pan6467

That's right OSU wins in the last 30 seconds against Michigan. I don't care if OSU loses every game of the season as long as they whoop Michigan.

Woody Hayes is up there, watching film, smoking a cigar and talking to Paul Brown about Ohio still being a football powerhouse and the legacies those 2 great men built.

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highthief

Yeah, those bastards from Michigan have tripped us up once too often, but not this time (though I confess to a bit of worry when Michigan took the lead for a little bit).

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MontanaXVI

comments like that are exactly the reason a born and raised Columbus Ohioan CANNOT STAND OSU. You get Buckeye fever shoved in your face wherever you go, it is all you hear during football season on every news channel, news paper or local sports radio program. Rabid fans who yell scream hoot holler and act like they have no sense whatsoever when OSU plays Michigan, I mean look at Cooper he had a decent record took em to a couple bowl games and the man lost his job cause he could not beat Michigan. There are rivalries I understand, but Ohioans take it to the far end of extremes while I am sure it is just as bad in Michigan they do not act like hooligans about it. They want a 20-0 record, Heisman winner and national championship every year or they act like nut cases, not to mention the fact they are so bandwagon it makes me sick, Zwick was supposed to be "The Man" then all you heard when he was in was that Troy Smith needed to be playing, now this other kid they have coming in is supposed to be the 2nd coming of whoever....I am rambling time to sum it up.

sidenote, I bet OSU fans are kicking and screaming not having Carpenter to play in their bowl game, that is a tough loss to the team.

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pan6467

When I was growing up I felt the same as you, but as I have aged, it's all in good fun and it's an escape. It's a chance for people to root for something and feel good when their team wins. Look at Europe and other countries how fanatical they are about their sport. Ohio is no different, we just happen to be lucky,(or unlucky depending on your view) to be very rich in sports history and thus the fanaticism grows. Florida, Texas, just about any state or area with a rich tradition in a sport becomes fanatical about it.

As for players and wanting the "next whomever" that's sports also. Good or bad. Baseball has always looked for the next Babe Ruth and then destroys anyone who comes close, and the pressure on those players becomes so much most crack and become "assholes, non fan caring, whatever" and the fans look for reasons to hate them. So when the next big thing comes they look to him for relief. It happens in every sport and on every team.

San Francisco did it with Montana, they had Steve Young and with Jerry Rice when TO came in. Oakland did it with Canseco because they had McGwire, then did it to him because they had Giambi. Sports fans constantly do it in every town and to every team, not just Ohio. Look at Notre Dame fans or Green Bay or Da Bears. High school with winning reps like Massilon, St Ed's, just about any Cincy high school, and speaking of Cincy, look at the basketball programs at Xavier and Cincy, the Reds, Kentucky Basketball.... those are fanatics.

Plus, go to Florida during the Fla.- FLa. St. game and Tallahasee is just as bad as Columbus. When I was a kid I remember stories of Texas - Oklahoma rivalries. Come to NE Ohio during Browns-Steelers week. Used to be LA would be a torn city for USC-UCLA, although I don't think that's as big anymore.... don't hear as much about it like you did.

Worst part of all this, most Michiganders and UM alumni I have talked to feel the Notre Dame - Michigan rivalry is bigger.

Anyway, I ramble and I'm sorry, just wanted to say Columbus isn't the only "sports fanatical" city.

On a side note the rivalry between Ohio and Michigan goes all the way back to the 1800's when our 2 states fought a war for Toledo. Ohio won.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

tspikes51

Yep. I spent most of my childhood near Columbus, and I couldn't stand it. However, I live in Lexington KY now, and I guess I've gone back to being a Bucks football guy (obviously UK's football team is nothing to get excited over) mostly because UK fans are WORSE than OSU fans. They'll argue with you every year that the SEC is the toughest conference in either football or basketball no matter how bad they suck (according to some LSU should be ranked #1 right now... no kidding). And whereas OSU fans get rabid about football and could care less about their decent basketball program, UK fans get riled about either sport. It's also the only school I've ever heard of that thinks they have 5 huge rivalries (Louisville, Duke, UNC, Tenn, and Florida), and everybody thinks one of them is the greatest rivalry in sports (my roomate tried to tell me that the Kentucky/Duke rivalry is bigger than OSU/Michigan). Hell, the domestic abuse rate in Kentucky goes up when UK loses a basketball game(seriously). Anyways, GO BUCKS.

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MontanaXVI

pan, nice points there, I am sure the FSU/Gators game is pretty sick.

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pan6467

Well from what I am hearing it'll be #4 OSU vs. #5 Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl.

Which I am dying to see, my fantasy for OSU football has always been to see an OSU/ND game. I can't understand why the 2 don't play each other regularly, I would think the hype, rivalry and marketability would be a HUGE upside.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

tspikes51

I remember years ago when a couple of people died in a riot after OSU pummeled ND with some obscure score of like 72-0. Hopefully this won't happen again.

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sapiens

I'm a Michigan fan. I don't like Ohio State, but I really don't like Notre Dame...

A few reasons to dislike Notre Dame:
1. They don't belong to a conference. That always bothers me. It's like they refuse to cooperate with other universities.
2. They pick and choose their schedules.
3. By being "independent" they take all of their bowl money (rather than sharing with the rest of a conference).
4. Lately, they seem to get better bowl bids than they should.
5. They get televised nationally way too much.

The Fiesta Bowl might present a problem for some Michigan fans, but I will always choose any team against Notre Dame.

Losing to OSU would be the downside.