BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — You can’t get 50,000 people to agree on much these days, if anything at all. Then a former —and beloved — Michigan football running back collapsed on the sideline Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium and 50,000 people went silent.
They agreed, without discussion or debate or rancor, to show respect, yes, but also to show solidarity about what matters in life. It's a phrase we toss around liberally these days yet don’t witness its live-action reality often enough.
Not that anyone needed Mike Hart to fall to the ground in the second quarter of a nationally televised college football game against Indiana to remind any of us that we have more in common than we don’t.