Oklahoma City T-shirt boy and family will take in Michigan-UMass game this season
The Michigan football program will have a rather special guest on Sept. 15.
Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon told AnnArbor.com on Thursday that the program will host five-year-old Cooper Barton and his family when the Wolverines take on Massachusetts at home this season.
Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon said the university will invite the boy and his family to a Wolverines home game this fall.
On Wednesday, Brandon announced that he planned to invite Barton and his family to a game this season, and also had plans on presenting him with an inside out Wolverines T-shirt.
In addition, Brandon says he'd like to publicly recognize Barton and his family during the UMass home game.
"Maybe the recognition of this will get them to re-think their kind of crazy rule in Oklahoma," Brandon said Wednesday.
Brandon phoned Barton and his family to extend the invite Wednesday, and they gladly accepted.
Oklahoma television station News 9 captured the moment on video.
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Nick Baumgardner covers Michigan sports for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at 734-623-2514, by email at nickbaumgardner@annarbor.com and followed on Twitter @nickbaumgardner.
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