On the Air (audio)

I had a cool experience as I sat in for a full hour this evening with University of Michigan author, historian and radio host John U. Bacon on Ann Arbor’s 1050AM WTKA-AM. It was my first time on the radio and it was a lot of fun. We talked mostly about Michigan football history, and in particular, a few specific items that I’ve written about over the years on MVictors.com.

Here’s an overview of each segment:
Segment 1: 1980, 1909, 1934 oh my – Starts about 1 minute in. I offer a little background on the eBay Watch series, about the coach Bill McCartney ring drama and about the Joy Miller scandal after the season of 1909 and the posts I did on Norm Daniel’s 1931 jersey, and finally on the incredible tale of 1934’s Willis Ward incident.

Segment 2: More History, and some of the Michigan ‘myths’ – (There’s a little dead air in the first few seconds) We talk a little more about the 1909 season (there’s much more, hopefully you see it in Hail to the Victors 2009), about chorus of The Victors being “borrowed” from Louis Elbel’s roommate, and the Those Who Stay will be Champions appearing years before Bo arrived, and finally, on the video I took of the Corey Tropp/Steve Kampfer incident.

Segment 3: Bonus Time – I stuck around after my official segments to join JUB’s famous “winners and losers” segment and talked about seeing Mr. Hockey Gordie Howe this weekend (my winner), and offered up, as a loser, the suggestion that Michigan would be better off with a NIT bid rather than a trip to the Big Dance. My nerves.

Here’s the audio of each segment: