I'm a quarter of the way through Three and Out by John Bacon. So far, while it does have some criticisms of RichRod, it certainly does paint the beleaguered coach as a victim of a system led by Michigan's "good ol' boys." All the rumors you heard about Carr...Bacon confirms them. He also is foreshadowing Rosenburg's vendetta, making his dislike for both Rodriguez and Bill Martin apparent from some well placed quotes. I mean, we all know where that shit ends...Bacon gives a taste of where it began for little Mikey.

Anyway, I'm just about through the win over Wisconsin in year 1. Totally forgot about the two-point conversion that Wisconsin made for the tie that got called back for illegal formation.

Ahhhhhhh, but this is homecoming. And Purdue is coming to town, riding momentum from a stunning, season-saving-ish upset of Illinois that had me floating somewhere between fresh worry about a team I thought we would demolish to less worry about a future road game that I thought we'd have a lot of trouble with. Such is the bye week...too much watching football, too much analyzing football. Sometimes you have to remind yourself that this is a game played by young men, and it's predicated on emotion, and it's fueled by momentum. On any given Saturday....

Today we look back at Michigan vs. Purdue 2007. The recent Sparty game was my 150th straight home and away Michigan game...Purdue 2007 was my 100th. It was homecoming then too, and the theme was Mardi Gras. Pictures are below...

We also got some serious pub that day, courtesy of the (now defunct) Ann Arbor news.

AND...we won the game,48-21:

Also, CJ fireman-carried his old man out of the game...just to have him ruin a perfectly good FJ Cruiser. So many memories....