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Growing up in Ann Arbor and going to 3-4 Michigan games per year, I was so bored with their style of football and their entire concept of what college football was. Then I watched Jim Kelly on TV throwing the football all over the field and the players having fun and it was like a light bulb...

Good catch on this.

Are we actually having a civil discussion about Race? I wondered if this was possible anymore but I am impressed by the comments. Please don't make me look like an idiot for this comment.

And I can guarantee that by '92 the team that guy rooted for had a lot of black players. But the UM black players represented something different because they were frankly seen as more independent of the then-prevailing system of college football. It is bad enough for a lot of people when...

Even the announcers got into the hatred. UM was criticized during the ND game, and when UM whupped Texas in the Cotton Bowl, Mike Francesca called UM "disgraceful". Of course the 200 yards in penalties were a factor.

100%. Black guys with shaved heads, baggy shorts and black socks playing an aggressive form of the game that was meant to intimidate opponents. I loved it.

A term was created for how Georgetown played basketball; Hoya Paranoia. That was not love. John Thompson staged a walkout of a game to protest the disparate impact of Proposition 48 on black student athletes. And he lead the black coaches along with John Chaney at Temple. People put up signs...

Josh Pate nailed this issue. He didn’t use the word race but he implied it every 30 seconds.

Let’s be real. Much of the hatred was based on race. UM was looked upon as an inner-city school (coded for black) and was taking on the more genteel (coded for white) schools in college town America. I grew up in Ann Arbor and heard UM referred to as a bunch of thugs constantly. To white...