After the disappointing loss, with a bye week coming up, I looked forward to getting away and a break. Last week found me traveling for my day work. Tuesday evening I was 600 miles from home in Ottawa, Canada, the capital city of a foreign country. I was with some U. S. State Department and Canadian government officials, leaning into a stiff wind and blinding snow, as we passed the Canadian Parliament Building and entered an Irish Pub with a French speaking clientele. It was about as un-Columbus and un-Ohio as one could visualize.

As we stood in the foyer of the pub, and shook the snow off our coats, I happened to look up. What did I see, but a big screen TV, replaying at that very moment, in agonizingly slow motion, Terrelle Pryor's fumble against the Nittany Lions.

As I said in a post to start this season, "The Buckeyes Are Everywhere."