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Police steamroll Ohio State students with pepper spray

ByCory Buck|
Jan 12, 2015; Arlington, TX, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes fans hold up signs celebrating their victory over the Oregon Ducks in the 2015 CFP National Championship Game at AT&T Stadium. Ohio State won 42-20. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 12, 2015; Arlington, TX, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes fans hold up signs celebrating their victory over the Oregon Ducks in the 2015 CFP National Championship Game at AT&T Stadium. Ohio State won 42-20. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

Ohio State University students stormed the campus and the football field in celebration of the football team’s national championship, only to be thwarted by police.

Students at Ohio State University continued the long, proud American tradition of acting like a complete destructive moron after your team has won a championship. This time they stormed a frozen lake, broke into an empty stadium and just generally did whatever they could to incite local police to use tear gas, pepper spray and plenty of angry threats to subdue the celebratory throng in the wake of the Buckeyes’ National Championship.

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The revelry started simply enough with a celebratory gathering of students, jumping and cheering after their team’s 42-20 win over the Oregon Ducks.

Of course, things quickly escalated as the crowd grew in number and intensity.

Did you require a closer view? Well allow this OSU camera person to oblige.

“Say there, Huck, why dontcha hold m’ shirt while I jump that there fence?”

Soon after someone got the bright idea of hopping a fence and students started trying to break into the Shoe, police arrived with pepper spray. For once, the rest of the country was actually rooting for the police as they got to work.

Yes, it’s fair to say that a good portion of the OSU student population was excited about their football team winning the big game. Fortunately, there weren’t any casualties amid the destruction so at least there’s that.

It’s easy to sit back and say, “Oh those college students…being college students.” But this stuff happens after pro championships as well, sometimes even if the team loses, as seen in Vancouver.

At least in Ohio State, it’s college students pulling this off and not grown adults with actual life experience. College students are supposed to act like banshees in reaction to basically anything, so we’ll just write this one off as a crazy day for everyone involved.

[H/T SB Nation]

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