Posted on 08/27/2015 11:35:43 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
--SNIP-- In an announcement revealing the successful implementation of a new tool in battling heart defects, the University of Michigan Mott Children's Hospital also passed along an amazing anecdote. It turns out one of its patients was a 10-year-old Toledo boy named Ivan Applin, who roots for Ohio State. According to his mother, Jennifer, young Ivan had a concern about trusting his heart to just anyone. “He asked if the Michigan doctors were going to make his heart love the University of Michigan instead of Ohio State
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He should have asked for a brain transplant.
Having lived along the OH-MI border I can tell you, the kid was dead serious!
She replied, "Today I'm a big Gator fan."
" Please tell me you’re Republicans."
no kidding
Yep...my ex-neighbors were OSU fans. The day their son was born they brought the kid home wearing an Ohio State onesy. I always wondered how they could possibly know that a 1 or 2 day old would be an Ohio State fan.
It’s not a rivalry when one team does all the winning.
Not sure about Woody, but Ohio and Michigan did get into an actual war in 1835.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War
Though it is true that Woody remained listed in the Columbus White Pages till the day he died. Fans and alumni could call him up to suggest plays or critique games.
Maybe they had twins and left the Michigan one on the curb.
That’s right, MI and OH are one of the few (if not the only) college rivalries that are rooted from actual war and shots being fired.
Now that was Funny!
Andrew Jackson thought he was screwing us in his settlement of the Toledo strip dispute but the upper peninsula proved to be exceedingly valuable many times over.
He gave the Toledo strip to Ohio in return for Ohio delivering the vote for democrats in the presidential election (Michigan was Whig territory) Ohio delivered for dems but lost the white house anyway.
He’s a good boy! I must send this article to my father. We refer to him as Bob the Buckeye. He has an absolute fit when Ohio guys end up at that school up north. (I have been conditioned never to utter the that word).
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