{"id":663,"date":"2004-10-28T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2004-10-28T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T14:00:57","slug":"the-game-prevails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"The Game Prevails."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Game<\/em> will continue to be <em>The Game<\/em>, after an <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncf\/news\/story?id=1910863\">outcry<\/a> from supporters at both universities  the Administrations decided to ax the deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As we attempted to move forward, it became apparent that this agreement could detract from the great tradition of the game itself,&#8221; Ohio State Athletic Directory Andy Geiger said. &#8220;Given that possibility, and the fast-approaching date of this year&#8217;s game, the two universities agreed it was in their best interest not to pursue the arrangement at this time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As usual, OSU Coach Jim Tressel managed to say absolutely nothing about the        subject:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of different ways you can look at any of the things we do, evolving from just going out in the yard and playing a pickup game to where we are today. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a lot of things you could discuss as to &#8216;Is that the right direction?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Game will continue to be The Game, after an outcry from supporters at both universities the Administrations decided to ax the deal. &#8220;As we attempted to move forward, it became apparent that this agreement could detract from the great tradition of the game itself,&#8221; Ohio State Athletic Directory Andy Geiger said. &#8220;Given that possibility, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[103,226,489],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-college-football","tag-michigan","tag-ohio-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-aH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}