Bucket List! 2024 Rose Bowl Game and Parade
I was born and grew up in the city of Columbus, Ohio, home of The Ohio State University. My uncle and cousins were in the band there (The Best Damn Band in the Land), my grandparents lived down the street, my dad's high school was on campus, my cousin worked there and I even attended there one summer. To say that I have scarlet and gray in my blood would be an understatement. When I was growing up, New Years Day meant two things: watching the Rose Bowl Parade on tv in the morning and then watching the winner of the Big 10 conference play the winner of the Pac 10 conference play in the Rose Bowl. Orange tree in the neighborhood we walked through to get to the parade (For those of you not familiar with the Rose Bowl, it is an American football "bowl" game, meaning championship, at a stadium located in Pasadena, California, on New Years Day evening. The Parade of Roses is a spectacular parade in the morning of New Years Day with marching bands and floats made of thousands if...
