The Daily Collegian Mascot fights have a home in college sports By Jared Shanker Brandon Hanning patienly waited for this day to come for more than a year. He plotted and schemed his way onto the field for a chance to fulfill his dream. And on Saturday, Hanning execut ed his plan to perfection. MY OPINION Brutus Buckeye went down. Brutus Buckeye went down hard. If you haven’t seen it yet, put this column down, log onto YouThbe and search, “Ohio State Mascot Brutus Buckeye Attacked By Ohio University Mascot.” You won’t regret it. Hanning, dressed as a bobcat named Rufiis, the Ohio University mascot, watched as Brutus, the Ohio State mascot, ran onto the field with the team’s cheerleaders and players to the tune of the Buckeyes’ fight song. As Brutus and a male cheerleader ran down the field carrying the Buckeyes’ flag, Hanning darted 30 yards and wrapped up Brutus. Built more like an Olympic weightlifter than a tree (the Buckeye is Ohio’s state tree), Brutus shed the tack le and kept going. Rufus, determined to take Brutus out, put his head back on, weaved through cheerleaders and players and jumped on Brutus’ back in the end zone. Rufus took him down, put him in a chokehold and gave a swift punch to the head and even attempted a low blow before leav ing the scene and pumping up the Ohio band. “It was actually my whole plan to tackle Brutus when I tried out to be mascot,” Hanning told the Associated Press. 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None of those matched the excitement and pure awesome ness (no actual word can describe the greatness of mascot fights) of seeing Rufus go below the belt on an unsuspecting Brutus. Why? Because mascot fights are hilarious. The crowd of 105,075 inside Ohio Stadium on Saturday aren’t going to remem ber the 43-7 drubbing the Buckeyes put on the Bobcats. But they will remember Rufus taking a swipe at Brutus’ manhood. I sat in the press box for Penn State’s riveting 24-0 win over Kent State. If I weren’t getting paid to pay attention, I’d have taken a nice 90-minute nap dur ing the second and third quarters. I even had someone tell me she saw a fan sleeping in the stands on Saturday. Now, what better way to excite the crowd than to pit the Nittany Lion against Flash, Kent State’s bird mascot? It could be billed as the final fight, the final showdown between nature’s most intense rivaliy: Cat vs. Bird. 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Offer that to the 100,000 in attendance Saturday and I’m sure more than half would take that over the game, which put people to sleep faster than a warm glass of milk. When you think college sports, mascot fights don’t immediately come to mind. Maybe they should. A few weeks ago, my col umn offered 10 reasons explain ing why college football is better than the NFL. I regret not mak ing mascot fights one of them. The Stanford 'free, the most ridiculous but the best mas cot of all time, squared off with the University of California mas cot Oski, a bear. Now how Stanford, which housed two U.S. presidents, came up with this mascot is beyond me. But I’m happy it did. I’m even happier the free decided to go toe-to-toe with a Golden Bear. I’m not sure who keeps records, but I’d like to know how many fights the Oregon Duck has been in. He beat up Houston’s mascot on three separate occa sions in one game, and then got into an actual fistfight against Oregon State’s Benny Beaver. The Duck’s got a worse temper than Bill Romanowski. Usually, the fights are staged and nothing more than a way to waste time and give the fans something to look at during com mercials. Those are always enter taining. A lot of times, though, the mascot fights escalate. That’s when they become more than hilarious they become historic. So while many are condemning Hanning’s actions Ohio admin istration banned him from athletic events I applaud it. Hanning’s 90-second escapade left a lasting Advertising in Collegian Classifieds: • Classified Word Ads must be PREPAID, unless the advertiser has established credit. • We accept Visa and Master Card. • Words, numbers, telephone numbers arid ! abbreviations count as one word. • Only the most common abbreviations may be used. • Complete Name, Address and Phone Number of Make checks payable to: Collegian Inc. advertiser is required. Send payment and ad copy to: Collegian Inc., Dept. C 123 S. 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