I went to the bar on Monday night to watch the football game and eat some wings with my roommate. While we were eating, a guy walked by in a Patriots jersey. Normally, this isn’t very strange. Upstate New York is full of bandwagon jumping Patriot fans. However, this guy was wearing a jersey number that didn’t immediately register. When I took a closer look, I saw this:
Andy Katzenmoyer!
I still can’t believe it. Luckily, I had my trusty Blackberry with me and was able to snap this picture. Of course, i didn’t want to act like I was taking a picture of him. I mean, it was some dude I didn’t know. In a bar. I had to act like I was texting. Then after the incredibly bright flash went off, I ran out the door. What can I say? I’m a tough guy.
As for Katzenmoyer himself…
“The Big Kat” played at tOSU and was drafted by the Pats in 1999. Katzenmoyer wasn’t what you would call “smart.” During high school, Katzenmoyer’s collegiate study habits were a favorite joke between my friends and I. Thanks to the SI Vault I was able to find the exact article that we always laugh about. Here’s the part that always stuck with us:
Last summer Ohio State was widely ridiculed for the smooth path to eligibility it paved for All-America linebacker—and noted classroom slacker—Andy Katzenmoyer, who needed to pull his overall grade point average up to 2.0 (C) during two five-week summer terms so he could suit up for his junior season. Katzenmoyer attained his goal by loading up on such easy-to-pass courses as AIDS: What Every College Student Should Know and golf.
Beautiful. AIDS and golf.
@ tOSU: +1
God, that paragraph is so beautiful I want to make love to it. You have to love big time college athletics. And you also have to love people wearing Andy Katzenmoyer jerseys.
AIDS = Funny
Golf = Depressing
/everyone’d but TBL and Spencer
no wonder spencer loves AIDS and golf so much.
This site needs more snow.
Buckeyes + Patriots = Douchesplosion
Everyone has AIDS, even the pope.
/team america’d
i don’t remember even seeing a class called “AIDS: What every college student should know.” I don’t think I would have taken it, but the option would have been nice.
Actually, as a product of tOSU, I can confirm that it was actually just one class: AIDS: What Every College Student Should Know and Golf
Stigs, is there something you need to tell us?
last i heard, the big kat is an assistant coach at his high school alma mater, westerville south. and it also looks like he’s running LIFT.
http://lift-fitness.com/
“Achieving your goal is our objective”
You can’t go wrong with a motto like that.
it’s none of your business, Hef. stigs can’t give you AIDS over the internet.
How do you know? Did you take the class? Or do you have AIDS too?
I took a similar but entirely different class at Tennessee – AIDS: What Every College Student Should Know and Raquetball
I can’t remember who they were playing (maybe Iowa?), but Katzenmoyer laid some poor QB out as a freshman. It was special.
Aaah, memories.
Raquetball > golf
/in terms of being a sport
miz, you and i both know yours was the basket-weaving version of the AIDS classes.
Rex – the AIDS: What Every College Student Should Know and Raquetball and AIDS: What Every College Student Should Know and Basket-weaving classes were alternate semesters from each other and a couple of my engineering classes interfered with the basket-weaving class so I had to go raquetball to get that PE credit.
Man, I really need a blackberry with a camera on it….
I actually own an Andy Katzenmoyer Pats jersey… it was the only one available for $8 on eBay when I really wanted a Pats jersey 5 years ago.
Now I also have a Doug Flutie jersey.
I swear to God not only do I own a Katzenmoyer jersey, but also a Chad Eaton. They’re somewhere at home, don’t know if I’ll ever find ‘em.