This weekend is going to be confusing. Ohio State football has been a huge part of my life. I went to my first game when I was eight. There been just one season since when I haven’t attended at least one game in person, and my excuse for that one was pretty good — I… Read More changeup.
1. Good: We’re back home. 2. Better: Looks like that Pryor kid might be OK. 3. Not good. But maybe not too bad: You’ve never heard 105,000 people be so quiet. 4. Technically, not good. But I enjoyed the hell out of it anyway: I should want Big Ten teams to beat non-conference opponents. And… Read More good. mostly.
With the season opener just under three days away, I would expect a fair amount of hype surrounding Terrelle Pryor’s debut at the University of Ohio State. Or wherever it is he’s going to be playing college football on Saturday. At his weekly news conference Tuesday, Jim Tressel got the expected questions about Pryor and… Read More hysteria in the headline.
It’ll likely be weeks before it feels like fall — even though it’s a glorious 60 degrees outside at the moment — but my favorite season begins this week. That fact has little to do with what the calendar says, and everything to do with the fact that at 8 o’clock Saturday morning, we’ll be… Read More the real season.
Literally. Last night, while going through the weekly routine that accompanies trash night, I heard water running in the basement. Where no water is supposed to be running. It looked initially like the bowl from our toilet had sprung a leak — which meant everything we had been doing in the commode all evening was… Read More shit.
The Ohio State University Athletics Ticket Office says “Surprise!” We’re up a little higher, and instead of staring down at the corner of the north end zone, we should be staring down at the north goal line. I’m certainly pleased with the change, although I hope the university moved some of our football friends along… Read More moving day.
Uncle Crappy 