Joey Kaufman | Buckeye Xtra When Paul Keels sat at a table and looked at a wall of monitors before Ohio State’s football road opener at Penn State kicked off on Halloween, he felt some nerves. It was an unfamiliar vantage point for the play-by-play announcer and longtime voice of the Buckeyes. For the first time in his decades-long broadcasting career, he was not at the stadium to call a game, situated hundreds of miles away from State College. “I was as nervous as I’ve been in forever getting ready for that game,” Keels said. Due to travel limitations forced by the coronavirus pandemic, Keels and color analyst Jim Lachey have done radio broadcasts of the Buckeyes’ road games on WBNS-FM (97.1) and across the OSU football network remotely this season. Rather than be perched in a press-box booth, the crew has remained on the university’s campus inside a video production…
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