{"id":21792,"date":"2014-11-26T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=21792"},"modified":"2014-11-25T08:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T13:00:44","slug":"ohio-state-vs-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/26\/ohio-state-vs-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"OHIO STATE VS. MICHIGAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I was<\/strong><\/span> at a brunch where all the men wore Ohio State apparel.\u00a0 That in itself was not unusual; I know a lot of Ohio State fans who do brunch, but the host at this brunch was particularly Bucks-nuts; he would not let anybody into his house with Michigan gear on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ohio-state-v-michigan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-21968 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ohio-state-v-michigan-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"ohio state v michigan\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ohio-state-v-michigan-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ohio-state-v-michigan.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I didn\u2019t have any on.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not that big a football fan. I\u2019m a Michigan graduate but I wish Ohio State all the best &#8212; most of the time. I like it when Michigan is winning, but this year the team is horrible, so let Ohio State go all the way.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Yiddishe Cup<\/span><\/strong> had a trumpet player &#8212; a sub &#8212; who played in the Ohio State marching band. He played a luncheon with Yiddishe Cup, and the OSU-Michigan game (originally scheduled for 3 pm) went on at noon, so I gave the musician leeway on the bandstand; I let him periodically watch the Bucks on a TV in a corner. The other guys in the band thought I was too accommodating. They didn&#8217;t<br \/>\nunderstand . . .<\/p>\n<p>Take 1962: OSU versus Northwestern, homecoming.\u00a0 Before the game, my dad and I went to a reunion luncheon.\u00a0 My dad had on a Class of \u201938 name tag. I don&#8217;t know what the name tag read; my father changed his name from <em>Soltzberg<\/em> to <em>Stratto<\/em>n in 1941. The theme for the fraternity floats in 1962 may have been &#8220;Peanuts.&#8221;\u00a0 My dad knew the words to &#8220;Carmen Ohio,&#8221; the OSU alma mater.\u00a0 My dad never knew the words to any song!<\/p>\n<p>My dad and I went to about a half dozen Ohio State homecomings. I liked Long\u2019s Bookstore for sweatshirts.\u00a0 Charbert\u2019s for hamburgers.\u00a0 We checked out the floats on fraternity row.\u00a0 My dad wanted to show me the medical school.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The Bucks:<\/strong> <\/span>Tom Matte, Warfield, Matt Snell and Bob Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>If Michigan doesn\u2019t win it all (and it ain\u2019t going to this year), let Ohio State.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21979\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ohio-state-1959-julia-and-toby-stratton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21979\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21979\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ohio-state-1959-julia-and-toby-stratton-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"Julia and Toby Stratton, Ohio Stadium.  (Julia came on our first homecoming outing -- 1959,)\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ohio-state-1959-julia-and-toby-stratton-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ohio-state-1959-julia-and-toby-stratton.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia and Toby Stratton, Ohio Stadium. (My mother went on our first homecoming outing, 1959.)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a brunch where all the men wore Ohio State apparel.\u00a0 That in itself was not unusual; I know a lot of Ohio State fans who do brunch, but the host at this brunch was particularly Bucks-nuts; he would not let anybody into his house with Michigan gear on. 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