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2000 Day Anniversary

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Buckskin86

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Buckeyes' gift of football bliss
Thursday's sunrise will be the 2,000th since OSU lost to Michigan
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
John Campanelli
Plain Dealer Reporter

Somewhere out there is a 5-1/2-year-old, born late in the afternoon of Nov. 22, 2003. She can write her name, maybe read a word or two, ride a bike without training wheels and run a lemonade stand (although correct change might be iffy). She'll enter kindergarten in the fall.

And in her existence, since she joined the world, Michigan has never beaten Ohio State in football.

Just how long has it been since the Wolverines last beat the Buckeyes?

Buckeyes fans know, because they mark their calendars with this information, they update their voice-mail messages with it, they paste counters on their Web pages. And they do it all while smiling.

Thursday it will be 2,000 days.

That's enough time for a poplar seed to grow into a 30-foot tree, enough time for the Cavaliers to win 316 games (including playoffs), and enough time for 12 season finales of "Survivor" (counting next Sunday night's).

When Michigan last beat Ohio State, Barack Obama was a state senator, YouTube was more than a year away from being born, and Clevelanders were fighting, brother against brother, to settle the question: Couch or Holcomb?

Ask any Michigan fan how long it's been since the Wolverines beat their rivals and the answer will be "way too long."

Ask any Buckeye and you'll get: "Not long enough. Let it ride
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Buckeyes' gift of football bliss - Cleveland.com
 
Another way to look at it:

Thursday it will be 2000 days. That is 48,000 hours. (Or for the seriously time conscience folks, that is 2,880,000 minutes or 172,800,000 seconds.) If one were to stack a penny for each hour since the last scUM victory in The Game, that stack would now be 251.6 feet high. Only Tower Plaza, the tallest building in Ann Arbor, at 267 feet would be taller. However, by kick-off this year the penny stack would measure 275.6278 feet making it the tallest structure in Ann Arbor.
 
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according to the Dispatch this billboard is greeting the Detroit area today

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