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Glenville coach calls rumor crazy'
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Bob Fortuna
Plain Dealer Reporter
At first, Glenville High School football coach Ted Ginn Sr. laughed when he was asked if there is any truth to the rumor floating around town.

Then he paused and said, "Who's saying that stuff?"

The rumor being that Ginn Sr. was flown by a helicopter, provided by Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel, to Saturday afternoon's OSU-Michigan football game in Columbus to watch his son, Ted Ginn Jr., play. The rumor continued by saying Ginn Sr. then was flown back to Cleveland in time for the Tarblooders' Division I, Region 1 title game against St. Ignatius that night.

An ABC announcer said he thought he saw Ginn Sr. at Ohio Stadium during the broadcast.

"That's crazy," Ginn Sr. said. "I was in my hotel room, with my team, watching the game on television.

"We had our pregame meal at 2:30 that afternoon. After the OSU-Michigan game ended, the team boarded the bus and we headed for Lakewood Stadium."

When reporters arrived at Lakewood Stadium at 5:15, Ginn Sr. was already there.

Ginn Jr. and former Tarblooder Curtis Terry made the trip to Lakewood from Columbus after the Buckeyes' game, with Ginn Jr. driving the car. Ginn Jr. and Terry, a freshman player at OSU, arrived in the fourth quarter to watch the end of Glenville's 22-14 victory.

Tressel did not hear about the rumor until a phone call late Monday morning.

"I promise you, I don't own a helicopter," Tressel said. "And I have no access to one either."

Ginn Jr. and Terry left early Sunday morning for the ride back to Columbus.

"How's this kind of stuff get started?" Ginn Sr. said. "It's absolutely crazy."

Does the media have anything better to write about??