In the Trenches 134 - John Wangler
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4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Jon has a great conversation with former Wolverine quarterback John Wangler. Wangler discusses his life before coming to the University of Michigan (2:30), his early days with the Wolverines (10:00), his memories of the game-winner to Anthony Carter against Indiana (29:15), the story behind his injury late in 1979 and how that shaped the 1980 season (37:30), and what he remembers from the 1980 win over Ohio State and the 1981 Rose Bowl victory (46:15).
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| 0:00.0 | Well, as we continue to take a look back at that 1980, epic Big Ten football championship team, |
| 0:06.9 | Rose Bowl championship football team, who better to talk about it than John Wengler, |
| 0:13.8 | the starting quarterback. We'll have him next here on In the Trenches. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's go in the trenches with John Jansen. The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports Hall of Famer will take you in the trenches. Let's go in the trenches with John Jansen. |
| 0:21.4 | The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports Hall of Famer will take you inside the locker |
| 0:25.8 | room with players and coaches. |
| 0:27.6 | You and I didn't play together. |
| 0:29.3 | We grew up a couple miles apart, but, you know, 100 years different. |
| 0:32.9 | But you ate the same dirt I ate, right? |
| 0:35.1 | I know what you went through. |
| 0:36.2 | You know what I went through. |
| 0:37.1 | There's instant respect because of what we've instant biolns. You ate the same dirt I ate, right? I know what you went through. You know what I went through. |
| 0:41.8 | There's instant respect because of what we've been instant barn. Once again, here's John Jansen. |
| 0:45.3 | Welcome back, friends. |
| 0:46.4 | And before we get to Mr. Wangler, I have just a few bits of news. |
| 0:51.5 | Not a lot of detail on this one, but instead of hashtag free jobo, it is |
| 0:59.0 | hashtag jobo free per Luigi Valane's Instagram account, David OJabo has reentered the United States. |
| 1:08.6 | And so we, again, we don't have a lot of detail on that. |
| 1:12.4 | We just know that, hey, thank you for your support. Thank you for your concern in getting |
| 1:17.4 | David Ojobeau back to the United States so that he can be a part of the 2020 Michigan football season, |
| 1:23.4 | be a part of his team, train with them, and enjoy being back in Ann Arbor. |
| 1:28.8 | So congratulations to David Ojaba. |
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