On Oct. 21, 2016, the day before Penn State upset Ohio State in front of a White Out crowd, ABC play-by-play broadcaster Chris Fowler parked his rental car outside a house in College Heights, just near the golf course, and sat there.
Fowler was home. Well, his old home. Kirk Herbstreit’s primetime partner spent his seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade years in Happy Valley. His father was a theater professor at Penn State in the mid-1970s, and before his family relocated to Colorado as a teenager, Fowler formed a bond with Centre County and its football fever.
Fowler, talking to the Centre Daily Times days before calling this weekend’s edition of Penn State-Ohio State, said returning to State College “brings it all back.