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Buckeye Facts and Trivia

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Sorry Zurp, do not. Thought he went on to build a high quality violin? I do remember Bertho Arnold, a reserve lineman from the mid-50's. Apparently I saw Hop Cassidy, but wasn't aware enough to know what I was seeing.....Also remember Don Unverferth (the running QB), and his replacement Joe Sparma (the throwing QB). One became a medical doctor and the other a big league pitcher. Great times.
 
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Sorry Zurp, do not. Thought he went on to build a high quality violin? I do remember Bertho Arnold, a reserve lineman from the mid-50's. Apparently I saw Hop Cassidy, but wasn't aware enough to know what I was seeing.....Also remember Don Unverferth (the running QB), and his replacement Joe Sparma (the throwing QB). One became a medical doctor and the other a big league pitcher. Great times.
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I'm not sure if you're joking about Strassini or not.
I found this thread: https://buckeyeplanet.com/forum/threads/giovanni-strassini-a-football-fantasy.631251/
But it's 130 pages. Here's how I remember it: some nerd in North Carolina named Giovanni Strassini (sometimes he went by "John") would go to Buckeye watch parties, saying how he was an All-American in 1974 or 1976 or something, and caught a touchdown pass in the Rose Bowl win. It maybe was 1975. Anyway, he'd hang out and get free drinks and food and sign autographs and he probably made some cash on the side. And if you looked him up - what's the quickest way to look someone up on the spot in about 2010? Wikipedia - all of his facts were confirmed. So, yeah, come in and join our party.
The only problem is that if you look him up anywhere else - Jack Park's OSU football Encyclopedia, for example - no one named Giovanni Strassini or John Strassini was on the football team that year. Or any other year, for that matter. And I think someone went so far as to look up whether he had ever gone to Ohio State, and found out he hadn't. I guess Wikipedia started digging into it, too. Did they contact BuckeyePlanet about it? Basically, everyone came out pointing that the guy was a liar.
But I think he doubled-down. At the end, I think his argument was something like, "What do you care if I go to these watch parties and hang out with them?"
He might be serving some time in prison now. Maybe related. Maybe not.

A few years later I found a page on Wikipedia where they listed all the OSU football records, and it listed some guy getting a 102-yard interception return against Iowa the year Ohio State scored with 1 second left to win. "I don't remember the name, or the play, and I'm pretty sure college football doesn't count yardage in the endzone, so the maximum is 100 yards." (Some dude named Brown got a 106-yard interception against Purdue in 1986 and they only counted it as 100 yards.) So I pulled up the Youtube highlights of the game - it showed no interception returned for a touchdown. I found the official box score of the game - no interception for a touchdown at all. That guy's name didn't show up on the box score at all. So I pointed that out to Wikipedia. Their response was that it sounded like another Giovanni Strassini.
 
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Zurp said:
I'm not sure if you're joking about Strassini or not.
I found this thread: https://buckeyeplanet.com/forum/threads/giovanni-strassini-a-football-fantasy.631251/
But it's 130 pages. Here's how I remember it: some nerd in North Carolina named Giovanni Strassini (sometimes he went by "John") would go to Buckeye watch parties, saying how he was an All-American in 1974 or 1976 or something, and caught a touchdown pass in the Rose Bowl win. It maybe was 1975. Anyway, he'd hang out and get free drinks and food and sign autographs and he probably made some cash on the side. And if you looked him up - what's the quickest way to look someone up on the spot in about 2010? Wikipedia - all of his facts were confirmed. So, yeah, come in and join our party.
The only problem is that if you look him up anywhere else - Jack Park's OSU football Encyclopedia, for example - no one named Giovanni Strassini or John Strassini was on the football team that year. Or any other year, for that matter. And I think someone went so far as to look up whether he had ever gone to Ohio State, and found out he hadn't. I guess Wikipedia started digging into it, too. Did they contact BuckeyePlanet about it? Basically, everyone came out pointing that the guy was a liar.
But I think he doubled-down. At the end, I think his argument was something like, "What do you care if I go to these watch parties and hang out with them?"
He might be serving some time in prison now. Maybe related. Maybe not.

A few years later I found a page on Wikipedia where they listed all the OSU football records, and it listed some guy getting a 102-yard interception return against Iowa the year Ohio State scored with 1 second left to win. "I don't remember the name, or the play, and I'm pretty sure college football doesn't count yardage in the endzone, so the maximum is 100 yards." (Some dude named Brown got a 106-yard interception against Purdue in 1986 and they only counted it as 100 yards.) So I pulled up the Youtube highlights of the game - it showed no interception returned for a touchdown. I found the official box score of the game - no interception for a touchdown at all. That guy's name didn't show up on the box score at all. So I pointed that out to Wikipedia. Their response was that it sounded like another Giovanni Strassini.
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I think he's in jail for fraud.....at the Federal level at that....

www.justice.gov

Federal Jury Convicts Charlotte Man of Using an Altered Document to Obtain a United States Passport, Passport Application Fraud and Making False Statements to Federal Agents

www.justice.gov www.justice.gov

And apparently that's not his first stint in the Federal pen...

law.justia.com

Strassini v. Strassini

Strassini v. Strassini - 2012-Ohio-5269
law.justia.com law.justia.com
 
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Zurp said:
I'm not sure if you're joking about Strassini or not.
I found this thread: https://buckeyeplanet.com/forum/threads/giovanni-strassini-a-football-fantasy.631251/
But it's 130 pages. Here's how I remember it: some nerd in North Carolina named Giovanni Strassini (sometimes he went by "John") would go to Buckeye watch parties, saying how he was an All-American in 1974 or 1976 or something, and caught a touchdown pass in the Rose Bowl win. It maybe was 1975. Anyway, he'd hang out and get free drinks and food and sign autographs and he probably made some cash on the side. And if you looked him up - what's the quickest way to look someone up on the spot in about 2010? Wikipedia - all of his facts were confirmed. So, yeah, come in and join our party.
The only problem is that if you look him up anywhere else - Jack Park's OSU football Encyclopedia, for example - no one named Giovanni Strassini or John Strassini was on the football team that year. Or any other year, for that matter. And I think someone went so far as to look up whether he had ever gone to Ohio State, and found out he hadn't. I guess Wikipedia started digging into it, too. Did they contact BuckeyePlanet about it? Basically, everyone came out pointing that the guy was a liar.
But I think he doubled-down. At the end, I think his argument was something like, "What do you care if I go to these watch parties and hang out with them?"
He might be serving some time in prison now. Maybe related. Maybe not.

A few years later I found a page on Wikipedia where they listed all the OSU football records, and it listed some guy getting a 102-yard interception return against Iowa the year Ohio State scored with 1 second left to win. "I don't remember the name, or the play, and I'm pretty sure college football doesn't count yardage in the endzone, so the maximum is 100 yards." (Some dude named Brown got a 106-yard interception against Purdue in 1986 and they only counted it as 100 yards.) So I pulled up the Youtube highlights of the game - it showed no interception returned for a touchdown. I found the official box score of the game - no interception for a touchdown at all. That guy's name didn't show up on the box score at all. So I pointed that out to Wikipedia. Their response was that it sounded like another Giovanni Strassini.
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The Strassini affair created one of the best and most entertaining off-seasons ever here on BP!. It also added some phrases that have become BP mottos.....'Bitch up", "Stronzo!" , "Choose Positivity", etc.
 
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