka Igbuka, one of the best classes in their school's history.

0-3 against Michigan, but they do have one last hope, guys. Quinn Ewers can be the one guy to maybe beat Michigan from that class. So they've got that going for them. Will that be the next Joe Burrow? That will be the next version of Joe Burrow. Do you think they would give him gold pants, like honorary? They definitely have been claiming Joe Burrow for the past three years as well i mean yeah they could do that and then wherever kyle mccord goes and if he balls out i will i would just laugh just every everywhere you see me i'll just be laughing if he goes and

balls out somewhere i hope he does that would be incredible if he balls out. And maybe he does. What's the vibe right now? Is it that Kyle McCord is not good, or is Ryan Day maybe not the QB guru that we all thought that he was? I like to lean towards Ryan Day not being great. I think that's where my heart lies. I think McCord is just a first-year player.

And he's not like a C.J. Stroud kind of generational kind of guy. When you look at his track record at Ohio State, he came in in 17 so or 17 so he would have coached Dwayne Haskins um who you know was was a first round pick and uh then you get Justin Fields um who was probably one of the best quarterback prospects of the last however many years and then CJ Stroud's a late riser that really shoots up the recruiting rankings and is just god-given accuracy when he throws a football.

So I don't know, man. I know we're trolling, but I'm just thinking about it like maybe not. He's a guy who's been fired as a quarterback's coach in the NFL, so maybe he's not the GOAT QB guru. And not like McCord was bad either. We made jokes all season long, but he was still 24 touchdowns, six picks, 3,200 yards. Yes, he had Harrison.

Yes, he had all that talent. But it's not like he was awful. It's not like he was still 24 touchdowns, six picks, 3,200 yards. Yes, he had Harrison. Yes, he had all that talent. But it's not like he was awful. It's not like he was Todd Beckman. Listen, there are still so many teams that would take Kyle McCord as QB1 right now. Right now. And that is, I think, my favorite part of Ohio State fans, the meltdown right now that's happened. It happened all year long, let's be real, because McCord wasn't –

he wasn't C.J. Stroud, right, or Justin Fields or whoever. In their meltdown, if they legitimately don't have a Heisman candidate at quarterback, it is meltdown mode. That is – they're like, we're the worst team in the country. We don't – we're Ohio worst team in the country we don't we're ohio state we don't accept this and it's it's really unbelievable and now i don't you know let's be honest they probably go get cam ward or something like that and they have another really good qb next year that's that's probably what's going to happen but like i really do think it's like

be careful what you wish for moment in this very moment right now because it's like all right how many better qbs are in the portal right now than kyle mccord there's only like two so unless they have those guys set up perfectly like you could end up with a worse qb than kyleord next year. And then you're like, all right, we need Aaron Nolan to be unbelievable as a freshman. I want to say something real quick, and I think we should pivot because I feel like we haven't talked about Michigan football. It's been 12 minutes into this podcast. That's a good point.

But I'm worried they get Dante Moore. That's all I have to say on that. I mean, you get an athletic quarterback over there at Ohio State, and you've seen what they do every time they have one. Hey, I mean, I'm not worried for Michigan. That was like my – The last three years, you know, but – Yeah, that was my Cam Ward comment.

Like, we could all be saying this next year, and they have Cam Ward or Dante Moore. It's like, okay, well, they are very good. Are those guys clear upgrades over McCord? Like, I don't know. Moore struggled at – a true freshman, right, but he struggled at UCLA. Now, granted, that team's kind of a mess with Chip Kelly. They were going to fire him, and they didn't.

I don't know what's going on over there. You look at, like, you know, the advanced metrics. Like, McCord was a, you know, give or take top 15 quarterback in the country. So it's not like he was awful, but they're not used to that. But there's no Justin Fields in this portal. Like, there's no clear-cut, legit five-star guy that's going to be a clear upgrade from McCord. So Michigan football, 13-0.

Do you guys have any thoughts on going 13-0 again? Wait, wait. One, two, three Big Ten championships in a row. That's pretty good. 38-3 record over the last three seasons. Not bad. Incredible. I saw that stat about JJ

compared to a lot of other big-time QBs who've come out recently. Guys like Jalen Hurts. Trevor Lawrence. Talk about being in good company. Like that's incredible. He's got right now, he has the bet, the highest winning percentage, uh, for any QB that's played

over 25 games in the history of college football. So I, you know, I keep going back to that office quote from Andy Bernard. Like these are the good times folks. Three Big Ten championships in a row. Harbaugh, I believe, is the first coach to do that because Ohio State won four in a row, but they switched coaches in the middle because, I don't know, there was some controversy or some stuff. Yeah, something weird happened. I don't know.

I don't know. It's just another Big Ten coach being too horny is really what happened. That was a different scandal, Justin. When he was with the Jaguars. Oh, okay. Sorry. That one was much worse.

There's so many instances of it. It's hard to keep track. It's hard to keep track. But three in a row, I mean, this is you know, I don't want to become ohio state in the fact that like all right we didn't win sexy on saturday and a lot of fans are mad right you know our offense didn't look great jj even acknowledged it in his postgame presser. I understand it.

I was in the stadium. It was very boring. Let's be very frank about it. It was a boring game. But that is the Boa constrictor method. Jim Harbaugh does not give a shit about your sexiness and how you want us to look. It is they do what they need to do to win the game.

They've done it for three years in a row now and only lost one regular season game. So I'm all in. It's the best thing. I truly think, you know, after watching that game, it was, we know that Iowa literally cannot score a single point. We're going to run the most bland vanilla offense ever. We're just going to get these four quarters done with,

score enough to get a win and get out of here, and not show a single thing more than we've already shown all year. Well, and if you look at two plays that come to mind for me, and you could probably pick a bunch, but if Colson Loveland catches that ball, he has nothing but green grass. Jay Du on Twitter posted it. Like, nobody. I mean, he's going to win that angle.

He's going to win the race to the end zone. At least get inside first and goal, probably. And then if Barner catches that ball at the five, you're able to potentially pound it in with Blake. So just those two plays it turns into a 34 to nothing beat down which it feels a lot better the vibes are higher but to your point justin none of that matters you go 13 to know think about all the shit this team has been through over the past month plus like all of the outside external stuff like we've talked about

some of this you know situations that the players have kind of had to go through with all this lingering. So, for them to go 13-0, deal with Jim Harbaugh being abruptly taken off the sideline for three games, beat two top ten teams with the interim head coach, and to get to this point, like, we could have won 2-0 on Saturday. I'd be like, cool, we're going to the playoff. It's all good. Got a month to get healthy.

Reset, game plan, all those sorts of things let the o-line mesh you know obviously zinter being out nugent was banged up going into the game i think i think keegan got a little banged up in the game give these guys some rest it's gonna be okay it's gonna be okay and i think about the matchup i know we're gonna talk about this game for the next month but one thing that i had heard today was um not heard but i knew this i think auburn ran for 300 yards on alabama a week ago and that was with peyton thorn at quarterback so it's gonna be okay right like it's it's it's gonna be okay and this team's gonna have time to regroup and kind of you know gather their thoughts and get ready for the rose bowl so winning ugly

for a big 10 championship is tight. Like, don't care. If that's the worst of our problems, I'm going to take it any day of the week. Absolutely. Like, we talked about it at the stadium, man. I was like, I remember, like, praying for something like this to ever happen once. One time. I just needed it once.

And now it's three in a row, three straight playoff appearances. So, to your point, enjoy it. Don't get too greedy. Don't take it for granted. And even if Michigan goes 13-1, this has still been an awesome season, right? Like I will always take this. I want the national championship for sure, but I'll always take this as a great season because they don't come around that often.

And what about this like playoff landscape as just a statement on where college football is now right like or where we're going like this is the big two right i mean all of these teams like what three out of the four teams in the playoff are all going to play each other next year that's insane well for i mean four or four right because Texas and Bama are going to play each other yeah I mean Texas joins the SEC next year too Michigan will play Texas next year as well you know in a in a non-conference game which is crazy too so yeah and Oregon too like you look at Michigan's schedule like obviously there's a lot of roster turnover in today's college football and who knows what Washington and Oregon look like in USC for example but look at Michigan's schedule, like, obviously there's a lot of roster turnover in today's college football. And who knows what Washington and Oregon look like and USC, for example.

But, like, yeah, Michigan's going to play a crazy schedule next year. And it's going to be very much just like the NFL, right? It's like, you know, you can go – you can lose three games and still make the playoffs in college football now. So, it's the last 14 playoff, obviously. Feels good to get into this last one. I just, I said in 21, man, I was like, I'm just glad Michigan got into the 14 playoff before they expanded so that, you know, that can't be thrown in your face. Now they've gotten into three. Now let's go win a game, check that box. And then maybe let's see what happens in Houston,

but got to win, got to win at least one playoff game. then get to the natty and see how that goes. Can we talk about Jim Harbaugh just totally co-opting Bet? I love it. I would kill to have a live stream of inside his brain where there's a little mouse working or something and figuring out like bet what does bet mean and then he like already comes up with the bring everyone together and like i mean that man's brain is it needs to be studied in the there needs to be something we we i want to know i need

to know what's what goes on in there like i really hope nobody ever told him like where it came from or anything and he he just like kept hearing it and it was just like you know what this is what it means it's like it's on the 12th page of urban dictionary is where he found it of like the one that like fits what he wanted it to be he's just scrolling through all of them uh that makes me think of like, I would love to know like Jim Harbaugh search history, not in any weird way, but more so just like the funny things that he would,

he would like search. Like, it's like, all right, what are the prices of milk in 1979? This week? How much milk is too much milk? My lawnmower won't start.

I think he talks about mowing the grass at halftime of games and shit. What is the best food for my chickens? YouTube TV stopped working. Oh, man.

I would take a live stream of him on, like, customer service with YouTube TV trying to figure out how to get it on. That would be the most entertaining thing of all time. We need Joey Molinaro to come out with that one for his next skit. Yeah, we can tweet that one at him. So his video of, like, the acronyms was fantastic. Like, CAP, consistently accurate passer. And his Harbaugh voice, the mannerisms.

Oh, it's great. The way he breathes, it's very Harbaugh-esque. So shout out to Joey Molinaro for his skits. Those are always pretty good. It was just like a weekend full of Harbaugh-isms too. Because in that post-game from Iowa, he randomly was like, yeah, I lost my wallet last year while going to see Colson Loveland. And at first I was like, oh no, I lost my wallet.

Then you know what? I realize I'm a Big Ten champion. It doesn't matter. Can you imagine how thick that wallet is, by the way? You know he's got like – Receipt. He's got a Catanza wallet. He's got a Catanza wallet on him. He's got a trifold wallet that's this thick.

There's a rubber band, I'm sure. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I've got a good Harbaugh wallet story. So last year for JJ's signing at the M-Den, so he did – and it was like mid-December. I think JJ's going to have one here next weekend as well.

But they – so JJ Head is signing. There's literally thousands of people at the M-Den. And Harbaugh shows up with his family. And so everyone's going nuts. Like I'm trying to guide him through the crowd. And then like he's like, you know, we're going Christmas shopping. That's why we're out and about today. And he's like, we had to stop at the M den.

Cause I had to go get 14 number nine jerseys for my family for Christmas. So he's like literally going through the rack and trying to figure out. And then he like realizes he's like, oh my God, I forgot my wallet. Honey. And he was like talking to Sarah, his wife. He's like oh my god i forgot my wallet honey and he's like talking to sarah his wife he's like honey i forgot my wallet i don't know i gotta go back to the car i'm like coach i i think we're good i think we're gonna be all right like i i think we can probably figure something, write an IOU. We can figure something out about him. But he was, like, dead set on that. He was going to, like, walk back to the parking structure to grab his wallet

and figure out how to, like, get 14 number nine jerseys. That's amazing. Do you think there's any other coach at a big-time program that would walk into the bookstore instead of just ordering online? Or instead of, like, like i don't or instead of like hey let me i gotta call my assistant or make my assistant like go do it for me like he's the opposite man he's like i'll go i'll just walk down to the m den and grab an you know four xl large xl large you know number nine jersey my family needs them you hit up pot bellies right

there maybe a little starbucks he's hit up Potbelly's right there. Maybe a little Starbucks. He's got a CVS and Target right there. You got whatever you need, dog. You got Bivouac. You got it all, dude. You can just get all your Christmas shopping done on State Street. I can definitely picture Coach Harbaugh at the parking meter searching through his

car or something for an extra nickel. I feel like, Justin, you probably know nickel. I feel like is adjusted. You probably know this. Is he a pecker when he, when he types, like, is he like, Oh yeah.

A hundred percent. Like, cause I'm like when I parked downtown, like I always get the e-park Ann Arbor app up open to select my slot. Like I just imagined him like, dude, it's like, I,

can you imagine like trying to explain to him? Like, no, there's, there aren't any actual meters like meters where you put coins in anymore. It's an app. It's like, okay, well, how does the app know where my car is? What do you mean?

My phone just knows where the meter is? Yeah, okay, good one, Justin. Good one. Good one. I remember that story last year when it happened but um i just like at one of these times i feel like i'm just gonna be like at best buy and he's just gonna be there like shopping for christmas too and i'm just gonna be like hey coach and like that's gonna be it that would be that would probably make my year to be honest like just running into him at a random

brick and mortar store like Like that would be awesome. But in the best part about him is, you know, he doesn't have a lot of time, right? Like he is a very busy man and he has a lot of things to do. But if you get him talking about the right thing, he literally won't let you go. And it's almost like, it's like, it's kind of a weird thing to be like, hey, coach, I got to get going.

Like I can't talk to you anymore. Like I know there are millions of people that would die to talk to Coach Harbaugh for 30 seconds, right? But it's so bad. If you get him talking like he won't let you go, and his dad Jack is even worse. Like it's a good – if you start talking to Jack, 45 minutes of your day is just gone before you even blink.

And it's in their blood. I obviously wanted Jim Harbaugh to coach here for a long time, but now after this conversation, part of me is, like, excited for whenever he retires and just settles down in Ann Arbor just to see him around town. Like, you know, just like, oh, I'm going to go to Briarwood Mall for a couple of things, and, like, he's just at – him and Sarah are at, you know, just like, oh, I'm going to go to Briarwood Mall for a couple of things. And like, he's just at him and Sarah at, you know, Bath and Body Works. Like, can you imagine Jim Harbaugh just smelling all the candles?

He's definitely pick one with his wife. He's definitely at Washtenaw Dairy at 6 a.m. Oh, just like shooting the shit with some other old guys. I was just going to say he's definitely a diner coffee guy, right? That's just like got to go every morning, no matter what, and gets the exact same thing. You know what? I am going to have that slice of pie today, Kathy. You know, that is 100% him.

What do you think is diner of choices in Ann Arbor? Like Village Kitchen? It's got to be Benny's, right? Benny's or Mark's Midtown. I know Lloyd. Lloyd Carr likes Mark's Midtown. Mark's Midtown is fantastic. Benny's is just like the classic, and I feel like that's all the athletes

go to Benny's, so I imagine he did when he was here as well. Maybe it's Pretzel Bell. Maybe he's a Pretzel Bell guy, and you never know. Jolly Pumpkin. I'm drinking some North Peak Archangel Cherry Berry Wheat currently. That sounds good.

So North Peak has some great little festive. They really do well with the seasons, I feel like. They come out with new beers around the seasons. I do love these. I had a Clementine Wit the other day as well. It was fantastic. I'll be honest. I'm in the middle of a sober seven right now, and I'm jealous

of your... Is there any reason for that, Jack? Was there anything we should discuss about this weekend as far as how crazy the tailgate was as to what led to that decision? The funny thing is I didn't do anything too stupid which is great but i did look back at my tweets and i was at the bar and i guess i like i tweeted out like michigan football isn't even fun to watch anymore i like look back i quote tweeted it

i don't know what happened guys it was a moment of clarity i don't i don't know what was going on but uh was it i do not recall tweeting this. Do you think that was like a we're too good that it's not fun? I think so. I think so. Let's say that. But yeah, the tailgate, man, that got me to a place I needed to be. We all got friendship bracelets. Friendship bracelets?

What was it? Maize and bracelets? Right? Shout out Maize and bracelets. I've got them sitting over here right now yeah would you describe the vibe at the tailgate in one word electric swanky swanky i'm looking at your twitter the the like the uh the cut off the head uh photo well dude it's funny like he walked up to me he was like hey i'm so and so like he gave me

his real name and i was like hey man like nice to meet you like i was almost ready to like grab you guys i'm like hey somebody knows who i am and uh like oh it's swanky i'm like oh dude like i thought you were just like a fan it's not swanky i'm like what's up dude swanky's low-key hilarious by the way he's got like that yeah he's just got that aura of like humor around him yeah he's having a good time yeah the tailgate though was unbelievable like oh my god i looked at it started off not to say it started off slow but like you know we had a good kind of steady flow of people at a certain point i looked i'm like there's like 200 people here yeah i have no idea if that's right but that's why i saved my life at any given time legitimately like i went back to some pictures and looked and it was like legitimately at any

given time there was 200 to 300 people so i'm assuming like i'll i'll around the like across the whole day like over a thousand people came to the tailgate oh i think that's fair unreal and also i want to say not only was it an insane amount of people and i appreciate everyone who came through i think it felt like everyone who parked in that lot ended up at our tailgate before they went in the stadium um but the vibes of the people there were like i mean i had my guy that was doing the the bell you know ringing the bell. We're chanting, let's go blue. Some other chants about Tony Petitti in Ohio. Oh, we love that.

Big Bird came through. Big Bird came through. Shout out Big Bird. I saw him on the Jumbotron at least 12 times, I think. And that's been true every game this year. Every time I'm like, oh, there's Cam on the scoreboard. I mean, the jerks are absolutely elite elite that is an elite group of people those sliders saved my life the sliders are continued to be the greatest piece of food i've ever put in my mouth just incredible

um and just their vibes are incredible uh baking mom getting up while like mr brightside's playing and she's just like oh the she is the main character and on the cooler yes absolutely they like they just they just have a great time man it is and and give zero fucks it is awesome um so shout out scott mortgage queen love them um go follow them all on twitter because they're the best um it was like there was a there was a few moments where i was like holy shit like this is almost out of control like there's so many people we're watching so we're watching the end of the michigan basketball game like hanging on by a thread, hoping, I mean, we got to win that game. Like I don't even want to talk about the actual game,

but we're waiting to win the game and like we're going to explode and then we lose and then that kind of put a downer on things. Put on the Bama game. Yep. So then we put on Bama, Georgia and everyone's just all, you know, hunkered around the TV, but we're playing bangers at the same time, so people are just dancing while they're watching, playing flip cup.

Yeah, it was a hell of a day. I think flip cup is my new favorite drinking game. I've always enjoyed it, but at the tailgates, it's just fucking electric. You know who's the worst flipper cupper of all time? Tanner. God, you're awful. god dude i'm fucking old brother i don't have your old you're not even 30 yet whatever dude i don't play flip cup it's not my jam but you know what and i did take i think i think uh i took an l for the first time all fucking year on the beer bar.

I'm pretty sure I lost to AD. First time? I think I beat your ass, too. Did you? Yeah. First time? Hey, man, you know, I had a 29-game winning streak. Georgia had one sometimes. You know, top dog's going to fall off.

So it happens. I'm glad to see some other people get in there. Now you're – all of a sudden you're the greatest football team of all time in Georgia in 2021. there now you're all of a sudden you're the greatest football team of all time in georgia in 2021 brother all year i have been winning you are making things challenge that is not true absolutely not true whatever your dad looked pretty good at the uh beer bong as well what a fucking dude your dad my dad is the king absolute king i didn't so i didn't see what happened and everyone was cheering for him i was like john did you win and he's like no

no i just did it that's like he's like i completed it he's like he's like at my age you're not really doing that too much so by the way he loved it your parents loved his cameo from last week so uh i think he was thrilled about that uh so How many times did he ask if we were from a bleach report? I was disappointed. Not as many. I need that next time. I need that number to be higher, man. It was only a couple times.

How about going into Lucas Oil and he's just got the handle of fireball. Oh, my God. I forgot about that. They wanted it. He's just like, you guys want a shot? And then I look back at him and it's gone. I forgot about that. They wanted it. He's just like, you guys want a shot? And then I look back at him, and it's gone. I didn't know where it went.

It's not like he had a couple shooters. He didn't have a bit. He had a half gallon. I handle a fireball, and he's just walking, like, giving strangers shots. I'm like, John, who are you right now? Just a man of the right just a man of the people unbelievable um the best part of my day with my dad was when he came up to me and it's like i think we had just played pump it up on the speakers at the tailgate he comes up to me he goes i you know what i just realized they didn't play pump it up in the stadium for the Ohio State game last week one time.

And I go, Dad, they played it like 10 times. What are you talking about? He's like, oh, shit. I might break it a little bit. He must have got pump it up confused with J.J. McCarthy designed runs. It's an easy one to get mixed up. Oh, my God. I was like, what are you talking about, dude?

So it was, I mean, the tailgate, shout out North Peak again, because we went through an insane, insane amount of beers. I felt like I spent half the time just reloading the cooler. Yes. So between the hails and the Blue By 90 beers, we legitimately went through like 500 plus beers, which was awesome. By the way,

the best, like the best part, I feel like Santa Claus, because people like, how do I get one of those beers? And I'd be like, go up to, I felt like the,

the Baylor basketball player describing a rebound. I was like, go up to it, open it up, put your hand in, you grab the beer, you open the beer and you take a drink. I do think maybe,

you know, every time that happens where people are like, what do I got to do to get a beer? put your hand in you grab the beer you open the beer and you take a drink i do think maybe you know every time that happens where people are like what do i gotta do to get a beer and i'm like should we be like asking people to do something or charge something here because i'm like i feel like an idiot when i'm just like i don't know they're just free i just give them to you like yeah like at least we should be asking them to like i don't know throw up an instagram story or something yeah it was uh i there were many people there was the cutest couple of all time that came up asked for a picture with me and needed a beer they they're like we listen to you all the time like we appreciate you guys so i i hope that they're listening to this um

because that was the highlight of my day by far um there was just so many people we had the guy in the the anti-buckeye social hoodie uh oh yeah he was awesome um so many good people the vibes were off the charts off the charts electric factory it smelled like ann arbor too like i would just kind of walk around i'm like oh just like just get a whiff of something you're like whoa ann arbor on a tuesday right now man there was i'll tell you one of one of my coolest the my favorite parts of not even like being in indie but on the way to indie i stopped at a rest stop had to use the bathroom and when i was in the stall as people were going in and out you just heard like go blue go blue go blue like it was it was just like there's i know that we've like brought some of the podcast before even like a few years ago like

you'd say go blue to somebody and like they just wouldn't respond or just be like hey like now it's like it's back it's still back it's so bad it's a lot of pride with people there's also something about going to like an away game or to indie or something like that where you just have like a different camaraderie with people yeah so if you're listening and you haven't been to an away game or to lucas oil like you have to go sometimes i i like those away games even more than a home game because there's just a different feel it's like you know it's like you're an enemy territory yeah and like you all bond together i don't care who you are i've never seen you in my life before but if you're wearing the same

colors as me you're my best friend right and now in this one i'll hug you i'll kiss you i'll do whatever we need you know to get this win i, that's just like what the vibe is, man. I love that so much. So, go blue is back. Go blue is back. I've been saying it like, I'll just go to the Meyer gas station over here off Jackson. I'll just say it now.

Like the last week, I've just said it. Because, you know, you live here, you see it all the time, so you don't say it. But after you beat Ohio State and win the Big Ten, it's like, yeah, go blue. Your chest is pumped out a little bit more. You're walking with a limp. Peacock, gotta let me fly. So, Go Blue

is back in all varieties. It never left, but it's back and better than ever. I'll say that. You know who did leave? Well, you know who did leave? It's Tony Petitti.

Tony Petitti did leave in the middle of the ceremony. I have one thing to say to Tony Petitti. I'm going to look into the camera. Certified bitch. Can I say that?

I feel like you should be a WWE superstar. I wish, dude. I just want everybody to know that that was Tanner that said that. Certified dork. How about that? Dork. I like that. That's cleaner.

For our child listeners we have. I need you to do like a John Cena style rap where you're like talking shit to Tony Petiti. I might generate a chat GPT email to send to him and make some changes and just want to know how much of a coward he is. I mean, so Texas wins the Big 12 championship. There's bad blood between Texas and the Big 12 commissioner. That dude stood up there, took the booze. He made a speech. He stood there. He took the booze. And so for Tony Petitti, when the Big 10 commissioner normally congratulates the coaches, the players, the fans, the university, everybody

associated, this guy, I know he gave it to Zach Zinner at the request of Jim Harbaugh, but literally played hot potato with that football on the trophy. Had wanted nothing to do with it. justin this like the kids say stand on your business as they would say like stand behind your decision don't be a coward up there because now you look 10 times weaker like it was just so it was just i mean jim harbaugh alpha the shit out of him on that stage where he he says i don't even want this to be about me i want it to be about zenter he was class all the way where he says, I don't even want this to be about me. I want it to be about Zinter. He was class all the way where he, you know, you saw later on in pictures, I think Patrick Barron put some out there where, you know, he did shake his hand, didn't make a mess out of it, wasn't anything like that.

You know, I know all of us Michigan fans wanted the drama. I want to applaud Jim Harbaugh for not falling into the trap. He was classy. He did everything the right way. And so what could have been a Jim Schwartz, Jim Harbaugh scenario from us Lions fans from a few years back, it wasn't. He took the high road. I applaud him for it.

Tony Petitti came out and didn't say a word. I don't know if there's a commissioner that's ever not come on the mic and been like, I want to congratulate the Iowa Hawkeyes for a great game today. Very well deserved. And your champion, Michigan Wolverines. That's how it goes. He didn't even

go on the mic because he was too scared. Frag fragile egos man it's a downfall of some people unfortunately so he's just an empty suit though at the end of the day you know he's been an executive for for fox sports he worked he was coo mlb he worked for activision blizzard like he's just he just hops around and i'm sure he's got a bunch of golden parachutes from these different companies but he hasn't brought a lick of value to the big 10 so i'm sure his stint will be short-lived uh and that's how i feel about tony patiti so just um just a coward just a coward move man at the end of the day and uh like to your point jim handled it well i don't think there was any doubt that he would um i just wanted to be able to boo him for

more than a second before we started cheering for zinter which it was a very funny moment of the boos and then the switch up when zinter got the ball, everyone's like, yep, we're back on. I was hoping it would be like, we get, they didn't let us draw out the booze long enough because it was immediately to Zach. But the boo birds were loud, loud. And then, you know, Petiti then ran away literally mid they're talking to

Mikey Sainer still on the stage, which I thought it was so disrespectful for him to leave mid talking to our MVP. He couldn't even stay to let the MVP get his trophy. So he walks away with 47 security guards, at least. It was a whole mob of people. And that corner of that tunnel was whole the pictures are awesome um and so yeah it was it was really incredible uh but the boomers were ridiculous for him well deserved i might add very well deserved for him.

Absolutely. All right. Sorry. I'm, I'm trying to start this other stream yard right now for Jake, but I was like, you're like nagging. All right. Keep going.

And I, I'll behind the scenes, baby. I'm going to do this real quick. This is, this is a incredible podcasting work here as Justin's working on his other podcast. This feels like – who was it that was calling two games at one time? There was an announcer. Is he like – is it like the trend of getting two remote jobs at the same time?

No, there was a – I think it was – I can't remember who the announcer was, but he was like – there was two playoff games. He was essentially doing like NFL Red Zone. And like he was calling two games at once because the one had implications on the other. That's how I feel right now. I got to give a quick shout out to Davis Warren. We hooked him up with a suit through State and Liberty,

and he just shot me a picture of him wearing it. I'm not going to say what he said in there because it's funny, but I'll let you guys know after we're done recording. He's a beauty. Davis Warren. Top beauty on the team. Potentially. I love Davis Warren. Shout out Peyton O'Leary. Peyton O'Leary got in the game on Saturday.

Dude, I saw that. Big shout out to Peyton. I watched it happen i was like 81's going in the game and i just look at justin and i'm like i'm like yo payton's going and he's like who i'm like payton o'leary like it was like friday night lights like r comer it was chris comer it was payton o'leary that's awesome dude yeah he had a catch on a on like a second and 20 got us got us closer to the first down like got us back i think he literally texted me today i got hella snaps give me money i was like bro you can't be serious right now he's like dude to catch. Come on, hook me up. That was 100%. Yeah, that kid is hilarious as well.

Oh, my God. What do we got? I mean, what do we think for the pop schedule in between games? We think like one a week? Are we going to start talking about basketball now? Oh, God. Do we have to? Dude, I haven't watched a single game all year.

You're so smart. I'm going to need to start. I need something to? Dude, I haven't watched a single game all year. You're so smart. I'm going to need to start. I need something to fill my... It just pains you because I love Michigan basketball and it is just so frustrating to watch. I was at the Long Beach State game. I watched the Oregon game. I watched the Memphis game.

It's like, you're better than this. You can be so much better than this. I don't know what they've got to do. They've got a lot of talent, but it's like just you're better than this you can be so much better than this so i don't know what they got to do they've got a lot of talent but um yeah it's been it's been disappointing so far so but yeah i mean i certainly think we should obviously talk about the basketball team and we'll talk about the awards we talk about the heisman next week and all the all the awards and and uh you know i know sasha moore's down in Arkansas for the Broyles Award. I mean, he's got to have that in the bag. Well, you know, technically he was only an offensive coordinator for eight games.

So, like, can you – or nine games. You know, did he do the job? You know? Also, I just want to say – Third question we had. Has he earned it? At Oregon? Not a fan. It was it was like hard to watch i can't believe

they haven't changed that it's been like 12 years it's it's been a long time they've had that now then it's bad now yeah like turned it off and i just watched the like game cast on fanduel like this is that bad holy Dude, like, you know, the NBA teams that do their skylines with just a slightly lighter or darker shade, like, that looks good. All you gotta do is just a forest and not have it be so gaudy. That'd look way better.

I don't understand. I'd rather them just have a giant Nike swoosh at that point in the car. That'd probably be a better use of everyone's time. Nike court, baby. So we're 13-0. We got awards season. We've got Army-Navy on Saturday, which is always a blast.

I hope it snows. All right, I'll root for that. Yeah. Did you guys see the Delaware-Missouri State game? Any of the highlights or anything it was just a massive snowstorm and it looked unbelievable no snow football games might be one of my favorite things of all time oh they had to like clear out the lines and everything right it was that yeah it was and it was coming down still so it was like a perfect like it reminded me of

the lions eagles game back like 10 years ago with shady mccoy and calvin johnson like it was that level of snow that's just a leap so hopefully we see that with the with the home field playoff games like in the north like that i need that yeah well that that's what i was about to ask like yeah the home field what is it top four seeds host or top four get a buy and then like five through eight host and then it goes to a neutral site for the rest gotcha yeah okay so obviously you want to have a buy right but if michigan's the five seed and gets the host like cool dude can you imagine blue by 90 tailgate for mid-december it's cold it's snowy give it to me the blue by 90 beer is just flowing like you don't even need ice for the cooler it's so cold like oh we love that and it's snowy give it to me the blue banana beer is just flowing like you don't even need

ice for the cooler it's so cold like oh we love that and it's somebody from the sec oh my gosh that would be electric that would be beautiful they would never but i need it in my life all right i have to there's nothing else you can't do it you got any wise words to wrap this thing up i do i'm ready who's that i don't have anything i think it's just i'm also i'm i'm like freaking out looking at myself but it's i'm like 10 seconds delayed oh yeah it's weird yeah it might where's my voice at, though? Is my voice way? Your voice is fine. My voice is fine. So it's just a little cam off. Or is this, it's so trippy. It's very trippy.

What people on YouTube leave comments for you. Perfect. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, listen. Soak it in, baby. Soak it in. Ohio State's in shambles. Michigan State literally doesn't have a scholarship quarterback on their roster.

We love it. Their two fan bases are on Twitter just constantly talking shit about us, but we can respond with the scores of the last three years. This is what we've wanted for two decades this we've wanted to be in this spot that's all we've wanted and it's the best it is the best and listen it's sad how much of my life is hinges on how these games go that 19 year old kids play um But that's just where we're at. That's where we're at. And so, you know what? I'll take it.

I will absolutely take it. I'll take the dub. I can't wait. I got my flight, hotel tickets, all booked for Pasadena. Pasadena is going to be incredible. Just be I'm already like I can smell the sunset, smell the roses. It's it's I'm already like I can smell the sunset, smell the roses. It's it's I'm so jealous.

Like Southern California is an unbelievable spot, dude. Like it's it's so pretty. You know, I know that's a polarizing subject for whatever reason, but like it's it's gorgeous out there. Got the ocean, the mountains, like the sunset, like it's beautiful. So I'm super jealous. I can't guarantee anything as I'm speaking out, kind of just talking about it, but I'm sure we're going to be doing something for a watch party on New Year's Eve. Like we have to, right. So we'll have to, we'll have to plan that one. Yeah. Oh, that's what I meant to say. I knew it was on the first. So that'll be, that'll be electric.

Definitely want to do that one big, like the first so that'll be that'll be electric um definitely want to do that one big like the penn state watch party was awesome so hopefully we can do something even bigger than that like talk with some folks but yeah more details that come on that i'm sure i also want to give a shout out to dexter my golden doodle he turned one yesterday oh happy belated dax yes yes our our big boy. He is undefeated as a Michigan fan in his lifetime. That he is. Actually, no. I'm sorry.

He was born December 3rd. He's undefeated this year, as we all are. Undefeated since we've gotten him. Undefeated since he's found his forever home with us. Since his gotcha day. Yeah.

That's what I meant. Since he's found his forever home with us. Okay. Okay. Since his gotcha day. Yeah. That's what I meant. I do. It is. Caleb Martin. Shout out Caleb Martin. He's been an avid listener since the beginning here. I miss that fucking guy, dude. I text with him every so often.

He's the man. He had a baby, I think, last year or two years ago, and he just tells me all the time, and he's just like, she has no idea what we went through. No. Dude, Caleb's the best. It's incredible. It's just like she has no idea all the stuff that we've been through

to get to this point. All she knows is winning. So spoiled. Oh, my God. Yeah, dude, think about like the, I don't know, like the kids in middle school that are Michigan fans right now, like how good they have it. Like when we were in middle school, it was like, oh, just, you know,

taking L's. And now it's like they just – nobody can say anything to them. So I'm happy for them. I'm jealous. But it's pretty tight as an adult too. There was a long time where like you wore that Michigan shirt and didn't feel like awesome about it. You know?

Now – Actually, I went with Adidas. Yeah, exactly. Now you can really puff that chest out and, you know, and wear that proudly. Alright, that'll wrap it up here. For us, you can follow us at BlueBy90 on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, at BlueBy90Podcast on YouTube, and BlueBy90.com.

We appreciate you. Go Blue. Go Blue. Go Blue. Go Blue. Bro, that might have been your best wrap-up ever. Somebody else end the recording i'll leave i logged out so