what a great website
I can't believe I just now found this site?!! I suppose I should deposit my two pennies and join the community.
Grew up a Buckeye fan in Chillicothe...a hard core Buckeye town. I was just back there on vacation. Even on July 4th, every other Chillicothean seemed to be wearing scarlet and gray.
Graduated from the tOSU school in 1988 and after going to about 8 more years of grad school elsewhere (OU, Miami and Illinois) and teaching at Louisiana Tech and now at Cal State, Northridge, I have found myself increasingly valuing what it means to be a Buckeye.
It's a priviledge and fills me with a kind of pride that people from other universities usually just don't understand. I've tried to explain it, but very few, if any, universities generate this depth of love.
I do know though when I'm in an airport (or some such public space) and I'm wearing my Buckeye hat or sweatshirt, total strangers who also have been touched by that team and that stadium, they'll come up to me and say "Go Bucks" (or yell out "OH") and it's just like coming home. I never feel alone wearing Scarlet and Gray.
GO BUCKS!
|