I hope Steve Heise was there to bear witness.
Friday, September 09, 2005
Ohio 16, Pitt 10
In a game at Peden Stadium in gorgeous Athens, Ohio, in the first overtime of tonight's ESPN2 game, the Bobcats of Ohio University snared an interception and returned it for a score to defeat the defending Big East co-champs and Dave Wannstadt's moustache. Three of the six dcatters rejoiced. One of the remaining three, based at NAMBLA's western Ohio headquarters (some call it Miami of Ohio), scowled. The two Brits sat confused, mispronounced crude references to female genitalia, wondered if Becks was going to die his hair chartreuse, and asked themselves what sort of empire loses to the provinces (in this case Northern Ireland) 1-0 in a World Cup qualifying match.
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Read all about it! To the house! Ohio stuns Pittsburgh in overtime
The atmosphere they describe doesn't sound famliar. How come this never happened when I was there?
Before the game, Ohio gave away 10,000 pairs of thunder sticks, 10,000 rally towels and 2,000 T-shirts, commemorating Solich's debut. A Peden Stadium-record crowd of 24,535 slapped the sticks and waved the towels while the Bobcats were introduced to pregame fireworks.
Oh wait, this is why. This sounds familiar.
The Bobcats hadn't been on national television since 1969. In the last 35 years, they've had 29 losing seasons, spawning a local tradition. Students go to games, watch the band at halftime, then leave en masse.
He said "thundersticks"
There was a short period when I was there, during the Jim Grobe renaissance, when OU had a couple of decent teams and even had a streak of sellouts or near sellouts. OU was in danger of losing its DI status because they were not even coming close to the 17,000 (I think) average attendance the NCAA required. This was after the streak when OU was alwaqys rated as the worst football program in DI. But obviously last night took it to another level.
That said, I'd bet that Virginia Tech will cover next week, even if I'll be rooting for the Bobcats.
UTPB does not even have a football team (so like all schools without one we can buy "UTPB Football t-shirts" that remind us all that we are "still undefeated.") so I miss the whole spectacle of it all. We are an interesting nexus pooint for college football, but the dominant rooting interests are Texas Tech, UT, and A&M, with fans of the many other area programs (area writ large, as some of the places with fan bases here are 5,6,7,8 hours away, yet still in Texas) also having a presence.
dcat
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