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Nigel Tufnel
Choking on vomit
You know Woody was ultimately right about Archie. As good as a player he was, he is a far better man.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
The only guy that has the all time best set of bookends:
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
TAKE ME HOME
We're still sorely lacking sports, but I can offer you two Heisman Trophies worth of highlights to get you by.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ercent-of-first-wave-sales-to-covid-19-heroes
We're still sorely lacking sports, but I can offer you two Heisman Trophies worth of highlights to get you by.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ercent-of-first-wave-sales-to-covid-19-heroes
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Good 2014 Newark Advocate article:
Archie’s two Heismans don’t trump dad’s three jobs
If they awarded the Heisman Trophy for being the hardest worker, Ohio State immortal Archie Griffin probably would still own a pair and be grateful he didn’t have to compete against his father.
James W. Griffin Jr. worked three jobs to provide for his wife and eight children. He worked for Columbus City Sanitation, Ohio Malleable Steel Casting Co. and did janitorial work on the side.
He also was a full-time supporter of his kids’ athletic endeavors. That was anything but a job.
“One of the things I’ll always remember, and every time I say something about it it gets to me a little bit, his vacation would be to come watch us on Friday nights when we were in high school,” Archie said.
James Griffin would take one vacation day per week during the fall so he could be there for his seven sons, all of whom who went on to attend and graduate from college on football scholarships. The baby of the family, Krystal Griffin, parlayed a track scholarship into her diploma.
“It meant so much to me because I knew that every Friday night my dad was going to be in those stands even though he was supposed to be at work,” said Archie Griffin, who starred in high school for Columbus Eastmoor. “My father was certainly the biggest influence on me, mainly because of his work ethic.
“He’d get home from work at 1:30 in the morning and be back at work at 6 a.m. I’ve just never seen anybody work as hard as he would work.”
Ohio State coach Urban Meyer will address a banquet crowd Thursday in Columbus that will include young men ages 10 to 18 who weren’t lucky enough to have the kind of relationship Archie Griffin had with his dad.
“An Evening With Urban Meyer,” at the Villa Milano Banquet and Conference Center, is a fundraiser for Team Focus, an organization founded by Crestline natives Mike and Mickey Gottfried to mentor fatherless boys.
Archie Griffin had no shortage of male influences, from his dad to his older brothers to Eastmoor football coach Bob Stuart to iconic Ohio State coach Woody Hayes.
After Archie Griffin won his second Heisman, “Thanks Mrs. Griffin” bumper stickers could be seen on cars around central Ohio. Fans should have been thanking James Griffin, who in his own subtle way steered his son to the Buckeyes.
“I was leaning toward Northwestern and I remember my dad was taking me to the airport for my (recruiting) visit,” Archie Griffin said. “He just said: ‘You know, we’d like to be able to see you play.’
“He wasn’t telling me where to go to school, but I knew what that meant. I knew he wanted me to go to Ohio State. I knew if I stayed close it would give my mom and dad, the whole family, a better opportunity to see me play.”
At the time, two of his older brothers were playing at Louisville (Larry) and Kent State (Daryle). If both were playing at home, and one game was in the afternoon and the other at night, James and Margaret Griffin would drive to both.
“They might get to Louisville a little late, but they would be there,” Archie Griffin said. “That just told me it would be a lot easier on them if I stayed home.”
James Griffin was the son of a West Virginia coal miner. He also was an athlete, an honorable mention all-state football player as a 119-pound guard and featherweight boxer. After a stint in the service during World War II, he wound up in the coal mines. But the unstable nature of the business forced him to pack up his family and move to Columbus.
A couple years after their arrival, Archie Griffin was born at The Ohio State University Hospital on Aug. 21, 1954. You could say he was born to be a Buckeye.
But upon first meeting Woody, he wasn’t sure.
“I met him by myself at the Jai Alai Restaurant and I remember my father asking how my dinner went with him,” Archie Griffin said. “I told him: ‘I don’t think he really wants me to play football for him. All he really talked about was the importance of getting a good education. He didn’t say one thing to me about football.’ My father told me: ‘He’s probably more worried about you as a person, not just somebody who’s going to get out on the football field and score touchdowns for him.’
“And, in all honesty, I found that to be true.”
Entire article: https://www.newarkadvocate.com/stor...heismans-dont-trump-dads-three-jobs-/7568445/
Here's another older article worth reading:
From the Archives: Archie Griffin’s Superstar Family
A look back at the nation’s only two-time Heisman Trophy winner and his extraordinary family: eight athletic scholarships, eight college degrees, three NFL players—and two heroic parents
Entire article: https://www.columbusmonthly.com/sto...19/from-archives-archie-griffin-s/4403382007/
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Archie Griffin: ‘I still kind of get choked up’
The memories the two-time Heisman Trophy winner made within Ohio Stadium changed his life forever, he tells Aaron Marshall ’15 MA, a longtime aide and friend.
For a century now, Ohio Stadium has been a magical place.
On Saturdays each fall, Buckeye faithful flock there — from all corners of Ohio and beyond — to see opponents vanquished and legends born across 100 yards of impossibly green turf.
But for “townies” like me who grew up in the shadow of the Horseshoe, Ohio Stadium is more than just the home of our beloved Buckeyes. It’s a place that holds memories stretching far beyond fall Saturdays and an attraction in my neighborhood that everyone in the world knew.
As the notes of a trumpet player practicing echo off the walls, I sit talking with the man some consider the most famous townie of all — Archie Griffin ’76 — high in B Deck at midfield. The planet’s only two-time Heisman Trophy winner has his own collection of memories of the Horseshoe. Some you may know, others you don’t.
Long before he first donned No. 45, Archie’s first visits to the stadium were for track and field meets hosted by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department. He was there watching his older brothers and then representing Hamilton Avenue Park. But the real attraction was the living legend all of them were chasing.
“We remembered that Jesse Owens had run on that track,” Archie says. “Jesse Owens was a hero for what he had done in the Olympics and at the Big Ten meet in 1935. That was a big deal; we all wanted to run there, too.”
Archie found other reasons to make his way to the Horseshoe as a kid. He remembers playing pick-up basketball on hoops set up for residents of the Stadium Scholarship Dorm. And riding his bike down with friends on football Saturdays when he lived in Linden, a punt across the freeway from the University District.
“We would ride down to the stadium just to see what was going on and stand outside the gate and watch,” he says. “A couple of times Red Coats let us in so we could see parts of games. I would have been about 11, 12, 13 years old, and we would come down just to watch the festivities.”
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Entire article: https://alumnimagazine.osu.edu/stor...Du156dtpGf7iU8KqJdteuXdXGMhRqu9H6m6lrAyugKs7Y
The memories the two-time Heisman Trophy winner made within Ohio Stadium changed his life forever, he tells Aaron Marshall ’15 MA, a longtime aide and friend.
For a century now, Ohio Stadium has been a magical place.
On Saturdays each fall, Buckeye faithful flock there — from all corners of Ohio and beyond — to see opponents vanquished and legends born across 100 yards of impossibly green turf.
But for “townies” like me who grew up in the shadow of the Horseshoe, Ohio Stadium is more than just the home of our beloved Buckeyes. It’s a place that holds memories stretching far beyond fall Saturdays and an attraction in my neighborhood that everyone in the world knew.
As the notes of a trumpet player practicing echo off the walls, I sit talking with the man some consider the most famous townie of all — Archie Griffin ’76 — high in B Deck at midfield. The planet’s only two-time Heisman Trophy winner has his own collection of memories of the Horseshoe. Some you may know, others you don’t.
Long before he first donned No. 45, Archie’s first visits to the stadium were for track and field meets hosted by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department. He was there watching his older brothers and then representing Hamilton Avenue Park. But the real attraction was the living legend all of them were chasing.
“We remembered that Jesse Owens had run on that track,” Archie says. “Jesse Owens was a hero for what he had done in the Olympics and at the Big Ten meet in 1935. That was a big deal; we all wanted to run there, too.”
Archie found other reasons to make his way to the Horseshoe as a kid. He remembers playing pick-up basketball on hoops set up for residents of the Stadium Scholarship Dorm. And riding his bike down with friends on football Saturdays when he lived in Linden, a punt across the freeway from the University District.
“We would ride down to the stadium just to see what was going on and stand outside the gate and watch,” he says. “A couple of times Red Coats let us in so we could see parts of games. I would have been about 11, 12, 13 years old, and we would come down just to watch the festivities.”
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Entire article: https://alumnimagazine.osu.edu/stor...Du156dtpGf7iU8KqJdteuXdXGMhRqu9H6m6lrAyugKs7Y
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Archie Griffin: ‘I still kind of get choked up’
The memories the two-time Heisman Trophy winner made within Ohio Stadium changed his life forever, he tells Aaron Marshall ’15 MA, a longtime aide and friend.
For a century now, Ohio Stadium has been a magical place.
On Saturdays each fall, Buckeye faithful flock there — from all corners of Ohio and beyond — to see opponents vanquished and legends born across 100 yards of impossibly green turf.
But for “townies” like me who grew up in the shadow of the Horseshoe, Ohio Stadium is more than just the home of our beloved Buckeyes. It’s a place that holds memories stretching far beyond fall Saturdays and an attraction in my neighborhood that everyone in the world knew.
As the notes of a trumpet player practicing echo off the walls, I sit talking with the man some consider the most famous townie of all — Archie Griffin ’76 — high in B Deck at midfield. The planet’s only two-time Heisman Trophy winner has his own collection of memories of the Horseshoe. Some you may know, others you don’t.
Long before he first donned No. 45, Archie’s first visits to the stadium were for track and field meets hosted by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department. He was there watching his older brothers and then representing Hamilton Avenue Park. But the real attraction was the living legend all of them were chasing.
“We remembered that Jesse Owens had run on that track,” Archie says. “Jesse Owens was a hero for what he had done in the Olympics and at the Big Ten meet in 1935. That was a big deal; we all wanted to run there, too.”
Archie found other reasons to make his way to the Horseshoe as a kid. He remembers playing pick-up basketball on hoops set up for residents of the Stadium Scholarship Dorm. And riding his bike down with friends on football Saturdays when he lived in Linden, a punt across the freeway from the University District.
“We would ride down to the stadium just to see what was going on and stand outside the gate and watch,” he says. “A couple of times Red Coats let us in so we could see parts of games. I would have been about 11, 12, 13 years old, and we would come down just to watch the festivities.”
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Entire article: https://alumnimagazine.osu.edu/stor...Du156dtpGf7iU8KqJdteuXdXGMhRqu9H6m6lrAyugKs7Y
that pic of Archie is freaking FIRE
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scarletngray
Gold Pants
Simply. The. Best.
Think about it: 31 straight games rushing for 100 or more yards.
Think about it: 31 straight games rushing for 100 or more yards.
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If there is a better human being I desperately want to meet them. Epitome of Class and Honor.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
There have been many fantastic running backs to wear the scarlet and gray in the half-century since Archie stepped on campus — Dobbins, Eddie George, Ezekiel Elliott, Keith Byars, Tim Spencer, etc. — but it is hard to imagine anyone ever having the impact both on and off the field that Archie Griffin has had, a true game-changer in every imaginable way.
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