Four-Letter.

All of us up here in the water wonderland never forget that Ohio is still a four-letter word.

Bob Ufer

Glorious.

Michigan play-by-play announcer, Bob Ufer, prepares the student body for the 1979 Michigan-Ohio game ...

As a kid, growing up in Michigan, I became a Wolverine listening to Ufer's radio call on "The Great Voice of The Great Lakes," WJR.  I remember a radio in the kitchen, one in the garage, and one out in the backyard, right next to whatever was being woked on ... those were grand and glorious times.

Away.

Channeling Bob Ufer from 1969 ...

Ohio came to bury Michigan

All wrapped in maize and blue

The words were said the prayers were read and everybody cried

But when they closed the coffin, it was someone else inside

The Buckeyes came to bury Michigan -- 

But Michigan wasn't dead

For when the game was over

It was someone else instead

Twenty-two Michigan Wolverines put on the gloves of gray

And as the organ played "The Victors"

They laid Ryan Day away.

Ufer.

All of us up here in the water wonderland never forget that Ohio is still a four-letter word.

Bob Ufer

A documentary of longtime Meeechigan Football announcer, Bob Ufer, A Life in a Season (don't miss the artistic introduction by Mike Whorf) ...