SHOES AT KICKOFF???

Pac 10+ crowds for years have jingled their keys for the University for Spoiled Children who driver entrylevel beemers :D

 
If you had picked up a daily Nebraskan last week, this article was in there on the front page along with a multitude of other things the fans do at the games.

 
It goes way back farther than any of this, and is very specific to Ohio State.  In that late 1800’s, back when osu was An Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, there was a horrible outbreak of mold and fungus.  Students regularly handled, worked alongside, and even bunked with farm animals.  This close proximity, combined with poor hygiene, transferred various forms of pedial bovine fungus, slippery swine mold, and other hyphae and mildew through the student body and permanently infected dorms, showers, and classrooms.  While the practice of bunking with farm animals has lessened somewhat in recent years, and after repeated efforts by the OAMC (now osu) health department, Ohio Health Department, Red Cross, Center for Disease Control, International Health and Biodefense, and numerous corporate efforts (Tenactin College of Home Economics, ohio band dotting “i” sponsored by Lotrimin, etc.), the college and student body has been plagued with widespread infection of tenia pedis.  The effects of the fungal infection are manifest in uncontrolled itching of the feet, usually between the toes.  Therefore, it is not uncommon to see ohio college students with their shoes off, scratching furiously, in class, between class, in dorms, at dining halls, and in social situations.  Rather thank hide their shame or take aggressive control over the outbreak, the student body adopted a culture of “just scratch it”, and even developed a tradition of showing solidarity to their affliction through the holding up of  a shoe for all to see.  A flag celebrating their cause is in design.

 
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