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How did you celebrate after the 2002 NC?

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I had a bunch of friends over, several OSU grads, UC and XU plus one asshole (my best friend actually) who graduated from UDayton, but roots for Michigan. He came in wearing scarlet and gray and cheered for the bucks all night, making up for his total lack of taste during the regular season. I'd made up a pot of killer chili and put out a spread of coldcuts and had a sampler for beers, Goose Island, Harp, Guiness, Becks and a couple others. We indoor tailgated while watching and booing all the negative media pre-game, all the while fearing that maybe they were right. I spent the fourth quarter switching back and forth from Glenfiddich to water. Overtime was more water and when the game ended we opened a bottle of Korbel Brut someone had thoughfully brought along.

I woke up with the most wonderful hangover I've ever enjoyed.
 
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It was my sophomore year at OSU when we won the NC. My apartment was packed with 30 of my closest friends, all eyes glued to the TV. I had used my fake id earlier that day to purchase a palate of natty from Sam's club. By the end of regulation I was so trashed that I had to close an eye in order to focus on the TV. Play after play we drank more and more while cheering incessantly for our bucks. The last <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City><ST1:place>Miami</ST1:place></st1:City> drive, everyone was on their feet screaming at the TV. I felt like I was there it was so loud. When we finally won beer went flying everywhere. We turned on our stereo and blasted the buckeye battle cry and all ran out into the street. Everyone on our street ran out into the road and was giving high fives. I could see nothing but buckeye fans everywhere.<O:p</O:p

Then the cops came ready for WW3. They came and dispersed the crowd, but at least they were cool about it. Everyone went back inside and continued to drink heavily. About a half hour later the power was cut off. Supposedly a car hit a line, which I think is BS. It worked out though. So with a national title and no power, I took advantage of the situation and headed upstairs with my girlfriend. :biggrin:
 
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Jumped up and down in section 39 row 19 of sun devil stadium. High fived Thump wandered out into tempe. We tried to hit a few bars but they were all packed. We went to a bar near our hotel called the blue moose. Where they congradulated us. Drank a couple of beers there, went to sleep for a few hours got up around 4 am to go catch the plain back to CBus. It is something I will truely never forget
 
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Dryden said:
I watched the game on the TV with some friends. In 2002 a close friend of mine had been a GM for HatWorld/Lids, so after about 5 minutes of high fives and hugs following Cie Grant spinning Dorsey to the turf, he ran outside to his car and returned a minute later with a box full of the 'Official' Ohio State National Championship hats. We joked around for about 15 minutes while watching the trophy presentation debating what we could do with the other box full of Miami National Championship hats he still had sealed in his trunk.

We all headed out to some bars for several hours afterwards, then capped off the night at a Tim Horton's for coffee at about 3:00 AM.
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thats sweet!! did you take 2 cryami hats? one to shit in and one to cover it?
 
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Swimmer said:
It was my sophomore year at OSU when we won the NC. My apartment was packed with 30 of my closest friends, all eyes glued to the TV. I had used my fake id earlier that day to purchase a palate of natty from Sam's club. By the end of regulation I was so trashed that I had to close an eye in order to focus on the TV. Play after play we drank more and more while cheering incessantly for our bucks. The last <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City><ST1:place>Miami</ST1:place></st1:City> drive, everyone was on their feet screaming at the TV. I felt like I was there it was so loud. When we finally won beer went flying everywhere. We turned on our stereo and blasted the buckeye battle cry and all ran out into the street. Everyone on our street ran out into the road and was giving high fives. I could see nothing but buckeye fans everywhere.<O:p</O:p

Then the cops came ready for WW3. They came and dispersed the crowd, but at least they were cool about it. Everyone went back inside and continued to drink heavily. About a half hour later the power was cut off. Supposedly a car hit a line, which I think is BS. It worked out though. So with a national title and no power, I took advantage of the situation and headed upstairs with my girlfriend. :biggrin:
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Damn, what a night! Beer, a NC, and quality time with your girlfriend:wink2:
 
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Was watching it with my dad. On the final play when Dorsey threw the ball my dad just started screaming something along the lines of "yea! yeah!....knock it down, knock it down!" then I yelled "it's incomplete! it's over!" don't remember word for word, it was just yelling along those lines. Then I just shook my dads hand and he said "do you know how long this has been?" and I said "Too long".

Then we blasted OSU songs into the night. Watched post-game. And got hardly any sleep.

During Buckeye games my dad and I hold "lucky" buckeyes in our hands, rub them, etc, usually during a big/close game (which over the last 3 years has seemed like every 4th quarter I go looking for the buckeyes) and for an important play just for luck. Well on the PI call on, I threw my Buckeye down because I thought it was over and was just so delfated/sad. then I heard there was a flag and I ran my ass back and picked it up. Gotta keep believing in my lucky buckeyes.
 
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After the game, we left the stadium, after watching the postgame press conferences on the jumbo-tron, went back to our tailgate, where we finished the beer we had leftover from before the game. A funny thing I remember about that time was my cell phone. It wouldnt work at all throughout the game, too many people around I guess, much like OSU home games... But as we sat in the parking lot, and everyone around us filed out, leaving us as one of the only people left in the lot, my phone came back into service and notified me of a voicemail. I had 36 voicemails! all recieved after the game had started. There were about 5 from my mom, who was at a party watching the game, most of them were from friends back in Columbus who knew I was at the game. A couple were from family members who saw me on TV (the abc cameraman came into the stands where we were sitting and filmed us going crazy.).

After finishing our beers, we walked to Mill street. Bought some fake cubans (they were horrible) from a street vendor. Tried to go to some bars but they were all closing, so we went back to the hotel(stopping at Wendys first). I slept as content as I ever have been that night.

Another strange thing was the next morning when we got in the car to drive back to columbus. We turned on sports talk radio and everyone was talking about "OSU's controversial Championship" We had no Idea going to bed that night that there was any controversy in the pass interference call. I remember Tim Benz, who used to be on 1460 the fan here in columbus, bashing us on ESPN network radio. I tried so hard to call in to his show to rip him a new one, but to no avail.

Anyhow, to this day, that day was the best day of my life.
 
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I fell to my knees and started yelling at my wife "we won the National Championship!!!" I went on hugging and high fiving her for about 5 minutes while trying not to wake up the kids. After that I spent the next hour on the phone with friends and family from across the country who were calling me about the game. My drunk brother sent me an email after he got home from a friends bar in Cleveland that just read "HOLY SHIT, I'll call you tomorrow" :lol:
 
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WOWWWW what great memories! At a huge fiesta bowl party and ofcourse so nervous in my lucky osu sweatshirt (which i wore all 14 games watching osu that year)....anway during the game iwas in disbelief how well we played and stuck it to those fuckers who doubted us...i was so nervous in the middle like the 4th and 14 i was crying cuz i thought it would be over but we kept in it and took out dorsey for a play and during the 4th and 1 i was like this is it--1 yard for a title and CIE DID IT!!! I threw off my buckeye hat and went completley NUTS like i never have in my life! everybody was goin crazy throwin beer everywhere and all had a huge chant OSU-OSU-OSU!-OSU! we were totally outa line but it was the best moment of my life for sure, never felt like that WOW!!! then ran around in this guys apt complex going nuts at like 1 am went outside went nuts and wen i eventually left his house at 3am drove home blasting TBDBITL with the windows down in COLD ass cleveland winter......WOW!!!!!!!!! went home watched those espn fuckers get owned like corso.....what piece of shit wow i stayed up til like 5, slept awoke like 3 hrs later



WOW!

thats all i can say

what great memories........and for those of u who said u were there----i cant even comprehend that



GO BUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 127 til lloyds nightmare

oh and by the way

i dont think ive ever cried as much ever as i did that night.......truly the bes experience






does anyone have atape of that gm i cod buy?
 
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In the spring of 2002, i sadly left Columbus and all of my crazy buckeye friends to move to Tempe, AZ, thinking that living on the West coast would totally take me away from cheering on my buckeyes. As football season began i totally got the feeling that this year would be a special one and decided i would do anything possible to watch the buckeyes continue their march through an impossible 14 game schedule.

In September i decided to numb the pain by flying back to cbus to watch Darrion Scott and the rest of the buckeyes plant Jason Gesser and his cougars into the ground. In October I had the pleasure of flying to Madison to watch Chris Gamble intercept all of the badgers hopes of destroying our dream season. All of these victories built up into an amazing crescendo of emotion when i saw our buckeyes beat that team from up north on our home turf reserve our place in the "most lopsided national championship matchup for years to come" down in my new backyard.

The moment we beat Michigan, my cell phone just started lighting up with nearly every single person i ever knew at OSU asking me if they could stay at my condo which was located right next to Sun Devil Stadium itself. Before i knew it, i had twenty rowdy buckeye fans in route for the game and i already knew that we were in for something special.

My friends who came down were a mix of first year law students hoping to get away, rugby players who didn't want to miss the party, and faithfuls who compared their trip to tempe to a pilgrimage to Mecca. The night before the game we gathered in front of my television watching the Orange bowl and drowned a number of kegs as a warm up for the even bigger celebration which we were hoping would follow the next night.

The next day as game time approached, all of us who had tickets headed into the stadium and the rest of us who didn't, either scalped some for $600 a piece or proceeded to take some liquor back to my place for the after party. At kickoff there were only four of us back at my place and we could not believe that our prediction of a victory was actually possible. We cheered on our bucks through all of the ups and downs of the roller coaster type game as we told ourselves that this would be the most amazing football game in college football history if we somehow could pull off a victory.

As the end of regulation came to a close, fireworks went off at Sun Devil Stadium and the four of us were on our feet and could not believe that we were indoors watching game on television while history was being made literally next door. Just then, we suddenly came up with a sudden great idea. Why don't we just go next door so we can be at the stadium when the game came to and end?

So the four of us hopped onto bikes and crossed the Rural Road bridge and parked our bikes in the bike racks located just outside of the Wells Fargo Arena and just down the road from the freshly arrived Varsity Club. As we walked near the stadium, to my utter disbelief, the gates on the south side of the stadium were wide open as they let a trickle of incredibly stupid non-college football fans leave for their cars.

We quickly followed up on our good fortune and before we knew it, we were in the concourse of Sun Devil Stadium just as Miami began their first set of downs in the first overtime period. As fans of both sides were cheering on their teams, us four were scurrying through the guts of Sun Devil Stadium looking for the entrance to the bleachers where i had previously had great seats for an ASU football game. Minutes later we were able to enter the section at the top of the bleachers and we somehow found a large group of my friends who couldn't believe their eyes when they both saw me and the scoreboard just before the buckeyes scored their first touchdown of the overtime session.

As i took a deep breath and took in all of the scenes around me, I could not believe the fact that i was actually right here at the exact right time for a moment which will hang in my memory forever. I gazed all around me at the stadium filled with buckeye fans of all types, ages, and sizes knowing that there was one single thing that we all had in common, and that one thing was defending MY end zone at a game i had only dreamed about attending.

The next half an hour of my memory was both the longest and the shortest half hour of my life all at the same time. For years i had joked about how i would react the moment the buckeyes won a national championship. All of a sudden, on a play i had scripted in my mind for years, Ken Dorsey threw a pass into the ground making millions of buckeye fans' dreams come true and there i was in the middle of it. Now i didn't go crazy cheering like i expected, or i didn't crumble to my feet like others thought, i just simply stood there too amazed to respond to the incredible spectacle with had just unfolded in front of my eyes. It seemed like forever but it took a full ten seconds until i blinked and responded to all of my friends who were high fiving and jumping around in the stands. I remember a tiny grin slowly crept across my face and before long i joined them in a joint celebration of an event we had all predicted but never fully believed was going to happen.

The next hour or so we were too shocked and amazed to leave the stadium and we joined the seemingly thousands of other buckeye fans listening to the post game press conference until security came by and forced us to leave. We slowly and regrettably left the stadium and headed back to my place for the celebration that every OSU undergraduate had dreamed of forever. As we sat down and tapped the first keg, one of the rugby guys put on Sportcenter which was doing an hour long wrap up of the incredible buckeye victory which we all had just witnessed. One by one, every person at my house sat down and watched the coverage and before we knew it, three hours had passed and not a single beer was poured.

It was obvious that everybody there was far too emotionally drained to have the massive party we had all expected before the game. So as I look back, I am proud to say that a looping episode of sportscenter and quiet room filled with amazement was how all of us so called "drunken faithful" celebrated the huge buckeye victory in tempe that night. The emotions i felt right then were ones that i had never felt before and i doubt i would ever feel again unless I somehow get transferred to Pasadena and it all happens again.
 
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well I actually watched the game with a miami fan (who was a prick and also my sisters boy friend). He was getting on me because Miami came back and was semingly in control in overtime. When he stood up on the 4th and 14 play to be cocky I just prayed we'd beat them. When that pass was caught by Jenkins and we had a new set of downs to play with I knew we were going to win.

Once Dorseys pass got batted down I did nothing but put my hands over my head and just repeating "Oh my god I can't believe it". I remember just watching sportscenter over and over to see all the buckeye talk. I also had to laugh pretty hard when Jim Kelley in the pregame show said he was tired of the "O-H-I-O" cheers because it was all OSU fans. One of the happiest days of my life!
 
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My tow buddies and I were totally trashed watching the game on the gigantic screen at PromoWest. I really don't remember much of the second half except for all the big plays-Clarret's fumble recovery, Jenkins 4th down catch,etc. I remember thinking-fuck, it's over- before Porter threw the flag-and feeling totally let down. When Grant got his hand on the ball, I immediately started screaming "we won,we won" for about 10 minutes straight, running around PromoWest hugging and hi-fiving everyone around me. I even tried to hug a Columbus cop outside, but he wasn't having any of that. Driving up Neil Ave. my friends and I were calling our families back in Dayton while screaming at the top of our lungs and hanging out the windows of the car. Once we got to campus, we had a couple of beers at the Jailhouse, then went to LaBamba and called it a night. The next morning, there was not a single copy of the Dispatch to be found anywhere, so after our ritual breakfast at TeeJay's, my buddy and I actually went to the downtown office of the Dispatch, and waited-along w/ 40 or 50 other people-for the truck to deliver the special editions and grabbed our copies right there. I now have it framed in my basement.
 
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I wasn't sure if I was going to post in this thread. I think you'll see why if you read further. I suspect my story is unique - at least I hope so, for the sake of all of you.

I'll venture to say that I probably experienced a wider array of emotions on January 3rd 2002 than anyone you know, here at the Planet or otherwise. You see, my father passed away that morning, his wife (my parents were divorced, dad remarried) having removed him from a ventilator the day before. Coupled with the fact that my mom had died just 13 days earlier after a horrific battle with cancer, and I think you can imagine the devastation I felt at that time. I had spent that season watching Buckeye games on the little TV in my mom's hospital room. I wasn't being disrespectful of her - she would've felt even worse if I missed my Buckeyes because she was sick, and told me to turn the game on. That's my mom. The day of her funeral, dad had a heart attack, and doctors tests soon revealed he had lung cancer, and his days were numbered. Which takes us back to January 3rd.

I had no desire to attend the parties my friends were having, choosing to spend time alone trying to make sense of it all. Not surprisingly, I reached for a bottle of Jack about 3 hours before kick-off, 7 hours after dad died. I wasn't excited about the game, at that point. I found myself looking at photos of years past, thinking about my parents, when I began to think about it having been 30+ years since the Buckeyes had been in this position, and how they knew my love for the Buckeyes, and there was no way they would want me to miss that game. I also realized if it took another 30 years, I might not live to see it. Besides, I thought there's no way Ohio State is going to lose. There's no way "God" would let that happen to me, at that point in my life. Something good had to happen during this hellacious period.

I fired up the TV, and escaped into an old friend - Buckeye football - at a time I sorely needed it. I did what you did - I yelled, I laughed, I cursed, I paced the floor, I threw the remote a couple times - and then the game went OT. You know the rest...when Dorsey's last gasp hit the turf, I ran a victory lap around my couch, yelled, and fell back onto it, completely spent. I didn't feel much after that - probably pretty drunk, definitely emotionally drained. I "talked" to mom and dad a bit before dragging myself to bed. Not the type of celebration I had always imagined after such a great victory, but then again, not the type of circumstances I ever imagined, either. I don't think a message board post conveys my thoughts on all of this very well - there isn't enough bandwidth - but I guess I wanted to share my story as best I could.

All I know is this: the next time the Bucks get to that game, I will be there. I don't care what it costs, I WILL be there. Life can be a lot shorter than you think, so you better live it while you can. Mom was 64; Dad was 66.
 
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