That’s what the spring game is for, to celebrate and honor, to reunite after months apart, to envision what’s ahead, to stuff a pretzel in your face.
Ohio State Spring football game 2022COLUMBUS, Ohio -- There was a family wearing shirts in honor of their father and husband. He died in 2017, and this is their tradition, to attend the Ohio State football spring game, connecting to his memory through their shared love of the Buckeyes. Down the concourse inside Ohio Stadium, there was a baby sucking on a pacifier and strapped to her father’s chest, wide-eyed at her first spring game.
There were more -- when they lined up the former players in attendance on the goal line after the third quarter, more than 70 stood in a line.Oh, and on the field there was a college football team that might win the national championship this season. All for $7 a ticket. “To get Buckeye Nation together, to celebrate our team and the hard work we put in this spring,” Day said this week leading into the game, “but also to get everybody together to honor Dwayne, I think that’s appropriate.”
Ohio State set a national record with an announced crowd of 95,722 fans in 2009. Urban Meyer pushed the spring game hard upon his arrival, and the Buckeyes broke their record in 2015 with 99,391 fans on a day that included a halftime race featuring the fastest student on campus, Brutus, cornerbacks coach Kerry Coombs,So in 2016, Meyer wanted six digits and got it -- 100,189, another record. Then came 80,134 in 2017 and 47,803 in 2018 and 61,106 in 2019.
In a story last week on The Athletic, the idea of teams playing FCS schools in the spring instead of a spring game was presented. The story noted places like Ohio State draw fans in the spring. Many other schools don’t. So what about the idea of Ohio State playing, let’s say, Youngstown State, in the middle of April instead?“I think it’s definitely worth the conversation,” Day said.
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