I am preparing to start the gauntlet Wednesday in the 2010 version of Trolling For Stories- 27 Hours in the Life of A Shoe Salesman (See the samples tab!)

This year's edition will start when I arrive Wednesday afternoon for the Best Damn Band In The Land Alumni Band practice session. I hope to hook up with the cheerleaders group a wee bit Wednesday evening. Thursday morning it is off to do some editing on my other project with the former assistant coach, back to the alumni band luncheon, circling the stadium several times Wednesday afternoon (Did you know it's .54 miles once around?) and then into my seat at midfield 8 rows up in AA. What a place to watch the quadruple Script Ohio.

In doing my gumshoe work, I found there are 665 band alumni registered. The one I want to talk to though, is C. Clark Hammitt! You see C. Clark will be marching with his snare drum, the same as he did when he marched as a college freshman in 1935! By my math, that makes 75 years of Ohio State Football memories!!!!! Can you imagine what that man has seen! The first script Ohio, Fessler, Tippie Dye. Gold pants. Horvath, Janowicz, Hop. Bill Willis. There would be Paul Brown and Woody. The '68 team. Archie. Eddie. Troy. Earle, Cooper, and Tressel. Would that you and I experience all of that, and at 93, give or take a year or so, still be marching to the beat of Drive, Drive on down the field....

You Go Clark!