Hello Buckeye Planet - I'm a not-so-frequent poster from Ozone and Bucknuts and new to this site. I was born a buckeye in St. Ann's Hospital and grew up in Bexley, a 3rd generation Bexleyite. I'm from a big family and one of my earliest memories is of fall Saturday mornings - my parents would play our record of "Buckeye Battle Cry" and my siblings and I would march around the house banging pots and pans together as an ad hoc TBIDBITL.
I was always athletic and played football and wrestling in HS - my senior year I played MLB and OG (defense was my first love, but playing on the line ended up helping me with my reads) and only left the field for kickoff and punt returns. Bexley was pretty bad in football my junior and senior years and I felt like I could achieve more, so I decided to go to Mount Union for college. My freshman year at Mount was the year after they won their first national title - football is open enrollment there and we started off with over 80 freshman. Back then they played a 4-4, and there were 16 middle linebackers. I did get to play in the JV games and those were an absolute blast.
Anyway, I spent two years at Mount and it would be fair to say that I had too much fun. I decided I needed to get serious about school so I moved back home and commuted to
OSU. That was probably one of the best decisions of my life - I will always cherish my memories of
OSU. I never went on Spring Break - I took road trips for bowl games. Three years in a row I went to Bowl games - the Rose Bowl and two Sugar Bowls, all of which are terrific stories but I won't recount here. I got my degree in ChE 4 years ago - I'm now married and live in Tampa.
Round on the Ends and Hi in the middle...