Ohio State Football 2K8 Week Four: Holy Crap, More Trojans!?

Ryan Staab by Analyst Written on September 18, 2008
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Bad Todd was at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum last Saturday. Rumor has it that he murdered Good Todd and threw the body in a crate which currently sits at the bottom of the Olentangy River underneath the Lane Avenue Bridge.

There's been a lot of blame going around from everyone in the media and blogging communities. I say we get it out of the way and place blame on the following people for Ohio State's "Craptastic at the Coliseum" performance against the USC Trojans:

1. Jim Tressel
2. Jim Bollman
3. Jim Heacock
4. Gene Smith
5. The Ohio State University Marching Band*
6. Art Schlicter
7. Todd "I don't like when Ohio State has possession of the football" Boeckman
8. John Cooper
9. Maurice Clarett
10. Brutus Buckeye
11. Bo Schembechler's Ghost
12. The residents of the City of Cincinnati Ohio
13. Mark May and Trev Alberts
14. Andy Geiger
15. Mother Theresa (although I don't really know why?)

*Other than the loss, the second-biggest disappointment for Buckeye fans at the game was the fact that the marching band didn't show up. I too was hoping to see "Script Ohio" in the Coliseum (being a former band geek myself) but was quite surprised at the amount of irritation and animosity coming from fans when they found out the band wasn't in Los Angeles.
Probably didn't help that upon entering the Buckeye Bash rally at Exposition Park, fans were given kazoos and told by the Ohio State Alumni Association that "We [the fans] had to take the place of the band" since the real one couldn't be there.

On the other hand, I'd like to give a huge shout out to the USC faithful. I'd grown to hate USC because of the amount of smugness and arrogance I'd encountered from their fan base in Orange County after living there for five years. Maybe it’s because I was raised in the Midwest, and say what you will about Ohio State fans, but I know very few of us who are smug (and really, we have no reason to be at this time).

My opinion of USC fans was proven wrong in the ten hours I spent on campus last Saturday, especially after the game. I ran into one jackass fan before the game (and this was after walking around the Coliseum and on campus for several hours), but nobody was verbally harassing me about the loss after the game (and I'd be a pretty easy target: A fat guy wearing a scarlet jersey and a buckeye necklace), and most commented on Pryor and his potential.

Speaking of my time in Los Angeles last weekend, I took photos of the game with my new camera.

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