What Does It All Mean?

Anyone can turn on ESPN and see highlights of the Browns or the Bengals, the Indians or the Reds. We watch Cavaliers or Blue Jackets games whenever we want ... its 2011 and all of that stuff is thrown in our face. I'm a die-hard sports fan (in case you couldn't tell) and all we see on the news now is how bad all of our Ohio teams currently are. (And they are ALL bad!) Ohio State has been receiving tons of negative publicity for their recent scandals in the athletic department, so I wanted to look into some legends around the Buckeye State and accentuate the positives.

I go to school just seven miles from League Park. After reading about it, I'm dying to get there. I was even thinking of checking it out Friday before I head down to Progressive Field for the Indians home opener.

I've heard all about Paul Brown, but I've never taken the time to look him up. I've driven past The Heisman House hundreds and hundreds (literally) of times on the way to school, and I never knew the history behind it. I know all about the Ohio State national championship teams in the past few years, but I found myself reading about the Cincinnati Bearcats national title teams of the early 1960s and the racism they had to overcome on trips to the south. I definitely learned a lot.

As a sports fan, I walked away with great pride in Ohio after seeing all the great athletes that come from our neck of the woods. I found myself doing Google search after Google search to locate the small towns that some of the greatest athletes of all time grew up in. I know can find Middletown, Ohio on a map - thanks to Jerry Lucas.

OH - IO.