While spinning records at ACRN, I occasionally gave away a free pizza, courtesy of our sponsor, Big Red Tomato. I would ask for the 3rd/4th/5th/etc. caller, and soon after would announce a bogus winner (made up name) from Mill Street/Stimson Ave/E.State Street (also made up). Later that night my roomies and I would use the winning/stolen voucher and enjoy some delish "za". Stupid college kids.

Where to start...

I used to watch OSU games early in my college career since other friends did just for the social aspect. I only watch their games now if I hear they are losing. It makes my skin crawl even thinking about watching and celebrating that now.

I went home a ton of weekends my first two years of school for a girl. While that had short term benefits it eventually ended. I would kill to do those weekends in Athens over. Good news is I did a victory lap and grad school so I made up for it.

My in laws are both Akron grads. Brutal.

My wife, a fellow Bobcat, does not share the same level of love for Ohio that I do. Primarily because her academic adviser told her not to bother to apply to med school as she wouldn't get in and OU didn't give her an interview. She's not one to give up and that only motivated her. She got interviews, went to med school, finished residency, now in fellowship. She works at the National Institutes of Health training directly under one of the founding fathers of her field. Huge, Huge mistake by OUCOM. Bringing it back to me....that cost me two extra years in Athens!

I was a bartender at the CI for a little over 2 years. Best decision ever although I did have to spend Winter breaks scraping the gum off the floor when we were closed.

I had to do community service for a noise violation after one of our parties my 5th year. Never be the guy who answers the door kids. Bad decision.

I once scaled the Athens Middle school and enjoyed a case of beer on the roof with fellow bartenders as the sun came up.

I woke up on the couch in the wrong house on 2 separate occasions after too much fun on Court St.

I feel better now...

My high school buddy who is an OSU grad convinced me that since it was his wedding I should sing along to Hang On Sloopy and I agreed. My other buddy who is also an OSU grad witnessed this and I agreed to do the same at his wedding.

My Sophomore year on West Green, our RA quit one week into the school year. We went two or three weeks without an RA. Met the new RA in the CI. The entire floor was too young to be in the CI, including our new RA. That was a good year.

The summer between my Junior and Senior year, I reported the construction crew that was redoing the sewer lines on Mill Street to the police because they were violating the noise ordinance. Get off my lawn.

My freshman year- I won't name the name - but he was in my dorm room on recruit visit couple hours before game- wet towel under the door - ya know the rest......

He signed up......

1) Still an OSU football fan...and an Ohio football fan...it is possible to live a double life.

2) I've never eaten anything from the Burrito Buggy. I never plan to.

3) Casa is overrated.

4) I like Athens better when the students are gone, and I'm nowhere near an old "get off my lawn" man.

-My first year of college I went to Akron. My mom and dad were divorcing at it was close to home, so I decided to stick around just in case I was needed. First Akron basketball game I went to I realized I had made a terrible decision. Those Hipshers...ugh. Pulled a Bubba Walther and got the hell out of there.

-I hate Ohio State, but god damnit Urban Meyer can coach football. Respect, bro.

-I went to the Belmont Bracketbuster game in Nashville a couple years ago where our team decided not to show up. I left the game at halftime. Told my then girlfriend "if they don't feel like playing, I don't feel like watching, lets go drink beer."

-It is the year 2017 and I still have never been Miller's Chicken. I've also been to probably every bar in Athens at least once...but never, ever The Crystal.

-I don't drink coffee. At all. Fight me.

-The night of the OU/Pitt football game in 2005, I was walking the old Bobcat/Mouse mascot around the stadium to interact with the fans. Basically, I was in charge of escorting him/her so they didn't fall down steps or get picked on by little kids they couldn't see.

Anyway, the girl they had in charge of donning the mascot outfit had been partying the entire day before that point. She wore the suit for the first quarter and said "I'm going to be sick." Took her outside Peden Stadium on the opposite side of the Tower and she vomited all over the parking lot. Thankfully she got the head off in time. There were a couple fans walking past who jokingly said "looks like The Bobcat has been partying too much." We had to call a replacement who unbelievably was not grossed out by it. I wish I would have gotten her number because that kind of dedication I want in a wife.

We did this at my wedding. The wife's family are a bunch of osu homers, so we absolutley HAD to play Hang on Sloopy, because of course we did. Anyhoo, the Bobcats had fun outshouting them with the "U" after O-H-I-O.

Then we played SUAC, and all the osu fans were angry that I wouldn't let the DJ play osu's fight song in response.

(In keeping with the theme of the confessional, my wedding was on Homecoming. The only Homecoming I've missed since graduation too...we beat Fiami 28-7 that day, and I almost got in trouble because I was checking the score as the processional started.)

Adding to the many confessions involving the evil empire:

My wife's youngest sister, a naive and somewhat ignorant freshman at o$u at the time, gave my 2-year-old daughter an o$u cheerleader outfit for a Christmas gift about 15 years ago. I bit my tongue as this took place at my in-laws' house. However, I soon as we got in the car, I told my wife that our daughter will never wear that outfit (and she didn't).

That daughter will be a freshman at Ohio University in about 3 months.

Father of the Year award.

1. I once agreed with Monroe in a thread on the football message board.

2. I own (via 5-finger discount) a set of 3 aquariums from the Pub and will still occasionally fill them up.

3. I once gave Chad Estis and inappropriate bro-hug after seeing him on Court Street the night after a basketball victory. See #2 above for the reason why that probably occurred.

4. In 1994, I had the cops called on me because I was barking on my balcony at Lakeview apartments at 1:00 a.m. after the Browns beat the 49ers on Monday Night football

I'm narcing on another Bobcat who is related to my wife.

About eight years ago we attended a wedding in Columbus between TWO Ohio university alums. The hall was decked out in Scarlet & Gray and Sloopy was played multiple times that night. They since have had a few kids and routinely send out Christmas card pics of the entire family sporting OSU gear.

Talk about self loathing.

You sir, have won BobcatAttack today. God that was funny.

1. The big one: I attended Oxford Tech for two years before I came to my senses and transferred to OU.

2. What's more alarming about statement 1 is that OU was a birthright. My dad, brother, aunt, grandmother, first cousin and many other family members all matriculated in Athens.

3. I got thrown out of the Union for underage drinking during a concert. (It was Tributary, a friend's band.) How dumb was this: I was marked low, but a friend got me a beer, and during the first song I got excited and raised my hand with the beer -- in tribute, I guess. The bouncer saw a hand with an "X" on it holding a beer up in the air.

4. During the Shuffle, I got tossed from the Pub for swiping a beer from the fridge area (halfway back on the right). Still had the unopened beer in my hand, so I went to Tony's and had the bartenders open it there.

5. I lived in Scott Quad, and my roommate and I were tossing stuff out our open window. He missed the opening and broke the window. In the middle of the night, we took out our whole window and swapped it with one in the communal study room down the hall.