When Sally Lanyon and Ray Bourhis take a deep breath and look back on their time at Ohio State, neither ever thought a spherical papier-mâché and chicken wire head would become a university icon.
"I remember we were hanging out the Pi Phi house, homecoming was coming up and the they had papier-mâché sitting around for homecoming floats," Bourhis told Eleven Warriors. "They were all ready to make a float. I came up with the idea, 'Why are we making a float when we could be making history?' Although, at the time, I had no idea what would actually come of it.