Michigan Football: A True Fan Leaves Her Legacy

As July turns to August, and the leaves slowly fall from the trees, it will be a bittersweet college football season.  Opening Saturday for the University of Michigan football team is always a grand day for me.  However, this one will be met with cheers and tears. It started out in 1967, when my mother enrolled at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor campus.  She was a young, beautiful lady, who had the world at her fingertips. She was studying the world of art and business.   As the only one from her family to don the maize and blue, she took it all in.  From the mud bowl, to her sorority house, Kappa Alpha Theta, she was your typical college student. She loved her studies and she loved her Wolverines.  I don't remember when I officially became a fan of the Wolverines, but it was soon after my first birthday, when I could utter the words, "Go Blue". My mother was not your typical mom.  She loved sports.  My brother and I were bo...