Congratulations Luke Fickell<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"And of course the rest of the Buckeyes. What a win! Giving back to Wisconsin a little dose of what they've given us the last few seasons, Ohio\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Congratulations Luke Fickell\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"And of course the rest of the Buckeyes. What a win! Giving back to Wisconsin a little dose of what they've given us the last few seasons, Ohio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Daffey Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-10-31T06:03:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dave Griffey\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dave Griffey\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html\",\"name\":\"Congratulations Luke Fickell\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-10-31T06:03:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-10-31T06:03:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/9de3f33a0818ebc53727444b649c82a7\"},\"description\":\"And of course the rest of the Buckeyes. What a win! Giving back to Wisconsin a little dose of what they've given us the last few seasons, Ohio\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Congratulations Luke Fickell\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/\",\"name\":\"Daffey Thoughts\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/9de3f33a0818ebc53727444b649c82a7\",\"name\":\"Dave Griffey\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/546cf1ab64797c201cc8ad19185f2e57?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/546cf1ab64797c201cc8ad19185f2e57?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Dave Griffey\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/author\/dgriffey\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Congratulations Luke Fickell","description":"And of course the rest of the Buckeyes. What a win! Giving back to Wisconsin a little dose of what they've given us the last few seasons, Ohio","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Congratulations Luke Fickell","og_description":"And of course the rest of the Buckeyes. What a win! Giving back to Wisconsin a little dose of what they've given us the last few seasons, Ohio","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html","og_site_name":"Daffey Thoughts","article_published_time":"2011-10-31T06:03:00+00:00","author":"Dave Griffey","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dave Griffey","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html","name":"Congratulations Luke Fickell","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-10-31T06:03:00+00:00","dateModified":"2011-10-31T06:03:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/9de3f33a0818ebc53727444b649c82a7"},"description":"And of course the rest of the Buckeyes. What a win! Giving back to Wisconsin a little dose of what they've given us the last few seasons, Ohio","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Congratulations Luke Fickell"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/","name":"Daffey Thoughts","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/9de3f33a0818ebc53727444b649c82a7","name":"Dave Griffey","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/546cf1ab64797c201cc8ad19185f2e57?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/546cf1ab64797c201cc8ad19185f2e57?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Dave Griffey"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/author\/dgriffey"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":3058,"date":"2011-10-31T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html"},"modified":"2011-10-31T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T06:03:00","slug":"congratulations-luke-fickell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/congratulations-luke-fickell.html","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Luke Fickell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

And of course the rest of the Buckeyes.\u00a0 What a win<\/a>!\u00a0 Giving back to Wisconsin a little dose of what they\u2019ve given us the last few seasons, Ohio State finally did something worth celebrating.\u00a0 Can there be any other sports program with more to overcome than the Buckeyes this year?\u00a0 And poor Mr. Fickell.\u00a0 What a season it\u2019s been.\u00a0 But Saturday night was a night to celebrate, even if the rest of the season doesn\u2019t pan out.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

In one of the most exciting last 4 minutes of football I\u2019ve seen in ages, reminiscent of the famous NFL Chargers-Dolphins match from decades past, Ohio State and Wisconsin battled it down to the wire.\u00a0 And in plays not exactly on par with Ohio State standards, the Buckeyes pulled it through.<\/p>\n

Not being a football guru, I\u2019ll leave the finer commentary to the experts.\u00a0 But one thing I noticed?\u00a0 Over the last years, especially since the disastrous National Championship against Florida, Ohio State had been losing its ability to overcome loss of momentum.\u00a0 Jim Tressel, whom I still admire, seemed just as powerless to stop the changing winds and turn them back into our favor.\u00a0 This was especially true in the \u2018Big\u2019 games.\u00a0 All it took was one fumble, one interception, one explosive touchdown by the other team, and you could almost see the point in which Ohio State lost its momentum. <\/p>\n

But last night, when the formula looked too familiar, when images of Nebraska were dancing in our heads, and the typical story line of \u2018Ohio States blows another lead\u2019 seemed inevitable, something happened.\u00a0 Somehow the Buckeyes and Fickell were able to overcome Hall\u2019s dropped punt, and rally.\u00a0 And rally in a way that almost made you forget you were watching Ohio State football.\u00a0 At least in the last few seasons. <\/p>\n

So congrats boys, you all did it.\u00a0 What a game.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"