I think I know what happened last night. The post "Saturday Rituals" by CCOLLINS0325 last week has me thinking about it. Last night I had to go to a party with my girlfriend and succumbed to her pleas to wear a regular shirt, which is totally against my ritual game habits. In order for the Buckeyes to win I have to 1. Be wearing my red OSU surgical scrub top 2. Be at my favorite watering hole 3. Be drinking Great Lakes Burning River Pale Ale. To my everlasting shame, I have to admit to my brothers & sisters in S & G that 1. I was wearing a red polo shirt (very scarlet, though) 2. At a party (all OSU fans). 3. Drinking Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (at least it was a tolerable ale). I believe that I may have almost cost us the game. I did, however, in a moment of resolute determination & increasing blood alcohol levels go out to my car & get the OSU scrub shirt at halftime, causing the Bucks to just squeak this one out. Now, considering that Indiana scored 49 points on us, I want to know if any of you ALSO broke your gameday rituals & helped contribute to this debacle. Come on now, come clean.... You forgive me, I forgive you.
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I caught a nasty cold on Thursday. Basically broke every game day ritual. I should have grown a pair and owned it yesterday. Instead I wussed out and spent the day on the coach. Sincere apologies Buckeye Nation.
An angry fan...rooting for an angry team...led by angry coaches
There you go, Cajun. Better already. (P.S. on the couch or on the coach?). Lol.
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
I was wearing the sugar bowl victory shirt. Because that game was vacated, so was the team's ability to play defense. Won't happen again. My bad
Fundamentals are a crutch for the talentless.
"Coach" is the wifes nick-name. Must be subliminal mesage! The correct word would be COUCH. Thanks for the catch BUCKEYEVET!
An angry fan...rooting for an angry team...led by angry coaches
Oh, hell, Cajun - that's even funnier than I thought. Too funny - you'll have to share that one with her.
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
Forgot my 2002 big ten champions hat.
I did answer my damn phone after kickoff... sorry & it wont happen again
O H I O is the Buckeye State
Not really a ritual, but I went home this weekend. Only other conference games that I watched from home since I became a student here are last year's Nebraska game and last year's M*chigan game. So. Bad luck.
I wouldn't cheer for Michigan if they were playing the Taliban.
I had my Buckeye in hand, was wearing a Buckeye shirt( no certain shirt required, just a Buckeye shirt), my flag was blowing in the breeze on the porch and the wifee was not sitting on the couch with me. Nope, didn't break any of my game day rituals, must have been all on you.
Last sentence was in jest.
I wasnt wearing a plain white t-shirt under my jersey. It was my old little league baseball shirt. Sorry guys it wont happen again.
I put all the blame on me. Though I wore all the usual attire, I wasnt in my chair, as I was stuck in traffic most of the night leaving the ND - Stanford game. A buddy got me a free ticket and I couldnt pass it up. Seriously a great game to be at and ND is an awesome place to watch a game.
Speaking of the ND game. I think Stanford got totally screwed on that goaline call.
In being there, I disagree. I have seen the replays and I see where you can make a point. But the whistle blew and the side judge was halfway to the play marking the line where his progress stopped when he made that second effort. It seemed very much like he was stuffed with my real, non-ND fan eyes.
Actually it looked closer on 3rd down from where we were sitting. ND is a good team in the opposite mold of our buckeyes. We completely rely on our QB while our defense stays interested long enough to hold it down, and they completely rely on thier D as thier QB just kinda hangs out.
I was wearing black socks... you know how this one ends...
/Duff'd It
And I wore my black OSU sweatshirt-not the lucky scarlet one. I somehow foolishly thought it really wouldn't make a difference. I was wrong, so wrong. Had I worn my usualy scarlet sweatshirt, we would have won 63-24. Forgive me.
What in the hell is wrong with your girlfriend? Doesn't she know what is at stake?
When I was a child, my mother was on the phone with some relative in Wales, and the Browns were playing in the last week of the regular season, at the end of the game. They were just lining up for a game winning field goal when my father asked my mother to please lower the volume of her voice a tiny bit. My mother said to her aunt or whoever "Can you wait just a second? It's the last play of the season for the Browns." My father's jaw dropped and after they missed the kick and the postseason, he blamed it on her for the rest of his life. It was pretty funny, but man those superstitions always seem true.
Oh the perils of being a Browns fan. Personally, I think anyone who follows the Browns has a secret masochist fetish.
I've been working 80 hour weeks all month. I spent most of Saturday in Cleveland working and then drove home to Cbus. I got home and had about an hour before the game started. Life caught up with me and I passed out in 4th, drifting off to slumber with the knowledge that we would comfortable win by more than two touchdowns. . . . . pretty sure the 4th quarter collapse was partially on me.
"Because the rules won't let you go for three." - Woody Hayes
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Confession: i got married Saturday. I did wear a gray sweater vest and red chucks, though it was clearly not enough. I planned this specifically for this weekend, thinking, "it's only Indiana, for God's sake!" Besides, here in the bucolic mountains of North Carolina, the Big Ten Network is just a rumor. I also thought that, though our linebackers often tackle like cheerleaders, and Christian Bryant plays like the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, Braxton and the boys could take care of business with little sweat. Sheesh! I promise this is the last time I am getting married. Are you reading this, Marjorie? Sweetheart?
I wasnt wearing either one of my jerseys and wasnt really into the first half due to working excessive hours on Saturday. I wont let that happen again.
“There are some people addicted to alcohol, some people are addicted to gambling,” Luginbill said. “Urban Meyer is addicted to football, and he’s addicted to winning.”
yea, it was a bad weekend. I missed my rituals.... I was at walmart with plenty of time to get home, and then the guy checking items out took a good twenty minutes to go through 3 people. I was rushing home, and then a bus tried to turn onto a narrow street, and the car in front of me was blocking its path because he stopped after the white strip at the light, so I missed that green light. I hurried into my apartment, threw my groceries on the ground, turned on the TV and come to find out I missed kickoff and the first play.... terrible start to the game. I am not doing anything from now on less than 2 hours before kickoff...
All I can say is this. Based on the confessions of those who have responded so far, I'm not so sure it was the players who were looking past the Hoosiers as much as the Buckeye Faithful. I hope you are all happy with yourselves.
Just an observation based on the results, nothing more, nothing less...
BUCKNUT-IN-THE-SOUTH gets my nomination for the most forgivable transgressions, because we are assuming that this will be the one and only time he has this excuse. P.S. Congratulations!
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
i was at a party saturday night as well...had to wear normal clothes..tried to put on buckeye socks in hopes it would make up for it...those socks have been retired for the year.
I agree that his transgression is forgiveable, although as an old married guy, I did make the connection that he is posting on a forum during what is normally called a 'Honeymoon'.
Not a wise choice for the young man and he has no idea what will happen if he gets caught.
I would say that Burning River is an excellent game day tradition. Or anyday tradition, for that matter.
Can't wait for the Christmas Ale to come out this year.
I wore pants. Never. Again.
I understand, BUCKEYEVET. Though I didn't break any rituals, my two friends that I watched the game with did. Can you believe they showed up at the bar wearing... BLUE SHIRTS!
Everything that went wrong was blamed on them.
- Long IU run - Damn Blue Shirts!
- Blocked punt - Damn Blue Shirts!
- Ref decisions - Damn Blue Shirts!
- Onside Kick - Damn Blue Shirts!
They promised to NEVER wear blue again to watch the game.
I was in post-wedding mode again, but without my bourbon, beer, and cigar-smoke-infused plaid shirt...even my tie was different. Really thought about throwing on my Homage OSU shirt, but figured I'd stick with my post-wedding-attire schtick again.
It's worth mentioning that our "rituals" didn't really fail us in the long run, either. We still won the game, we're still undefeated, and we're still bearing the standard of our conference.
I broke out the cursed jersey, that I had to put up after the 2007 Illinois game due to the bad mojo that it absorbed. I thought that enough time had passed and that I could wear it again. Never again. I was telling my wife the other night that I think I will have to burn it to get rid of the mojo.
@HODGE - I think it is a group effort. Enough of us stuck by our rituals to carry those that were unable to. But it was close... oh too close. As we live in the same town, I may have to send you some Bourbon to make sure you follow through next week.
I will own up to my comment from an earlier thread almost coming back to bite me:
"I think this team is capable of losing to anyone left on the schedule (well, maybe not Indiana)"
Sorry, folks.
We went out to a local bar with a friend and had plans to hit the town afterwards. I live in small town Wisconsin and didn't want to be "that obnoxious OSU fan" so I wore an Homage shirt and a new Buckeye hat instead of my normal gameday pieces - my usual lucky hat is nearly 10 years old and I thought it needed a break.
We still won, but that new hat is on probation. If Purdue is ugly like Indiana, I'll retire it for the season. Promise!
Clearly, it's Dayton's fault. Sir, you need to dispose of that Jersey!
@daytonbuckeye I think that would be like burnning an American flag... there has to be a place where we can take old/ bad mojo jersey's to be disposed of properly
O H I O is the Buckeye State
When an Amaerican flag is too worn for service burning it is the proper way of disposal. I'm sure there is a protocol for said burning. Just like there would be a protocol for burning a Buckeye jersey. Like Carmen Ohio playing in the background and your OSU flag at half staff. Things like that.
The biggest reason we almost lost is because I'm an asshole.
Shouldn't it lie in state for a respectful period so respects can be paid? Or do you think if you were to frame it the glass would contain the evil spirits?
@NORTHBROOK - Don't even know what that meant, but an up-vote was surely in order.
I too did not wear my usual clothes or do my usual rituals. Lesson learned.
Starting watching the game at my parents house and left during a commerical because we were down. Got home and we had the lead. Plus my boy went to sleep and so did my wife...one of them has to watch the game with me. Next time i will keep my 1 year old awake to watch the whole game.
I didn't do anything again...
I brought my wife to my buddies house to watch the game. She has no idea about football....my bad
Love her but man
I've been trying to think of a proper ceremony to dispose of it. Maybe I can hide it at my brother's house. He's a tsun fan along with my other brother. They must be adopted.
I've discovered that doing everything off of a strict senority standard works well. Example: there is a Buckeye game on the same day I'm invited to a wedding. Been going to Buckeye games longer than I've probably known said person, football wins. For an away game replace "going to" with "watching". I use this senority standard for 99% of the conflicts in my life. Probably the reason people don't invite me to much.
@ CCOLLINS0325 - Thanks for planting the seed that got this thread started. To everyone - I've had more than a few laughs reading about everyone's equally crazy rituals - thanks for contributing. We may have to do this again after any other near miss that shouldn't be a miss (or God forbid - loss). As far as the rituals go, I like the beer commercial showing everyones' weird "crucial point in a game tics" - with the tag line of "It's only weird when it doesn't work". That's us. P.S. Maybe at the end of each season we could have a ceremony to (respectfully) burn the OSU gear that has picked up bad mojo. Like DOC said - OSU flag at half mast, Carmen Ohio playing.
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
@CCOLLINS0325, all in good fun. I don't really think I'm an asshole. Well, not all the time.
I love threads like this. They can be fun and creative. Not the usual rehashed and recycled opinions.
I didn't pace around the room like we were getting destroyed after the first score, so I may also be to blame a little bit. I did pace quite a bit in the forth, helping us pull it out in the end.
Well since we're all getting stuff off of our chests, I usually do my laundry on Wednesday, but I was busy last week and had to do it on Thursday...I'm sorry Buckeye Nation.
I actually had to do the same thing Saturday night (except I did where my buckeye gear but I sure did break tradition by not watching the game from start to finish). My wife wanted to go to one of those lame a$$ haunted forest things (and yes it was lame). However, I ended missing the best part of the game and got home with 4 minutes left in the 3rd. Boy I wish I would have just stayed out with my wife's friends bc then I wouldn't have pulled an old coaching habit and watched game film. However this was the OSU game and I'm not getting paid to do that stuff. But I did see a lot of what many ppl aren't talking about and it was the defensive scheme that OSU is doing. Guess what...it sucks. Very basic and it's not just because Boren being in. It was easy coverage (Nickel cover 3 or Tampa 2 and only rushing 4 guys). That's all they did which would be why a freshman QB stepped right in and passed all over OSU just like the starter for IU did. Personally it was difficult to watch but it gave me a greater respect for Meyer and his patience. I would have fired Fickel and the entire staff today....but that's just me.
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."
"I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose."
Woody Hayes 1913 - 1987
I left my Block O hat out on the back porch overnight Fri.-Sat. & it got rained on (first transgression). I retrieved it first thing Sat. morning and wore it all day Sat. to give it a little extra love to right my wrong. Normaly put on my gameday homage shirt first thing Saturday morning, if not I wear my Block O hat until the shirt is being put on. Like I said I wore the hat all day, I never put on The Shirt (second transgression). And finally i'm married with 3 daughters, ages 5, 8, & 15. Ever since I've had the technology I've DVR'd the games because being the only male in a home with 4 females there is an occasional universe ending crisis that requires my skills to make something, fix something, or kill something (spiders). When setting the DVR Sat. morning I failed to add the 30 min. extention (thinking we'd be in victory formation most of the 4th. qtr.). So right after Devin's last score, while I was fixing something, the DVR stopped (third transgression) and so did our Defense.
Please forgive me...
Wow, what a bunch of screw-ups. We must have a really good team to overcome all that bad juju.
@CJKANSKI - 3 daughters & the wife around? No wonder you DVR (apologies to Pam & Sarah). If it's mine to give, you get absolution!
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
I'll admit, I'm guilty, too -- went off-the-board with Amstel Light instead of watching the game with the Captain...
"The revolution will be televised."
I'm guilty....I wiped my butt that morning!
Never again!
^ Dude, I'll give you an upvote if you promise to keep wiping. Seriously.
"The revolution will be televised."
Thought it would be a safe game to have my lucky boxers washed, didn't want to, but I had to my crotch was starting to itch.
Good player's make the play's they're suppose to, great player's make the play's they're NOT !!!
Look, we've got a chance to make things right on Saturday. How can we come on this site and talk about this team, when obviously are performance as fans was lackluster. I for one, will be working on my Fan Fundamentals this week in preparation. There's no doubt about the quality of Fan Talent that we have, the vast majority of us are five star fans. Let's get it together people, our team deserves a better effort. I hope my wife understands that the only reason I'm going to the bar after work is for practice! Go Bucks!!
An angry fan...rooting for an angry team...led by angry coaches
@ Dayton - I think we need to dispose of cursed OSU articles at the end of every year with a viking funeral either on Buckeye Lake or on the Olentangy. Everyone pile them onto a boat made from the wood of a 10 year old buckeye tree (10 years in honor of our most recent Heisman winner, #10 Troy Smith). Then we set it on fire at dusk. If we did it on Buckeye Lake it could coincide with the lake jump that occurs on the Thursday night before the M*ch*gan game.
"Because the rules won't let you go for three." - Woody Hayes
THE Ohio State University
I LOVE THIS POST BTW!!!
Neer, great idea if it is possible to do. Another future ritual that can go along with the jump in mirror lake. Discarding of cursed objects before The Game would be awesome. Not sure about the boat from a 10 year old buckeye tree.
How about a boat making contest using something like paper mache kind of like the parade floats, the winner will hold the cursed objects.
Fire marshall might have issue with this idea though.
FYI, Mr. fuzzy nuts doesn't wipe, why should I?
I watched the game at Children's Hospital, and I sure as he!! don't want that to happen again...
Glad to know I'm not the only sicko who thinks my gameday actions & clothing has a direct Butterfly Effect on OSU game outcomes...Saturday, when the score was 52-31, I figured it was in the bag...I took my lucky shirt off (11W Ft. Meyer) & put on a plain white T. Indiana immediately started scoring at will. My apologies, as it would seem that what I did along with all of our combined efforts made our defense check out of the game early (although dudes foot was out of bounds on that onside kick but I won't dwell...) & phone the last 10 minutes in. My sincere & humble apologies.
I have punished myself by repeatedly hitting myself in the testicles with a ball peen hammer...the claw end. I taught myself a valuable lesson, I have been a bad boy, it will not happen again.
The world is full of kings & queens who'll blind your eyes & steal your dreams - it's heaven & hell - Ronnie James Dio.
Poison, for some reason I get an image of 2 eggs frying in a pan with blood! OUCH!
^^^just kidding...I would never use the claw end!
The world is full of kings & queens who'll blind your eyes & steal your dreams - it's heaven & hell - Ronnie James Dio.
Well there is always those times where ya got an itch that needs a scratch. The claw end helps!