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(07-15-2019 01:53 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(07-15-2019 01:35 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  

(07-15-2019 07:49 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  I have no issues with "Cincinnatuh" if it flows naturally (usually from older folks or people in rural settings) but Herbstreits use of the word just comes across as a jab. I don't know, maybe I am being too sensitive...

I agree in terms of general conversation among locals, but I didn't graduate drom the University of CincinnaTUH. I don't root for the CincinnaTUH Bearcats Football Team either. I don't remember a current or previous player, coach, AD, or President say it. It makes us sound like some backwoods remedial college. FWIW, I don't believe I've heard anyone other than Dorkstreit pronounce it that way.

Hence, the point I was making that it comes across as a jab. If Herbie was raised in Seaman, Ohio I'd get it, but he grew up in a nice suburban neighborhood in Centerville. His dad was a football coach and was even on Woody Hayes' staff.

Yep, in Herbie's case, it sounds like a poke in our eye--some passive-aggressive behavior perhaps?

I wasn't raised in Columbus so I welcome comments from those who were. One man's opinion--for much of my life, Cincinnati was viewed (for good reason) in Dayton, Columbus, Indy, Lexington, Louisville and Huntington as the regional hub for major league sports, arts/entertainment and major attractions.

Columbus was viewed more as a cowtown that was fertilized by, and grew in, the shadows of state government and OSU. I think there has been some "Cincinnati-envy" through the years and when Bearcat football suddenly started sharing a bigger stage in the Buckeye State it didn't sit well with some in Franklin County who viewed college football as their unique claim to fame.