COLUMBUS, Ohio — As Jim Lachey stepped out of his car at his Indianapolis hotel before the Big Ten championship game last December, he crossed paths with a Michigan fan doing the same. “Good win last week,” Lachey said to the fan, trying not to betray his true feelings about Ohio State football’s collapse in Ann Arbor. The Michigan fan, judging Lachey only by the insignia on his baseball cap, returned the compliment. “Let me tell you right now,” Lachey said the man told him, “you Iowa people are so much nicer than those Ohio State people.” That Michigan man had no idea Lachey is a Buckeye icon. An All-American offensive guard. A first-round NFL Draft pick, three-time Pro Bowler and Super Bowl champion. And now, the color analyst for OSU broadcasts on WBNS radio. Yet Lachey is also a Hawkeye father. For the first time, those dual identities collide…
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