Gale and I attended the Ohio State-Toledo game at Cleveland Browns Stadium. It was a joke of a game as the Buckeyes rolled to a win. Geez, Toledo had 3 first downs and 8 rushing yards at the half.

Of course, the off-the-field stuff keeps your interest.

I got down there about 8:00 this morning and got a great spot on Saint Clair, across from Mall C. Every other spot where I usually park was taken. East 6th from Euclid to Lakeside was already jammed. Even Vincent was full. Lots of scarlet and gray-clad people already up and about that early.

This was a home game for Toledo. You would not have known that from the crowd. But the P.A. was all Toledo. They used the Browns locker room and bench. The commercials were all ads for the University of Toledo. The third down defense gong was for Toledo, which the guys behind us kept remarking about how it was wrong. Some people just don't get it.

We had the Worst Flyover Ever at that start. The Toledo band had finished the National Anthem a clear 4 minutes before the jets showed up. Scaring the beejeezus out of everyone.




















My seats were on the aisle, one section over from my Browns seats, a few rows closer. The bad: Too many people going out back, blocking your view. Plus, a drunk fell on me. You never get that in the middle of a row.

I was surprised at how young the crowd was. As usual, it was treated as another reason to drink. Not many even cared about the game. That may have something to do with the opponent being Toledo, but attention was turned elsewhere rather quickly in this one.




















The OSU Band, of course, played my favorite song at halftime. I did not participate. But I love Script Ohio and they did two of them. Did you know the song they play, Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse, is also used for graduations at West Point?

One more thing. A very attractive girl in a short skirt, sat in the row in front of us. At Browns Stadium, there is a portal to the section with two stairwells surrounding the portal where they combine into one set of steps all the way to the top. Basically one entrance to two different sections. We were in Row 2 above the portal, with her third seat in the row in front of us directly in front of the stairwell. We noticed she was becoming very popular. The reason? She was going commando, so every guy walking up the stairs got a view of her Brutus Buckeye. I did not see that in my list of fees of TicketMaster, but to place her in that seat in that section was a gift to many, it seemed.

As I said, the most interesting stuff sometimes occurs off the field.

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