When I put this concept together to pitch to OSU, I wrote a draft forward for the book as I saw it at that time. In that piece, one of the passages spoke of the tentacles of Ohio Stadium. Little did I know then how long those would actually end up being.

Saturday afternoon those tentacles took me to Southern California, La Jolla, to be exact (only via telephone, unfortunately!). I visited with a gentleman who had one of those "you would die for" experiences this fall in the Horseshoe. The man never went to Ohio State, in fact he actually played D-I football for one of those "Southern Schools". But he is a loyal Buckeye through and through, and I hope can do justice to telling his version of what it means to be a Buckeye and the unique Stadium experience he shared with me on Saturday.