Quick YouTube-related question
As many of you know, I have a steadily-growing archive of YouTube videos from glory days of the distant past (as in: pre-Tressel, which most current Buckeye fans seem to forget). The goal is to catch WolverineHistorian in total number of videos (currently 146 to 79, but I’m gaining on him). Is it petty and obsessive? Yes, but that objective is unmistakeably Buckeye… and, yes, unmistakeably me. Beat Michigan: here, there and anywhere.
I’m going to catch him, too. You’re on notice, WolverineHistorian.
I still have lots of good stuff to upload in the foreseeable future, but the question popped into my mind regarding whether or not there’d be an interest among Buckeye fans for me uploading YouTubes of Buckeye highlights from games that we lost through the 80s and the 90s. Presently, I only stick to the games that we won, because watching full games like this is akin to watching chick flicks. In the end, the guy always gets the girl and the Buckeye always win, and everyone lives happily ever after, the end. I live in a depressing enough time and place to where I don’t need extra misery. Accordingly, I’ve turned down opportunities to acquire games like the 1995 and 1996 Citrus Bowls, the 1998 Sugar Bowl, the 1978 Sugar Bowl, the 1978 Gator Bowl, the 1980 and 1985 Rose Bowls, the 1977 Oklahoma game, the 1990 Liberty Bowl and a couple of tie games here and there (Indiana and LSU in the 80s and Michigan in 1992, for example).
That said, I’m questioning myself on whether or not there’d be an audience among the Buckeye fans to see the highlights of what were otherwise lowlights in Buckeye history. That is, the idea is to put together a few compilations of the Best of the Worst, for example. If I do that, would any Buckeye fan out there be interested? There’s a few drawbacks I already have in mind to why I’m inclined not to do it:
- Again, I want happy endings. I don’t want to watch one of Cooper’s famous late game meltdowns or big game preparation screwups because I live in a part of the United States that makes plenty angry and frustrated enough as it is.
- In a few of these games, I’m not even sure how many big plays the Buckeyes had that are worth watching, and thus would justify the effort. I know the 1980 Rose Bowl had some great play by the then-undefeated and no. 1 ranked Buckeyes, so too the 1977 Oklahoma game. However, that’s about it, for all I know. Elsewhere, the 1990 Liberty Bowl, for example, was less a bowl game, and more of a live abortion. Same goes for the 1978 Sugar Bowl.
- YouTube is a cesspool of what is otherwise a dimly-lit collection of misfiring neurons we gently call “humanity”, and the allure to YouTube for most, if not all, of these people is the provision of bright, moving pictures to captivate what is otherwise biological dross. Accordingly, I’m not sure if I’d be inviting trouble in the comments section if I do this, especially because my inbox gets spammed with every comment posted. The game winning drive from the 1997 Rose Bowl alone made me ban a few people from the comments section for just truly poor, hideous English. Given the nature of college football fandom these days (drunken, quasi-literate chestbeating compounded by easy access to a plethora of electronic media), I’m inclined to keep some of those nasty elements at bay by not giving them a topic for rambling.
That said, what say you? Interested? Not interested? Please let me know what you think.
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Vico, does WolverineHistorian know you are gunning for him?
No, and I can’t imagine he cares. To be honest, I’ve watched most of his videos (victories over Ohio State being the obvious exception). He’s a great resource for college football fans and, I have to admit, I’ve favorited his compilation of the 2000 Orange Bowl. That was a great game between two programs that I categorically abhor.
Indeed, one of the big reasons I’ve invested so much in putting stuff on YouTube is because Ohio State fans had no equivalent to WolverineHistorian.
That said, he does represent Michigan and so, yes, I must beat him in the YouTube equivalent of an arms race. Those are the rules. May he tremble in fear that I’m going to try to put as much stuff on YouTube as he has.
Posting some of the bad outcomes of the last 10-20 years would only serve to push me closer to the proverbial edge than I already am. If you decide to do it, please also drive here to Louisiana and bludgeon me with a stick….do it right Vico.
Please do not post the goddamn 1998 Sugar Bowl….christ, that was almost as bad as the Florida game. What the hell was the defensive ends name…..Andre Dawson? God….I can still hear Cooper at the press conference pre-game….”We’re gonna whip their butts!”
Talk about looking slow. You have the power Vico…..be merciful.
i really, really, don’t have any desire to relive some of our losses in the past given our losses in the present.
also, i do have a request, this is a fairly recent game but if you could somehow at some point make a compliation of the 2005 iowa game (complete with all five drew tate sacks, culminating in the ANGRY SPIKE), i would be forever in your debt. it was the most glorious non-michigan game i ever attended.
Yeah, I feel you. Sometimes I’d rather watch a puppy die than watch Ohio State lose. Still, maybe lost in those losses a big, fascinating play. Doug Donley or Gary Williams had one of those in the 1980 Rose Bowl. That Zack Dumas hit on Stacy Danley also came in a game that we lost.
Oh, and I don’t think I have that 2005 Iowa game, but I’ll be on the lookout for it. I was at that game too, and I remember vividly everyone else around me turning around and high-fiving the sack, save for me and one of my college friends (Kip, if you’re out there) being the only ones in our group that caught the spike as it happened and promptly scolding him and looking for a flag. When it came? Well, that’s when the uncontrollable laughter commenced.
Good times, good times indeed. That brought a smile to my face just thinking about it.
If you’re taking requests, I’d love to see the Iowa game from 1985, when you couldn’t tell the difference between the rain and Chuck Long’s tears.
Simply put, let the fans of the teams that won those games post them. I’m sure they would be more than happy to watch, and I’m sure if any Buckeye fans *actually* felt mildly suicidal they could easily find them.
Sorry it took a few days to say this, but I have one word and one word only for Drew Tate…WHHHAAAAAA!!!! Defenitely one of the funnier things I have seen in a buckeye game ever. When he spiked that ball, neither of us could hold back the laughter and it was one of those special moments because not a lot of people noticed it. Thank you bup bup bup for allowing us to relive that moment by bringing it back up.
Also the ’78 Gator Bowl is something I refuse to watch, though every Woody Hayes special must ram it down my throat, why?