How did you become a Michigan fan?
I don't remember a time when I wasn't a Michigan fan. I suppose, like many others, I was born into it. I still have a hard time finding the point where my father stops and Bo begins. My aunt received a degree from Michigan. Both my mother and father would have happily attended were it not for circumstances getting in the way. And in retrospect, I don't know where else I would have gone to college. The moment that envelope arrived in the mail, there was no decision to be made. My cousin was a part of Steve Kornacki's "Block M" OL group but my fandom was established long before.
In short, I never knew there was an option.
while my Dad was finishing up grad school at ohio st. I grew up in mid-Ohio. The first college football game that I remember was when my older neighbor invited me to watch the osu-Michigan game in 1977 (yes, my 20 plus years of living in Ohio still force me to say osu first). I'm pretty sure he expected me to fall in line and just root for ohio st, but, as my handle indicates I was immediately taken by Harlan Huckleby (along with Woolfolk and Leach), and of course the unis and the fight song. And, I have to admit the allure of being a contrarian to my older friend was a powerful elixir. By the time the Wolverines had won the game, my friend had vowed to never invite me over again (he relented, but I never did go over for another football game, of any type), and I was on my way to being "that Michigan fan" for the remainder of junior high, high school, and even among my good college friends in Ohio. Of course all my family: parents, aunts, uncles, cousins were buckey fans. But, I'm proud to say I converted my Brother early on just by having UM gear laying around the house, because I was long gone while he was growing up, and now he's left in Ohio carrying the torch, which has been no easy task the last decade. Hail to the Victors!
was a Michigan fan and got me interested in 1970, then I turned into a true fan way before I went to school there. My Dad was a ND fan.