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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Bo the Merciless (1981) | This Week in Michigan Football History
November 7, 1981 was a day of very mixed emotions in Ann Arbor. For starters, it was the first home game since the passing of the iconic Bob Ufer. Second, the opponent was Mike White and Illinois, a head coach and program that was on a list Bo Schembechler kept that you didn’t want to be on. Game highlights from WolverineHistorian, note back-up QB B.J. Dickey hurling the pigskin down the field late in the fourth quarter: Today we head back 34 years, to November 7, 1981, when Bo Schembechler’s #12 ranked Wolverines welcomed Illinois. Normally a crisp fall football Saturday in Ann Arbor is met with great joy, but on this day there was a somber mood in Ann Arbor as this was the first home game since the passing of the iconic Meeechigan radio voice Bob Ufer. Weeks earlier, he was honored by the student athletes when the coveted GO BLUE banner was redesigned to read BOB UFER. The marching band joined the tribute, creating a formation that spelled out his name upon Canham’s carpet. Before kickoff the fans observed a moment of silence. But there was business at hand and this was a big one – and the opponent created a different type of emotion for Michigan’s head coach. Across that field on the eastern sideline was…
