During my days as a Buckeye, our Friday routine for home games included attending daily classes, catching the team bus to the Biggs North Facility, position meetings, a team meeting, practice in sweat suits covering all the special teams, (Kickoff, kickoff return, punt, punt return, punt block, onside kick, ‘hands team’, P.A.T. and field goal).
We would then shower, dress in a suit and tie and head off as a team to the main dining room of the Ohio State University Scarlet and Gray Golf Club. It was there that we had a terrific Friday pre-game meal including the legendary pecan caramel rolls, salad and filet mignon.
I will never forget Keith Ferguson eating as many as six filet mignons, with his own preference of butterscotch syrup. This memory comes embarrassingly from the same person who ate 10 and a half pounds of prime rib at Lawry’s days before the 1980 Rose Bowl.
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