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The Greatest Snow Games In Ohio State Football History · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeye tomorrow morning from Monday, January twenty sixth
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  Speaker 1: Th'm your host, Tom or the ball state game in
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty two days, the game against Michigan
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  Speaker 1: All Right, so, if you are anywhere around Ohio, you
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  Speaker 1: know what the news of the day is and it
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  Speaker 1: does not involve football. It does, however, involve snow. So
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  Speaker 1: hopefully you guys are staying warm and bundled up inside
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  Speaker 1: and enjoying enjoying the winter weather, the winter wonderland that
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  Speaker 1: is hitting Ohio right now. That made me think maybe
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  Speaker 1: this would be a great time to go back and
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  Speaker 1: revisit some great snow games in Ohio state history. One
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  Speaker 1: pretty darn recent that we will probably be talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in our buddy, Tony gerdaman Afucky Huddle dot Com. Tony.
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  Speaker 1: While I was basically courageously out there in the most
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  Speaker 1: recent Ohio state snow game, Tony as a like a
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  Speaker 1: Howard up in the press box in an arbor, Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: but did come down outside to do the postgame show.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna give him partial credit for that, which
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  Speaker 1: is that's about as good as we're gonna as it
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  Speaker 1: generally gets for him around here. Tony, I guess we
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  Speaker 1: should start there because that's the one that everyone is
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  Speaker 1: going to think of favorite memories of the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five Ohio State Michigan game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's one of the best mascot acts that
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  Speaker 2: we've seen, with Brutus putting the X through the M
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  Speaker 2: and doing the scrypt Ohio that kudos to him for
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  Speaker 2: coming up with that and doing that. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: something that will live on forever and you'll always see that.
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  Speaker 2: I do remember doing the postgame. You wanted to go outside.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, ain't no way, We're going all the way outside.
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  Speaker 2: We tried to do it from the tunnel, got melting snow,
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  Speaker 2: dripping on us, dripping on equipment. Not ideal conditions. But
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  Speaker 2: it's a fun way to watch a game. And you
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  Speaker 2: you photographer people people, you're always like you want the
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  Speaker 2: glamor and like you want the credit for being out there.
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  Speaker 2: But you're all the same. You love the you love
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  Speaker 2: the photos with the snow in there, so it's not
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  Speaker 2: like you're doing anything for anybody else. It's all self gratifications,
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  Speaker 2: like who look at this photo with the snow. Isn't
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  Speaker 2: this grand? Isn't this amazing? Isn't this lovely? That's why
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  Speaker 2: you're out there. It's not about anything else other than yourself.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't want to hear it. I'm upstairs for
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  Speaker 2: the people. I'm there for everybody. I'm there for the game,
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  Speaker 2: for the athletes, for the fans, for the history of it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not here for myself. I'm nowhere for myself other
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  Speaker 2: than right here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was no doubt those were great photos. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for the credit on that. I do appreciate that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is. That's one of those things where it just
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  Speaker 1: it feels like now that you don't have brass fields
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  Speaker 1: where you get a real mud bowl, going snow is
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  Speaker 1: at the best. Ohio State Michigan. It feels like the
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  Speaker 1: gray Skies is kind of a given virtually every year.
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  Speaker 1: So esthetically, yeah, you've got the gray Skuys, sure, but
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  Speaker 1: the snow really kind of caps off what the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State Michigan game has sort of traditionally meant. Twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: one was another snow game up in ann Arbor. That
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  Speaker 1: one did not go as well for the Buckeyes. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, though, man it I just remember walking out
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  Speaker 1: of there thinking, if Ryan Day could have drawn up
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  Speaker 1: a way for this game to go to sort of
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  Speaker 1: you know, check all the boxes of yes, you won,
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  Speaker 1: Yes you won decisively, Yes you won in their house.
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  Speaker 1: Yes it was a dominating win in their house. But
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  Speaker 1: also you won by just sort of stepping on their
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  Speaker 1: faces as on their way and on the way into
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  Speaker 1: the end zone. That was about as about as as
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  Speaker 1: dominating or as well as Ryan Day could have drawn
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  Speaker 1: that one up. How did things go after that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: better for Ryan Day than for the guy on the
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  Speaker 1: other sideline, I think we can say that. So there
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  Speaker 1: you go. So that is the most recent snow game.
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  Speaker 1: We do need to talk about the most famous snow
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  Speaker 1: game in Ohio state history, the Snow Bowl. And I
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  Speaker 1: went back and pulled up something from the Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: Library website on the nineteen fifty snow Bowl. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going to read a little bit of it because I
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  Speaker 1: can't do much better than this the alumni magazine Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State University Monthly quote the game was played in the
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  Speaker 1: teeth of a full scale blizzard, five inches of snow
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  Speaker 1: on the ground and snow whistling through the air, born
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  Speaker 1: on a twenty nine mile per hour gale. Despite the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it was the worst blizzard in thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: years in Columbus, the Ohio capital easily defended its title
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  Speaker 1: as the football craziest town in the nation. A total
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  Speaker 1: of fifty five hundred and three persons brave the elements,
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  Speaker 1: staying below deck under the stadium until just a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes before kickoff, and then the library website continues to say,
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  Speaker 1: because of the large crowd and the mess, it would
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  Speaker 1: have created a refund the tickets. Ohio State Athletic director
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  Speaker 1: Dick Larkins, after conferring with both Michigan and Big Ten officials,
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  Speaker 1: decided to play the game. Can't refund those tickets, Tony.
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  Speaker 1: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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  Speaker 1: It goes on to say, the game had bearing on
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  Speaker 1: who would win the conference and go to the Rose Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: and had the game not been played on Markin's order,
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten title would have been given to Ohio
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  Speaker 1: state by default. Ohio State officials felt they would never
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  Speaker 1: been able to live that down had that happened. Michigan
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  Speaker 1: ended up winning that game nine to three. The only
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  Speaker 1: touchdown in that game came on a blocked punt Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State punter Vic jenwith OHI Heisman winner vic Jenwits kicked
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  Speaker 1: a field goal. At one point they scored first They
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  Speaker 1: were punting on first down at various times just to
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  Speaker 1: get the ball because it was like, I don't want this,
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  Speaker 1: you you deal with this? Really a complete mess? Man.
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  Speaker 1: Every time I read about that game, I think that
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  Speaker 1: would be one of the most fun games. Like a
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  Speaker 1: just total disaster, an absolute spectacle of a disaster. But man,
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  Speaker 1: would that be a fun game to cover?
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  Speaker 2: I mean history, right, And I was. I was googling
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  Speaker 2: it just a little bit ago, googling a nineteen fifty
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  Speaker 2: snowball box score and one of the first links that
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  Speaker 2: goes to the National Weather Service because they did us
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  Speaker 2: that they have a thing about it, Like, well, that
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  Speaker 2: makes sense. But Michigan never got a first down over
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  Speaker 2: nine on passes, punted twenty four times like vic Januits
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  Speaker 2: punted for six hundred and eighty five yards in this game.
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  Speaker 2: Michigan's punter for seven hundred and twenty three yards and
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  Speaker 2: it's not like they're getting a bunch of yards per punt,
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  Speaker 2: not that you would expect to, but yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just to experience it. Maybe I believe that game is
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  Speaker 2: now on like YouTube or at the Michigan in their
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  Speaker 2: vault of games. Maybe we should at some point, maybe
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  Speaker 2: the spring this summer, do a watch along of the Snowball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that that was not exactly a not exactly a
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal game aesthetically, but man, we went and did a
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  Speaker 1: store a show sometime last year on the most unbreakable
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  Speaker 1: records in Ohio state football history, and I left all
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  Speaker 1: these punting records out because I think he I think
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  Speaker 1: Jenwitz punted something like twenty one times in that game.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting like half that many possessions at this point,
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  Speaker 1: and they punt twenty one times in a game. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that one probably not can be broken anytime soon. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why you're criticizing the equality of the punting,
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  Speaker 1: but you got to remember, not only were the conditions bad,
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  Speaker 1: these were also not Australians doing the punting, so you
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  Speaker 1: got to take that all into account. Speaking of Michigan
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  Speaker 1: playing in terrible weather conditions and extremely gross games. On
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  Speaker 1: November eleventh, nineteen ninety five, the Michigan Wolverines defeated the
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  Speaker 1: Purdue boiler Makers five nothing on an extremely crappy northern
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  Speaker 1: Midwest Saturday. Why am I mentioning that well because of
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  Speaker 1: what happened in Columbus, Ohio on that Saturday, November eleventh,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. I was still in high school, but
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  Speaker 1: you were there, and it turned into if I say
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  Speaker 1: the number three hundred and fourteen to you, Tony, what
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  Speaker 1: does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? That's that's all I remember from that game is
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  Speaker 2: Eddie George running the ball and for three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fourteen yards, setting the school record. And I think one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that I don't know if people remember
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  Speaker 2: or people young youngins today don't understand, is Illinois was
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State's number two rival. At this point, Illinois is
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  Speaker 2: beating up on Ohio State. Illinois was claiming ownership of
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  Speaker 2: Ohio Stadium, and so there was a lot going into
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  Speaker 2: this game. I think they played back to back years
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  Speaker 2: in Ohio Stadium. In ninety four, Illinois came in and
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  Speaker 2: beat Ohio State and predicted that they were going to
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  Speaker 2: beat Ohio State, and then this being my sophomore year,
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  Speaker 2: everybody's geared up for it. So I don't remember the weather.
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  Speaker 2: And then you look at the information on the box
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  Speaker 2: score and it's kickoff temperature of thirty seven degrees at
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  Speaker 2: three point thirty wins northwest of fifteen to twenty miles
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  Speaker 2: an hour. It's overcast with rain and snow. It starts
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  Speaker 2: out at rain, turns the snow. You know you've got
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  Speaker 2: all in there. I don't remember any of that. I
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  Speaker 2: just remember watching Eddie George run all over these dudes
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  Speaker 2: that were talking so much trash forty one to three win,
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  Speaker 2: and basically it was like this cathartic thing. And also
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  Speaker 2: that was locking up the Heisman at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Also, Yeah, and that was That was two games that
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  Speaker 1: year where Ohio State played the same opponent in the
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  Speaker 1: same stadium as the previous year, where they had lost
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four and then won in nineteen ninety five.
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  Speaker 1: They lost twenty four to ten to Illinois in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety four at home, and then won forty one three
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  Speaker 1: at home in nineteen eighty ninety five. In nineteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 1: they traveled two Penn State and lost sixty three fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to remember Eddie George got hurt in
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  Speaker 1: night game, so basically you got to put a big
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  Speaker 1: asterisk on that one, and then they had to go
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  Speaker 1: back to Penn State in nineteen ninety five. This was
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  Speaker 1: apparently before the Big Ten's best anti Penn State conspiracy,
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  Speaker 1: and they ended up winning that one twenty eight twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: So the last one I wanted to mention, and this
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  Speaker 1: is one of these games that is extraordinarily forgettable for
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  Speaker 1: every reason except for one the snow and to the
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  Speaker 1: way it ended. The nineteen ninety seven Ohio State Illinois game.
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  Speaker 1: I had student tickets up in se deck that year
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  Speaker 1: and you could not see the hospital because it was
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  Speaker 1: snowing so hard in the second half. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was one of those things where it didn't you know,
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  Speaker 1: the snow picked up later, but it was a really,
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  Speaker 1: really heavy snow. And this was one of these never
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  Speaker 1: plays a bet kids games where Ohio State was something
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  Speaker 1: like a thirty eight point favorite and was up forty
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  Speaker 1: one to nothing in the final moments of the game
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  Speaker 1: when a walk on backup quarterback fumbled the ball and
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  Speaker 1: Illinois scooped it up and ran it back for a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown in a now then forty one to six game
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  Speaker 1: which probably goes down as one of the all time
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  Speaker 1: bad beats in Ohio state football gambling history, but also
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  Speaker 1: a extremely snowy game, probably the snowiest game I've ever
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  Speaker 1: seen in Ohio Stadium. So there you go. Hopefully you
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  Speaker 1: guys are enjoyed that one during what is a very
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  Speaker 1: snowy day in Columbus, Ohio and around the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: That just means you have more time to check out
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  Speaker 1: a lot to keep you, keep you company, keep you
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  Speaker 1: occupied during the day today as you uh as you
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  Speaker 1: try and stay inside and stay warm. Good luck everyone,
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  Speaker 1: We're all counting on you. Thank you guys for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: I'll talk to you guys later.