BUCKEYES TO BROWNS
Mike Hall Jr. is selected 54th overall in the second round of the NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns.
Star Wars first came out in 1977, all of the tropes and story beats and iconic figures were completely unknown to the world. It's easy to take that for granted, especially if you're a big nerd in your early 30s and the lexicon of Jedis and the Force and lightsabers and whatnot have been a part of your DNA since you've been in diapers.
Anyway, it'd be cool if I could go back to that time before I knew every single second of the original trilogy backwards and forwards. I'm sure that's true for other people for a lot of things; the joy of discovery is what makes us go out and see new bands, or try new foods, or go ziplining over a pit of venomous alligators. Sure, it might suck, but it might also be really, really crazy and incredible.
The specific part of Star Wars that I was thinking about comes about a third of the way through the movie. The Empire has Princess Leia hostage and threatens to blow up her home planet of Alderaan. At that point a first time viewer may kind of roll their eyes at that, because no way would this goofy space opera blow up an entire planet. And then they freaking do it, and suddenly the stakes just got about two billion lives more serious.
That's what happened yesterday. You (and I, if we're being honest) thought that the Ohio State offense was a mere moon, lazily orbiting a minor planet in the middle of nowhere. Wrong! Barrett, Samuel, Weber, and company are a freaking Death Star with a weaponized laser capable of destroying entire MAC teams. That's no moon, that's 776 yards of offense and 77 points.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Top 25, as if thousands of Bowling Green fans cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
It was impressive and unexpected and the most fun I've had watching an early season Ohio State game against a crappy MAC team in probably forever. Let's see what the team and the rest of the internet thought about it. Let's start with the guys on the field and an enormous understatement.
THE PLAYERS
Buckeyes are 1-0
— Joe Burger (@jburgs37) September 3, 2016
Love being out there with my brothers
— Jamarco Jones (@jjones_74) September 3, 2016
Great team win today for my first game in the Shoe. Buckeyes are 1-0! pic.twitter.com/oq6sXbeONC
— Liam McCullough (@LiamMcCullough2) September 4, 2016
Very thankful. no where else but up from here .
— Dontre Wilson (@treydayy_) September 3, 2016
They finally got to see what we see everyday @MalikHooker23
— Johnnie L. Dixon III (@YoungKing_JD5) September 3, 2016
— Beeezy (@MarcusBaugh85) September 4, 2016
Good win Buckeyes
— Mike Weber (@mikeweberjr) September 3, 2016
THE ALUMNI
Ohio States offense was cheating today #tomanyweapons
— Mike Thomas (@Cantguardmike) September 3, 2016
So dirty! RT @11W: Malik Hooker out there making claims to every ball in the air. https://t.co/HSreLLlH0f
— Nick Vannett (@N_Vannett81) September 3, 2016
they grow up so fast. I see u Leek https://t.co/Ac1Au8c1Xc
— Tyvis Powell (@1Tyvis) September 3, 2016
Reakwon McMillan my favorite player based off name alone!!!
— James JJ Sullinger (@JJSullinger) September 3, 2016
THE MEDIA
The incomparable Script Ohio, only much, much larger. pic.twitter.com/5Z71JHOKzg
— Eric Seger (@EricSeger33) September 3, 2016
Curtis Samuel 177 rec yds the most by an #OhioState player since Santonio Holmes (224 vs Marshall) in 2004. #Buckeyes
— BTNStatsGuys (@BTNStatsGuys) September 3, 2016
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— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) September 3, 2016
GOOFY SELFIE OF THE WEEK
First gameday Saturday at Fox. I'm rubbing Homer's hair for good luck. I'll be down to a few stands soon myself. pic.twitter.com/bzOUfjTluk
— robert smith (@Robert26Smith) September 3, 2016
And that's it for this week, next up is Tulsa and we try to figure out what the hell a "golden hurricane" is supposed to be, especially given that Tulsa is in the middle of Oklahoma.
