osu vs penn state

ok, so we watched this televised match-up yesterday afternoon.....if for no better reason than it was played in osu's famed horseshoe stadium.....and because the spectacle reminded me so of home,of ohio, of my dad......even the cheesey half-time college promotional ad brought tears to my eyes...as the current student narratpr gushes with pride that osu was the only school he applied to because he could only be a buckeye......cut to the narrator as the tuba player in the band....the guy who gets to dot the 'i' in script ohio.......but i digress from the actual game......whereupon the rain came down in sheets and the wind played havoc on the set plays......and poor joe paterno had a bout of stomach flu and had to trot off the field twice.......nothing worse than a camera trained upon you as you duck into the bathroom......osu did not play brilliantly, i am so sorry to admit.....mostly they won because penn state played poorly.......but somehow the actual field stats never take center stage at an osu game......the pageantry and the tradition cane make up for a lackluster performance.....and i will remember how sweet it was to watch the game and think about my dad rather than the 28 to 6 final score.....