Falling in Love with Michigan Football: Gabe Morency's Tale

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00:00When did you start falling in love with Michigan and why?

00:07I started, uh, I was a Bo Schembechler guy as a kid.

00:12I became a Michigan fan in like 1977 and you know, I grew up watching, you know, all sports,

00:19but I was watching a Rose Bowl, Scott, and I saw this coach like freaking out on the

00:25sidelines and throwing things and he threw his headset like basically at the ref.

00:29You remember what he was like?

00:30He's like, you son of a bitch.

00:31He threw his headset.

00:32Yeah.

00:33He got all tangled up and he's like, and I was like, man, and then I saw the play and

00:37I was like, he's right.

00:38They're getting screwed.

00:39Right.

00:40I was like, man, he's got it.

00:41He's got a right to it.

00:42And I think it was Charles White actually went over the top of the end zone.

00:46He wasn't really in and, and, and, and also listen, growing up on the East coast, I got

00:52Michigan games every Saturday on ABC, right?

00:55So I sort of grew up with that Brian greasy, uh, Bob greasy, uh, as the analyst and Keith

01:00Jackson, uh, doing the game.

01:02So I got into Michigan as like a seven year old Scott and there was no turning back.

01:08And then a couple of years later, when I was like 13, 14 or something, my, my, one of my

01:14uncles moved to Ann Arbor just by chance.

01:18He moved to Ann Arbor and he has a son and stuff.

01:21One of my cousins, a good hockey player.

01:23He played for Eastern Michigan to play for the Michigan Wolverines, but they moved there

01:27so we could play a college hockey and he played, uh, he played for Eastern Michigan.

01:32So that it was just sort of, you know, locked in, right?

01:35Like as a kid, I was getting Michigan, Michigan for Christmas.

01:38And so I was already indoctrinated by the time I was like, you know, I was watching

01:43I was seven by the time I was 12, like I didn't like, and I never liked another team.

01:49There's never been in my life.

01:50I said, Oh yeah.

01:51I was also a fat.

01:52No, never.

01:53I'm not going to lie.

01:55I did like Herschel Walker.

01:58I think your boy Bo was like Woody Hayes.

02:01They were very similar because, uh, he, you know, they were actually friends, but they

02:06were rivals and they both had hot tempers, which I love because they got nice.