If you’ve been paying attention to the summer offseason workouts for the Ohio State football team, or reading our stuff here, then you know the team has been going through a little friendly competition called the “June Olympics.” It’s a competition between the players and staff to see who can bring home the most wins in various competitions with a champion being crowned at the end.
We weren’t too sure when the end of the “feats of athletic endeavors” between the old guys and the young pups were going to be over, or even what events would be a part of all the hoopla, but we were informed today that the last competition took place by way of half-court shots. Going into the last event, things were all knotted up at 5 to 5, just like you’d want it, so the winner of the long bombs from half-court would get the bragging rights.
And, unfortunately for those of us who are competing with Father Time ourselves, the younger players won the half-court shooting competition and took the title of the “June Olympics” with a final 6 to 5 score. You can check out the highlights below. By the looks of it, it took just one shot to win it after several airballs and misfires. Watch as the shot goes through the bottom of the net for the players to claim supremacy.
As if the youth in the building didn’t have enough talking to do, now the elder statesmen in the program will have to live with the loss until next summer when we see if the “June Olympics” make another appearance.
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