To the team in the locker room before the '76 game...
"You are now inside the Horseshoe-the toughest place to play in college football, or anywhere else in the world, for that matter. Man, it's loud! It's hostile! AND THEY DO NOT LIKE US!
You felt it the second you got on the bus this morning. Buckeye fans pounding their fists on our bus, giving us the finger, screaming the worst possible things at us. Then we got escorted by the cops to our locker room, and even now, you can hear the fans shouting and stomping their feet above you. Good!
This ain't the Big House boys! We're not at home anymore! Well, hell-I love it! THIS is why you came to Michigan!
Gentlemen, imagine this: Sixty guys-just sixty guys!-enter the loudest stadium in the entire nation, filled with 87,000 screaming fans who hate us-but we take it over. The whole place. Just sixty guys. Because not one of those crazy fans yelling in the stands can touch the ball. Not one of them can make a single block, not one of them can make a single tackle! Only we can. That's us!
And that is why you are about to hear the best sound in the world: Ohio Stadium, filled to the brim-and dead silent. Dead silent. That's exactly what we're going to do: Make 'em all shut up!
YOU OWE IT TO EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN TO BEAT THE BUCKEYES AND SILENCE THEIR FANS!
NOW GO OUT THERE AND MAKE IT HAPPEN!"
Gents...tomorrow is Michigan's time. Let's do this!!
"You are now inside the Horseshoe-the toughest place to play in college football, or anywhere else in the world, for that matter. Man, it's loud! It's hostile! AND THEY DO NOT LIKE US!
You felt it the second you got on the bus this morning. Buckeye fans pounding their fists on our bus, giving us the finger, screaming the worst possible things at us. Then we got escorted by the cops to our locker room, and even now, you can hear the fans shouting and stomping their feet above you. Good!
This ain't the Big House boys! We're not at home anymore! Well, hell-I love it! THIS is why you came to Michigan!
Gentlemen, imagine this: Sixty guys-just sixty guys!-enter the loudest stadium in the entire nation, filled with 87,000 screaming fans who hate us-but we take it over. The whole place. Just sixty guys. Because not one of those crazy fans yelling in the stands can touch the ball. Not one of them can make a single block, not one of them can make a single tackle! Only we can. That's us!
And that is why you are about to hear the best sound in the world: Ohio Stadium, filled to the brim-and dead silent. Dead silent. That's exactly what we're going to do: Make 'em all shut up!
YOU OWE IT TO EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN TO BEAT THE BUCKEYES AND SILENCE THEIR FANS!
NOW GO OUT THERE AND MAKE IT HAPPEN!"
Gents...tomorrow is Michigan's time. Let's do this!!
