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INTRODUCTION

HAIL, MICHIGAN FAN!

What first began as rugby-football has blossomed into an all-encompassing culture. From the handfuls of fans who watched the first football game in 1879 to the hundreds of thousands of Michigan faithful who watch the games today, Michigan has not only stood the test of time, it has come out on top.

The University of Michigan is the winningest program in college football history, and over the years it has created heroes and legends who still motivate and inspire young and old. Michigan Motivations tells those stories.

Each week you’ll be inspired by some of the legends of the game. Relive the Wolverines’ most famous moments and discover how you, too, can overcome adversity, find success, understand true teamwork, and much more. Michigan Motivations is for every fan who bleeds Maize and Blue. You’ll rejoice in the come-from-behind victories, struggle with surprise losses, and scratch your head at how Ohio State went to the Rose Bowl in 1974.

Michigan’s story is every fan’s story. Inside these pages, you’ll learn how to become a true Michigan Man or Michigan Woman: a person of character and integrity who makes the choices of a valiant victor. A person who not only embraces adversity but always strives to overcome like a conquering hero.

Discover how to climb your own personal Mount Everest like the 1997 Wolverines. Understand how to find personal success at home, at work, at school, or at play. Be challenged to live your life to the fullest as a champion in your home, work, or community.

You’ll be inspired by the likes of Tom Harmon, Anthony Carter, Desmond Howard, Charles Woodson, and Tom Brady. You’ll appreciate the Wolverine persistence that crafted a 1934 team MVP into the thirty-eighth president for the United States and learn to apply that same Michigan character in your own life.

As a former football player on the 1997–2000 teams, I witnessed a few of these powerful moments from the sidelines. They are still as transformative today as they were live, and the lessons I learned from them stick with me. Reexperience these moments and others and allow them to motivate you to be the best version of yourself—a champion of the West.

Go Blue!

Cyle Young

Michigan Football, Class of 2001