Brutus Buckeye, Ohio State University’s official mascot. His buckeye-headed self is right at home in the domain of Mayor McCheese.
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: once again we went to Columbus, Ohio! In a failed effort to shorten the verbiage in that four-part, 5900-word saga, I held back all our non-convention-related pics from that weekend for their own separate gallery. I didn’t think our brief influx of visiting cosplay fans would notice the omission.
As it happens, most of our outtakes come from a single location. After we checked out of our hotel Saturday morning, we stopped for breakfast at a McDonald’s down the street, which usually wouldn’t rate a mention here. To our surprise, their lobby held an unexpected museum of sorts — several displays celebrating the assorted sports teams of nearby Ohio State University. We normally stay at hotels in and around the OSU campus whenever we’re in town for GCC, but somehow we’d missed this spot and their collection till now.
It’s Ohio! Autographed by famous Ohioans, probably!
Ironically, we took these the exact same day that our own IU would defeat OSU in the Big Ten Championship Game 13-10. Back home in Indiana, this was a big, big, big deal to the sports fans who outnumber us six million to two. Three of us if you count the lead pastor at our church who’s a huge OSU fan. Maybe a few pics would cheer him up.
OSU helmets and footballs throughout the years.
Longtime MCC fans know sports aren’t our thing, so forgive me if we’re light on details. We do enjoy themed collections of stuff whenever we trip over them, though.
The #27 jersey of OSU alum Eddie George, who played in multiple pro teams and is now head coach at Bowling Green State.
(Fun trivia: at OSU he majored in landscape architecture, which might be immensely fascinating to my sister-in-law if I can work it into conversation with her at next week’s Christmas gathering.)
The autograph of Howard “Hopalong” Casaday, a Heisman Torphy winner who played several seasons with the Detroit Lions.
(Not that we have anything against Michigan, mind you. Then again, we haven’t been to Detroit yet.)
Still more autographs. If you can name all these men, you’re probably from Ohio!
(I can’t make it out: is the gentleman at upper right being attacked by a sentient yellow slime?)
Artist’s rendition of the rotunda at Ohio Stadium.
Two rows of basketballs break up the football monopoly.
Mini-Brutus!
If this gallery can inspire just one sports fan to stop by this McDonald’s and create their own, better informed photo gallery, then it was all worth it. I got what I needed out of this stop: a meal cheaper than convention center grub and enough points earned on the McD’s app that my next breakfast sandwich the following Wednesday was free.
Last call for OSU collectibles!
If nothing else, we appreciate adding all this to our collection of themed McDonald’s we’ve visited, which includes:
- The one with the World’s Largest Big Mac in North Huntingdon, PA
- The one with the World’s Largest Quarter Pounder with Cheese, in Rapid City, SD
- The one in Danville, IL, with paintings of several hometown celebrities
- The two-story one in Orlando where we apparently forgot to take photos? Or they were all terrible?
- The one that’s clearly in Manhattan’s Chinatown
We conclude with a few other shots we took during our 29 hours in town. We got home Saturday night sometime after 9 p.m. and the month has been nonstop ever since. Doing a comic-con during the holidays, then suffering the illnesses that come with wintertime and crowds, to say nothing of trying to make time to finish posting any of this…I blinked and December is already two-third over. But I did manage to update our Pinterest jazz-hands photo-op board and the ongoing actor/celeb master list of everyone we’ve ever met, so there’s that. And I got over half my raking done so far!
Anyway, enjoy! See you next trip, wherever and whenever!
Mediterranean pita lunch Friday at our old favorite Brassica, up the street from the Greater Columbus Convention Center.
Dinner Friday night at MODA: the hot honey chicken sandwich topped with chili infused honey, spicy Carolina slaw , habanero cheese, and chipotle mayo, served with tri-colored sweet potatoes.
(Anne just had a burger. Nobody cares about seeing that. That’s her discarded tomato on my plate.)
Our exotic hotel window view…of the hotel next door.
Construction across the street from the convention center.
High Street stores reminding everyone Christmastime is here!
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