“Plan on 3 hours,” Terry, one of my storytellers told me. “Yea, right”, I thought.

I was on my way to see a gentleman that “had a lot of Buckeye Memorabilia in his basement.” Terry had put me in touch with him. I walked into the gentleman’s basement promptly at 3:30. When I walked out later I looked at my watch....it was 6:30 on the mark. “Damn, Terry was right”, I thought.

In between, I was treated to the greatest display of Buckeye memories this fan has every seen assembled in one place.

There may well be bigger collections, but I have not been to them. Every square inch of this 20 x 30 room was crammed with buttons, pictures, pennants, programs, footballs and more. There were maybe 150 signed photographs, numerous footballs including one signed by every OSU Heisman winner, pennants signed by tailgaters from around the country, and I would guess a thousand buttons from more than 50 years. A second room included videotapes of all the games from roughly 1980 on, 4 file cabinets of OSU programs (home and away) and other things too numerous to describe.

And every item had a story. Who was this fellow and what were the stories? Well now, you will have to read the book to find that out won’t you.

I have said before and I will say it again. I am meeting the most fascinating, interesting, and loyal Buckeye fans. You all are great! What a ride this is.