Has anyone seen the Gophers win the jug in person?

[Eagan]

Yep....Great game Memorial. Mark Carlson was the QB. Freshman Marion Barber at HB. DT Steve Midboe had a heck of game. Chased Rick Leach the Michigan QB all over Memorial Stadium. I remember Gopher coach Cal Stoll saying the next morning on Sid's show that Midboe would've
chased Leach all the way to Stub/Herbs if he had too. I actually have the limited issue print of Memorial Stadium and it depicts the Michigan upset.

My brothers attended this game. I would have joined them, but was scheduled to work my teenage job stocking shelves at Target for something like $2 per hour.

 

[Doc Gopher]

I was there in 1977. As Cal Stoll said, they chased Rick Leach all the way back to Stub and Herb's.

 

[Flatfoot]

My father started me out right by having me watch Gopher Football in 59, so I know I there for 61, 63, 65, 67 and 77. I only remember the nail-biter of 63 and again another shutout in 77. The 63 game was memorable because of the defense and I remember complaining to my father that it was sort of boring! (hope we get back to a dominate defense, sort of like the first half of Purdue)
I had Eller's autograph from 63 and of course he and Sunde played for that other team

 

[TLHGO4]

I was at the '63 and '65 games, 14-13 and 6-0 victories. Missed the '61 victory, the only game I did not attend while a student at the U.

 

[gopherdudepart2]

I was at the 2005 game in Ann Arbor

This was the second of two trips to Ann Arbor. This is the only time I have seen the Gophers win the jug in person.
I was wearing a #22 Tyrone Carter jersey but trying to claim it was Laurence Maroney's. The color and the gold trim were to bright to be a Maroney era 22. There was an Ann Arbor traffic cop that was taunting any Gopher fan that he would see crossing the street near the golf course. There was a radio host in Ann Arbor that stopped us to talk on the Radio
because her brother in-law was our baseball coach John Anderson. It was a fun trip even taking a picture with a replica
jug that some Michigan fans had at the Irish pub we ate at after the game. We might have been the only two Gopher fans in there so these fan's wanted a pitcure with actual Gopher fans and the jug. These fans seemed genuine in there praise of the Gophers and were happy for us that we had watched our team win, the Gophers actually won because it is an uncommon occurence and it was even a surprise. Cupito played like a man that would not be denied that day, he was taking beating after beating and had some badly banged up ribs and he kept plugging away.
Mike Max was at the pre game breakfast put on by the goal line club and he was saying why would you bother to come to Michigan, the Gophers never beat these guy's. Max is as big a dink as everyone say's he is, he should not be associated with the show on FSN as he takes the Gophers for granted and is not a backer of this team.

I will have to agree with Gopher Lady and Natedawg, the Big house is the quietest least rowdy, most laid back 100,000 + stadium I have ever been to. Nothing like C-bus and the horse shoe, Columbus was rocking even when they blew us out. Buckeye fans stopped us everywhere to offer beer and food.
I know being the opponent is someone there used to beating may have something to do with the lack of enthusisiasm at the Big house in Michigan but you see the band and the tailgating on TV and think it is all that, but that place Ann Arbor has nothing on Columbus or even Madison to match enthusiasm of the fans or the tailgating. There band has to be the most over rated in all of the country, they are not that good, just a lot of playing hail to the victors.
As rude as they can be even some of the Badger fans were a lot more friendly than the folks in Ann Arbor were for the tailgate part.

 

[tikited]

I was there in 77. Was ten years old and have faint memories of Carlson and Barber that day. My dad smoked a cigar "to keep warm" I was told, but I knew what a victory cigar looked like when I saw one.

 

[gophmeister]

We had a shot in 1998. I don't think we scored an offensive td, but Michigan's offense ground to a halt that day and we were tied in the 4th quarter. Late in the game Brady fumbled the snap and had the gopher, I think it was Astein Osei just fallen on it we could have kicked a field goal and won. However he tried to pick it up giving Brady the opportunity to recover it. Instead they kicked a field goal to seal the deal. Definitely not the greatest game in history, but it was an instance when a heavily favored Michigan team played badly and a rebuilding gopher team almost won. Way better than in 2003 when we had what seemed to be an insurmountable lead in the 4th before getting screened to death by those f'ers.

 

[corcoran1]

I was in grad school in "77 and saw the game. I don't think Michigan ever really threatened scoring. We had Leach running for his life all over the field, MBII scored from about the 6. Just watching Michigan get frustrated was fabuous. they could not believe it.

 

[Brick House]

was at the '77 game, 14 yr old. Dad wanted to go and scalp some tix, I didnt, I said the gophers were going to get killed, mom made me go, am I glad she did. Michigan never really threatened to score, the gopher D was everywhere. I remember Paul Roginds kick offs, pinning the return man deep and near the sideline and then he was making the tackles as well. I bought the Terry Fogarty print of that game, one for me and one for my dad.

 

[Great Plains Gopher]

Though I had season tickets in '77, I missed the Michigan game because I had to be in New Orleans that weekend. After watching the Gophers stuff UCLA and Washington (the Rose Bowl competitors in the Pac 8) I told guys at Stub&Herb's that we would beat Michigan, guaranteed. The only TV game that day in Louisiana was an SEC one, but they kept breaking in with the astonishing news that the number one team was down 0-7, 0-10, 0-13, and that caught the attention of the announcers. Finally it was 0-16, and I was cheering and dancing in the living room to my wife's wonderment. The best victory over Michigan after that was '61, which I did attend in Memorial. We were inside the ten for the go-ahead touchdown late, but fumbled. The Michigan band was going crazy with repeated, "Champions of the West" outbursts. But Michigan fumbled it back a play or two later and Stepehens took us in for the winning score. The '60, '61, and '62 teams were the best Gopher squads I've ever seen in person, with the possible exception of the '49ers, but I was a kid seeing them with my dad (they beat Iowa 55-7).

 

[klmoon]

I was also in Ann Arbor in 2005. Best game I have ever been to! Still get a laugh when a Michigan fan sitting behind us asked what we were spelling when we did the rouser!

 

[raindog]

I was there in '77. I was 14 y.o. I didn't appreciate the significance of the victory and looking back could not have imaged the dry spell that would follow.

Funny, same thing happened to me when I was 14. My dad was a Gopher as am I. That was one of a handful of games I attended before undergrad. It remains remains a great memory as does raking leaves on a crisp sunny midwest afternoon, listening to the Gophs on "CCO."

 

[gophersmokes]

Was there in 2005 as well. Not a fan of Michigan. That morning in the hotel a Michigan fan asked me "you don't really think you have a chance do you?" When I told him, yes I do, he just smirked and walked away. At the game the Michigan fans didn't like our "That's another Golden Gopher first down" and asked us to stop. So we switched to "That's another Wolverine fourth down."

 

[sconniegopher]

Yes, I was there in 2005. It was awesome.
Brought the jug home.