The end of "Ohio"?
Okay, I'll be that guy...
Is this the end of "Ohio" and "Beat Ohio"?
I suspect not, at least from the football program officialdom. They've drawn that line; I don't really expect them to back down.
But for common usage among fans? The ones that don't happen to be going to a Brady Hoke luncheon speech that day? What will any fan-on-the-street be thinking, when saying "Beat Ohio!" Will it be, "D'oh! That first-round tourney loss to a 13-seed?"
Is this the trashtalk-equivalent of Appalachian State? How long before Beilein and Brandon get a rematch with The Ohio University Bobcats?
March 16th, 2012 at 11:26 PM ^
March 16th, 2012 at 11:54 PM ^
Beat Ohio
BEAT OHIO
The end of Ohio? HELL YEAH.
The end of "Ohio"? Not so much.
I guess now referring to the Cbus school will go as such:
ohio, not that Ohio
March 17th, 2012 at 11:22 AM ^
You've got it backwards; don't insult the Bobcats. They are "not that ohio!"
March 17th, 2012 at 12:29 AM ^
surely will end well...not
The only guy on here who is still not sold on Hoke and points out every mistake he makes is trying to rally the fanbase on something. I love how delicious this irony is.
March 16th, 2012 at 11:27 PM ^
Tonight's game will be forgotten sooner than you think.
No.
Because basketball. End of story.
March 16th, 2012 at 11:27 PM ^
lost to ohio university not ohio
March 16th, 2012 at 11:28 PM ^
Prepare to get negged to Bolivia.
March 16th, 2012 at 11:29 PM ^
And no. Hell no!
March 16th, 2012 at 11:30 PM ^
We lost to the Bobcats. The real Ohio has no idea what they're in for the next few years.
Wait, which "real" Ohio?
March 16th, 2012 at 11:31 PM ^
Just stop.
You know which 'Ohio' the football team refers to; the Ohio College of Performing Bears
March 16th, 2012 at 11:48 PM ^
I thought it was Southwest Akron Technological School for the Morally Impaired.
March 16th, 2012 at 11:39 PM ^
March 16th, 2012 at 11:43 PM ^
Every football game when their band does the script Ohio which is probably their most iconic thing.
March 16th, 2012 at 11:47 PM ^
I did remember to tell him about Carmen Ohio and the OH-IO cheer though.
March 16th, 2012 at 11:49 PM ^
I felt dirty too, but my pride was at risk. Thanks, man.
March 16th, 2012 at 11:46 PM ^
What I never understood is if it was the guy at the very front who was the out of place "o". I mean, he's 15 yards ahead of everyone else, maybe he just got excited.
March 17th, 2012 at 10:44 AM ^
SEC Speed
they think of their team as o-o-h-i
you meet someone from that state and they say oohi and I say g-o-o-d-b-y-e
March 16th, 2012 at 11:56 PM ^
•Their gold pants charms are engraved with the word Ohio, not OSU.
•Their cheerleaders run onto the field waving O, H, I, and O flags.
•Look at any old track photo of Jesse Owens. What does it say across his chest? Not Ohio State or OSU, just Ohio.
March 17th, 2012 at 12:27 AM ^
and the posters above and below me for the additional examples. He shut up after I kept giving him the examples. He did admit to hating Ohio, although he also admitted to hating Michigan.
March 17th, 2012 at 12:06 AM ^
Anyone got any other examples of Ohio St. calling themselves Ohio? Currently arguing with a ND fan about it.
Oh, there are lots of those. You can have lots of fun with our friends from Columbus on that one. The scoreboards in Ohio Stadium used to say, "OHIO" and "VIS."
That was not a happy day!
There is the BDBITL:
Although the other side of the drum (or is it other drums?) have "State" on them.
There is a fine selection of t-shirts:
Including your choice for tomorrow, St. Patrick's day:
March 17th, 2012 at 10:15 AM ^
the green ohio in old E font is the bobcats.
March 17th, 2012 at 11:37 AM ^
...except that green is associated with St. Patrick's Day and that shirt is for sale at ElevenWarriors.com. But it's a shirt that could certainly do double duty in the state of Ohio.
March 17th, 2012 at 12:27 AM ^
but if you can find any old radio broadcast you'll hear them refer to "Ohio" all the time. "The ball is on the Ohio 43 yard line, 2nd and 7...." Look for the Snow Bowl videos on youtube--I know there were examples on there. I haven't listened to their broadcasts much since the 70s but they were still doing it then....
They got the letters right, just not in the right order.
Still good enough to be admitted to school in Columbus, right?
March 17th, 2012 at 12:42 AM ^
over the use of Ohio a few years ago, claiming it violated Ohio U's trademark or copyright (I can't remember which). Long story short, Ohio State cannot call itself Ohio.
March 17th, 2012 at 12:49 AM ^
My family's been having this really big fight; can I crash at your place for the weekend?
Should sue on the gay Ohio arm pose too. Until I see five other coolerpoopers spell out "State" next to their gayer version of YMCA Ohio, I laugh at any Bobcat or Buckeye who bangs Hoke or any of us up for calling Meyer's school Ohio.
March 16th, 2012 at 11:43 PM ^
March 16th, 2012 at 11:43 PM ^
No.
They'll probably bring it up over and over again leading up to the game, but after we beat 'em in the horseshoe, they'll have nothing to say.
March 16th, 2012 at 11:47 PM ^
March 16th, 2012 at 11:49 PM ^
A lot of Ohio University students are OHIO fans. So much so that they won't go to Ohio U. football games because of it. I felt the brunt of that today since I also went to Ohio University and was inundated with 'beatohio?' texts, posts, tweets. Anyways ... BEATOHIO
March 16th, 2012 at 11:43 PM ^
How long are you going to have this passive-aggressive attitude towards Hoke? I get that you loved Rodriguez but honestly, at some point you have to let it go.
March 16th, 2012 at 11:53 PM ^
If I could buy you a beer, I would.