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Topic: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Topic: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

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shabamon
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The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/9/2017 8:23:51 PM

Yes, we need more light-hearted fun around here, so how about a confessional thread. Someone started one before the data loss. Go ahead and post your "sins" against Ohio University. Here goes for me:

-I once owned a Wally Szczerbiak Timberwolves jersey. Years before I knew what Ohio University was, I went to Miami's basketball camp. The NBA Draft was that week and I was genuinely sad when Devin Davis came by the next morning after not getting picked.

-I went to the 2004 homecoming game painfully hungover from the night before. At least I think I was there. I think I remember Omar Jacobs kicking our ass.

-Speaking of Bowling Green, I think Bowling Green has a better bar scene than Athens.

-I went on a fraternity trip to Windsor one fall Saturday and faked cheering for Ohio State, which we were able to convince the bartender at a nightclub to put on the TV.

C Money
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/9/2017 9:01:52 PM

I married a Miami grad who works at Marshall.

Ohio69
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 8:26:48 AM

My senior year of high school I wore a Miami tee shirt quite frequently.

Can somebody hit a pull up jumper for me?.....

OUBobcat13
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 8:32:10 AM

I have an overpriced piece of paper from that school in Oxford. It is hanging on my office wall. Fortunately, it is smaller than my OU diploma and fits perfectly behind said green and white piece of paper in the same frame.

Jeff McKinney
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 8:39:40 AM

I own a "Charlies Corner" t shirt.

Obc2
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 9:04:35 AM

As a freshman i snuck down from my Convo dorm room to the basketball court in the middle of the night. Several times. Unsober.

I was very critical of the final Springfest headliner selection the Marshall Tucker Band on the campus radio microphone.

I.had a microwave under my bed for two years on campus while keeping appearances up that i cooked in a hot pot. This led to a lifelong hatred of hot pots.

I have regret for not attending volleyball games as undergrad. Great sport.

OU_Country
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 9:19:21 AM

I started at OU as an Ohio State fan. By the time I left, on the other hand...

OUVan
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 10:49:41 AM

-- I grew up an Ohio State fan even though I had never lived in Ohio (my Dad is an alum of both tOSU and UC). It took me less than a month in Athens to get over that. All it took was two home football games after watching many in my dorm donning their scarlet and grey on Saturdays on staying in the TV lounge instead of trekking down to Peden.

-- My Mom was a Dukie so I don't hold the normal animosity towards their program that most do.

-- My brother and sister both hold undergraduate degrees from Fiami.

-- I drove from Athens to Columbus to see Air Supply. Yes, a girl was involved.

Pataskala
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 12:14:39 PM

I drive past O$U without barfing.

BTW, going to Homecoming painfully hungover isn't a sin; it may be expected.

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 1:22:19 PM

� I took a Geology of the National Parks course my junior year only because it met in Walter Hall on Wednesdays until 6 p.m. so that I could be at the Convo in time for weeknight games. It fulfilled no requirements. It advanced me towards a degree in almost no way. I have never used a single thing from that course since, except I now have the term Pleistocene Glaciation in my brain until the day I die.

� I missed our home game in 2003 against Minnesota to watch Ohio State-NC State. Within a few short weeks, I was an ex-Buckeye fan and wouldn't miss an Ohio home game in either basketball or football while I was in Athens after that.

� I've met a handful of people who post on this message board at various times throughout the last decade, but I didn't tell them who I was when I met them or that we'd interacted on a website in the past.

Last Edited: 5/10/2017 1:30:23 PM by .

greencat
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 1:59:05 PM

I went to see Gary Wright ("Dreamweaver") at Memorial Aud. even though almost everybody else tried to talk me out of going. What they missed was an obscure opening act called "Clover" (Huey Lewis + some eventual Doobie Bros. members!)

I hung out with Jeff and John, the townie party animals who lived above Swanky's (?) even though lots of students were afraid to even go up those stairs.

Also, I helped Jeff and John make a huge batch of "hairy buffalo grog" one new year's eve that had so much alcohol (and so many different types of booze) that a local townie biker girl drank maybe two dixie cups and was so drunk that she was stumbling around saying "who put acid in the grog?" **

I'm ancient enough to remember 3.2 and 6.
(practice saying it... "3-2 is bogus, man")

** Some of you are sugar-coating your confessions. There had to be others who have some sort of strange Halloween or spring riot tales to tell.

Last Edited: 5/10/2017 2:22:50 PM by greencat

Deciduous Forest Cat
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 2:15:12 PM

- I had my first uptown beer taken from me at the Greenery. I was not yet 18. After that, I hardly drank my freshman year.

- Once a staple of my diet, you couldn't pay me to drink a Natty Light now.

- I twice rooted for osu in my youth. Once when my penn state friends were annoying me by insisting they would easily go into columbus and win their first year in the big 11. And once against notre dame, because... notre dame.

- in times where I wasn't working for woub, I left some football games early.

Last Edited: 5/10/2017 2:16:05 PM by Deciduous Forest Cat

MedinaCat
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 2:21:50 PM

greencat wrote:

spring riot tales to tell.

Somewhere stashed away in my house is a knee-knocker from 1978.

I knew Purple Haze on a first name basis(Dawn) but never partook.

mid70sbobcat
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 2:56:40 PM

OUVan wrote:

I have 3 sisters with undergrad degrees from that school in Oxford.

And .... I did go there as a freshman but came down to Athens to see my brother, a sophomore. He showed me Court St. and I compared that to High St. in Oxford. I started planning my transfer shortly thereafter after researching academic areas of interest. And I got a 4th year in Athesn by getting an statesmanship to get an MS.

Mark Lembright '85
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 3:03:50 PM

1. allowed a child to attend a college other than Ohio University.

2. saw the Michael Stanley Band perform in MemAud in '84 or '85; he drew crickets, maybe 1,000 people, if that. Keep in mind, 3-4 years previously he sold out Blossom Music Center in NE Ohio for almost one week straight. I only went to the MemAud concert because I had a free ticket.

Last Edited: 5/10/2017 3:04:49 PM by Mark Lembright '85

bobcatsquared
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 3:16:33 PM

I did nothing to stop a buddy, celebrating his 21st birthday as a junior, drink one shot for every year of his life. This drinking spree resulted in said student, a frequent BA poster, going temporarily blind.

I did nothing one year later to stop another buddy, after a post-game Crazy Cat keg party in a Convo room, crawl across the catwalk above the Convo floor, climb down the ladder directly above center court, and help himself to the oversized Green and White Paw flag hanging high over the court. Was told during the Kent game in the Convo earlier this season that his will includes transferring ownership of the flag to me upon his death.

OUcats82
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 3:21:10 PM

Brian Smith wrote:

Took the same course, more out of curiosity or maybe to satisfy a science requirement? For me it is "Kaibab Limestone" that permanently resides in my hippocampus.

Forgive me green and white fathers as my sins are many:

-I once owned about two dozen different Miami items, ranging from hats, t-shirts, hockey pucks etc. My older sister is an alum and one year for Christmas bought me a Redskins garbage can. A part of me thought that maybe that would be appropriate to keep since they are full of trash ; ) Kind of like having toilet paper featuring the logo of your biggest rival.

Up until my senior year I was pretty set on going to Miami but then saw the light after my sister was complaining to my parents one day that she felt like a loser in her sorority because she was not driving a brand new European sedan.

Am I jerk or an entrepreneur? I sold the whole lot of Redchickens gear to a cousin who ended up going to Miami (for a fair price, I think).

-I am happily married to an Oxford Tech alum. She could care less about the rivalry and really just prefers that the Bobcats win so that I am in a better mood.

-I actually considered going to Marshall as they offered me a nice scholarship. Then I visited Huntington on an away football game Saturday (this was Pennington's final season) and thought this would be hell for four years.

-I actually enjoyed watching all of OSU's close call wins during their 2002 National Championship as my roommates were all big Bucknuts (one now works there). Even bought a copy of the Columbus Dispatch the day after the big win as a keepsake. After hanging on to it for years I recently gave it to a coworker who is a Buckeye fan as I felt like it brought bad Chi to my home. It was possibly kept at bay as my copy of The Post showcasing the 2002 win over North Carolina in Chapel Hill sat on top of it.

-During the Brian Knorr era (3 of of my 4 years as a student) I came up with lyrics to "Sit Down and Cry." Some of O'Shea's first basketball teams provided some chances to sing it as well.

Ohio-The State University

OU_Country
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 3:31:13 PM

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

- Once a staple of my diet, you couldn't pay me to drink a Natty Light now.

I still do on occasion and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

- in times where I wasn't working for woub, I left some football games early.

I still do sometimes.

mid70sbobcat
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 3:40:31 PM

Although I wasn't in Athens until the 70's after playing a pickup game in the Convo I found a program from the Opening Game played at the Convo. It was sitting in a shelf under an old pay phone on the perimeter of the Convo. The game was Indiana, 12/3/68. Apparently Homecoming 1968 they had Simon & Garfunkel playing to a capacity crowd in the Convo. Cost to build the Convo? $8.5 million. That year's schedule opened with Ohio State on the road, Indiana at home then mid-December at Purdue, at Illinois and at Northwestern. Then the Milwaukee Classic with Army, Wisconsin and Marquette at the end of December. Loyola of Chicago was a later February game. So we played 6 Big Ten teams that year!

OCF and a few others may recall many of the players and local merchants. Returning lettermen were Steve Battle, John Canine, Larry Coon, John Glancy, Greg McDivitt, Gerald McKee and Doug Parker. Craig Love was a 19 year old sophomore and his brother Scoot was later on the team when I was in school.

Lamborns, Mathews Service, Swearingen Sporting Goods, Belk Simpson, Page Chevy-Olds, Logan Federal, Keck Distributing, Altmans, Dwight Rutherford Insurance, Beckley's, Ambassador Laundries and of course Athens National Bank, Security Bank, Logan's, Hocking Valley Bank, Van Dyke's Buckeye Cafeteria, Athens Office Supply, Sportsman, Dolen's Drive Inn and The Tavern which I believe was the Greenery, Blue Gator and most recently Over Hang.

Junior year, while living in Irvine I had buddies out at Carriage Hill. After a night uptown at the CI and then back at their place I hustled home in my car at least slightly inebriated to West Green since I had an 8 o'clock. As I crossed the bridge doing close to 60 one of Athens finest was heading across the bridge towards the OU Inn. He made a very quick U-turn and sped up trying to nail me. I pulled into West Green and immediately turned in the James Hall garage, ran up to the green and saw the cop and an Ohio Security car head off in opposite directions slowly. I waited 10 minutes or so and headed off to my dorm with a higher than normal heart rate.

Last Edited: 5/10/2017 3:44:13 PM by mid70sbobcat

OUVan
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 3:57:15 PM

mid70sbobcat wrote:

Well played. My brother should have gone here. He was so much more the Athens type than the Oxford type. My sister fit right in out West however.

OUVan
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 4:05:08 PM

-- I worked as a delivery driver at Pizza Express to help pay for college. My confession is that I liked their pizza. The non-monetary tips were the greatest.

-- I also worked at Pizza House during my second and third Senior years :). My confession is that that was the nastiest pizza I have ever eaten and I apologize to anyone who I served it to.

Buckeye to Bobcat
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 4:06:24 PM

1. All three of my brothers went to Oxford.

2. Thought for a while that High Street in Oxford was one of the best places to get drunk in (of course helps as a hs senior to score there too)

3. First season tickets I ever bought were Michigan tickets (despite going to OSU)

4. I still have never eaten at Cutlers Restaurant in Athens, despite eating everywhere else in that town.

mid70sbobcat
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 5:33:42 PM

Buckeye to Bobcat wrote:

1. All three of my brothers went to Oxford.

2. Thought for a while that High Street in Oxford was one of the best places to get drunk in (of course helps as a hs senior to score there too)

Back in my days (70's) High Street in Oxford had 3 bars! Boars Head, The Purity and Al & Larry's.

And I will say student turnout at football & basketball back then was very good. Sadly, after golf practice in October 1971 I got to Miami Field to see the 2nd half of the Miami - Marshall game (the year after the plane crash). It ended up 66 - 6. Sherman Smith and Bob Hitchens were a big part of the offense with Bill Mallory as coach.

Kevin Finnegan
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 5:38:05 PM

I bought many drinks at the CI with a license that said "Nick Koutsoflakis". My name is not Nick Koutsoflakis.

I was asked to cover the OHIO-Minnesota game with Phil Truax for WOUB at the Metrodome in 2000. I made some lame excuse on why I couldn't go (think a girl was involved). OHIO won, haven't forgiven myself for missing it.

I wore a Dr. Evil costume for OHIO Halloween with a group wearing Austin Powers costumes. At the time, I hadn't even seen the movie. Couldn't do a single line while in costume. Just embarrassing.

greencat
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RE: The Bobcatattack confessional thread

Posted: 5/10/2017 6:07:43 PM

Want a really strange non-Athens one?

I got pulled over for jay-walking in Columbus once. Between two south campus area bars on High Street... between DeadEye Dick's and the Oar House maybe.

Yes, pulled over for jay-walking. The cop asked to see my driver's license and everything, like a regular traffic stop and then b!tched at me for not using the crosswalk. Then he let me go and went to go hassle more other college kids.

(Turns out lots of pedestrians had been getting hit by cars in Columbus back then and the cops were tired of it.)

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