CADILLAC — This weekend, the Cadillac community will mark 50 years since one of the best-known rock and roll bands of all time visited northern Michigan.

Jim Neff doesn’t have to spend much time at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cadillac, before the memories start rushing back.

Neff was an assistant coach for the Cadillac Vikings in 1974 when the team found themselves off to an unexpected 0-2 start.

“That 1973 team was 9-0. But the team before that in 72 was 7-2. So we had won 16 games in a row. So when we lost the first two games in 1974, we knew we had a good team. We had a talented team, except they were trying to play up to that 16 in a row. And so I decided that maybe we needed to loosen things up. And I proposed to Coach Brines that maybe if we played some music in the locker room,

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