... just a week away. This is usually about the time of the year that I break out my "Maximum Meechigan" album to let Bob Ufer's legendary calls of Michigan games of the past fill my mind with visions of "cotton-pickin', maize-and-blue whirling dervishes" dancing in the end zone, as I prepare for yet another season of Michigan football.

It was Ufer who penned the poem, "Burying Woody Hayes" after the Wolverines' upset of No. 1 Ohio State 40 years ago. The poem goes like this:

"It was November 22, 1969

that they came to bury Michigan, all dressed in maize and blue;

The words were said, the prayers were read and everybody cried.

But when they closed the coffin, there was someone else inside.
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