Gosh I must be showing my age. Being an old lineman in the trenches, I go to the game to hear the pads pop and watch things unfold in where it's close combat. Are the holes there? Is the backside guard pulling? Who's getting double teamed? How long before that pocket collapsed. Did the tight end get down field or stay to protect?

At the Marshall game I had a seat at the 40-yard line, south half, 8 rows up in AA. Best seat in the house to see all this you think? WRONG!

Guess I'm just old school.

First ten minutes of the first quarter people were still streaming into their seats. I don't know if they were late getting off work, stuck in traffic parking, or just out in the parking lots drinking. In any case they were anywhere but in their seats. I ask you now, what true Buckeye wouldn't want to be in there when that Alumni Band makes the ramp entrance? In any case, first quarter, all I could see when the teams were at the north end was a continuous stream of people going down the aisle.

Of course they had no sooner got in, than out they all went for food or drink or to drain their booze they had consumed outside. Another steady stream. (No pun intended!) Up and down the aisle. I saw a good half of a game, when play was on the south end of the field that is.

Then there were three college age gals sitting in front of me. They were on their iPhones All Night Long.. The girl in front of me sent a text or browsed Facebook between every single play! The entire game! Every single play. At one point I leaned forward to see what was so dang important. She was into some pretty intelligent text conversation! "Where u at" "Whadda u doing". I wanted so badly to lean forward and ask, "Honey, why did you waste $75 on a ticket?"

But the best one was the couple sitting next to me. The gray haired guy was in maybe his late 40's or early 50's. The gal beside me, who was with him, couldn't have been much over 25. The entire game she was all over him like an ant on a sugar daddy, and well they couldn't clap either because their hands were otherwise occupied!

Like I said, maybe it's me. Maybe I'm just showing my age. But I always thought you went to see a football game! Guess that was just in the olden days.

As I sat in the Horseshoe that evening I thought back to the interviews I did with Coach Tressel in his office this summer. In a lengthy passage he gave me for my other book, Coach spoke these words, "..what I notice right now with young people, is one of the biggest challenges that they have in this crazy world we live in, is that they are highly distracted."

That Coach, he's a smart guy.