Game Thread THE GAME, 11/26/16, 12pm ET, ABC

[OHSportsFan]

Not that it takes much more, but this thread (thanks @Jaxbuck) has my blood boiling already. This week gets me more emotional than I have been for many other things in my life. I am who I am and I hate the school up north.

Told myself, and wrote here (in the Harbaugh thread I think), that I'd be taking my old man to this game to welcome Harbaugh back to the 'Shoe himself.

He has a hate unlike any I have seen for that guy. Just need to dive into some tickets and make this happen.

Oh, and guess who just scored some tickets yesterday?! My father was there in '86 when that little bitch Harbaugh complained about the crowd noise. He's got that and a lot more coming for him, I swear to it. See you crazy mf'ers in Columbus this weekend.

Go Bucks! and Fuck Michigan!

 

[Jaxbuck]

sitting here watching The Game '70



at the 42:30 mark you have two of the oddest things ever;

1. The refs call offsetting penalties for offside and false start. I don't know that I have ever seen that.
2. The PA announcer can be heard in the background announcing a bomb threat in the stadium...that "security forces" were initiating action and that, most importantly..."The Game will continue"

EDIT #1
The tsun QB calls time out with one second left in the first quarter to make sure they have the wind in their face for the FG attempt.

The analyst is former scUM coach Evelschefuckwatnutseverski and he's a fucking moron. He did say that dipshit QB used one of his "four" time outs. Did they used to get 4? Or is he just drainbramaged?

 

[buckeyebri]

It doesn't seem possible but it's already been 10 years since the 1 vs 2 game in 2006.

I flew to Ohio and went to The Game with my cousin. The family stayed home (Florida at the time), my daughter was only 8 and my son was an infant.

Now, we've been in Philadelphia for 5 years. My daughter is coming home from college to see us for a few days this week and I'm taking my 11 year old son back for his third edition of The Game.

The seasons do indeed pass and the years roll far too quickly

I was in the Shoe two years ago with my daughter. I remember seeing Urban hands on knees as JT lay on the turf. The stadium was eerily silent as they carted JT off. I think everyone was equally nauseous and thought that the season was done. Two weeks later my daughter and I were in Lucas Oil watching as tOSU dismantled Wisconsin on it's way to the NC.

Here's to another beat down of meatchicken on the way to the NC!!!!

 

[Jaxbuck]

Buckeyes open at -7

 

[GovTressel76]

It doesn't seem possible but it's already been 10 years since the 1 vs 2 game in 2006.

I flew to Ohio and went to The Game with my cousin. The family stayed home (Florida at the time), my daughter was only 8 and my son was an infant.

Now, we've been in Philadelphia for 5 years. My daughter is coming home from college to see us for a few days this week and I'm taking my 11 year old son back for his third edition of The Game.

The seasons do indeed pass and the years roll far too quickly.

I went to the 2006 game with my father and brother. There were less scalpers than I've ever seen at any OSU game. We found three tickets. When we were walking in my father and brother got the "step over here" as their tickets were scanned. We had bought fakes. I got through somehow-the young girl who scanned my tickets didn't seem to be paying much attention to what she was doing. I went to where the fake ticket was for and told everyone in the row what had happened. They let me stand with them for the whole game.

I've been to every home m#ch game since I was a little kid, and that was the most surreal. The 3:30 start time was part of it...the second half being played under the lights just felt wrong.

I absolutely can not wait to get into the car Thursday morning and take the Thanksgiving drive from St. Louis to Columbus that I do every other year. Can't wait to park on the banks of the Olentangy at dawn. Can't wait to wait to watch the band burst into St. John's arena for skull session. Can't wait for that i to be dotted. Can't wait to watch another victory over tsun. Can't....wait.....

 

[Wadcutter]

Seriously? What kind of parent teach their child to hate an entire another state at age 4? That is simply unacceptable and I'm half tempted to report you to CPS.




Your kid should already know it by age 2 at the oldest.

At my folks 50th wedding anniversary celebration, my son as the oldest of many grandkids, was asked to say a few words. The first thing he said was, and I quote, "I want to thank grandpa for teaching me how to fish and to hate _ichigan." Never been prouder, brought a tear to my eye.

 

[OSUK]

1. The PA announcer can be heard in the background announcing a bomb threat in the stadium...that "security forces" were initiating action and that, most importantly..."The Game will continue"

That is simultaneously the greatest and most disturbing thing I have ever come across concerning The Game. Still, I Lol'd. Made my day.

 

[OHSportsFan]

It doesn't seem possible but it's already been 10 years since the 1 vs 2 game in 2006.

I flew to Ohio and went to The Game with my cousin. The family stayed home (Florida at the time), my daughter was only 8 and my son was an infant.

Now, we've been in Philadelphia for 5 years. My daughter is coming home from college to see us for a few days this week and I'm taking my 11 year old son back for his third edition of The Game.

The seasons do indeed pass and the years roll far too quickly.

2006 was the last game my uncle (Ohio State alum) got to attend the game, with his son. He passed away the next summer from a quickly deteriorating battle with pancreatic cancer. He was my dad's oldest brother of 4. My cousin still has a piece of the field from when they both rushed the field. Ohio State went to turf in 2007. I'd say that was a pretty damn good experience on a life taken sooner than expected.

Again, can't believe that was 10 years ago.

edit- oh and his two youngest boys (twins) are now Sophomores at Ohio State studying engineering and will end up building rocket ships or some shit. Seriously, those kids are geniuses. Not sure how they're my cousins

 

[OSUK]

I usually watched the game with my father but we lived in a "holler" with poor TV reception so we would go to the pastor's house in town. I'm generally talking about the late 60s thru late 70s. My dad watches football like most people watch golf and the pastor was a very controlled man. So I grew up watching this game in a quiet, restrained way.

When I was 12 or 13, maybe, my friend, Brian, asked me to watch it at his house with his family - also normally a quiet and restrained bunch - except when it came to this game - and especially Brian's brother, Bob, who was a walk-on player for Woody and had just graduated the spring before.

They had this huge spread of food when I got there. They started singing "We don't give a damn..." and Bob contributed a version of "Hail to the Victor's" that had lots of words not allowed at my house! In short I got an education about a whole other level of passion for Ohio State football.

Bob was nervous but relatively calm until ABC started giving the starting line up for scUM. They would have a picture of the player and their hometown was listed - and Bob completely lost it. For every Ohioan he would scream something like, "You f'n traitor! I hate you your guts!"

I look over at Brian agape. He shrugs his shoulders and says, "Yeah, Bob gets a little excited for this one."

And thus I began to really understand the magnitude of this game.

 

[Jaxbuck]

I usually watched the game with my father but we lived in a "holler" with poor TV reception so we would go to the pastor's house in town. I'm generally talking about the late 60s thru late 70s. My dad watches football like most people watch golf and the pastor was a very controlled man. So I grew up watching this game in a quiet, restrained way.

When I was 12 or 13, maybe, my friend, Brian, asked me to watch it at his house with his family - also normally a quiet and restrained bunch - except when it came to this game - and especially Brian's brother, Bob, who was a walk-on player for Woody and had just graduated the spring before.

They had this huge spread of food when I got there. They started singing "We don't give a damn..." and Bob contributed a version of "Hail to the Victor's" that had lots of words not allowed at my house! In short I got an education about a whole other level of passion for Ohio State football.

Bob was nervous but relatively calm until ABC started giving the starting line up for scUM. They would have a picture of the player and their hometown was listed - and Bob completely lost it. For every Ohioan he would scream something like, "You f'n traitor! I hate you your guts!"

I look over at Brian agape. He shrugs his shoulders and says, "Yeah, Bob gets a little excited for this one."

And thus I began to really understand the magnitude of this game.

 

[OSUK]

Bob is awesome. Became a fairly successful high school coach - but the kind that eschewed fancy offense like using the forward pass, and considered running between the tackles on 3rd and 5 as real football - whether you got the 1st down or not. I always got the idea he was happy if the other team was carrying their players off the field and the ambulance had to make a couple runs to the hospital - whether he won on the scoreboard or not! He would get beat by 3 scores and proudly say something like, "They will be feeling us all next week." A dying breed.

 

[pianobuck46]

Beautiful! How'd you ever find a picture with his mouth shut?

 

[Steve19]

Beautiful! How'd you ever find a picture with his mouth shut?

He swallowed?

 

[Jaxbuck]

The magic number for this game (like all games so far under Meyer) is 30.

Score 30+ and the odds are massively in OSU's favor. Score 40+ and it's 100%. Score <30 and it's nothing more than a coin toss.

I firmly believe OSU can score 30+ on this tsun defense as long as they stay out of 3rd and long and play from the lead. The tsun pass rush is legit.

At the end of the day I think the OSU defense will impact the tsun offense more than the tsun defense will hurt the OSU offense.

 

[Steve19]

Hey, Harbaugh. We may have been born at night but not last night. We know you kept Speight out of the Indiana game because you wanted him to have two weeks to study the Silver Bullets defense. We know that you have been planning for your revenge for a year.

He's coming for you with them.