Urban Meyer is on the treadmill Friday running back in time for you.
Meyer, Ohio State’s high-energy head coach, is ticking off the names of the linebackers from the ‘70s from the Bengals teams he loved as a kid. Bill Bergey. Al Beauchamp. No. 51? Right. Kenny Avery wore 51.
“Name the corners,” Meyer is testing you. “Remember the safeties? And there was the piano player. Mike Reid. (Ron) Carpenter. Those guys.”
So it was not lost on Meyer that he had just bequeathed his center and one of the greatest Buckeye offensive linemen ever to his hometown team 50 years after their first center.