Yahoo – Giovanni Strassini had a pretty good deal going. He’d show up as a guest at functions for a Charlotte-based Ohio State fan group, he’d pose for pictures and sign autographs, and he’d talk about his exploits as an All-American tight end for the Buckeyes in the mid-1970s on Facebook.
The only problem? Well, Ohio State has never heard of Giovanni Strassini.
Strassini (or whoever he is) saw his story start to unravel on a message board thread at BuckeyePlanet.com. The posters on that site easily figured out there was no Strassini who wore No. 89 for the Buckeyes. He wasn’t the third basemen for the baseball team in that era either, as he had also claimed. He definitely didn’t score an 8-yard touchdown in the 1976 Rose Bowl, one of the more easily verifiable facts to look up. The Buckeyes’ only touchdown that day was a 3-yard touchdown run by Pete Johnson.
Seems like this guy had a pretty good deal going; he’d show up at alumni events and undoubtedly get complementary drinks and food for signing autographs, as well as gathering all the attention he could ask for. But I seriously don’t think blame this guy. This is all on those idiotic Buckeye fans. Like how in the world do you not realize this guy was a fake? I feel like a simple search through Ohio State athletics would have showed this guy never got near the field, let alone be a two-sport All-American. Do people think Giovanni Strassini is a common name or something? Pretty sure this guy is the only one in the world with that clown ass name. It’s absolutely hilarious to me that this dude just showed up, took pics, got free shit, and was a big deal. Like his signed bowling pin is just casually chilling next to 
Archie Griffin. I commend him on being able to pull this off, and he really went all out by creating a Wikipedia page, an IMDB entry (for reasons that I really don’t understand), and adding all this info to his Facebook and Twitter pages. You really have to be a nobody to do this, like literally no one can know anything about you.
I still think the best part might the Sporcle quiz of All-Americans at Ohio State since 1968, and Giovanni had the second highest percentage at 62.9%, while only 39.4% guessed Troy Smith correctly. Either this dude sat in front of his computer and took the same quiz for hours on end (to raise his own percentage), or Buckeye fans are literally retarded. I am not sure which one of those is true.