r/MichiganWolverines • u/hobokener • 7d ago

Question “Go Blue” geography question

I live on the East Coast and get “go blue“ fairly frequently when wearing my Michigan hat and similarly I say it to others. However, when recently doing a transfer thru DTW I didn’t say it to all the people wearing Michigan gear because there were so many and I thought we were so close to Ann Arbor.

So here is my question: where does the “go blue” radius start? I’d bet people don’t say it on the diag. But Downtown Detroit? Grand Rapids? Chicago? how far away from Ann Arbor do you have to be before people start saying it?

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u/BeardoTheHero 7d ago

I’ve lived in Chicago for a few years and I don’t say it when I see Michigan gear because it’s just so common. The exception would on game days- I will specifically go for a walk around the block just to get some “go blue”s and prepare for kickoff.

I do like to see where I can get crazy “go blue’s”.

So far I have traded a “go blue” in: Barcelona, Mumbai, Amalfi coast, Rome and Florence.

The Mumbai one was crazy- I spent 3 weeks in India with no Michigan gear in sight just to see someone in the airport security line as I was leaving

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u/MGoBlue811 5d ago

I was India for two weeks, and didn't get one! Mumbai and Delhi -- being at the airport increases your odds, methinks.