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Ohio State Football: Pre Game Quick Cals

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Ohio State fans: Teach me how to ?quick cal?
By Pat Brennan
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Published: Saturday, August 25, 2012

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Students gather inside the outline of a Block O formed by the OSU Marching Band at the conclusion of the Buckeye Kickoff event Saturday.

Ohio State football?s ?quick cals? drill is starting to catch on, and other traditions introduced at Buckeye Kickoff 2012 aren?t far behind either.

Buckeyes football players and coaches instructed students on how to perform the quick cal exercise during the Ohio Union?s first annual Buckeye Kickoff event Saturday at Ohio Stadium. The Welcome Week event also featured appearances by President E. Gordon Gee, former Buckeyes two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin and the OSU Marching Band.

The first new tradition of the night was introduced to students outside the stadium, where University Residences and Dining Services offered free ?Ohio Dog? hot dogs, which are topped with scallions, corn, bacon, mashed potatoes and barbecue sauce.

Once inside, a few on-field events elicited few cheers from the students at the outset of the event. The Horseshoe was noticeably quiet considering the number of spectators, but that changed when members of the No. 18-ranked Buckeyes took to the field.

OSU football strength and conditioning coach Mickey Marotti instructed students on his increasingly renowned quick cals drill. Marotti, along with OSU defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Luke Fickell and the team?s five senior captains ? defensive tackle John Simon, fullback Zach Boren, defensive lineman Garrett Goebel, linebacker Etienne Sabino and running back Jordan Hall ? taught students the hand and clapping movements that make up the quick cal.

?We?re hoping (the quick cals) takes off throughout the entire stadium,? Fickell told the crowd. ?It?s got to start with the students and as that grows, hopefully, our idea is that everybody in the stadium will understand what we?re doing by the end of the first few games.?

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That pre-game tribute to Niel Armstrong was close to my heart. When I was in the U.S.Navy I was on the USS Hornet which was the primary recovery ship for both Apollos 11 & 12. I was there to see Niels face and the other other two Apllo 11 crewmen's faces smiling at us and the rest of the world through the window of that isolation trailer.
Fond memories of the first men on the moon because I was involved in my own small way. Spent my 21st birthday steaming around the south pacific waiting for those men to do their thing and come home so we could pick them up. I remember well walking out on the flight deck during the pitch black of night on my birthday and looking up at the moon knowing what was going on up there.
 
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red in colorado;2203979; said:
That pre-game tribute to Niel Armstrong was close to my heart. When I was in the U.S.Navy I was on the USS Hornet which was the primary recovery ship for both Apollos 11 & 12. I was there to see Niels face and the other other two Apllo 11 crewmen's faces smiling at us and the rest of the world through the window of that isolation trailer.
Fond memories of the first men on the moon because I was involved in my own small way. Spent my 21st birthday steaming around the south pacific waiting for those men to do their thing and come home so we could pick them up. I remember well walking out on the flight deck during the pitch black of night on my birthday and looking up at the moon knowing what was going on up there.
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GPA. Great story man.
 
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