I didn’t believe the innuendo about the uncivilized behavior of Buckeye fans until yesterday.
Having attended the Fiesta Bowl for the last several years, I have never felt compelled to comment about fellow attendees — until now. I have been to innumerable sporting events, concerts etc., but I have never experienced such rude and crass behavior as I saw from OSU fans during the game. It was so egregious. I felt compelled (along with the rest of my party) to leave at halftime.
I thought booing the opposing band was tasteless but pardonable … booing an Air Force cadet parachutist simply because he came down with the Miami flag was unconscionable (someone putting his country first and making a dangerous jump certainly had more class than the vast majority of OSU fans). I respect the passion and vivacity of Buckeye fans, but they just couldn’t seem to exercise a modicum of self-control.
The inability of some OSU fans to use any other word besides the f-word in the presence of numerous children was disconcerting. Not only was beer consistently and repeatedly spilled on me as well as the three others with me, projectiles were being tossed from the upper deck.
After using the restroom, I walked away without even washing my hands because half-a-dozen alleged adults (all wearing crimson) were using the sinks as their personal urinals. (I guess that is what they were taught, and I’m sure their mothers would have been very proud of them.)
That was it for me. Unable to contain their impulses, they were making asses of themselves and ruining what was a traditionally joyous occasion (as well as one of the best college football games in history) for us. There were many more incidents, but space and time constraints prohibit a more thorough exposition.
Fortunately, I will never have to endure any classless, wretched, despicable, pathetic and worthless OSU fan ever again. Hopefully they’ll return to Columbus and finish burning down what they weren’t able to complete just recently.
Sanjay J. AgrawalaAttorney-at-Law, Chicago, Ill.
