"I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault."
"I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault."
R.I.P., Assassin. Ohio State's finest was one of the most terrifying tacklers to every buckle a chinstrap, and then take that chinstrap and work it to the breaking point by spearing, slapping, hacking, clotheslining, slamming, and putting the fear of an angry and impersonal God into the opposition. Mourning someone who played with such hathos directed at lesser football players seems off-key; Tatum deserves more of a salute, a push of the boat, and a swiftly thrown torch igniting his Viking funeral boat.