Art Schlichter. Time was the mention of the name sent a slight rush of excitement through the veins of Ohio State football fans.
Now, it signals only disappointment.
I got to watch from the Press Box at Ohio Stadium when Schlichter came onto the field for his first college game with the Buckeyes.
The late Dick Edmond and I were enroute to Muskingum to broadcast a Heidelberg football game on WTTF. Dick, the consummate Ohio State fan, persuaded me that, if we left a little early, we could stop at the Horseshoe to watch the first half of the Buckeyes game.
So we did. I remember the anticipation and the roar that went up when Schlichter ran onto the turf.
He had been a high school star of nationwide note at Lancaster High School in West Central Ohio. It seemed like a fairy tale when he chose to play his college ball at OSU.
He had an outstanding career with Ohio State and was picked in the first round of the 1982 NFL draft by the Indianapolis Colts.
We waited with the same anticipation and enthusiasm for his star to move to the pro football heavens.
But, it was not to be. In his NFL career, Schlichter played in only 13 regular season games, threw for less than a thousand yards and three touchdown passes.
But his on field fizzle paled in comparison to the issues that arose in his personal life.
Schlichter was an addict. He was addicted to gambling and the thrill of betting on sports.
That, obviously was not an acceptable trait in a professional athlete.
He wasn't very good at it. As a consequence he owed a lot of money to some professional gamblers who expected to be paid.
Len Pasquarelli, writing for espn.com, notes that it became almost cyclical. Schlichter would get into trouble with the law, appear in court, and get ever increasing consequences for the illegal things he was willing to do to get money to pay his gambling debts.
Last week, he was in court again, this time in Marion County, Indiana. He was convicted of cheating several people out of half a million dollars in a ticket scam. He was ordered to serve eight years in prison and pay back the victims.
It has gotten so that one doesn't even feel bad about not being able to watch a small town Ohio boy make a mark in the NFL.
It has just become a tragedy ... of his own making.