"Where's (Expletive)?" he shouted right in my ear. "Where's (Expletive)?"

It was 2005 and Curt and I were seated in Michigan Stadium surrounded by Maize and Blue. The ushers there had first seated us in the wrong section. The folks in that area were nice and polite and we were exchanging some good-natured bantering between them and the two Buckeyes decked out in their Scarlet and Gray. Then the ushers discovered they had seated us in the wrong seats, and moved us over a whole different section.

Our new seats were in front of a guy in Blue who kept leaning forward and screaming in my ear, "Where's (Expletive), Where's (Expletive)?" I won't print the Expletive, but it starts with A and rhymes with pole. Use your imagination. I kept wondering, what's this guy talking about?

After about 20 minutes of this, Brutus Buckeye appeared on the field. "There he is. There he is!" the guy shouted when he appeared. "There's (Expletive)!" The rest of the game the "where is" changed to "there he is". If I heard it once, I heard it a thousand times, and just tried to ignore the fellow.

That is, until Troy Smith threw the winning touchdown at the end of the game. The officials hadn't even spotted the ball for the extra point and I turned around to give that guy a big Buckeye smile. I was already in his rear view mirror, as he was by then, 30 rows up the aisle and already heading out of the stadium.

Counting that game, today's win makes it five in a row since that day, including 3 in a row now in their house. It has been more than 2190 days since we have lost to those folks and Tress is 8-1 against them.

As I savored the win today and watched on TV the Buckeye's celebrating in the Big House to the tune of California Here We Come, I couldn't help but think of that guy. And, I wondered to myself, "Where's that (Expletive) today and what is he thinking?"