When the Michigan Wolverines met the Ohio State Buckeyes in 1950, a blizzard of epic proportion left both teams struggling. Footage courtesy OSU. Brian Kaufman, Detroit Free Press Videographer
Shea Patterson didn’t have to listen hard to hear the gunfire. Semi-automatics blasting in the distance.
Bap. Bap. Bap. Bap. Bap.
Almost every afternoon, the drug cartels sprayed bullets on the other side of the Rio Grande River. It got worse after dark.
When the time changed in the fall, and the sun fell off the horizon an hour earlier, Patterson’s football coach sent the players who lived among the cartels home early.