"...here, surrounded by the swirl of humanity in the heart of downtown in the Windy City, just beyond the shadow of the Sears Tower and a short walk from Navy Pier or the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, you can't elude the aura of Ohio State football. 'It is all around you, and it is everywhere,' Buckeyes linebacker James Laurinaitis said yesterday..."
So writes Matt Markey in today's Toledo Blade, one of the better articles I have seen describing the aura of Ohio State Football and the coming season. Read it at:
It's everywhere. Would it be everywhere if Thomas French hadn't had a vision for the biggest concrete stadium west of the Alleghenies....if Howard Dwight Smith hadn't designed a Horseshoe where everyone could see and that would stand for 86 years? Would it be everywhere if Bill Knepper and Elvin Donaldson hadn't developed the ramp entrance, if Eugene Weigel hadn't perfected Script Ohio? What if Paul Brown would have stayed at Massillon, or Woody in Oxford, instead of coming to the 'Shoe. Would everywhere be nowhere if Woody Hayes and Ohio Stadium hadn't given opportunities to African American athletes in the early 50's, when other colleges wouldn't do that?
Yes, it is everywhere, and I am having fun chronicling the role Ohio Stadium has played making our Buckeyes the everywhere phenomenon.