Bob Hunter has a nice recruiting column today remembering the 1968 National Champions, and what Bob called, "the best football class Ohio State ever had." Of course that is the group Woody recruited in 1967, which went on to be nicknamed the Super Sophs, and win the National Championship. What a stroll down memory lane.

Bob was right about that group, and what a treat it was to remember the good old days. In the fall of 1968, I was a senior in high school. My cousin had gotten me a ticket to my very first Ohio State football game, which so happened to be the day high ranked Purdue came into Ohio Stadium and the Buckeyes sent Mark Phipps and I think Leroy Keys home with a steamless boiler and their tail between their legs. It was the start of a three-year dynasty and of course a run to a National Championship.

I can remember my first major league baseball game at Crosley field, and if I close my eyes, I can still see my first ever look at the 'Shoe as I walked up to the Rotunda that day.

The next fall was special, when I enrolled as a freshman at Ohio State. I would watch that team complete a three-year run of 27-2. What made it even cooler was that one of my high school teammates, Doug Adams, was a starting linebacker with that group. Doug would go on to be a second round pick in the NFL. Doug was two years ahead of me at our high school, and for 43 years, I have told people the story of how "I made him what he was by serving as cannon fodder for him on the scout team."

Actually, I should come clean. The truth is, he was so big, and I was so puny, that they wouldn't even let him hit me back then! But hey, what's a good story if you can't embellish it a bit. Where did the time go? Those were the days my friend, we though they'd never end, We'd sing and dance forever and a day...