No Brutus? WTF?
We’re a few days out from Ohio State’s first football game of the season and the details are beginning to emerge about how this shit is gonna look. Not surprisingly there will be very few fans at the games, which is good because listen we just want football. The players should be in the stadium and that should almost be it. I don’t even care about the coaches. They barely matter. Honestly they could communicate with the players via walkie talkies from the booth the whole time. I want to cut down on the risk as much as possible and that’s why I was against NFL teams trying to sneak in these fans. I mean we’re barely scraping by to begin with and Jerry is like “NAH FAM WE CAN GET IN AT LEAST 20K CMON NOW IT’LL BE GOOD. WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO WITH ALL THESE BOBBLE HEADS.”
So I’m fine, more than fine, HAPPY, with basically no fans because it’s one less variable to fuck everything up. HOWEVER, there is one constraint here that I really don’t understand.
Ohio Stadium's capacity will be limited to a total of 1,600 people this season, including teams and stadium staff. Ohio State will have 656 player and coaching family guests at games and visiting teams will have up to 400. TBDBITL, cheerleaders and Brutus will not be at games.
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) October 19, 2020
Okay like why no Brutus? My two-year-old is gonna be PISSED. Here’s a couple pics of him with Brutus from last season. You may not be able to tell from the second pic but the dude loves Brutus.
I understand taking all sensible precautions but my god if anyone’s equipped for this virus it’s Brutus, the dude who literally lives in a giant mask. He’s been prepared for this day his entire life, and now you’re saying he can’t even get into the stadium? This ain’t right.
I have not checked the CDC’s website in a few hours but I don’t know how giant mascot headgear does not qualify as proper face protection. Brutus was way ahead of the curve even before we flattened the curve! And now he’s being punished, along with my innocent son, for no reason. It’s a disgrace, and I feel for toddlers, and mascots, everywhere.
