it was the first game this year for the ohio state buckeye's football team(even though i'll soon be 56 i had butterflies like a school-girl waiting on her date before the prom and she's just eaten an enormous bowl of soup beans) and as usual my brother and i listened to the game(my brother said he had butterflies too) via skype he's in singapore and i'm in newark, ohio in the usa. i suppose you could say we're hard-core buckeye fans but we've been following the buckeyes for years and years, i can remember watching the buckeyes with my father who died of cancer over 20 years ago) and my two brothers in the 1960's. this year seemed somehow different than the games of the past and it wasn't the fact that this year they have a new coach that they were forced to get after last years scandal(although he is a very good coach) and it wasn't that skype didn't come in perfectly throughout the game because it worked fine, at first we had some difficulty with the headphones but we soon remedied that before the game began and the buckeye's did win the game with a score of 55-10(after all they were playing miami of ohio). the first quarter ohio state played pitifully but by the second quarter they'd got their act together.
the game is played at 12:00 noon in ohio but it would be mid-night in singapore so i guess you could say my brother's a devoted hard-core buckeye fan. he graduated sometime in the late seventies and lived at the stadium dorm meaning he lived on the outside of the buckeye playing field(the horse-shoe) so at times i would visit and watch the games and that's when woody hayes was the coach and 2 time Heisman trophy winner was playing(Archie Griffin) but it doesn't explain why he insists on wearing a huge foam #1 on his hand with the index finger sticking out and painting his face(scarlet and grey)especially when no one can see him(except me) i'm the one with the pom poms.
the game is played at 12:00 noon in ohio but it would be mid-night in singapore so i guess you could say my brother's a devoted hard-core buckeye fan. he graduated sometime in the late seventies and lived at the stadium dorm meaning he lived on the outside of the buckeye playing field(the horse-shoe) so at times i would visit and watch the games and that's when woody hayes was the coach and 2 time Heisman trophy winner was playing(Archie Griffin) but it doesn't explain why he insists on wearing a huge foam #1 on his hand with the index finger sticking out and painting his face(scarlet and grey)especially when no one can see him(except me) i'm the one with the pom poms.
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