If you're going to visit Baltimore, be sureto pay your respects to the king.
As had been rumored, Ohio State will return the home-and-home with Navy at a neutral field, M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, to start the 2014 season.
The game, a home contest for the Midshipmen from nearby Annapolis, is the latest move by the NFL's Baltimore Ravens to bring high-profile sporting events to the 71,000-seat stadium. Buckeyes fans have a history of traveling in big numbers, with as many as 30,000 heading to road games, Ravens executives say.
FedEx Field, actually five miles closer to the Academy, was also considered per Navy's AD, but if they're counting on OSU to travel 30,000 on a good day, finding another 70,000 fans of the Middies to fill the 100k seat stadium was probably a longshot.
The last time the Buckeyes opened the season outside of the Horseshoe was in 1999 when they were thumped by a reemerging Miami1 in East Rutherford as part of the Kickoff Classic. Still, outside of facing a chop-blocking crew in week one, the game has some upside: Labor Day weekend will present travel options, we're doing our patriotic duty by boosting Navy's gate receipts and the outing should help, even if just a little, with recruiting in the mid Atlantic.
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Baltimore? I think my car just got broken into.
1st - Fedex field is not 5 miles away from the naval academy...try about 15-20...
2nd- Its a good move because that area has a ton of talent that for the last few years has been avoided by the staff (okay Lamar doesn't count)...
3rd- If you guys go, check out the Annapolis- Naval academy...its absolutely beautiful area as well as DC-Nova after the game...
4th- Not gonna lie, Bmore is pretty aggressive but downtown is safe and the inner harbor is beautiful as well.....Omar does not help sell tickets lmaooooooo
Word, I live just outside of B-more now. Though I guess the game will be 4 years from now...
Either way, my dad is a navy grad (and lives an hour from baltimore) and I an OSU alum so I think we can make this happen. We just might not get along that day if it ends up being like the last game.
"FedEx Field, actually five miles closer to the Academy"
As in five miles closer to the Academy than M&T Bank Stadium (25 vs. 30).
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When do tickets go on sale?
"A man must have a code." Jim "Omar" Tressel
Is that Delonte West or Omar?
Count me in as one of the 30,000.
BEAT NAVY
woo hoo! I live in the DC area so it'll be great to see my alma mater in my, kind of, back yard. I've never seen a game in Raven's stadium, but I'm guessing anything's better than FedEX field, that place is a horrible horrible stadium (with lots of horrible football taking place inside).
Also, queue the jokes about Charm City and crime.. I must say, there are bad parts of Baltimore, but on the whole it's a decent city, nothing to worry about. Some of the most horrendous areas of the country (that I've driven through) are in Columbus... you wont see much worse than those areas.
oh and to ohsoglorious: I think what the post was trying to say is that FedEx field is 5 miles closer to Annapolis than Ravens stadium is. Not that it's a total of 5 miles away.
I wish we'd never play Navy again. Not that I have anything against them, I just cringe every time I see them dive at a DT's legs. Our guys were kind of dinged up after this year's game. I know that Tress is conservative and all that, and he'd bend over backwards to do something for a service academy, but I'd rather he do a USO tour than get our horses banged up on week 1.