It's a late November Friday night in Toledo, and one Ohio State fan is standing in his home, paint brush in hand, ready to piece together the latest of his own personal masterpiece in the greatest rivalry in all of sport.
That rivalry, birthed on the gridiron in the late 1800s, includes his beloved university, for which he's been a part of since birth.
"I was born in University Hospital on Archie Griffin's third birthday," he says, then divulging into a tradition struck deep within his family's loins. "While my dad was in attendance at The Ohio State University, my grandfather started our family tradition in the 1920s.