Catfish Biff's
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Thanks for the great forum and topic everyone--hopefully my first post will suffice for the board's quality (sorry if I bore you with the background facts).
When I first arrived on campus for my freshman year in the fall of 1997, I didn't really know what Buckeye football was all about. I grew up in Cincinnati, in a large catholic family, and it follows that I either cheered for Notre Dame, or got beat up by my older cousins. Two of my close girl friends from high school also attended Ohio State, and as a reward for helping move other freshmen into Lincoln Tower, they were given a bunch of really good football tickets for the pre-conference Arizona game. They were kind enough to invite me along.
Ohio Stadium stunned me. Our tickets were on the field side of one endzone, in the first row! The view sucked when the action was at the opposite end of the field, but was unbelievable when it was on the near side. I was starting to realize what Buckeye fever was all about.
And then it happened. On a seemingly safe play, Arizona attempted a shuffle pass deep in its own territory. An absolute beast of a man, Andy Katzenmoyer, shot the gap, snatched the ball clean out of the air in one fluid motion, and soared his way into the end-zone--I still cannot believe that big of a guy could sprint that fast. The poor QB never had a chance. I wouldn't have believed it if someone told me a defensive player could totally dominate a game that way. But then I saw it happen, and he continued to do it for the rest of the season--and I would see it happen again a couple years later, when a young Mike Doss starting injuring opposing players every damn week (including the A-Train).
That's my all-time favorite Ohio State play, for it made great changes in me. It made me the rabid Buckeye fan I am today, and taught me that Buckeye football is something special, more special than anywhere else in the country.
When I first arrived on campus for my freshman year in the fall of 1997, I didn't really know what Buckeye football was all about. I grew up in Cincinnati, in a large catholic family, and it follows that I either cheered for Notre Dame, or got beat up by my older cousins. Two of my close girl friends from high school also attended Ohio State, and as a reward for helping move other freshmen into Lincoln Tower, they were given a bunch of really good football tickets for the pre-conference Arizona game. They were kind enough to invite me along.
Ohio Stadium stunned me. Our tickets were on the field side of one endzone, in the first row! The view sucked when the action was at the opposite end of the field, but was unbelievable when it was on the near side. I was starting to realize what Buckeye fever was all about.
And then it happened. On a seemingly safe play, Arizona attempted a shuffle pass deep in its own territory. An absolute beast of a man, Andy Katzenmoyer, shot the gap, snatched the ball clean out of the air in one fluid motion, and soared his way into the end-zone--I still cannot believe that big of a guy could sprint that fast. The poor QB never had a chance. I wouldn't have believed it if someone told me a defensive player could totally dominate a game that way. But then I saw it happen, and he continued to do it for the rest of the season--and I would see it happen again a couple years later, when a young Mike Doss starting injuring opposing players every damn week (including the A-Train).
That's my all-time favorite Ohio State play, for it made great changes in me. It made me the rabid Buckeye fan I am today, and taught me that Buckeye football is something special, more special than anywhere else in the country.
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