Special Championship Game News

Old Columbus Town to outsource Championship Game coverage to traveling reporter Paul Germain

That's no type-o friends, Columbus' native son himself is road-tripping down to the game and has agreed to keep us filled in on all the goings-on his Blackberry will allow.

If you're heading down to NOLA yourself, keep your head on the swivel for Paul and his entourage of OSU-faithful.

Germain is a man of as many words as smiles and boasts a gaggle of passionate opinions. Old Columbus Town is excited to have another man of high culture and low brow humor on board this sputtering speed boat of dreams.

Stay tuned...

Look for Paul heading due-south tonight with his three friends who also bare a striking resemblance to Brutus Buckeye

Silver Bullet Points

"Be not afraid of greatness


...some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
-Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

And what better time to pompously quote an obscure Shakespearean comedy on the eve of the eve of battle. If I know Jim Tressel, and I don't, he's likely shying away from grandiose tactics like citing scribes or delivering ill-advised motivational stump speeches loosely based off that stirring "Peace by Inches" monologue from Any Given Sunday.

But while it's doubtful the team needs anything else to get mentally prepared for the biggest game of the season, there's no better time to be an OSU fan who enjoys his Buck-literature en masse.

• If you haven't noticed, there's a prominate Championship Game "storyline," as they say in the biz. Stew Mandal's take.
  

• ESPN catches wind of the "Take Home Talk" DVD, which has now reached celebrity sex-tape status.
  

• Beanie Wells gets some much deserved ink. Anyone who's been watching the BCS on FOX is fully aware that Wells is the current face of OSU, taking the reins from James Laurinaitis.

• The Boeckman-Krenzel comparisons continue. Good if you're superstitious, bad if you're of the belief that lightning doesn't strike the same soft-spoken, clunky pocket passer twice.

• No link necessary, but if you don't have a whole lot going on today or are socially paralyzed from Monday-related anxiety, there's a couple mildly-entertaining, college football-related games on today. These high school All-America games, the famed Army All-America Bowl is clearly the more prestigious of the two, features a hand full of future Buckeyes as well as he who shall not be named, T.P. Said super-freak QB is causing many college football discussion boards to implode today with speculation of whether he'll do a surprise announcement or even wink at the camera in a way that might suggest he'll choose Ohio St.

• Dennis Dodd continues to have SEC bias, the face of a high school biology professor.

• To quote that disgruntled woman from the Burger King "No Whopper on the menu" commercial, "You've got to be kidding me."

• This guy can't even write and he knows OSU is the superior team.

• Keep checking back for updates, links, unprovoked pop culture references all weekend...

Silver Bullet Points

Another chapter from The Vest Chronicles

The legend continues to grow with the help of this piece on ESPN.com by Ivan Maisel. The story is the same, about a noble man from Mentor, Ohio who emphasizes special teams play as much as he does class.

You kind of wish they would dig up some new, juicy info on the guy, but the affirming fact remains that the man we've come to know as The Senator has no skeletons to speak of (though ESPN did some probing during the Clarett saga), no quirks other than his intimidating win percentage and modest offensive output. Even that one tear-jerking viral anecdote about his generous donation to a disabled player proved to be mostly fictitious.

Les Miles, on the contrary, makes for a much more interesting feature story. His erratic fourth quarter play calling and public snub of Michigan are the trappings of a movie-of-the-week.

O-H!

• As this section is fast and reluctantly becoming the "Pryor Watch" it seems appropriate to report the word that highly touted freshman QB Ryan Mallett plans on leaving Michigan. Nothing is official as of yet, no paper work to speak of, but a transfer, supposedly to UCLA, wouldn't be a shock. Mallett was heavily recruited out of high school as a pro-style QB, much like his contemporary, Jimmy Clausen (Notre Dame's on-again 0ff-again frosh starter.) Mallet, who started for the Weasels when Chad Henne was hurt this season, was a sure-bet to start next year until Richie Rich rolled in to town, guns blazing with talk of bringing Terrelle Pryor to Ann Arbor. Does Mallett know something we don't? It's hard to believe a blue-chipper golden boy would leave his post because he isn't sold on a new offense after what, two days. Or maybe Rich Rod wasn't exactly trying to push his product to this particular costumer, if you catch my drift...

• SI.com lists college football greats by number. Heavy on Buckeyes between 33-66 Twenty-eight minutes of your life you will never get back. Such is the internet.

'Eye Candy

If you see three minutes of only one video this year...



The beginning to the already-famous "Take Home Talk" motivation video given to the Buckeyes several days ago.