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Earle Bruce Took the Ohio State Football Team to See Easy Rider and Woody Hayes Lost His Mind

The Ohio State football team used to go out to movies on Friday nights before games.

They still watch movies as a team the night before they play, but with technological advances, they no longer need to head out to a theater and can watch something in the team hotel.

For decades, however, that's exactly what they'd do. One coach would be in charge of finding a movie for the players to watch, the staff would make arrangements with the theater – whether it be the State Theatre on campus or the RKO Theater in downtown Columbus – and the team would go to the movies to think about something other than football for a few hours as kickoff inched near.