I have received many Stadium Romance stories during this project. Saturday I witnessed one.

We were in the shoulder-to-shoulder mass of Buckeyes between St John Arena and The Horseshoe right after the Skull Session let out. Barely able to move, Jenny, Don, Theresa and I were fighting our way north, against the flow, trying to make it to the Stadium Cake. As we wormed closer, I began to hear the familiar sound of the OSU Band Trumpets (... or should this tone-deaf writer have said E-flat Cornets, or maybe Flugelhorns?). Soon we came up a dozen OSU Trumpeters, or Corneters, or Flugelers, in a semi-circle, playing a tune I had heard but couldn't quite place. It obviously wasn't of the Drink To Old OHIO genre.

A WBNS cameraman was filming them from various angles. Cool we thought. As we walked behind the musicians, fortunately we resisted the urge to do the "Hi Mom, look at your son behaving stupidly on TV" embarrassment. Because, as we rounded them, I realized they were filming more than the musicians. In the middle of the circle, tight in embrace, were a young man and a young lady with a shiny new diamond on her finger and a Channel 10 sideline reporter with microphone was saying into the camera SHE SAID YES! As it dawned on me that they were playing one of the wedding marches, we all simultaneously realized what we had just witnessed.

The audience then cheered them and passed out the congratulatory handshakes to the lucky couple. I didn't get their names, but of course ever the huckster, yours truly did manage to slip the groom-to-be my business card. Maybe he will read this and contact me, so we can tell you in Stories of the 'Shoe how he pulled off proposing on television, in a mass of 25,000 Buckeye fans! The lucky bride is marrying an ingenious guy.

All my best to this Buckeye couple!