OT Your hometown and fandom origins

1) Windsor, ON
2) Watching the Braylon year (yes Im a youngin)
2) Dont worry, no one knows it

I was born and raised in Detroit and moved to Omaha, NE in 1982.

I became a fan in the early '70s--the Denny Franklin years. The earliest memory I have is the Rose Bowl (71?) loss to Stanford 13-12 (how appropriate). The second memory is a 52-0 beating of Mighty Navy in or about 72-3-4.

The Ten Year War, the helmets, the fight song--and then the stunning realization that sleeping my way to a high school GPA of about 0.8 WASN'T "good enough" for Michigan. But I remained a fan even though UM had some sort of snobby "standards" that I didn't measure up to.

I am from the Youngstown-Warren Ohio area... Dad was a football fanatic (OSU) .. i was 6 yrs old and lived in a apartment across from the star of my hometown high School.

He use to let me play Bball with him and his brother and told my dad to bring me to see him play .. So my High school has the winged helmets and fight song is hail to the victors.

I went and seen those helmets and seen my neighbor who i looked at as like a Emmitt Smith (i was 6) .. and then my dad said "come watch the buckeyes" .. they were playing UM and i seen those helmets and thought it was where my neighbor would go to play when he got older because of the helmets .. I became a die-hard UM fan .. neighbor went on to set all the rushing records at Bucknell U .. and Dad was sick he did not better explain things to me (would not have mattered its in my blood to yell GO BLUE ! )

1) Lauderhill, FL (Random Fact: Vlad is from my home city and went to a rival high school.)
2) My Father is an M alum and it was always my dream to go to U-M. I've been a Wolverine since I was 7 and coming from a Florida boy that's saying something.
3) Random high school in SoFla (about an hour south of Pahokee).

1) Grand Rapids, MI
2) My parents have had tickets since before I was born
3) Rogers High School in Wyoming, MI

I was born in Ann Arbor in the sixties while my dad was in law school. At some point while I was growing up he bought season tickets, which we held onto while we moved around the metro Detroit area. Eventually we moved to Rochester, where I lived with one minor interruption until I graduated from high school (Rochester Adams).

I became a fan going to the games with my dad in the seventies. My brother and I would go to a game or two a year prior to the Rick Leach era, but '75 or '76 my dad bought two more season tickets and I went to nearly every game until I went away from college.

My great-grandfather was a publisher of an Ann Arbor newspaper back in the 1880s, and my grandfather spend much of his childhood in Ann Arbor. Granddad attended UM from 1901-04, getting a Lit degree '04 and a Masters soon after. Watching the first four years of Yost's tenure must have been an amazing thing.

For a short while my dad also lived in Ann Arbor during the early 1920s, on Wells and later on Packard. One of my prize possessions is a photo album of my grandfather's filled with photos from his time in Ann Arbor back then. One photo was taken right on the sidelines during the 1904 game against Chicago at Ferry Field, and Germany Schultz is clearly identifiable amidst the scrum of players. Don't know how grandpa got the photo, and the identical shot is in the Bentley archives.

My first football game at any level was a UM game in the late 50s, and I can clearly remember my dad suffering through radio broadcasts of UM getting pounded almost annually by Sparty during the late 50s and 60s. It's hard to imagine, but MSU's domination of us back then was every bit as thorough as Bo's domination of MSU turned out to be. My dad also completely loathed Woody Hayes, so I grew up more or less with the same attitude toward the Buckeyes.

Attending UM was sort of a foregone conclusion; I came here in '71 as a freshman from Grosse Pointe South, and never left. I got to see all but the first two years of Bo's reign.

a2; i grew up with campus minutes from my front door/i'm an alum; a2 huron.

1. Maumee (Toledo), OH
2. Grandfather swam and Grandmother played field hockey at UM
3. Maumee High School

Currently reside in Portland, OR; any other UM fans here, let me know.

1. East Grand Rapids, MI

2. 5th generation graduate of UM. Family has had tix in Michigan Stadium since it was built. Michigan pennant hanging over my crib before I was born. Attended first UM game at the age of 2.5 in the 1974 season. Have attended at least one home game every season since then.

3. East Grand Rapids HS.

Richmond, Michigan. I started watching when I was 10 because I thought the uniforms looked cooler than Michigan States. I went to Richmond High School. We played Jake Long in 2002.

1. I was born in Detroit. I have lived in every part of SE Michigan possible (short list: Detroit, Madison Heights, Sterling Heights, Warren, Harper Woods, Grosse Point Woods, Grosse Pointe Park, St. Clair Shores, Algonac, and a few others - currently A²). I have not lived in any other state.
2. I haven't been a fan of any other school. It's always been Michigan, as far as I can remember.
3. Algonac High School. Home of the maize & blue muskrats