O-H-I-O
This is it. The biggest game of the year. More important than the Superbowl. More significant than the Rose Bowl. Today is the day when Ohio State plays Michigan. And not only that, but this year both teams are undefeated. OSU is ranked #1. Michigan is ranked #2. Both teams have played terrible games this season, and faultless games this season. It’s going to come down to who wants it more.
When OSU plays each Saturday, the world as we know it grinds to a halt in this household and the game is turned on the TV. Today is even bigger. All morning, Connie answered the phone by saying, “Go Bucks!” Our living room is full of people. The house is decked out in Scarlet and Gray. The dining room table is covered in food. Connie turns 50 on Monday, so they’ve turned the game into one big cheer-on-Ohio-State-and-celebrate-Connie’s-birthday-by-watching-her-team party. If they win, she’ll be over the moon. If they lose, it’ll be the crappiest birthday party she’s ever had.
Why is this game so big? It just is. OSU and Michigan may be the best-known rivalry in college football. All I know is that no Ohioan likes Michigan– and if you regard them with anything less the animosity, you’re considered suspect. As the shirt Connie is wearing says, it’s not whether you win or lose, or how you play the game; it’s whether you beat Michigan.
So hear’s to OSU beating Michigan. Hang on, Sloopy!
November 18th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
GREAT game! The Buckeye’s deserved the win! Congrats. Couldn’t help but feel bad for Michigan and their fams…the aftergame pics of michigan fans was really sad.
Hope you and your family enjoy the victory and day!
November 18th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
42-39
Rose Bowl, here we come!!!
Fight the team across the field
Show them Ohio’s here,
Set the earth reverberating
With a mighty cheer,
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Hit them hard and see how they fall,
Never let that team get the ball,
Hail, hail, the gang’s all here,
So let’s win that old conference now.
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In old Ohio there’s a team
That’s known throughout the land
Eleven warriors brave and bold,
Whose fame will ever stand.
And when the ball goes over,
Our cheers will reach the sky,
Ohio Field will hear again
The Buckeye Battle Cry!
Drive, Drive on down the field,
Men of the scarlet and gray;
Don’t let them through that line,
We’ve got to win this game today,
COME ON OHIO!
Smash through to victory,
We cheer you as you go!
Our honor defend we will fight to the end
for OHIO!
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I sailed away;
Wandered afar;
Crossed the mighty restless sea;
Looked for where I ought to be.
Cities so grand, mountains above,
Led to this land I love.
Beautiful Ohio, where the golden grain
Dwarf the lovely flowers in the summer rain.
Cities rising high, silhouette the sky.
Freedom is supreme in this majestic land;
Mighty factories seem to hum in tune, so grand.
Beautiful Ohio, thy wonders are in view,
Land where my dreams all come true!
November 19th, 2006 at 10:31 am
Actually, OSU will not be going to the Rose Bowl. And, ironicly, Michigan will likely be going to the Rose Bowl. OSU, as the number 1 team, will be going to the BSC Championship game to play the number 2 team (who may end up being Michagan, or it may be USC or Florida).
November 27th, 2006 at 11:37 am
yeah see comment on above post. Thanks for clueing me in.
-mel