On Jan. 1, 1998, Joel and Michelle Bryant were at home in Pasadena, Calif., watching the Rose Bowl game being played a few miles away between Michigan and Washington State.
The top-ranked Wolverines held on for a 21-16 victory over Ryan Leaf and the Cougars, and not long after the game ended Michelle went into labor.
Their son was born the next day.
The Rose Bowl would become a staple of Myles Bryant’s childhood. He estimated he attended a half-dozen Rose Bowl games, and he sold programs outside the stadium as a fundraiser for his Loyola High School football team.