June 26, 2026

Theodore Decker: A conversion to Ohio State fandom, years in the making, Rushed to completion


Show Caption Hide Caption Ohio State halftime show in sixty seconds The formations celebrate the music of Rush with a guitarist, “2112,” Drummer Neil Peart riding his motorcycle and others. Doral Chenoweth, The Columbus Dispatch My wife was eight months pregnant with our second child and I was delirious with the flu on the one weekend we had allotted to find a house here in central Ohio. This was nearly 16 years ago, back when — I must confess — neither of us had any idea what a Buckeye was. My wife’s conversion to a full-on fan of Ohio State was completed on Saturday. The clincher came not during gameplay, but halftime. Ohio State football: Buckeyes move up a spot in AP, coaches polls following win over Maryland We moved to Greater Columbus from central Pennsylvania, which is solidly Penn State country. Neither of us attended a college where football mattered, so we weren’t…

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