I took a long weekend and went with my girlfriend to Cincinnati. Her brother lives there, and since she resides in Utah most of the time, she rarely gets to see him. It was a great time, but I had to make a little stop on the way back.
She "gets it" that I love Ohio State, but I don't think she understands the depths of it all. So I made her take a little detour from Route 71, and we took a walk around Ohio Stadium. It'll take her seeing an actual game to understand the magnitude of what it all means, but she's well on her way. In the meantime, she's getting down the finer points of what it means to live in Buckeye Nation.
For example, she understands that;
- Woody Hayes = greatest of all time
- Jim Tressel = savior
- John Cooper = embarrassment
- When someone asks you the time you say "It's (blank) and Michigan still sucks"
- It's not red, it's scarlet
- It's "THE Ohio State University"
As you can see, I'm working on her. She'll get it. I'm trying to convince her to fly out for the third week of November and come watch the game with me at the Varsity Club or somewhere comparable. The Game is still 117 days away....plenty of time to convince her to come spend The Week with the man in her life.
One additional point to make. You can't tell from any pictures, but the end zone on the new field...that is the BRIGHTEST shade of scarlet I have ever seen. Simply beautiful!
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I can honestly say after breaking in to the 'Shoe (you'll keep my ip a secret, right?) and walking around on that field... the turf is nice, it's soft, feels like it will hold well and will be great to run on. But the colors? Terrible. We're Ohio State. We're not Wisconsin, or Nebraska.
Funny stuff!! As an tOSU alum, I have been working on my wife since we got married in 2000. She's from New Hampshire, but that doesn't seem to have slowed her mental faculties. She has even gotten on board. Why, she now even has a No. 7 jersey! Which is totally hot, by the way...
I, too, snuck into the stadium while on vacation back in the OH a couple week ago (we live in Myrtle Beach, SC). You can see my pictures from inside the stadium at:
http://www.pbase.com/katiejohn/ohio_state_university_campus
Just scroll down, and you can click on them for a larger image. The red is brighter than Scarlet, that is for sure... But, I bet it'll look great on TV, and that is probably what they were going for.
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