September 6, 2024 • 8 mins
Craig Way finally joins the program live from the Big House in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Craig details his travel from Austin this morning, the food stops, and of course a description of the radio braodcast booth!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are in his home state. We are in ann Arbor, Michigan.
Thank you very much, and it is good to be
back on and here for the rest of the proceedings
this afternoon from the Big House, Michigan Stadium and Arbor, Michigan,
beautiful site. I will post some pictures and I will
(00:22):
social media and it can be then reconstituted there at
am thirteen.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hundred the zone.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's a beautiful day, Cameron Parker. It's about seventy one
degrees under partly cloudy skies, some sunshine. I mean, it
looks like fun, it looks like good. It looks like
it feels like late October football weather is what it
feels like for in Austin, Texas, not in ann Arbor
(00:54):
and late October.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It's getting pretty chilly up here, but it is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
And thanks to andrews im Will for popping on and
hopping in there with you on the program while we
were getting set up and ready to go from the
visiting Radio broadcast booth here at Michigan Statey and an
ice booth and a nice uh you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Know, nice pantage point.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'll have no excuses if I to to call it
things incorrectly here tomorrow morning into the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Hopefully I'll be on my game.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
But it's we're on about i'd say the thirty three
yard line maybe as you face the field to the left.
And it's very nice. It's an ice booth, and and
we'll be we'll be ready to go tomorrow morning. Well
that's exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
How how big is your broadcast booth?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It is about.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's about the same size as the one at dk
R the home and maybe a little bit bigger. I
think it's because we're planning to, you know, squeeze all
four of us on the front row, myself obviously, Roger Wallace,
the spotter, Andyway, and the statistician Steve Leech, whose son,
(02:14):
by the way, Steve's son Luke Leach, is a starting
wide receiver for the rock Wall Yellow Jackets. And so
they're going to be playing over at Cavalier Stadium tonight,
taking all the Travis. Steve and his family lived in
the in Cedar Park for years. In fact, his oldest son, Dylan,
played at Vista Ridge football and baseball, but they moved
(02:34):
up to the Dallas for Metroplex about three years ago,
and their youngest son Luke is a is a wide
out for rock Wall, so he'll be playing tonight, but
then Steve will be coming in tomorrow morning, as will
the Parabolic my operator Jason Way. They'll be coming in
on what's what's commonly referred to as the band plane,
and what that is is it's a it's a chartered
(02:55):
plane that carries like the Pep band with it, you know,
the fifty some odd you know, band members that go
on the road on the long road trips so that
the players can run down to one end of the
field or the other at the end of the game,
win or lose and seeing the eyes of Texas, that
sort of thing. So they're on that that plane with
(03:18):
cheer and palm and and some uh and uh some
other folks that are on that plane as well, so
that they'll be coming in I think cam. I think
they are wheels up at four a m.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's that's how far that is. I think they're that's
a very turnaround. Yeah, so it'll be it'll be that
kind of thing. So anyway, Uh, they'll be they'll be
on you know, they'll they'll be you know, they'll they'll
be here when they get here, but yeah, there's a
(03:52):
lot of excitement you you and I was listening to
you and Andrew when I was driving over from from
the airport over here to Anne Arbor and it's about,
you know, twenty twenty five minutes something like that. And
when I was driving over, I was listening to you
(04:13):
guys talk about and then and then you have CJ.
Bogel on as well, and he was talking about the
amount of Texas fans that he saw when he was
trying to depart from Houston.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, he posted a picture from the Saint Louis Airport
and he said eighty percent of his plane was burn orange.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Well, and it was like that too. By the way,
I know you and CJ are tight. You were you
were in school together, right, yeah, we went to school together. Okay,
all right, here's the thing you might want to let
him know. The difference between Houston Hobby and Intercontinental. You know,
IAH stands for Intercontinental at Houston. That's what that is.
(05:02):
That's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. That's the big one there,
you know what we call it, and you were kind
of pretty close to it. Camp in what you were
saying to describe we call it friends of mine, and
I always called it intergalactic because you felt like you
were in another galaxy driving having a drive all the
way up there to me and the deal.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So yeah, anyway, that's you know that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And of course Hobby much closer to town that was
the original one there, So it's good that they'll all
be up here, lots and I do mean lots of
long worn fans making the trip. Now everything's relative. This
stadium seats one hundred and seven thousand plus. I mean
I'm standing and looking right now around and if you're
(05:47):
wondering how can they get so many into here?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It's all bleacher seating.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Except you know, whatever other cushions that they put in,
and I'm told that it's like eighteen it's it's kind
of like watching a Red Sox game at Fenway Park.
It's not the biggest width on the planet. Now, there
are some chairback oriented things on the other side of
the field, I believe, but it's but it's still largely
(06:12):
cramming a lot of folks in, so so it's pretty
tight and and they're they're kind of squeezed in a
little different then that's how you get one hundred and
seven thousand fans in there, plus both on the east
side and on the west side. Uh, it is you know,
(06:33):
lots of suites, like they're invariably is now at you know,
at the large power five, power four college football programs,
you know, you have a lot of suites. So so
there's that and uh and of course the main press
pikes here and they count everybody, whether you're you know,
working the game, or your media or your fan, whoever
you are. They everybody gets counted. So that's how they
(06:55):
also how they get over one hundred and seven thousand fans.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And I would say obviously.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The greatest preponderance of those fans will be you know,
dressed in maize and blue and cheering for the Wolverines tomorrow.
But there will be a representative amount of fans I
think attired in burnt orange because from what everybody's talking about,
seeing them on every flight everywhere, from the way it's going,
(07:26):
there's going to be a pretty representative group. I'm curious
to see where all they sit and how that's broken
down as well, So we'll see. All right, we've got
some other things to get to. Gene Watson will join
us next hour as well, we'll talk to Major League
Baseball with Gino as well, but we got some more
college football to get into. And yes, the National Football
League there is a game tonight, a Friday night NFL game,
(07:49):
but you don't have to worry about it, at least
interfering with high school football in terms of where people
might go to that game or watch it, because it's
in another kind. But we'll continue and we'll take a
look at that as we continue for Michigan Stadium and Arbor,
Michigan here day before Texas and Michigan right here on
(08:10):
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeart
Radio app.
We are in his home state. We are in ann Arbor, Michigan.
Thank you very much, and it is good to be
back on and here for the rest of the proceedings
this afternoon from the Big House, Michigan Stadium and Arbor, Michigan,
beautiful site. I will post some pictures and I will
(00:22):
social media and it can be then reconstituted there at
am thirteen.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hundred the zone.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's a beautiful day, Cameron Parker. It's about seventy one
degrees under partly cloudy skies, some sunshine. I mean, it
looks like fun, it looks like good. It looks like
it feels like late October football weather is what it
feels like for in Austin, Texas, not in ann Arbor
(00:54):
and late October.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It's getting pretty chilly up here, but it is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
And thanks to andrews im Will for popping on and
hopping in there with you on the program while we
were getting set up and ready to go from the
visiting Radio broadcast booth here at Michigan Statey and an
ice booth and a nice uh you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Know, nice pantage point.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'll have no excuses if I to to call it
things incorrectly here tomorrow morning into the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Hopefully I'll be on my game.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
But it's we're on about i'd say the thirty three
yard line maybe as you face the field to the left.
And it's very nice. It's an ice booth, and and
we'll be we'll be ready to go tomorrow morning. Well
that's exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
How how big is your broadcast booth?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It is about.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's about the same size as the one at dk
R the home and maybe a little bit bigger. I
think it's because we're planning to, you know, squeeze all
four of us on the front row, myself obviously, Roger Wallace,
the spotter, Andyway, and the statistician Steve Leech, whose son,
(02:14):
by the way, Steve's son Luke Leach, is a starting
wide receiver for the rock Wall Yellow Jackets. And so
they're going to be playing over at Cavalier Stadium tonight,
taking all the Travis. Steve and his family lived in
the in Cedar Park for years. In fact, his oldest son, Dylan,
played at Vista Ridge football and baseball, but they moved
(02:34):
up to the Dallas for Metroplex about three years ago,
and their youngest son Luke is a is a wide
out for rock Wall, so he'll be playing tonight, but
then Steve will be coming in tomorrow morning, as will
the Parabolic my operator Jason Way. They'll be coming in
on what's what's commonly referred to as the band plane,
and what that is is it's a it's a chartered
(02:55):
plane that carries like the Pep band with it, you know,
the fifty some odd you know, band members that go
on the road on the long road trips so that
the players can run down to one end of the
field or the other at the end of the game,
win or lose and seeing the eyes of Texas, that
sort of thing. So they're on that that plane with
(03:18):
cheer and palm and and some uh and uh some
other folks that are on that plane as well, so
that they'll be coming in I think cam. I think
they are wheels up at four a m.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's that's how far that is. I think they're that's
a very turnaround. Yeah, so it'll be it'll be that
kind of thing. So anyway, Uh, they'll be they'll be
on you know, they'll they'll be you know, they'll they'll
be here when they get here, but yeah, there's a
(03:52):
lot of excitement you you and I was listening to
you and Andrew when I was driving over from from
the airport over here to Anne Arbor and it's about,
you know, twenty twenty five minutes something like that. And
when I was driving over, I was listening to you
(04:13):
guys talk about and then and then you have CJ.
Bogel on as well, and he was talking about the
amount of Texas fans that he saw when he was
trying to depart from Houston.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, he posted a picture from the Saint Louis Airport
and he said eighty percent of his plane was burn orange.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Well, and it was like that too. By the way,
I know you and CJ are tight. You were you
were in school together, right, yeah, we went to school together. Okay,
all right, here's the thing you might want to let
him know. The difference between Houston Hobby and Intercontinental. You know,
IAH stands for Intercontinental at Houston. That's what that is.
(05:02):
That's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. That's the big one there,
you know what we call it, and you were kind
of pretty close to it. Camp in what you were
saying to describe we call it friends of mine, and
I always called it intergalactic because you felt like you
were in another galaxy driving having a drive all the
way up there to me and the deal.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So yeah, anyway, that's you know that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And of course Hobby much closer to town that was
the original one there, So it's good that they'll all
be up here, lots and I do mean lots of
long worn fans making the trip. Now everything's relative. This
stadium seats one hundred and seven thousand plus. I mean
I'm standing and looking right now around and if you're
(05:47):
wondering how can they get so many into here?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It's all bleacher seating.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Except you know, whatever other cushions that they put in,
and I'm told that it's like eighteen it's it's kind
of like watching a Red Sox game at Fenway Park.
It's not the biggest width on the planet. Now, there
are some chairback oriented things on the other side of
the field, I believe, but it's but it's still largely
(06:12):
cramming a lot of folks in, so so it's pretty
tight and and they're they're kind of squeezed in a
little different then that's how you get one hundred and
seven thousand fans in there, plus both on the east
side and on the west side. Uh, it is you know,
(06:33):
lots of suites, like they're invariably is now at you know,
at the large power five, power four college football programs,
you know, you have a lot of suites. So so
there's that and uh and of course the main press
pikes here and they count everybody, whether you're you know,
working the game, or your media or your fan, whoever
you are. They everybody gets counted. So that's how they
(06:55):
also how they get over one hundred and seven thousand fans.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And I would say obviously.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The greatest preponderance of those fans will be you know,
dressed in maize and blue and cheering for the Wolverines tomorrow.
But there will be a representative amount of fans I
think attired in burnt orange because from what everybody's talking about,
seeing them on every flight everywhere, from the way it's going,
(07:26):
there's going to be a pretty representative group. I'm curious
to see where all they sit and how that's broken
down as well, So we'll see. All right, we've got
some other things to get to. Gene Watson will join
us next hour as well, we'll talk to Major League
Baseball with Gino as well, but we got some more
college football to get into. And yes, the National Football
League there is a game tonight, a Friday night NFL game,
(07:49):
but you don't have to worry about it, at least
interfering with high school football in terms of where people
might go to that game or watch it, because it's
in another kind. But we'll continue and we'll take a
look at that as we continue for Michigan Stadium and Arbor,
Michigan here day before Texas and Michigan right here on
(08:10):
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeart
Radio app.
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