Happy Thanksgiving to all the Umtailgate family.   Though the season did not end as perfectly as we would have liked, we still have much to be thankful for.  First of all for our tailgaters and their families that battled some pretty serious illnesses and also for us making it through the season with only a [...]

We now take you to the cushy part of the Wolverine’s 2006 schedule, with the three-headed monster of Northwestern, Ball State, and Indiana before we head to Columbus. How easy should these games be? Really easy. How vanilla will the offense be for the next three weeks? Super vanilla. We [...]

The Hammer:
The real season begins Saturday! And much like the first three games, the Wolverines will come out victorious. Pay back game number two will certainly produce a more difficult challenge than the pathetic job the
Irish attempted to complete in South Bend. The Badgers have a tough defense and should provide our toughest test to [...]

They said it just for me. They knew I had just turned on the tv, I know they did. I can accept criticism but I can not accept a lack of respect. Whether it puts the University of Michigan in a better position by being disrespected, if that’s what it takes to get motivated…well I [...]

Less than three days before Michigan takes the field in an attempt to get their 850th all-time victory, which is, of course, a record. Ann Arbor will welcome the SEC into the city limits for the first time since a 1980 visit by South Carolina. As you well know, Michigan is no stranger [...]

You don’t need season preview mags, Corso or Herbstreit or Mark May. You don’t need The Wolverine Football Season Preview in all of its glossy glory. You don’t need websites or weblogs or monkeys throwing darts. Everything you need to get a randomly generated pile of bullshit an accurate gaze into the [...]

Nice job Franky, but you made some serious omissions. You get a pass since it’s game week #1 and I’m sure your nervous, but it would be unjust to not include the following amendments and add ons. Tailgaters, remember it is your duty to help continue making Umtailgate the fastest growing and [...]

Well my friends the time has come. Dust off your yellow socks, the 2006 season is here. Each year I get a plethora of questions from UMTailgate.com rookies on what you should do about food, drinks, etc, so I have rehashed an old post from before the start of the 2004 season that kind [...]

It’s game week. After a dreary weekend of weather in Ann Arbor, looks like we might get a break this weekend, with future forecasts reporting sunny skies and temps in the mid-70’s for Gameday. Of course, I have about as much faith in weather reporting as I do in the pre-season polls.
Looks like [...]

A couple of quick hitter news items, and I will start with the most recent, which is the campus arrival of Marques Slocum. Marques was not only part of the #2 SI.com ranked recruiting class of 2005, he was the feature of it. Slocum had some issues with some standardized tests, which Neon [...]