Well, let's see....I'm a soon to be OSU grad who has a pretty extreme OSU Athletics addiction. In my time at Ohio State I spent 4 years as a part of The Best Damn Band In The Land, as well as a few years in the Athletic Band.
Favs
Sports Moment
Favorite moment that I was a part of:
First off, I'm an avid bowler....In high school, in our first varsity match of my senior season I rolled a 300 game; at the time, the second of my career. Later that night in his league, my dad also shot a 300 game (his 12th). The rush of that 12th strike is equal to just about any sports moment out there, and for my father and I to share that experience in the same day is just an amazing moment in my life.
Favorite moment as a fan:
I'm not even sure where to start....I'm going to start with attending the 2002 national championship game. I was a sophomore in high school at the time, and my grandparents sent my parents and I to Tempe as a Christmas present. The word "surreal" is about as overused as you can get in the sports world but that entire week from the hotel, (we shared an 800 room hotel with about 750 rooms full of Buckeye fans) to the tailgates, and of course one of the most intense football games in the history of the sport, that experience was an absolute dream.
For number two, I'm going to go with the 1998 Ohio State v M*ch*g*n game. I was sitting at a Hubbard HS football game the Friday before "The Game" and all of a sudden my mother said we needed to get going...we had to pack, because we had just been offered tickets to the Ohio State/scUM game the next day at noon and needless to say, we accepted the offer. We sat in the old Erector Set South Stands and watched John Cooper record his only home win against that team up north.....great day
My final sports moment, easily is the 2005 football game against Michigan State. The game itself wasn't anything special, but in the band that day was a rookie flugelhorn player marching in his first game as a regular in the OSUMB. It was homecoming, there was a post game "Script Ohio" and the halftime show was a collection of classic Disney tunes....oh, and that rookie...was me
- College Football Player: John Simon
- College Basketball Player: Aaron Craft
- NFL Team: Oakland Raiders
- NHL Team: CBJ b/c they're local
- NBA Team: Cleveland Cavaliers (same reason as above)
- MLB Team: Cleveland Indians
- Soccer Team: N/A
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