Dogs and cats, Buckeyes and Wolverines living together


This is going to come as a shock to some fans but Ohio State and Michigan football players can get along, respect each other and be friends. Good friends. Ohio State center Pat Elflein and Michigan tight end Jake Butt, both Pickerington North High School graduates, have been friends since junior high school. Both talked about it at Big Ten football media days last week in Chicago. “Jake is my buddy up there. We joke around about it,” Elflein said. “It’s kind of cool coming from the same town in central Ohio and splitting off like that and having this big rivalry. We know a lot of the same people. Obviously it’s the biggest rivalry in all of college football but when we get together we’re friends and buddies,” he said. Butt said, “Pat is one of my best friends. We went to the same junior high and high school. We played football together. We were both captains. We talk to each other all the time. He’s somebody I respect. Every time I go back home I try to see him. “Even as a Wolverine you have to respect a guy like that. He has taken the hard way. He…

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