Ohio State – 27
other school – 9
It feels damn good to be a Buckeye tonight 😁
As I look – and smile – at these next 364 days as officially Ohio State being better than the other school, I have to stop and wonder what people like myself must have been thinking the same time as me here, just past 2AM in the morning, but on the game dates of November of 1919 or 1929….
1955…1963…
1979…
I think about how crazy it is that the annual tradition went that far back. Both sides of the fanbase literally had generations invested in this game.
What a strange and beautiful…but bittersweet moment of time this is. Here’s the linked page to the historical scores – you can look and see what the result of the annual game was during important years of your family’s lineage. Like, we know holidays: we strongly feel both the present and the pull of the past. But it’s so rare that anything else can elicit the same sense of time within the strict confines of something that happens annually. I guess it’s the people’s way of tethering themselves against the winds of time. Keeping a connection between parent and child, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. It’s something everyone has in common regardless of what side of the rivalry they were on.
I was going to see if we had won the game 100 years ago on this month (1925), but we got shut out 10-0. Blegh!
But at least we won the year this song was recorded (1937), the final score was 21-0 – belt to a$$, if you know the expression lol. As you can tell, I think alot about time, its passing and how we view it through our eyes and heart. And music is a key part of these thoughts, especially the melody and lyrics of this iconic American song.
Again, what a bittersweet and beautiful journey through time. Even through this vast passage of it up to this afternoon’s contest, people still experience the same emotions – happiness, sadness, love, loss….and it’ll continue, just like how 100 years ago on this night, a person still awake like me would have no concept of the internet or mirror selfies…but would know that next November…they would be rooting for one team or another…
Being that this song is from 1937, I wonder if Ohio State wins the 2037 contest. Heck, I wonder if I’ll even be alive. If you look at the life span of someone whose birth year is comparable to yours but in the last century, you’d see that we all start to hit that passing away filter roughly now.
Was that weird? I’m sorry.
Hurray for the Buckeyes! lol 😁
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