Ohio State vs Purdue

Another good weekend...friends stopped by our Hineygate room (Dan, Ralph, Mike, Paul, Jeff and Dave), we walked over and watched the players enter St. Johns for Skull Session, and I was able to spend the second half in a loge...great day.

The Buckeyes onto the field...

...the famous Script Ohio...and 105,000 clapping in unison.

Mike got us into the loge...what a great experience...

....AND...the Buckeyes won... barely and not impressively...but they won.

"Go Bucks"

43-0 vs Youngstown State

Well, the "Buckeye Four" started off another season by getting a room at Hineygate and experiencing a 43-0 victory over YSU.

We had several visitors to the room including, John Savage and his son-in-law, Bryan and Pam Kloss, Jim Morabito in from California, Mike Porinchak, Joe's sister Tammy as well as several other Youngstown friends.

How about a parmesan chicken wing (left over from the previous night) at 8:00 in the morning?

For the game we had awesome seats in Section 23, row 8. A view from our seats...

...and our first look at Terrell Pryor (wow, he looked confident and smooth!!!)

"Where AMAZING Happens"

Awesome video...says it nicely..in 1 1/2 minutes!!!!

Jersey Scrimmage - April 12, 2008

Today Pete and I went to the Jersey Scrimmage at the Ohio State Stadium. Some 150 of us, due to our affiliation with coachtressel.com, were invited to attend this special scrimmage.

We learned that today's scrimmage was an idea initiated by Coach Tressel. The scrimmage pits the offense against the defense. A special scoring technique awards the offense points for TD's, 1st and 10's, plays over 20 yards and field goals. The defense obtains points for forcing a punt, recovering a fumble, interceptions, tackles for a loss, sacks and stopping a 4th down.

The winners of the scrimmage have the bragging rights and are permitted to wear the scarlet practice jerseys the remainder of the pre season.

Following the scrimmage, we went to Rooster's for wings, hot dogs and a salad, provided to us by coachtressel.com. We also had the opportunity there to meet and hear from 2002 quarterback Craig Krenzel and Dionte Johnson, last years fullback.

After having lunch and participating in a raffle of some OSU memorabilia, several players came in to Roosters for lunch.

The following pictures show how cordial these players were when Pete and I asked if we could take some pictures with them. A great group of guys!! We really appreciated their willingness to talk with us and to take the pictures. They truly represent the the Ohio State University in a very exemplary manner.

Here is the whole group of players as they take a minute to let us take their pictures ...


How about the size of these two players...Cameron Heyward 6'6", 287 lb. (DE) and Doug Worthington 6'6", 276 lb. (DT).





Click here for Columbus Dispatch article about the scrimmage.

"Stories of the Shoe"

While Pete and I were at the Jersey Scrimmage at the stadium today, we met a gentleman by the name of Steve Davis. He shared with us that he is writing a book titled, Stories of the Shoe – Generations Remember Ohio Stadium. What a neat project. He explained to us how the project began and how he is going about gathering the information for his book. I would encourage you to visit his website at www.storiesoftheshoe.com (a link is here on the right)to learn more about his exciting project, or to submit some material for possible inclusion in the book.

Good luck Steve.

Indianapolis and Big Ten Tournament

This weekend "the guys" drove 5 1/2 hours to Indianapolis for the Big Ten basketball tournament (OK, actually, George did ALL of the driving). We drove in Thursday night and stayed at Park Place, about 3 miles from the downtown area.
On Friday we saw Wisconsin vs. Michigan, Ohio State vs. Michigan State, Purdue vs. Illinois and Indiana vs. Minnesota.
Saturday we watched Wisconsin defeat Michigan State by 2 and Illinois beat Minnesota by four points. The championship game between Wisconsin and Illinois was on Sunday, although we did not stay to see it. All of the games were held at the Conseco Fieldhouse. The fieldhouse is a very impressive facility.
On Saturday, we also spent two hours in the morning having a tour of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. We all really enjoyed the tour of the facilities.
The following are some pictures from the weekend.

We were impressed by the Conseco Fieldhouse from the moment we entered the facility.



Although our seats were high in the fieldhouse, the view was still great.



At one point we were able to "work our way down" and we sat in row 2 behind the press for a half of one of the games.




We watched the Buckeyes play. While exciting to watch, they were outplayed by Michigan State and lost by five points.




On Saturday morning, we drove to the Indianapolis Speedway and took the two hour tour of the racetrack. We were able to get out at the start/finish line (at the line of bricks), we toured the media area, the timing room and the winners circle. It was a very enjoyable and impressive tour.



Here the guys do an "O - H - I - O" as we sat at the Speedway's Winner's Interview Room !!!




On Saturday night, following the two games, we toured some of the breweries in the area...we went to the Rock Bottom, Alcatraz and a few other establishments.







Each of us received one of these from Linda...Thanks, Linda.
They proved to be very useful warning devices...even in the car on the ride home!!


What a surprise....another successful trip for the "Buckeye Four" !!!