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Columbus, Ohio – When Kelly Iokeli first heard that the game between Texas and Ohio would be the final look for Lee Corso to “College Gamedai”, she immediately thought she immediately thought of chocolate cookies.
Yokeli, Auburn city, loves Corso. She loves him so much that she first visited the iron vessel between his tigers and Alabama 21 years ago, she brought him homemade cookies.
Corso saw the sign of Kelly and her husband Steven announced his welcome gift, accepting their cookies and gave his two-year daughter a kiss on his forehead. He said during the show how impressed he was in the hospitality of the locals. So Yokeli decided to take every opportunity to resubmit Corso Cookies again.
He delivered cookies cookies eleven times. On Saturday, without tickets to play and interest in any team, it made a pilgrimage from Alabama, of course, a plastic container of cookies.
“It’s just amazing, really,” Kelly said. “Just the fact that they’ll take them. Who cares if they eat them, really?”
On Saturday, Corso, now 90 and one of the oldest characters in the faculty history in the same place, where he became an icon, in Columbus, Ohio, where he first put the mascot in 1996. years, awarding Brutus head and changed sports emissions.
And the yokari were here. During the day she saw the symbols that “Gamedai” set, honoring the mascots of Brutus, including Nick Saban and Pat McAfee, and at Corso’s Nick and Pat and procured him and acquired Corsets. Their 12. and the final mission was over.
Corso was ESPN presence since 1987. year when he first joined the small faculty football studio studio studio with 12 employees. Now it is many semi-trucks that pull the show from city to town every week, striked the largest game in the country.
“I think the fans always loved football at the Faculty of 150 years, but I believe that no one is responsible for the popularity of long-long television manivals than Lee Corso,” he said Divis, it has been hosted since 2015. years. “He picked up a humor.” He picked up his humor. “He picked up humanely.” He picked up anything. “He picked up that he was afraid of anything.”
And the fans showed gratitude on Saturday. They came, young and old, from school and far. There was Leki Simon, 22, the state town of Ohio, who now works for the university, tears down the face in front of Gamedai with Corsa’s picture, saying he grew up watching him.
“I wanted to be able to be here for one last show just to say,” Thank you, coach, “Simon said.
Another homework, Brenda Barriat, 72, it seemed the first trip to watch Gamedai in person. She knew she would be behind together, but it didn’t matter.
“He’s a legend,” she said. “I mean, I’m just that excited to even see his back.”
There was Marc Plancart, from the west palm beach, Florida, whose family has become a trip here as a gift for its 60. Birthday.
“We have five children and went to five different faculties,” Plancart said. “We are somewhere in the game every week, we are here to watch this. We are not state fans about Ohio. We are not Texas fans. We are Texas here.
The signs that celebrated him dominated the crowd. The cameras followed their every step. The students sang “We love Lee!” During commercial breaks. The spill was irresistible. And Corso is usually unclosed after that.
“I feel like I was dead and everything just happened,” Corso said. “When a person dies, he laid in his graves and people say nice things about him. I felt like watching and I was dead and I saw that he saw it.”
Lee Corso changed television 5. October 1996, when he decided to use the proportion, grasping Brutus’ Rotunde’s head to declare that day to change television on that day.
But first he had to access his head, which was not an easy task. He called up a favor, asking his TV partner and a friend Kirk Herbstreit to ask his fiancé Alison, OSER SSE with a cheerleader, if he can borrow him for him. Alison went to a fan with an advisor request and quickly refused.
“Absolutely not, it’s sacred,” Alison said it was told. “No one is allowed to put it.”
But the show was appealing athletic department OSU and reviewed.
“I think I know because of me, I know Kirk and finding out the show, it all worked out, and the rest is history,” she said.
Corso liked the fans cheering. Dave Smith, one of the original handful of employees in Gamedai, which was transged “Bama Dave” Corso, he made a Trek from Birmingham, Alabama to be here for the last Corso show. He said while tradition started a friendly choice in front of the state crowd Ohio, Corso is not always warm, unclear Santa figure that he became became.
“In the early days of this show, Lee was a man who everyone liked to hate,” Smith said. “I remember one show he made a prediction and went to the commercial and said,” It’s the biggest lie I’ve ever said. “But that was his job to stir things.”
Corso had the opportunity to hate again on Saturday. But he didn’t take it. Making a head on the table from the show in the center of the central field in front of the crowded crowd to the horseshoes, Corso signed “Give me your first love!” And put Brutus, picking Buckeies via Longhorns, suitable sentences for his ESPN career.
“He became an icon,” Smith said. “People across the country, maybe I can’t look at all the show, but the last five minutes were watching just to see what he put in the world who is known for the world.”
The State Bend Ohio wrote Corso behind him. Curlet-Clud Croud was the last time celebrated their hero.
“It was an amazing feeling,” Corso said. “You can’t explain it. I wish I could, but I was stunned. It was irresistible.”
College Gamedai will go without Corso. He helped build emissions in the institution. He inspired the generation of fun via the emissions like “inside the NBA”. But it will never be the same.
“His fingerprints will be on this show forever,” Davis said.
For herbtreit. Corso became a father figure. Herbtreit says he relied on him to advice on his eyes, including his husband and his father. There was a reversal of the roles after the Corso’s stroke 2009. year, and Herbtreit became a caregiver for him in the set and behind the scenes.
“He’s just a special person,” Herbtreit said. “He was so much more than the guy sitting next to me at the table.”
Smith said it was originally supposed to work on the show for one weekend. Next week, he received a call from ESPN, after became “Bama Dave” and was not interested. The executing was told he was under the order of Corso not to take not for the answer.
Smith worked on the show for 25 years, retired two years ago.
“He’s one of the best men I’ve ever met,” Smith said.
Robert Scholz may refer. Two years ago, Scholz, who worked on security for Gamedai since 2008., became dedicated to the Corsa Security Attachment. He lives in Orlando, so he arranged Corso’s car service, he introduced him to the airport, flying commercial with him – “It’s his thing,” Scholz says everywhere everywhere while on the spot. He said it was turned off, Corso is who everyone thinks he is.
“I can say that more,” Scholz said. “He’s amazing. People at the airport ask me, is that your father? And I say, and he could do it, and how I treat him.”
He said his job was just trying for spilling love fans for Corso. He said he never saw Heckler or any signs of disrespect.
“We will continue our relationship,” Scholz said. “We’ll have breakfast once a month, I hope.”
But one thing will not continue, according to Davis. There may be new faces on the show, but there will never be another person wearing a brutus head.
“Anyone who tries to put a mascot to make a choice at the end of the show, I will deliver the processing accessory that Chrise Spielman was jealous,” Davis said, referring to the former state arrested arrest.
Corso will be treated to the airport with Scholz on Saturday. Then he will return home and return to his family life.
“We gladly shared Dad for decades. It’s all the whole thing for the Corso blessing family,” his son Steve said, former football player in Indiana. “It will be another week when we get home. The routine will be the same and the conversation will be the same. But the family’s family will be more important. It will be a big deal, and that will be a big deal.”
