COLUMBUS -- The guy seated in row five of my flight through Chicago en route to Columbus held a baby boy. Lets call the dad "Chris."
"Cutest kid on the plane," I told dad, in front of me as we boarded.
Chris and his family root for Oregon State. I know this because he wore a bright orange College World Series T-shirt to go with his Kansas City Royals baseball cap. As we boarded the aircraft Chris won a wrestling match with one of those lightweight stroller rigs, folding it flat and pinning it to the ground in the jetway in Portland International Airport.