How about those Buckeyes?

@PlacidPenguin

Ever hear Patton Oswalt talking about auditioning for Big Fan? Exactly what he sounded like.

@RiotDemon

@RiotDemon - a peanut butter flavored ball dipped in chocolate.

@Pavlov now I’m hungry!

@Pavlov so the team is named after a candy?

@PlacidPenguin what makes it buckeye?

/google what is a buckeye
What is a Buckeye?
http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/trads/buckeye.html

@RiotDemon nope - they’re named after a nut - the candy looks like the nut IIRC. Cracker Barrel sells the candy everyday at most all locations. Not as good as my great aunt used to make, but passable.

@RiotDemon it’s a useless nut that is really good at football

@RiotDemon If you what horse chestnuts are, you know what buckeyes are.

@cranky1950 I’m assuming you mean that a horse chestnut is an actual nut. I owned a horse, and what we called a chestnut was the little remnant of skin on the inside of the leg that was thought to be a leftover from when horses had split toed hooves.

I actually didn’t know there was a nut called this.

@Pavlov I work close to a cracker barrel, I’ll have to see if they carry it. It looks tasty.

@RiotDemonhttp://www.gardenguides.com/93799-horse-chestnut-tree-identification.html

@RiotDemon They are pretty easy to make - kind of pricey at the Barrel, but at least you can try a couple and know if you like them! Maybe ask them for a free sample to see if you like them, make a funny face and tell them “nah” while the creamy peanut butter and chocolate goodness invades your senses. Then go make them at home.

@Pavlov I found a ridiculously easy recipe. I can’t imagine that anyone would hate them if they like Reese’s. I might give them a try soon.

http://www.food.com/recipe/best-ever-buckeyes-16716?photo=324442

@RiotDemon the buckeye tree is the state tree of OH-IO, i think.

it grows a nut cultivated to look like the candy named after it apparently. that’s crazy according to tracy jordan.

according to my current ‘home state companions’ it is a “worthless, poisonous nut”.

if the earlier post of chestnuts and buckeyes being = is true, then there goes the farm.

brutus buckeye, the mascot of The ohio state university, recently had a birthday, i think it was the 50th, (s)he has had many looks over the years.

@Yoda_Daenerys

Gotta love college sports, if only for the whole buckeye hoosier hokie wahoo nittany lion fighting illini thing

The most cherished, celebrated, time-honored rivalry is between a goat and a mule.

@jbartus

You may find that funny, but that’s seriously how my brain interprets sports.

Which is sightly frustrating since the following is true:

@PlacidPenguin I’M SUPER WORKED UP BECAUSE MY TEAM DID STUFF!

That image frustrates me too since it ignores a bunch of other professional sports teams NY has while also highlighting the disparity between NY and other less fortunate markets that ultimately perpetuates the economic disparity between NY and those other markets. Of course LA is nearly as bad.

@jbartus

Never really followed sports. The only ones I’ve ever paid any decent attention to are Drone Racing and Competitive Eating.

My mind goes fuzzy when trying to process sports. I’ve had people bring me to sports places, and I had no clue what was happening.

@jbartus

Re greater NYC

Lots of people + lots of $$$$ + major locus of media industry = a lot of sports and sports dominance.

But major pro sports had gotten so damned expensive and the NFL HQ has gotten so full of itself. Wonder if/when the rank and file fans will stop caring so much.

@f00l they already have in many cases. As for the media locus and money thing the fact that they’re there makes it a self-perpetuating situation, those dollars aren’t being shared around to other markets. I’d like to see something lime a minimum requirement of 200 mile spacing between team (same sport) locations to spread the wealth a bit.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@PlacidPenguin Much easier to ‘process’ sports if you participated as a kid. You do understand the concepts of ‘game’ and ‘winner’, right?

@compunaut

The concepts? Sure.

@jml326 Well don’t lose to Pitt 42-39 and Michigan 49-10.

@Neghtasro @jml326 Despite the Pitt and Michigan losses, PSU both won the Big Ten and beat Ohio State head-to-head. It is understandable that PSU was left out of the playoff, but being replaced by OSU was the odd thing. It is the first time one of the big 4 champions was left out of the playoff due to being supplanted by a team in its own conference (not even factoring in the fact that the Lions beat the Buckeyes).

@DrWorm Compare the number of top ten teams each of these teams beat this year to reveal the answer

@Neghtasro ohio lost to an unranked psu and didnt fall from glory. There still is some bias in the ncaa world and in the cfp for ohio and other teams. Dont tell me this isnt part a money grab by the ncaa and cfp.

@cranky1950http://www.gardenguides.com/93799-horse-chestnut-tree-identification.html

@cranky1950 You’re cranky.

@lajmd I-O!!!

@msujp sparty? sorry about your season

@f00l your honor, i object! hear say!

i never spit on any opposing fans at the games i attended.

now p’ing on them is another story

@Yoda_Daenerys

Actually, he witnessed that also at least once.

Not amused.

@DrWorm what’s your sample size and mean deviation?

i’ll take Dr in your UN loosely

butt, i am certain no youngters from your alma mater drink unresponsibly and act like buttheads, am i right?

@Yoda_Daenerys
I have heard stories from many sources - alumni from various schools unaware that I had heard similar from others - stating that Ohio State fans are in a league of their own.

My nephew, who chose not to apply to Ohio State, spent much of his teenage years going to games at all the schools in driving range, a number of these were Buckeye games. Those visits set his mind.

@f00l ok, i give, all ohio state fans are idiots and should be in jail.

my brilliant children get especially upset with me when i categorize people and their behaviors based on the group they belong to.

in this case i will make an exception, we all suck.

@Yoda_Daenerys

Didn’t say or imply that any of that.

Just wouldn’t mind if the tone changed at bit among the fans. A little more polite or welcoming perhaps. Not any outsider’s choice tho. Up to the alums and students.

If the rep is undeserved, my apologies. If the rep is deserved, you can’t blame people for noticing.

No-one thinks it’s “everyone” or it’s “all evil” or whatever other over-generalization. People have a right to think they don’t enjoy the overall atmosphere much if it’s consistently unpleasant. And to notice the diff with other places.

PS since you’re in the CFP, enjoy it.

@f00l hmmm, cfp?

@f00l i forget, have you been there, or this is all feedback from others? it’s all good tho, i don’t think i can change 1000000 OSU fans now or in the future.

from my own point of view, i’ve never pee’d in a UofM fan’s beer cup or sucker punched them,

/giphy unless they deserved it

but i’ve never been rude to an opponent’s fans, i’ve been to many other big ten schools football stadiums, i’ve never seen a difference between buckeye fans and others, butt this could all be my HTB.

i am taking this all as a personal attack. these are my peeps.

there is a chance is not meant to be that.

@Yoda_Daenerys
No. not personal. Kinda doubt you are one of the ones my brother or nephew wished they were not near.

Your school has that rep, deserved for undeserved. Something to be aware of. I don’t think you or any one person can change the culture, either.

Apologies if I came off as a righteous ass. Unintentional.

@f00l does your brohter tell you how great cinci is? i have family there that sing that song.

i come from a family of many OSU grads and we’re pretty alright.

most of the time at least…

@Yoda_Daenerys

Cinnci v good. Was there for a weekend - what - 2 years ago autumn I think?

Ate chili. Liked it fine.

@compunaut what is the rule that got Penn State into the Big10 game instead of the Bucks?

@compunaut
I loved it when TCU messed up the NCAA BCS by being so damned good. Love TCU. And purple. And fuck the NCAA and the way they favor the power schools, including Texas.

Of course the power schools have the $ to do what they want.

@Yoda_Daenerys big ten has a rule about head to head. Psu beat osu. There is no other tie breaker in place for now. But i net the big tem is rewriting the rules as we speak. Can’t let the sweatheart team of THE osu not be #1.

@jml326 but didn’t mi beat psu h2h and osu beat mi h2h and psu beat osu h2h, or something like that? in the end i thought they may also have a tie breaker like, if you went last then it’s the other team’s turn.

Meh.be i’m wrong

@Yoda_Daenerys MI did beat PSU, but had 2 conference losses. PSU & OSU had identical conference records but PSU won H2H. Therefore PSU won Big Ten (East) & played (and won) Big Ten championship.
I could live with OSU supplanting another conference champion (perhaps UW & their pathetic non-conference schedule) but not their own division & conference champion.
Might as well have the AP poll or writers decide the champion again & skip the playoff games. Wait, I forgot: those games are worth $500M

@compunaut yea, and osu does have, like approaching, 1M graduates of which, some must have some serious bank.

@Barney

@f00l takes responsi-
Bility for @Barney be-
Ing sick. What is wrong?

@f00l OSU

@Barney I agree. Just wrong wronger WRONGEST

@Barney

@f00l has great sympa-
Thy for @barney feeling ill
Re football playoffs.

@Barney do scarlet and gray = purple?

@compunaut written off

@Yoda_Daenerys Not in a million years.

@Barney #4 University of Washington Huskies wear Gold & Purple…

@daveinwarsh Go Dawgs!

@f00l Whoa there, cowboy. According to Bloomberg, Harvard has almost $36B endowment, while UT just surpassed Yale ($23.9B) with $25.4B.
Of course, on a per-student basis, UT is far down on the list.

@compunaut
I know. But there are suspected to be huge unsurveyed reserves reachable by the latest tech, assuming W Tx doesn’t mind more fracking. So far most of W Tx seems not to object to fracking.

The current endowment estimates only include proven reserves, I think.

Besides, Boston/Cambridge has winter.

Joking aside, I understand that schools like Harvard/Yale/Princeton/MIT and schools like Texas/Michigan/Berkeley and similar serve differing communities and offer different resources.

@f00l

I went to West Point, the USMA, back when bowl bids were common and we beat Navy every other year.

Being up north and having around 4500 students, the Ivies were our size and nearby, so we’d play Harvard and Yale off and on.

Still remember being ahead of Yale in the fourth quarter, playing in New Haven, and their student body started chanting:

That’s alright
That okay
You’re going to work for us someday.

So, yeah, fuck every one of them.

@MehnofLaMehncha If the NCAAF followed the NBA/NFL/NHL/MLB their players would actually get paid, the teams would be split into leagues with relegation, and players could play more than 4 years.