When we at the University of Michigan, there is an essential step before any thing is to go to the stadium of the University! Bite reminder Michigan Stadium or The Big House is the largest stadium in the United States and fourth worldwide. In the match against the University of Utah opened the season, 108,400 people were present in the stadium!
The University team, the Michigan Wolverines football team is the most famous unversitaire. People are able to spend huge sums of money to see games of the university. I heard that during the game against Ohio State is the most hated team here, the seats can be sold at 600 dollars at black market. Astronomical sums exchanged University in football. The new coach, Rich Rodriguez, lives up to its name because so No transfer of West Viriginia has Michigan has cost 4 million dollars!
The university is a bit of his team's display, and a share of his reputation comes from the fact that the Wolverines' games are almost all the time national broadcast. The name Michigan even works as a brand.
You go to a supermarket in Michigan and some you will find all sorts of ancillary print
M Islands of the university, it's going sweaters, t shirts, caps that students wear all the time on campus up lawn chairs, pads, leggings, robes, key holders, there is even an authentic Monopoly campus in Ann Arbor or you can put a hotel on the Diag or State Street. In short, all these products report a mad money since the University has all these names are registered trademarks. The anthem of the University, The Victors, must be accompanied by the ™ and the logo of the universe, the M of Michigan is always used with the ® that brings plenty of big bucks. All that is managed by the department with whom my roommate merchandising and association SOLE that the university stop using sweatshops, workers literally sweat, to make their t-shirts in China. Thus, the football team (the real) co-op in which I play is going to use t-shirt 
fair trade made in Nicaragua in a worker cooperative. Well, talk a little sports. Already the atmosphere in the stadium, it is quite enormous. The people sing a lot but the atmosphere is especially Marching Band which makes it an orchestra of 235 people who when playing the course happened to have shapes such as M or Michigan shooting star. It very often takes the anthem of the university and it is dispersed across the stage to sing the whole stadium. There also
cheerleaders who spend much of the game to lift the legs to the delight of the first row and shake their tassels at the rhythm of the marching band.
Anyway all this is a good boy, and put aside a few whistles and a "who cares?" has announced the players of Utah is not on a football field you see the American equivalent of the banner antichtis or riot. Damn! For fun, I wanted to yell to the fans of Utah, "Fuck you Mormons, go back in Salt Lake With Your four wives!" This was not the best taste I grant but obviously in this country, a resident of Utah is primarily a compatriot. It would certainly be very bad happening to the land of religious tolerance (another subject on which I should make a ticket) New instant culture shock when the last stage in which you set foot is the Velodrome stadium!
Well obviously, it must evoke the moment of fraternal union, the national anthem which is consistent to the nearest second with two jets flying over. The whole crowd turned to the flag in his hand to his heart's "The Star-Spangled Banner " , just as Muslims turn toward Mecca (comparison a little risk, it is true), religiously.
And the sport in all this? As such, the American soccer scene looks like rugby but there all the time stops and the game clock so it lasted 4 hours. The players have a lot of protection, forget the breaks of fifteen reds France. And above all, the Wolverines have a new So apparently the coaching scheme of play is not very developed and so they have played well in the first quarter time, or they have scored 2 touchdowns, both shifts time have a festival of mediocrity with a quarterback who distributes poorly if I understood what I said and then a burst in the final quarter that helped cut the lead to 23-25 defeat but anyway! In short, it took until the last quarter for a little spice. In short, if the stage is ignited so that the players move a little, it can be really huge for the atmosphere! Anyway, I got tickets for the season so you will often hear talk about football in this blog.
But mainly it was to see all these People come and cheer the Wolverines. It's amazing that the show is before and after the match. In Ann Arbor, there are plenty of pre-party at noon on game days and also after. It's also a mess around the stadium where people bring their families and put a gas bottle and barbeque at the back of the pick-up for grilling sausages before the match on the stadium parking.
After the match, it's a yellow tide that invades the streets of Ann Arbor and student life resumed its course.
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