What If the Ohio State Buckeyes weren’t the Ohio State “Buckeyes”?

Joe Maiorana-USA TODAY Sports Continuing on with our “What If?” theme week, my “What-if” question was inspired by the latest by Ann K., a contributor over at On the Forecheck— SB Nation’s Nashville Predators community. She asked the question: What if the Nashville Predators weren’t the Nashville “Predators?”

You see, in 1971, a group of construction workers were working in downtown Nashville and came across a nine-inch saber tooth cat fang. This discovery became the inspiration for the NHL team 26 years later when they were officially named the Predators. But, what if it wasn’t a badass saber tooth cat fossil the construction workers found? What if “the famous blood-engorged mosquito fossil…