The Athletic Department has thousands of Ohio State games on tape, which are available for the public to buy.The department has taped games and practices for more than 70 years, said Jim Carr, video coordinator for the athletic department.Members of the Varsity O can buy a copy of a game for $25, while others can buy a game for $40, Carr said.The archives hold many tapes of sporting events from the past, mainly including football and basketball, Carr said.The main function for the university is to tape the games and practices so that coaches and players can learn from them.’The tapes are made for the use of the athletic teams, and after a certain time these tapes are stored in our archives,’ Carr saidThe video department of the Athletic Department has three cameras that are used by students to tape the sporting events as they happen, Carr said.The archives contain only videotapes filmed by the Athletic Department, Carr said.’Videotapes filmed by broadcast television, such as OSU football games on ABC, are not held in our archives,’ Carr said.The games were taped on film until 1989, and since then the games have been taped onto videotape, Carr said. Thousands of reels of film are contained in the archives, which include great moments in OSU sports, such as OSU’s victory over USC in the 1969 Rose Bowl.Highlights of games are also made into video format for the use of coaches, Carr said.Some students and members of Varsity O buy sports games from the archives on a regular basis. Only the biggest Ohio State fans usually buy copies of the games, according to Carr.’The quality of the tapes are very good, and they show the real excitement of OSU sports without the interruptions by sports announcers,’ said Dustin Coffman, a self-proclaimed OSU fan.Coffman said that the sports archives allows avid sports fans the opportunity to watch and relive the great moments in OSU history.’Fans like me are thrilled to own old games that meant so much to me in my life,’ Coffman said.According to Coffman, the Athletic Department is very generous in making copies of past sporting events available to the public. OSU could keep the games for university use only, but instead it sells them to its fans, Coffman said.