back in a game against perdue, they made the orange bole -- bowl and a year or so before that, woody hayesomes and says, we need you to play, his back wouldn't heal but my dad, this was his identity and woody had become somewhat like a father figure to him, so he tried to do it, he shows up and before the game a guy comes to him and says, you want me to give you something that will help you play like a champion today, my dad says, sure, man hands him envelope and inside the envelope is cocaine. he takes cocaine for the first time. he goes on to be orange bowl mvp and a serious legend in college football, it also was the start of a drug addiction for him that by the time i was born it had gone onto crack, had gone onto heroin, had gone onto the beginning of the destruction of my family and so when i'm 11i go into school and there's -- my teacher hands me the dallas morning news and on the front page is my father, at once pride of texas, athlete star, his life affected by drugs. the whole story that i received, here is this boy who threw away his life, through -- threw away career because of

he went on to be the second quarterback and played for the legendary woody hayes. i read in the book that, you know, him being a legend was a real pain. that is an integrated as a father because every boy wants to be his own man and it's hard to do that when everybody calls you the son of somebody. but football in the book is very important role. my dad became a legend when he was 20, his sophomore year and he had broken his back early in the season in a game against purdue. the season went on. ohio state made the orange bowl that year. they were going to play against the university of colorado. they said was then, we need you to play it. but this was his identity and what he had become somewhat like a father figure to him, so he tried to do it. so he shows up in before the game a guy comes to him and says to him but he could be something that will help you play like a champion today? my dad says scheuer. that scheuer. the man handed him an envelope and inside the envelope is cocaine and he takes cocaine for the first time. he goes on to become orange bowl mvp and

there, radnich also did some play-by-play for ohio state football, teaming up with coach woody hayes. wide open. touchdown. erick kannis. we gonna sit here all afternoon and brag about michigan?"the reason gary connects so well with the viewers, is he is just impeccably honest.he was a forerunner to the guys with the diamonds in their earlobes. gary was just that kind of gregarious, interested, outgoing, aggressive dude.my father was a basketball player, and a boxer. you never hear that combination. he was one of those all-league basketball players. he was a center at 6-3. he was like wilt chamberlain, back in the 1930s. that was considered a big guy. but boxing was where he made his name. he was a three-time golden gloves champ. athletic skills weren't the only thing gary got from his dad. his father was kind of off the wall in many ways. he always worked for himself, you know. he had a ranch, he had a restaurant, he had a pest control business. he was a policeman in san jose. you'd hear these legendary stories about how