The best way to be a Michigan football fan, of course, is to live in Michigan, preferably within easy commuting distance of the Big House. That was me a few years ago, when I lived in Ann Arbor and walked to the stadium on game day. I loved it.
Today I live more than 4,000 miles from Ann Arbor, and that makes being a Michigan football fan tough.
But not impossible.
Of the 300 or so channels on my cable television package here in Zürich—Switzerland’s largest city—there is one channel devoted to American sports. That channel shows a lot of NHL games, which can be tiresome when the playoffs stretch into late June, but every Saturday in the fall there is a full menu of college football games, including, most of the time, the Michigan Wolverines.