CHICAGO — Street merchants lined up along Waveland Avenue behind Wrigley Field’s left-field bleachers, selling navy-colored sweatshirts with an outline of the iconic baseball venue accompanied by a maize-colored block “M.”
Michigan fans scooped up the attire in waves early Saturday morning, and many kept walking toward Fox’s “Big Noon Kickoff” set, constructed where Waveland intersects with Sheffield Avenue. They packed the blocked-off streets, filled the rooftops of legendary sports bar Murphy’s Bleachers, booed former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer and took pictures in front of longtime Cubs play-by-play man Harry Caray’s statue — all before 10 a.m. After a last-second 24-22 win against Northwestern, fans left Wrigley chanting, “It’s great … to be … a Michigan Wolverine.”
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“Michigan football is very rich with tradition, and obviously the Cubs, same thing,” said Matthew Miller, a Wolverines fan from Dayton, Ohio. “And they’re combining on a beautiful fall Saturday.
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