Back in 2012, I sat inside the WTKA 1050AM studios with Coach Gary Moeller. We talked about a few different things but primarily we methodically stepped through the headset audio 'The Catch' (recall that the athletic department released the audio in 2011 inside the 'Under the Lights' Notre Dame game program). Here's the raw audio, over 17 minutes, with Ira Weintraub on the audio playback.
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Pirates & Peacocks – Michigan Football is Back | Professor and the Pundit – S2 Ep3
Football week is here! The boys deliver a lively discussion on the game, their pre- and postgame routines, memories from Desmond Howard's magical 1991 season, the new college football rules and of course, a preview of our week 1 opponent East Carolina. Go Blue!
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How Coach Mo Schooled the Detroit Lions
Bumping in honor of Coach Mo. Part of my 2012 conversation with former Michigan and Lions head coach Gary Moeller, on his favorite memories at Michigan Stadium, and how he drew on his Michigan days when he took over the Lions.
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A Seventy Burger | This Week in Michigan Football History
This Week In Michigan Football History, as played during the WTKA 1050AM 'Countdown to Kickoff' held November 7, 2020 before the Michigan-Indiana game. Topics: Bob Ufer's passing and the onfield tributes, Bo's disdain for both Illinois (after firing Gary Moeller) and for Illinois's head coach Mike White. For all these reasons and more, Bo and crew dropped 70 on White and the Illini:
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Calling ‘The Catch’
Reposting this based on Twitter love, here’s the audio of Gary Moeller’s headset calling the 4 & 1 play vs. Notre Dame in 1991 that resulted in Desmond Howard’s incredible catch. This was originally posted by the U-M athletic department as part of the Under the Lights game program and collateral. Love it. For a detailed breakdown of this audio, check out my interview with Moeller where we walked through this…slowly…and he explained behind-the-scenes what all this stuff means, and what was going on. This post also includes a bonus: audio from Lou Holtz and his memories of the play via my man John Kryk.
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The Reverse Dimple Rawlings Double Grip Football | Storytime with Sap
[Ed. Here’s another great Bo-era story from the mind of Dr. Sap.] Guest Post by Steve “Dr. Sap” Sapardanis After Bo Schembechler left U-M to become the president of the Detroit Tigers he met Oakland A’s owner Charlie Finley. Finley liked to dabble in the unique as he was the inventor of the high visibility yellow baseball as well as the green and gold tunics the A’s wore in the ‘70s. The two talked about Finley’s new football invention – the reverse dimple football. Its enhanced grip was supposed to improve the accuracy of throws and increase the distance it was kicked. [more on the patent here.] The grip enhancement looked much like a golf ball’s surface and the leather looked something like this: Bo was intrigued and told Finley to go see U-M equipment manager Jon Falk in Ann Arbor…and that’s exactly what he did in the spring of 1990. The two hit it off and Falk agreed to try the new ball that Rawlings now dubbed the “Double Grip Football” with the 1990 Wolverines. Everybody liked it. The quarterbacks liked the grip and felt more accurate throwing it. The receivers liked the tackiness and the kickers felt it sailed longer when booted. Falk wanted to use the new pigskin against Notre Dame to start the 1990 season, but…
