BUCKEYE-Wrestler, Football player, or "NUT"?

This HUGE Buckeye Tree is right in my front yard. I see it everyday. I have watched it change through 4 seasons now. Although I have known about "buckeyes" all my life. I never really knew the purpose of buckeyes. I thought a "Buckeye" was a wrestler, or football player. Well I looked up a couple of things about these "nuts". They look like you should be able to open them up and eat them, but you don't. The name buckeye came from the Indians & settlers because it resembles the eye of a buck deer. The nut has been considered a good luck charm. (That's why dad has one in his pocket, & I have one in my purse.) It is also believed to relieve arthritis and rheumatism. Today the buckeye nut is used mostly for pulp; furniture, crates, pallets, caskets, and human limbs. The leaves are large and provide a lot of shade. In the summer, those spiny seed pods grow, and now in the fall, they crack open fall to the ground and the brown nut falls out. You don't dare walk across the yard barefoot. These are sharp, spiny, poky, seed pods. Ouch! Sugar even has to tip-toe around.