It is rivalry week and off the field.
Things are part of the folklore that makes
the Ohio State and Michigan rivalry so
special from cold water in the showers too.
Well, helmet was stolen out of the Michigan
locker room one year in the horseshoe.
It's all part of this series,
joined now by Dave Holmes and Adam King.
10 TV and Bobby Carpenter and
Anti Rothman of 97.1 the fan Bobby
you played in the game so I want
to ask you first in your years.
Was there any shenanigans that went on
that the work and I think a lot of this
stuff happened during the Bo and Woody years,
but I I know stuff still happen.
Anything with you?
I don't know if I would call it shenanigans,
it was almost borderline like foul
play and we went up there in 2003.
It was the one time that they beat us and
they were coming off back to back losses.
First time they've lost in, you know,
1416 years or whatever it was in 2001.
We beat him here to go to the national
championship in 2002 and they were hungry and
I would say that maybe for the first time.
We were a little bit hey yo,
we flip this thing and all of a sudden you
get complacent with it and I can't for the
life of me remember their fullbacks name.
Chris Perry was there running back that
year but I don't know if he filed down
the screws on his helmet or not but there
were gashes all over our linebackers
arms AJ I'll show you this guys.
Take a look at.
He still has a gash in his four.
Oh really from where he got hit they started
putting like the rubber sleeves on it.
They're getting chunked up.
I mean no
one's ever say anything like
hey referee this guys home
and I think someone may have said.
Come to it, I'm sure they had a spare
helmet that they changed out when
displayed and maybe by the third or
fourth quarter and you know they had
the game in hand and credit they went
and wanted but that was the one thing
I looked at him like man like this
Bruce used always say hardest hitting
clean game like this ain't clean.
There's nothing about cleaning.
It was a bloodbath. Randy the Ram,
you get some wrestling.
It took AJ put the massive selling
their ported piston super glued it shut
his went out there and kept going so
so nothing with showers or anything like
that. I mean most the shower
hijinks was kept. Within our own
team that was intra team thing,
not necessarily with the Wolverines. You
know, you know. I think Anthony about
some of the things that and and I
guess most of it happened with Woody.
But I know one year up there and
when he was a master at using that
stuff as a motivation and so one year
they're up there and you know what?
It's like before a game and you know what?
That locker was like?
He wouldn't let the guys flush the
toilet because what he had met
Bo had messed with the pipes and
those guys were so mad because
they couldn't flush the toilet.
So he's so mad when they came out.
One other thing I can't believe
I let this slip. My mind.
I break my ankle up there my senior year,
yeah, and you know it's a long
steep ramp to get up anybody
that's been down on field level.
It's not easy and the cart is like
magically gone and so it takes me
about 15 minutes to like limp up
that thing with some of the trainers
probably 1/4 and a half later I look
at one of their players, gets hurt.
I don't know where the golf
cart magically appeared from
the service station or whatever,
but I think stroll down out
there to pick them up right.
But the shoot limousine services scene,
right there, Roth,
and the type of service you're accustomed,
salute Lee. Well when you look at
a white glove when
you look at JT Barrett,
I mean this was just a couple years ago.
They're playing up there and all
of a sudden you're starting here.
Reports that somebody hit JT Barrett
in the knee and you know I was up
there on that sideline and it started
to just kind of spread around that.
This is why Dwayne's in and then you
get in the postgame press conference
room and he's going through a full
walkthrough of how his knee got hit.
I mean, it's
little things like that. I mean,
maybe not as bad as a helmet being used
in that way, but it's things.
Obviously I've gone back the whole rivalry.
Yeah, people want to go Tonya Harding
on that story that some there
were some rogue that took out JT
Barrett always there that day too.
I don't know if it was a
rogue photographer, but yeah,
I mean funny things happen on the Saturday.
The last one in November one
day or one year.
I think it was 96.
I'm pregame before the game here.
Not a good memory, right?
The that I streets the whole
deal there with Shawn Springs,
but pregame over on the Michigan
sideline and I'm looking on
their bench and this is a couple
hours for the game and I'm like
what are those thumbtacks doing on
their bench like there were thumbtacks
like lined up on the Michigan bench
on who in the world would do that?
We used to get attention for that.
Yeah I should check with this guy am I right?
Well put some thumbtacks
Dom was at you know that?
What was that game like, though?
As a player in there was there much talking.
A little bit, it just depends
on the player guys that talks
probably talks a little more
guys that didn't say much.
They didn't say a whole lot,
but it was always very
you never. But going into that
game you never wanted to be
that guy, right? That gave them
the bulletin board listen Dom.
I'm from central Ohio.
I remember when Rothman
mailed up the Terry.
Glenn True smelled up.
Erroneous and like Terry
probably misspoke.
Is everyone know who's what a
very introverted guy and just you
know wasn't really comfortable in
front of the cameras and no one
wanted to be that guy like you?
Kind of quote guarantee victory. Who
was the guy in Michigan that said
they just wanted to keep beating
Ohio State till Coop got fired?
What was that guys name and it was great.
Michigan rolled this guy.
I can't remember his name and I
asked a question I said is this
rivalry lost anything because Ohio
State hadn't won and and he goes.
I don't know about that but.
We just want to keep beating Ohio
State till they fire Cooper.
Oh my God
and the guy won't even playing in the game
and then what's the name?
Gary Moeller came in and goes.
I don't know what you guys think you
heard but what he really meant to
say was and he's all upset the guy
didn't even play.
It's funny so I don't know if
things are different now 'cause
I've only covered mission in the
last 15 to 20 years but nowadays the
guys they bring in for media day.
It is a who's who of who's that.
I'm look at the roster like 72 seven.
They don't want anyone of major relevance.
Out there, they don't put
their big names out to talk.
They don't want any bulletin
board stuff getting
prepped. Rest played that
game down or yeah. Well to
address this year the
year that Bobby's talking about Terry
Glenn really wasn't made available
that much during the year at all.
We always thought it was a big
surprise that they threw Terry out
there and it was in that old hallway.
Dama the agent and where it was kind
of A scrum and and he threw out
that line that Michigan is nobody.
You asked what the question was.
The question was how do you prepare?
You view them any differently than you.
View the other teams and I do believe and
I'm going to play his lawyer here then.
Meant to say we don't prepare any differently
for them and that we view them the same.
Now. He did drop the.
I think I guarantee we go to the Rose
Bowl which you can connect the dots,
but that tape did get
here is lawyer. Why didn't you
protect your clients? Well,
it wasn't me, it was one of our
back in the day.
Dom, you know what happened?
You'd share tape with
affiliates around the country.
Is an ABC affiliate,
the ABC affiliate in Detroit?
Wanted that take? I didn't
mail it up there.
I had nothing to do with it.
That's that's not the story.
Lloyd Carr did make an individual
copy for every one of his ears.
Maybe put it right in their locker,
and so Terry Glenn's Michigan
is nobody quote. Yeah was
something of some serious fuel,
and it said from Rothman
right below, I've no way I
will say this with respect to the
rivalry and and understanding guys
from here going up there and playing,
you know, Craig Krenzel
coming down here and playing.
I was here in 98.
I remember Marcus Ray from Columbus,
OH and listening to the booze
that he got like.
I don't know if that's something
that I could ever be apart of if
I get privileged enough to get
offered by Ohio State and Michigan.
I don't know if I could ever
return to Columbus and listen to
your hometown Boo in that way.
Alright guys, good stuff.
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