Comments on: Drive-Thru: Holy Buckeye

By: Jonas Mcmillan

Jonas Mcmillan — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:26:00 +0000

THAT SHIT WAS SO DAMN CLASSIC!!!!!!!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:18:46 +0000

I was a sophomore living on Lane Avenue; the night before the game, I nearly drank myself to death, went unconscious and vomited all night long. I didn’t remember any of that when I woke up the next afternoon, and I was confused as to how I had ended up in my room. I stumbled to my window and looked out onto Lane Avenue and realized it was already well into the afternoon. Then, all of the sudden, I heard a low, dull, reverberating roar rise up from the off-campus area. I didn’t know it at the time, but Krenzel had just connected to Jenkins on Holy Buckeye, and every Buckeye was celebrating at once.

Really, a magical season that I don’t think will ever be replicated in terms of its nail-biters and sheer surprises. Was a privilege to be there while it went down.

By: Vico

Vico — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:56:21 +0000

Oh my goodness, I forgot about A&M and Oklahoma being that same day. Kyle Field was electric that day, and so was my little dorm room, cheering for the Aggies.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:37:13 +0000

I was at my now in-laws’ house in Cincinnati. They are not huge OSU fans (like most of Cincinnati), and so I’m sure that they thought I was crazy when I ran around their house screaming after the Holy Buckeye play. They still let me marry their daughter.

By: Ramzy

Ramzy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:45:27 +0000

Was in a tux on a day when I had not one but *two* in-season weddings that day, watching in-between ceremonies. Thought that the day could not get any worse, and then fourth and one happened. That play is my own personal Zapruder film. I’ve watched the mpeg no fewer than 500 times, no exaggeration.

Nickey should do Gamble’s yardwork for the rest of his life for saving his ass on the following drive.

By: MikeLew

MikeLew — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:53:46 +0000

I was a senior in high school, and I was a sports playing nerd…..football, baseball, and quiz bowl. Anyways, we hosted a quiz bowl tournament that day, so after we finished cleaning up, we had the TVs that were in the room tuned to ABC so we could catch the last 5 minutes of the games, picking up the antenna feed. So, watching as the image moved around the screen and static flickered across the screen, there were maybe 20 people watching in a classroom, and we all went crazy.

By: Gabby Jay

Gabby Jay — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:16:06 +0000

We were second, behind Oklahoma and ahead of Miami. Texas and Wazzu were after the Hurricanes with Wazzu being responsible for putting us up at no. 2. One-loss Georgia, then annual losers to Florida in the game formerly known as the World’s Largest Cocktail Party, was no. 6. http://ourhonordefend.com/images/bcs_standings_2002_purdue.png

I remember watching it from my apartment and going nuts. Since college football is regional down here, there’s a lot of Georgia fans here in Alabama. More than a few of them told me that play made them so sick to their stomachs that they threw up when it happened. They were watching the noontime kickoff in hopes that the Buckeyes would eventually lose and hopefully (for them at least) open up Georgia’s road to the Fiesta Bowl. Nooooope .

What a great day for college football, indeed, America.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:02:05 +0000

BTW – I thought we were 3rd in the BCS that week, and that night was when Reggie McNeal put on a show and A@M beat Oklahoma. But I digress.

I was also a college forsh, and went with my buddy to his uncle’s house in Bexley, and watched it with a few of his uncles friends. When Krenzel let it go, we all stood, in unison, completely silent. When Jenkins scored, we all yelled as loud as he could. One guy pulled the d-bag move and said “wait, there’s a flag”. My buddy tackled him violently.

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:50:05 +0000

This was the year after I graduated. It was also the first game I took my now-wife too. I watched it with friends from the student section and just collapsed screaming NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! when he made the catch.

I hated that season for Purdue. We led the Big Ten in both offense and defense, but lost 6 games by 22 points total. My wife, a Miami alum, got burned a few months later.

Good luck this weekend.

By: bup bup bup

bup bup bup — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:50:26 +0000

i was actually listening to the end of the game on the radio. all i heard when that last throw went up was “…and krenzel lets it go… AAAAAFHGHDGFHUSDFHAIUSHIAUSDOIAOSJNFAISNDJLI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!1!!!!1″ and it sounded more angry than anything so for about a minute i didn’t know what the hell had happened