Didn’t the OSU president on her way out state as much that the fan base was a pack of couch burning imbeciles?
   There is a youtube video that depicts much of what you experienced against Michigan.

I went down to cbus for a couple games while at the U of Mich. Take all your description of cbus and multipy by 10x for the michigan game. cars parked in cbus with michigan plates are just about guaranteed to be keyed or have the tires slashed. one my buds who attended the game was black and we were barraged with the N* word, among worse insults. a heavy object will be thrown at your head some point before, during, or after the game. quite simply, a trip to columbus will ruin your faith in humanity.

I have a buddy who’s a buckeye and since we live in Michigan we thought it would cool to go to Columbus and Austin to see our alma maters battle. It is, in fact, with respect to him that this post will not run the gamut of vitriol and poisonous hatred, but I will attest that the treatment of OSU locals to visiting longhorns was a disgrace to the human race. Nothing short of animal behavior. My friend was shocked and embarrased seeing it from my viewpoint. The absolute bottom was seeing a team of drunken shitheads screaming obscenities at a family clad in orange. A family with two young kids. It didn’t fucking matter to those fucking scumbags. Screaming “fuck texas” to little kids. It’s a damn good thing I wasn’t armed at the time because surely I’d be in jail right now. I think the only reason I didn’t end up in various scuffles was simply because of my buckeye friend, and believe me they were riding him a bit too, for being around me. I will admit I was saved one time by one of their own, a young lady who, although she was also taunting me a bit in a good natured way, stepped in when a tall drunken punk really got in my face. Overall, if I really had to jog my memory, it wasn’t all bad. There were several people who came up to me and congratulated me afterwards. Others merely said I had alot of balls but if I were a UofM alum, things would be much worse (good god, how much worse could it be – and btw, where the fuck were the authorities in all this??). But in general this was the worst trip I’ve ever been on. My friend, in anticipation for the next year in Austin, asked me with certain trepidation whether he would get the same treatment down there and I answered, hell no, not in the slightest. Incidentally, he, and many other buckeyes that year fell in love with Austin and 6th street. What else would you expect. Anyway, I hate their school and I hope we beat the shit out of them next week.

There’s this kind of classless trash all over. We live in a suburb between Baltimore and DC, and wifey’s sister gave us tickets to see the Ravens host the University of Texas at Nashville Tennessee Titans for our July birthdays. While we didn’t get to see Vince play, we did get to see Michael Griffin, Bo Scaife, Ahmard Hall, etc. Wifey wore her Vince Young Titans jersey, and I of course wore my Vince Young Longhorns jersey. Anyway, as we were on our way to our seats, some over-tattooed uneducated Baltimore trash guy with a sideways visor spotted our Vince jerseys and started making the throat-slashing gesture, yelling “Piss poor, man, that’s piss poor! He can’t take the pro game! He wants to go kill himself. Wah!” I informed him that he ought to check his facts before parroting what he hears on ESPN.

Anyway, the ‘Horns Titans went on to win the game, and the fans around us were mostly tolerant of our jerseys and cheering, and we talked football with ’em. On the way out of the stadium, though, we had two separate Ravens fans bump us and yell out, “Just go kill yourself.” Keep takin’ the high road, fellas. Now you know why the rest of the country looks down on Baltimore.

First off, I am an OSU fan. I appreciate the criticism that’s been levied here against a lot of the ridiculous nonsense that a lot of Buckeye fans displayed in that game. It was a complete embarrassment, and a black eye for the reputation of Ohio State fans.

With that being said, I did experience some of the same at the game in Austin. Not near as bad as you recall, but I remember that same feeling of a great experience and great victory just feeling completely sour and tarnished. My dad and I went together and really had no problems before the game. The usual verbal taunts were thrown at us….but nothing we didn’t really expect.

The worst of it came after the game when we were walking back to our cars. A small group of Texas fans crowded around my Dad and I and pushed us around…yelling “F**You” within 3 inches of our faces. They threatened to kick our asses and told us to “go back to f***-in’ Ohio.”

Luckily for us, we were from Dallas, and were very familiar with Texas fans. I knew this wasn’t the norm. Half my family went to UT, and I’d been to my share of Texas games. I knew their fans were pretty harmless, and polite. Throughout most of the game, I was met with a lot of kind words and even more so after the game. A lot of “good game, guess we’re even” and so forth. The people sitting next to us were very nice.

Unfortunately, I do think what Texas fans experienced in Columbus was worse, but it’s sad that some bad apples ruin it for genuine fans. I also will give UT fans some slack, knowing that a lot of abuse OSU fans may have experienced in Austin could’ve been from retaliation from what occurred in Columbus. Anyways, thought I’d share my experiences. I’ve lived in Texas almost my entire life, and the ’Horns are always my second team. Good luck on Jan 4th.

Jim Tressel’s sweater vest is by far the most egregious and insulting piece of Buckeye nation, but I will wholeheartedly agree that these are the most obnoxious and embarrassing a**clowns in all of college football fanhood.

I returned all of my Christmas gifts, and asked only that we beat the brakes off of them in the desert

“Yea, we do have a lot of sucky fans. No denying that. Every fanbase has them”

I lived in Ohio for 3 years (amongst many other places in the US). Ohio State has by FAR the worst fanbase in the country. They are belligerent, obnoxious, drunk idiots. There is not just a lot of “sucky fans”, there are TONS of them. And although every fanbase has a their problem fans, Buckeyes have thousands and thousands of them. (and yes, they have thousands of genuinely awesome fans…but they get drowned out by the drunken idiots so they go unnoticed often times).

Its really unfortunate for Ohio State, but if they really wanted to do something about it, they would. And the President giving statements and having “hospitality” ads is not enough. They need an extremely strong police presence at their games and outside in the community before and after games

It’s too bad for them. It’s not exactly what I would want to be “known” for.

We noticed the bad behavior by tOSU fans was proportional to your distance from the stadium. Our cab driver dropped us a few blocks from campus and we walked through an apartment area with a lot of parties – we did have one stick thrown at us, mostly a lot of “F you!” and random threats. At the few parties where there were some Texas fans tailgating, we dropped off small cigars for the host.

Once we got to (and inside) the stadium, it seemed there were an unusual number of people who asked us (without solicitation) if we had been mistreated and apologized. We were warned twice that if we did win that we should quickly return to our cars and not loiter while celebrating.

Ironically, at one of the “HeineyGate” parties pre-game many Big 10 fans were there – and all agreed that while tOSU fans were bad, they weren’t as bad as Wisconsin fans!