Bit of a story as someone who rarely posts. I’m an OSU grad (c/o 2015), and truly love the school and the football program. I live in New York now, and OSU football is how I stay in touch with college friends. In addition, my dad’s older and has been in bad health (spine problems and nerve degeneration). When he was spending a few months in the hospital during 2021 we watched every game together and said we would go to a game every year health allowed from now on. It’s something we both look forward to immensely and always talk about when things are hard.
We were in attendance yesterday and yeah, the game was heartbreaking. But the behavior of our fan base was worse. On the flight in Friday, a loud and obnoxious OSU fan proceeded to order a double whiskey and throw up all over the aisle.
During the game itself, people in our section were spitting on Michigan fans, drunk and threatening violence to those around them. After the game, a drunken fan (~35 year old man) attacked my dad and I outside the Library on High Street - shoving an old man who was in his way for moving slowly and trying to fight me for getting in the way.
Go on twitter and people are posting Ryan Day’s address, and making reference to his father’s suicide. I’m fully in support of hard questions being asked and am open to a head coaching move, but in general I’m finding myself really despondent and a little disgusted about the state of our fan base.
Being a Buckeye has always been one of my favorite things in life. I’m having a bit of a crisis of faith due to yesterday though. Hoping others can relate and - as much as yesterday absolutely sucked - we can try to be decent people again.
We were in attendance yesterday and yeah, the game was heartbreaking. But the behavior of our fan base was worse. On the flight in Friday, a loud and obnoxious OSU fan proceeded to order a double whiskey and throw up all over the aisle.
During the game itself, people in our section were spitting on Michigan fans, drunk and threatening violence to those around them. After the game, a drunken fan (~35 year old man) attacked my dad and I outside the Library on High Street - shoving an old man who was in his way for moving slowly and trying to fight me for getting in the way.
Go on twitter and people are posting Ryan Day’s address, and making reference to his father’s suicide. I’m fully in support of hard questions being asked and am open to a head coaching move, but in general I’m finding myself really despondent and a little disgusted about the state of our fan base.
Being a Buckeye has always been one of my favorite things in life. I’m having a bit of a crisis of faith due to yesterday though. Hoping others can relate and - as much as yesterday absolutely sucked - we can try to be decent people again.
