I’m going to start this thing where it begins, I can’t thank my parents enough for making me a Buckeye. Unmistakable, from consciousness, (red). Let me get this soccer bit out of the way about how I came to be a Manchester United fan (red), and why Xichigan (blue), or Manchester City (blue) makes perfect sense: solidarity for the right thing. We, as a family, are Buckeyes and let me tell you the story.

One love of Ohio State for me started in 1983 when my parents were married on the day of, ‘The Game.’ I don’t think a score mattered in their mind that day. However, it did to the friends with radios in the congregation. I am assuming that was the only day the church was available, because who could put themselves above, ‘The Game.’ Let alone god? (Who would be a Buckeye) Those wonderful people were Ed and Donna.

Those wonderful people helped put me through college at an Ohio state school, The University of Toledo, who had the pleasure of skewering that team up north while I was a Junior. 13-10 Toledo Rockets at the big house in Ann Arbor, I can’t emphasize this enough: Fuck Xichigan! I took the navy blue paint I got to polish up our basement bar and painted the score above my Xichigan fan roommates door. Fuck Xichigan!

Not only will this year feature top 3 ranking for both teams yet again, but you get to see Marvin Harrison Jr. play football. I don’t really care about the Heisman trophy, as a lifelong Cleveland Browns fan I know that Brady Quinn was once up for the award, and that greatly diminishes it for me. However, if the award means the best player in college football and Maserati Marvin doesn’t win it, give Reggie Bush back his and I never want to hear about the award again.

I lost my grandmother this week and I’m not watching the game with my best friend because we are celebrating my parents 40th on the day of the game, so this one will mean more to me and I’ll never forget it. Grandma Marie is responsible for mothering 4 Ohio State alumni and this year is for her. I don’t have a score, but my prediction is this Buckeye cohort smears the cheating maze and blue all over the field on Saturday. O-H-I-O.