Heard Thom Brennaman talking on FoxOhio during the Reds telecast tonight concerning the Ohio at OSU game.  Says he has been struggling with which team to root for, but that the biggest factor for him is this:  the most important priority is the state of Ohio, and OSU has the only chance this season to win a national title, and he wants to see the state of Ohio get a national title...so I suppose he means he's rooting for Ohio State.  He did say that he would not have attended school anywhere else except Ohio University. 

In Thom's defense, he had a glorious shout out to Ohio University during his play by play broadcast of the Bears' game Sunday.

"Ohio State will take on one of the finest centers of academic excellence in America, the Ohio University Bobcats."

I thought it was great! 

Bummer.  Brennaman does talk up Ohio.  But, this will be our plight forever unless we decide to invest more in athetics.

Tell Thom I'm inviting him to a tailgate this weekend at the Horseshoe, where the only dish to be served is Trodge's Mashed Potato Delight. Dumba*s.

Who gives a crap about Thom Brennaman and other MAC graduates like Ben Curtis the golfer who cheer for O$U over Kent State where he graduated from.

Trust me on this.  There's no real "agonizing" going on over this weeks game.  As a fraternity brother of Thom and one that talked with him at halftime of this weeks Bears game, Brennaman would LOVE to see the 'Cat's prevail this week.  When together, he's always made a point of bringing up Bobcat's in the NFL and how he adds a little special something when he gets the chance to mention their names.

That said, when he bypassed attending OSU and came to Athen's in the early 80's, he was already an OSU fan and took heat from several of the brothers for it throughout his time on campus (most of the bitching came from out-of-state brothers).  However, he never/rarely missed a home Bobcat football or basketball game while he was there AND truly ridiculed those that failed to go to the games from our house.  I still remember him making sure those around us would stand every time the band started  "Stand Up And Cheer."  Bottom line, he still bleeds green but also is still loyal to his screwed-up childhood team to the north.

As a baseball writer, I've been running into Thom in press boxes for years, and we always talk about OU. I'm sure he's rooting for the Bobcats, probably just didn't want to alienate too many of his viewers by dogging OSU.