As more than 100,000 people at Michigan Stadium stood and cheered Charles Woodson, Jim Brandstatter stood in the cramped radio booth and applauded Frank Beckmann.
It was the kind of moment when legends are made. Wolverines vs. Buckeyes, November 1997, Ohio State on the move. Woodson, a Michigan defensive back in contention for college football's most important award, broke in front of a receiver and intercepted a pass in the end zone.
"I was standing there," Brandstatter said, "and Frank got up out of his seat, he was pointing, he was yelling. It was, 'Clear off the mantelpiece, make a place for the Heisman Trophy!