I was driving through Toledo last Sunday and I heard a funny story on a sports talk radio show that includes, of all people, former Toledo mayor Carty Finkbeiner.
Anyway, it seems Lee Corso once used to "coach" at the "University" of Indiana.
One day, Ohio State came to town, so there were a lot of people in the stadium for once, wearing red (and scarlet), (but I digress....)
The Buckeyes hit the field for warm ups. They stretched, ran drills, all of that. The mighty Hoosiers, however, never hit the field for drills. In fact, no one ever saw a Hoosier. They made no dramatic entrance. Nothing. A few kids came out for the toss, but that was about it.
Well, it was getting on toward game time, and the refs would have told the teams to line up, but there was only one team to be told anything. So, Ohio State started lining up for a kick return. There was still no sign of a Hoosier.
Well, just as the referees were getting ready to throw a flag on the play, a freakin bus pulls onto the field -- right onto the field. And out come the Hoosiers -- eleven of them, all suited up and ready to kick the ball off. That segment of the crowd that wasn't wearing scarlet was going nuts. They were cheering, hootin' and hollerin'.
So the Hooisers kicked off...
.... and the Buckeyes ran it all the way back for a touchdown -- the first of many that day.
That was a long time ago.
Anyway, its 11:11 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2003, and Lee Corso is still an idiot.
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