Full Album Links: Michigan Football vs Penn State 2022 (Patrick Barron) | Flickr Michigan Football vs Penn State 2022 (Bryan Fuller) | Flickr Once upon a time in Michigan Stadium, the announcement for a maize out would be somewhere on your ticket stub (see Wisconsin and Michigan State). There wasn't much fanfare surrounding these announcements or neat social media graphics, just a general reminder that "on Wednesdays we wear pink, also wear maize to this one. But just this one." The stadium was maize, but apart from the student section it was a maize-ish. It's like driving around the mid-west a week after the leaves hit their peak fall colors. Up close there are still some spectacularly vibrant yellows but zoom out far enough and the entire forest becomes a weird brown that you convince yourself is still vibrant if you squint and stare at it. This was especially true for maize-outs in October. At some point, you wake up before sunrise to go tailgating, your outdoor
Full Album Links: Michigan Football at Indiana 2022 (Patrick Barron) Michigan Football at Indiana 2022 (Bryan Fuller) After the first Indiana touchdown I headed towards one of the endzone corners that Michigan would be attacking on the next drive. An event staff yelled at me to move because I was in the way of the emergency medical cart. I moved but was confused - I didn't see an injury on the touchdown play, or at least I didn't see the typical timeout that occurs when someone is down long enough to need the cart. I turned around and my heart sank when I saw the entire Michigan team taking a knee. [Patrick Barron]One of the worst sights in sports is seeing a cart come out. It takes the air out of everything. At the very least Mike Hart appeared alert as I watched the cart go to the ambulance in the tunnel. I was shook for the rest of the first half - especially considering this was Mike freakin' Hart. I started attending Michigan football games in the early 2000s. Mike