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Whats a Buckeye

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Where are my Buckeyes? As a kid in Ohio, Buckeye trees were everywhere you looked. The jacket or outside is soft, leather-like with spikes. When they hit the ground we would pick up these and make Buckeye Necklaces. Usually we would find these with one, two or even three buckeyes in one spiked jacket. Well, one day I found four in one jacket and kept these. Once I learned to drive, I strung the four buckeyes and kept them as my good luck charm in the glove compartment. They have been in six cars that I have owned. They current reside in Purdyz, my 1999 BMW Z3. You can follow her travels on Twitter as @Purdyz, where she tweets. She takes a comic look at life as she travels Florida!
History of the Buckeye: When Ohio was the West, Indians used the buckeye for hunting fish in ponds. They would crush up the Buckeyes and throw them into the water. This would stun the fish and make them an easy target to hunt. Buckeyes are edible only after they have been heated and leached < link http://www.buckeyetree.net/ >
Now, The Ohio State Tree is the Ohio Buckeye!

As a kid in Ohio, Buckeye trees were everywhere you looked.  The jacket (or outside) is soft, leather-like with spikes. When they hit the ground we would pick up them up and make Buckeye Necklaces.  Usually we would find these with one, two or even three buckeyes in one spiked jacket.  Well, one day I found four in one jacket and kept these.

Once I learned to drive, I strung the four buckeyes and kept them as my good luck charm in the glove compartment.  They have been in six cars that I have owned. They current reside in Purdyz, my 1999 BMW Z3.

History of the Buckeye:  When Ohio was the West,  Indians used the buckeye for hunting fish in ponds. They would crush up the Buckeyes and throw them into the water.  This would stun the fish and make them an easy target to hunt.  Buckeyes are edible only after they have been heated and leached.

Now, The Ohio State Tree is the Ohio Buckeye!

This information supplied to you by our friend and rogue Buckeye, Robert Neff.  You can find him on Twitter, talking about art, sports, and random things.  In his spare time,  Rob creates art and crashes weddings.

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Ohio State QuarterBack Shows Support for Vick

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Ohio State Quarterback Pryor just apologized for wearing “Vick” and in case you didn’t know, he had the name on his eye-black in the Ohio State’s opener against Navy.  This was his tribute to Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Mike Vick.  You remember Vick,  he served time for abusing animals.

While the media covered this screw up, they blew the coverage.  They should be asking “How did he get onto the field with this in the first place! Where were the captains, assistant coaches and the head coach, Mr. Tressel? No one saw this? No one said anything?”

In my opinion, this is a direct reflection of Coach Tressel’s program.  I’ll get more into Coach Tressel in my next post “What Everyone in Ohio knows about Tressel Football but Coach Tressel.”   The Athletic Director should have reamed Coach Tressel, Assistants and Ohio State Captains on the loud speaker.   How does a scholarship sophomore get off on doing his own thing?  Everyone knows you don’t wear anything on the uniform without being sanctioned.

Coach Tressel, isn’t there a football indoctrination program on this when you enter Ohio State?

The real question is Pryor’s commitment.  How can you have time to plan “Mike Vick” eye-black when you are prepping for a football game? The kid just showed that he hasn’t matured and wants “Street Cred.” He says he wants to be a better quarterback. Here’s my advice:: work on your mechanics.  Stand up, be a student of the game.  Focus! Learn the mechanics.   Finally, learn how to behave in an interview.  I thought Ohio State Football would have prepped players on how to handle interviews.  This kid looked unprofessional and did a poor job representing Ohio State, and an even worse job of representing himself.

My message to Pryor is simple :: since you are all about “street cred” and not learning the mechanics of the game, here is something you can probably understand, show me the money!  If you want to get big endorsements and a higher salary, you need to convince the next level that you are ready.  Not sure who your posse is and how they are advising you, but its time to seek some real advice, and look up to someone who hasn’t done time in jail.

Author::  By day Rob Neff consults on internet operations and social media.  He has recently been involved in JobSerf Find & Apply social media operation.  By night and weekend he is an artist, writer, and social activist and tweets as  5wa.   He also created a profile called purdyz, which is a comic look at life through his 1999 BMW Z3 life in St Petersburg, Florida.  Now he has taken his passion for college football, major league baseball and rugby online and started contributing to this blog.  Feel free  to talk sports with Rob on Twitter and here too…Leave your comments below.

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