Things You'll Need:
- Plenty of enthusiasm
- Buckeye necklace (that's a necklace made of buckeyes)
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Step 1
Leave your hotel early. Traffic is a fact of any major sporting event, but Columbus, the largest city in Ohio, is congested on a normal day. Add to that the fact that over 100,000 people are also headed to this event and that you will likely have a bit of a walk from your car to the stadium, and you have the makings of a major trek.
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Step 2
Refrain from wearing that "Go Blue!" Michigan t-shirt unless you are actually attending the Michigan game (i.e. strength in numbers). They take that stuff seriously.
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Step 3
Enter the stadium early, lest you miss the entrance of the drum major leading the show-stopping Ohio State University Marching Band onto the field. It is a thrilling sight to watch him high-step to the block O on the 50-yard line.
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Step 4
See Script Ohio, first performed by the band back in 1936 and a major tradition ever since. Most of the time, it's done after the game, so it's worth sticking around, but if you are present for Alumni Band Day or the Michigan game, it is done at halftime. Whatever you do, hold off on that hotdog until after the band has played.
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Step 5
Know the words. The Buckeye walking around on the sidelines is named Brutus. The song is "Hang on Sloopy," not "Hang on Snoopy." Ohio is spelled O-H-I-O (yelled loudly or spelled using your arms over your head), or OH-IO, depending on if the cheerleaders are using the four sides of the stadium or the two halves.
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Step 6
Prepare to be jostled. Ohio Stadium is the fourth largest college football venue in the country, and walking around the concourse, especially before and after the game, can get fairly claustrophobic.
