MOUNT PLEASANT, MI — Scott Baker has heard so much trash talk in the past week, he figures he can take the worst.
So the Grayling middle-school teacher was looking forward to sitting in the Central Michigan season-ticket holder section at Kelly/Shorts Stadium Saturday, proudly wearing his black Western Michigan shirt.
Baker, a 2002 Western Michigan graduate, is used to it. He was a lonely black shirt in a sea of maroon-and-gold tailgaters north of the stadium prior to the 7 p.m. game.
"There are maybe five Western graduates in Grayling schools and about 50 Central people, so we've enjoyed some trash-talking this week," Baker said.