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Famous/Popular Buckeye Fans (Official Thread)

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Ms. Meade. (the one on the right for those unaware):

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buxfan4life;1951767; said:
I believe Richard Nixon was a good friend of Woody, and in turn an Ohio State fan.
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Nixon delivered the eulogy at Woody's funeral, without notes.

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I vividly recall the time I first met Woody Hayes 30 years ago. It was right after the Ohio State-Iowa football game in 1957. It was a great game. Iowa led 13-10 in the middle of the fourth quarter. Ohio State had the ball on their own 35-yard line. A big sophomore fullback, Bob White, carried the ball 11 straight times through the same hole inside left tackle. It was three yards in a cloud of Hawkeyes. He finally scored. Ohio State won 17-13. It was Woody Hayes' second national championship.

Afterwards, at a victory reception, John Bricker introduced me to Woody. I wanted to talk about football. Woody wanted to take about foreign policy. You know Woody--we talked about foreign policy.

For 30 years thereafter, I was privileged to know the real Woody Hayes--the man behind the media myth. Instead of a know-nothing Neanderthal, I found a Renaissance man with a consuming interest in history and a profound understanding of the forces that move the world. Instead of a cold, ruthless tyrant on the football field, I found a warm-hearted softie--very appropriately born on Valentine's Day--who spoke of his affection for "his boys", as he called them, and for his family.

I am sure Woody wouldn't mind if I shared with you a letter he wrote to me shortly after Mrs. Nixon suffered a stroke ten years ago: "You and I are about the two luckiest men in the world from the standpoint of our marriages with your Pat and my Anne. I know you will agree that neither of us could have done better and neither of us deserves to do so well."

I saw another Ohio State game on New Year's Day in 1969. The Buckeyes were playing USC, Mrs. Nixon's alma mater, in the Rose Bowl. O.J. Simpson electrified the crowd in the first quarter when he made one of his patented cutbacks after going over left tackle and then sprinted 80 yards for a touchdown. But the Buckeyes came roaring back in the second half and crushed the Trojans 27-16. It was Woody's third national championship.

He could have quit the, with three national championships and seven Big Ten championships. He had to know that it was a risk to stay on. It is a rule of life that if you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you will win no victories. Woody did not believe in playing it safe. He played to win.

In the next nine years, he won some great victories, including a record six straight Big Ten championships from 1972 to 1977. He also suffered some shattering defeats. The incident at the Gator Bowl in 1978 would have destroyed an ordinary man. But Woody was not an ordinary man. Winston Churchill once said, "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal." Woody lived by that maxim. He was never satisfied with success; he was never discouraged by failure.

The last nine years of his life were probably his best. He made scores of inspirational speeches all over the country. He gave all of the honorariums from those speeches to the Woody Hayes Cancer Fund at Ohio State University. He raised tens of thousands of dollars for crippled children in his annual birthday and Valentine's Day phonathons. He gave pregame pep talks to his beloved Ohio State team, now coached by one of his boys, Earle Bruce. He basked in the warm glow of tributes that were showered upon him by those who played under him and others that had come to know him, love him, and respect him.

Last year, the National Association of College and High School coaches capped his career by honoring him with the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award. They honored him as an outstanding coach, but even more importantly, they honored him as a great humanitarian.

Two thousand years ago, the poet Sophocles wrote, "One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been." We can all be thankful today that in the evening of his life, Woody Hayes could look back and see that the day had indeed been splendid.
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R.L. Stine is a graduate and is featured on the HBO documentary about the rivalry.

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Brian Unger (aka The Lawyer from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) is an OSU fan and teases TSUN fans in a documentary called "How the States got their Shapes."

I'm not a rap fan, but I heard a Drake song where he said:

"I see all this money through my Ohio State Buckeyes" so I guess Drake's a Buckeye fan too.
 
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BuckTwenty;1952061; said:
Bone Thugs N Harmony might rep Cleveland, but they like them some Ohio State too. I know that Krazie Bone (pictured) and Bizzy Bone are Buckeye fans.
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I know one of them lives in or just outside Columbus. Pretty sure it's Bizzy.. used to seem him at Polaris a decent amount when I worked there. Dude is nuts (in a more good than bad way).
 
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3074326;1952087; said:
I know one of them lives in or just outside Columbus. Pretty sure it's Bizzy.. used to seem him at Polaris a decent amount when I worked there. Dude is nuts (in a more good than bad way).
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He lived at Easton a few years ago. He was in our store very often. If there is a stranger person roaming CBus, I never saw them. He was always talking some gibberish and we could do nothing but laugh at him.
 
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3074326;1952087; said:
I know one of them lives in or just outside Columbus. Pretty sure it's Bizzy.. used to seem him at Polaris a decent amount when I worked there. Dude is nuts (in a more good than bad way).
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Yup! He's been a resident of Westerville for some time now. I've actually seen him at my Krogers. He seems a little out there, but I've heard he's a nice guy
 
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BuckTwenty;1952103; said:
Yup! He's been a resident of Westerville for some time now. I've actually seen him at my Krogers. He seems a little out there, but I've heard he's a nice guy
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yah hes a little out there thats for sure

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WFP9J8ng90"]YouTube - ‪Bizzy Bone - Radio Interview whislt HIGH --- VERY FUNNY‬‏[/ame]

might as well include lil bow wow in the list...and can we include jeffery dahmer?
 
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k2onprimetime;1952114; said:
Drake
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Raps about OSU in one of his song
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someone said this earlier but i dont think this should count...dude is from toronto and has never shown any allegiance to tOSU besides saying buckeye in one of his raps...if this is the case then camron is a tOSU fan because he wrote a rap about columbus
 
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