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Noah Spence's other brotherhood: Ohio State sophomore hails from family with 9 sons
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Greg and Helen Spence, with sons Noah, Malcolm, Alonzo, Alex, Tariq and Marcus. (Courtesy of Greg Spence)
By Zack Meisel, Northeast Ohio Media Group
October 18, 2013

The Spence household is mostly quiet now.

The noise and commotion typically return on Thanksgiving, or on any other holiday that merits a family reunion.

Then, Greg, Helen and their nine boys scan the photo albums and tell and re-tell old stories.

They reminisce about the long, sun-splashed days at Disney World. Both parents and the six youngest children squeezed into their 1998 Ford Expedition and trekked 16 hours from their home in Harrisburg, Pa. They stopped in Georgia or South Carolina for a night on the way down, but Greg completed the voyage in one, enduring effort on the trip back, sitting behind the wheel from 10:30 a.m. until 2:30 a.m.

They recall the afternoons in the backyard, the family's personal gridiron, where Greg and the boys played football. Those sessions proved invaluable for Noah, who now starts along the defensive line at Ohio State.

"That's because of what you did in the backyard with them," Greg's neighbor tells the proud father. Noah, a sophomore for the Buckeyes, leads the team with three sacks.

Helen latches on to another memory, one image that symbolizes the struggle, the joy, the burden and the reward of raising nine boys.

"The toilet seats would always be up," she said. "They could never get that together for me."

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Sheepish about what the Penn State game means to him, Noah Spence proved its significance with dominant performance in Ohio State's blowout win

By Ari Wasserman, Northeast Ohio Media Group
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on October 26, 2013

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Noah Spence was the last out of the locker room for his scheduled meeting with the media on Wednesday evening, and he stood only one step in front of the double doors to make it easier to slide back behind them.

That wasn’t the stage Spence wanted to be on, but camera lights and tape recorders both came on. He sheepishly smiled, bracing himself for the inevitable uncomfortable conversation.

Spence didn’t want to talk about Penn State, the school he grew up rooting for, the program that was once so close to landing his services two short years ago.

But Spence looked at familiar faces in the gathered media – ones he once knew during his high school days in Harrisburg, Pa., while a five-star prospect at Bishop McDevitt – and prepared himself to answer the question anyway.

Then the reporters asked it: Does the Penn State game mean more to him?

“Penn State, that was my team,” Spence said, uttering perhaps the longest response of the entire interview session. “But I got it out of my system last year – I’m all Ohio State now.”

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Would love to read his text msgs responding to friends back in PA that were bad mouthing him before the game.. has to be so sweet..
But I have to thank those folks.. they definitely put a firecracker up his ass.. he was possessed
 
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