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Game Thread Game One: #1 Ohio State 35, Northern Illinois 12 (9/2/06)

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Bucks07 said:
I have not as of yet gone to OSU, although I still plan on a MBA, so all is not lost. I am also a fan of OU, no one was cheering louder than my for the Pitt game last year. I would root for OSU if they played and I am not at all ashamed of myself. I grew up for 18 years before I attended college bleeding scarlet and gray, why should that change becuase for the last 4 years of my life I choose to get an education somewhere else? And how can that change just because I decided to go somewhere else. I choose OU for many reasons, not one of which was football or any other athletic program. Love is blind, the heart wants what it wants, etc. I love my Buckeyes and no one's ever going to change that.
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My wife feels the same way, and she went to Kent.
 
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txbuckeye1983 said:
People from outside Ohio will NEVER understand Ohio State football
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You're tellin' me! Man, I live in San Antonio, and I have to put up with it all the time. Love wearing the T Shirts, sweater vests, etc. to the store and such, though. You should see the looks I get, especially now.

It's their loss, though..........we citizens of Buckeye Nation know, and that's good enough for me.


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osugrad21 said:
WHO'S WITH ME?!?

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LMAO

"And when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor..." :slappy:
 
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R0CK3TM4NN said:
Clearly you don't know the dynamics of Ohio collegiate football. If you go to another school, even MAC schools, more often than not, Ohio State is your surrogate football team. Just ask how many posters here went to, or currently go to Miami, Kent, BGSU, UC, Ohio, Akron, and Toledo. Some of the most die-hard OSU fans I know never stepped on campus as a student.
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Let me add that this not only applies to MAC schools but it actually applies even more to the many small colleges and universities in Ohio. Yes, OSU will never play Ohio Northern, Mt. Union, Ohio Wesleyan, etc. in a revenue sport again (OSU played some of the smaller colleges like Ohio Wesleyan and Muskingum before football got popular, before 1930) but many who attend these colleges are just as dedicated fans as those who attended OSU.
 
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HuskieMobileMan said:
Did you go to OSU at some point in time? Are you a fan of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:state w:st="on"><ST1 ="">Ohio</ST1></st1:state> as well? Who would you root for if the two teams played? If you answer OSU, then you should be ashamed of yourself. I sincerely mean this.
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what if the person hasn't attended college yet? are they not allowed to watch/root for a college team until they do so? at what point can they become a "fan"? after showing up for a single class? after completing a class? upon graduation? what if someone attended two colleges both with football teams? would it boil down to which college you attended the longest?

what about college drop outs? do they have to disassociate themselves from their fandom upon dismissal? would they have to become some sort of quasi fan? they can only cheer "this loud"?

what about persons who attend colleges with no football team? or a person who doesn't go to college? they just not allowed to follow college football at all?

its interesting to note that some feel a person must align their career path with the college football team they like the most.
 
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I guess OSU has some sort of cult following that I don't understand. I grew up being an ILLini fan, but that quickly changed once I attended NIU and the football program turned it around. I went to two games at Akron last year and I couldn't believe how much OSU stuff I saw (probably 25% of the crowd). It just blows my mind.
 
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HuskieMobileMan said:
I guess OSU has some sort of cult following that I don't understand. I grew up being an ILLini fan, but that quickly changed once I attended NIU and the football program turned it around. I went to two games at Akron last year and I couldn't believe how much OSU stuff I saw (probably 25% of the crowd). It just blows my mind.
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Not so much a cult following, more of a cult.
 
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HuskieMobileMan said:
I guess OSU has some sort of cult following that I don't understand. I grew up being an ILLini fan, but that quickly changed once I attended NIU and the football program turned it around. I went to two games at Akron last year and I couldn't believe how much OSU stuff I saw (probably 25% of the crowd). It just blows my mind.
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What is it that blows your mind? They are Ohio State fans who happen to attend the college of Akron. It's not that difficult.
 
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HuskieMobileMan said:
. . . I grew up being an ILLini fan, but that quickly changed once I attended NIU and the football program turned it around. . . .
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So are you saying that if NIU football wouldn't have been good while you were there you would have continued to root for the Illini? I went to a Division III school in SW Pennsylvania and I couldn't tell you how many times I was asked, "why didn't you go to Ohio State?" My response: If I was 6'3", 230 pounds and ran a 4.55 forty, I would have been there in a second.

As others have said, we go through this every year with MAC fans (even heard it from Wake Forest fans throught the whole OCC saga), but what I would like to know is how many MAC football players that don't get the opportunity to play at OSU still continue to root for them while playing in the MAC?
 
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holybuckeye33 said:
So are you saying that if NIU football wouldn't have been good while you were there you would have continued to root for the Illini? I went to a Division III school in SW Pennsylvania and I couldn't tell you how many times I was asked, "why didn't you go to Ohio State?" My response: If I was 6'3", 230 pounds and ran a 4.55 forty, I would have been there in a second.

As others have said, we go through this every year with MAC fans (even heard it from Wake Forest fans throught the whole OCC saga), but what I would like to know is how many MAC football players that don't get the opportunity to play at OSU still continue to root for them while playing in the MAC?
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I get that too :smash:
 
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