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Just before 6 p.m., a 44-year old stadium supervisor named Chris Ehman pressed a walkie talkie button and said the solemn words that would forever mark this historic occasion:
"Gimme 10 seconds to get down these stairs."
OK. So it's not Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind. But 10 seconds later, in a substation at the bottom of the stadium, Ehman threw a switch -- and a colleague threw a switch -- and the lights came on at Michigan Stadium for the first ever night game in 132 years of Wolverines football.
They may never turn them off.
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