Well never thought I would do this one, but I ordered a book about Michigan Football this evening. Take my temperature and do a brain scan!

This going off the reservation all started when I watched the Woody Hayes segment on Big Ten Icons tonight. One of the speakers was of course Coach Myles. But another was a sports historian/author named John Bacon. John caught my eye with his insight on Woody and the way he carried himself with his comments, as well as the praise he heaped on Coach Hayes. So I looked him up. Turns out he is a Michigan man, as I suspected, with a major in history and education, and a career as a journalist. I was not surprised to find him well credentialed and very highly spoken of as a sports historian.

Guess there must be something to all that as he currently has a book out which debuted at #6 on the New York Times Best Seller list. That book is Three and Out: Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines in the Crucible of College Football. John was granted unprecedented access to the Michigan program in the Rodriquez years and the book is described as "lifting the lid on the best and worst of college football." John is currently doing book signings all across the country, it's doing that well.

If you want to write the best you need to read the best, and learn from the best. After all, the genre of Myles Traveled is sports history, so like a root canal, reading it seems like something I need to do, even if the jacket colors are that damn maize and blue! I clicked on the link and a copy is on its way to me. At first the thought of shelling out seventeen bucks for a Michigan book made me cringe. But then I thought, if nothing else, heck, I can relive the good ole days!

Go Bucks!