SO TOOONIGHT WE’RE GONNA PARTY LIKE WE’RE GEORGE-KAR-A-DI-MAS.
Ohio State fans, take note: you did not poop in coolers, according to our sources, in celebration of your victory against Texas. (That must be a bowl-game-only celebration.) You did, however, pull out an impressive array of celebratory mayhem, up to and including burning couches, mattresses, and trash bins, which is either a joyous pagan ritual honoring football, or part of a draconian campaign against the homeless ever finding anything useful in your neighborhood. There were around 40 of them, which totally had to look like a Pat Benatar video if you had enough foresight to sachay around the place wearing leather pants and fingerless fishnet gloves.
Georgia Karadimas, 22, definitely earned his fifteen yarder for excessive celebration by inventing a new celebration altogether: running your car into a gameday control command post. Karadimas plowed into the command post and injured three people after the OSU/Texas game, including a fire battalion chief and Ohio State Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Barbara Rich. See if you ever get your diploma, Mr. Karadimas!
Quoth the local police:
“This happens on big games, so we were prepared for it.”
Rock.
See? Burning couches aren’t just for West Virginia fans.
***UPDATE!!!!1111!!! George Karadimas is–oh, wait for it–an Ohio State cheerleader.









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Cool Hand Mike says:
They act like they’ve never beaten a decent team. I’d expect this from a much smaller less significant university.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:12 am
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Steve says:
Thats amazing, school hasn’t even started for us at OSU and wont start for another week and a half. The first home game for a full campus of students wont be until the Bucks play Penn State. This is great, now when all the students come down gameday secrurity will be unbelievably tight because of a few dumbasses… at least wait for a home game, where numbers are greater and violence is less easily quelled.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:24 am
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Cory says:
Blah blah blah… once again, a bunch of non-students on campus at OSU do something stupid and make everyone else look bad.
Nobody is living on campus yet, and everyone just moved… which is why there are plenty of extra couches and mattresses handy to set on fire. And don’t worry, the local homeless population does just fine.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:28 am
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tOSU_radar says:
It’s not the alcohol, it’s those EDSBS shirts that make me do it!
September 11th, 2006 at 9:48 am
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NewAZTiger says:
I want an EDSBS T-shirt that says “Act Like You Haven’t Been There Before”
September 11th, 2006 at 10:05 am
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Wolf says:
The story leaves off the best part….this guy is an OSU cheerleader.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:10 am
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Orson Swindle says:
Oh, my…this just got three zillion times better.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:12 am
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Wooderson says:
Cory, I think the phrase “Non-students on the tOSU campus” is pretty indicative of the academic culture they’re fostering out there in God’s Coun…err, Columbus.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:13 am
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Cool Hand Mike says:
Oh no, they’re not going to blame this on us non-students who are there for the free beer and easy academic chicks. This was an inside job.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:17 am
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doubtingthomas says:
“I want an EDSBS T-shirt that says “Act Like You Haven’t Been There Before””
That’s Gold, Jerry.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:26 am
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CouchBurnin'Girl says:
“I’d expect this from a much smaller less significant university.”
Hey… not cool, man! WVU is significant – check out the coaches poll. Mountaineers just have “behavior problems” and like to “set things on fire” after hyped-up “rivalry” games. I like to think it endears us in the hearts of fans across America.
And it gets us on CNN. I didn’t hear about the OSU riots. They must not have been doing it right.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:30 am
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Cool Hand Mike says:
I meant those other small less significant universities.
I mean your guys did go to A national championship game, right.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:41 am
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Forza Bucks says:
The difference is, OSU fans burn couches for celebratory reasons. WVU fans burn couches for heat.
September 11th, 2006 at 11:05 am
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Wooderson says:
ND burned a couch once. When we won the women’s b-ball national title. Se how badly Boob-ingham emasculated us? CBG, you must be thirlled to have competition in the couch burning arena. Gives it legitamacy as a sport… sort of like synchronized swimming and ice dancing.
September 11th, 2006 at 11:30 am
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CouchBurnin'Girl says:
Yes we did Cool Hand. In 1989.
And Wooderson, I’ve never claimed that couch burning was a sport… but more of a delightful often-immitated-never-duplicate celebratory pastime.
Maryland tried, but then they started to set fire to their campus – you’ve gotta have boundries.
September 11th, 2006 at 11:37 am
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Whohah says:
Oh hot diggity damn. His MySpace profile:
http://www.myspace.com/george1684
Someone please save this in case he takes it down or makes it private. Of note:
“Interests: Cheerleading, Lifting, Partying/going to bars, Cars, Lifting, College Football, Motorcycles, Snowboarding .. Music, Lifting, playing guitar, drawing. oh yeah and eating too. and lifting.”
Oh, and who wants to bet he probably looked just like this as the cops swarmed his car?
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=3992515&imageID=738271487&MyToken=c9cc66d3-de30-47e8-871a-9a1578ded1e5
September 11th, 2006 at 11:47 am
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Bhors says:
I haven’t said anything about the game at all, but where are all the TX fans? Odell? Stos? It was a good game and a great atmosphere, and 6th street is officially the 2nd coolest place I’ve ever been (Burboun St has first, sorry). But all I remember reading from TX fans is Ohio is full of fatass mobile home living inbreads. Where’s that talk now?
September 11th, 2006 at 11:57 am
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father figure says:
The classiest darn fans in the US of A. Honestly, is there a more embarassing fanbase in college football?
September 11th, 2006 at 11:59 am
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Bhors says:
No i didnt spell check either, for whomever is going to post that
September 11th, 2006 at 11:59 am
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oc phil says:
Columbus is like nowhere else I’ve ever seen on the day of a big football game. Everybody “looking for a party” flows out of those little Ohio towns and heads to tOSU campus. The main street near campus, (High Street) gets so packed with people that the cops make the sidewalks “one way only” and all the stores will board up the windows for an away game. I thought USC playing Notre Dame or UCLA was an intense atmosphere, but it is nothing compared to the insanity in Columbus.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
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SeaTrojan says:
I’m not blaming the EDSBS t-shirts for the mayhem, I’m just sayin’ that they fan the flames of an atmosphere where anycouch goes.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
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LSU Meathead says:
As a follow up to Whohah’s post. Read further into Karadimas’ work history. It appears that someone in his family runs the Karadimas Chiropractic Center in Brecksville, Ohio. Tell me that is not the irony to end all ironies! You run over the fire chief & OSU vice president, but your pops can get them a deal on a spinal readjustment!
September 11th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
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Odell 51 says:
Bhors,
I will try and go the high road for one sentance and then begin:
tOSU obviously has a very good….foot….tea..
I just can’t do it. Just because tOSU played a good game does not give them total white trash, fat, unemployed exemption. The tOSU fan base is still an embarassment to the state of Ohio. Good game and beware of the let down. Even though UC has the worst OLINE in D1 football.
Go Bearcats!!!!
September 11th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
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Ank says:
tOSU played a great game and with class. Congratulations to them. The travelling Buckeyes were pretty classy as well on the whole. A few assholes through the weekend (newsflash: you’re in my town, watch it, meatheads. No one gives a shit if you’re doctors), but 99% good peoples. It was the complete opposite of most people I encountered in C-bus last year.
But low and behold, the native Columbusonians go ahead and immolate their entire spring/summer’s furniture fashion stock, making room for the incoming fall models.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
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Odell 51's Owner says:
I live in Phoenix and have had them here three of the last four years, which in itself is pretty impressive, and I’ve never had a problem with any of them.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
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Bhors says:
Odell,
Just so you know, Ohio has a lower unemployment rate, Texas has a higher obesity rate (thank you anna nicole smith), and Ohio has a full 20% higher median income.
September 11th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
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AllWhoYonder says:
It’s a pretty bad sign when you have to bring up median income to justify the relative merits of one place over another. While Columbus is a gem in the muck that is the Midwest (and I know from living in South Bend, Columbus, and Illinois) it doesn’t stack up against Austin. I don’t care what demographics you dig up. You can’t quantify cool.
September 11th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
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The Spirit of Heisman Pundit says:
I’d agree about the income. If you have money, but nothing to do with it what good does it do you? It seems that would bring grief rather than joy.
September 11th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
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Odell 51 says:
Bhors,
Thanks for the numbers.
Odell 51’s Owner,
Thanks for your personal insight into tOSU fan’s. I am glad that tOSU fans for the most part were friendly in Texas and in Phoenix.
This is some good pundantry and I am glad that the one guy in Phoenix doesn’t have a problem with tOSU fans and that the State of Ohio has a higher median income. With stats like these it is easy to see why I am so wrong in my opinion of tOSU fans.
You guys are so right. I am sorry I ever said anything bad about tOSU.
But if you have seen what I have seen out of tOSU fans you would have major issues.
September 11th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
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Duke says:
We burn our old couches so that they don’t end up sleeping a family of thirteen in a West Virgina trailer park. It’s better this way, or else the stench and ooze of urine, beer, and incest residue would contaminate the greater Midwest, leading to further mutations like the man-boobs of Charlie Weiss and Chuch Amato.
September 11th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
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Bhors says:
I never said that OSU was cooler than UT, in fact, I said Austin is the second coolest place I have ever been. I was just commenting on the fact that apparently all OSU people toothless, live under bridges, and are fat slobs. That was what I commented about. Personally, I can’t wait to go back to TX for a vacation of sorts.
September 11th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
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UCBearcat says:
I’m going to check into therapy.
I think Texas (the state) is the most overrated bag of crap ever. Anyone or anything that constantly blows its own horn usually is. We Buckeyes just quietly bask in our own greatness.
And yet, the Texas fans at last year’s game were great, and friends of mine who were at this year’s game said they were great this year too. And the whole thing wouldn’t have mattered if they weren’t both fantastic footbaw programs with outstanding tradition.
Must be the common, unifying joy of college football.
September 11th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
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oc phil says:
Odell, I’d expect the traveling tOSU fans to be totally different because you are actually dealing with people who have a connection to the university as well as money for airfare. It is the hordes of rural inbreds who flock to Columbus to get drunk and raise hell on gameday that are the problem there.
Columbus, like many state capitols, is a very nice mellow place to be on days there isn’t a football game.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
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Cory says:
Hey, last time I checked you can’t put walls up on campus to keep everyone else out.
Everyone else comes to Columbus to party because, frankly, there ain’t $h!t else to do in Central Ohio on a Saturday night.
The real problem on campus is that the university wants to clean up, so they’ve closed down half the bars. Therefore, everyone has to go to house parties where the rough equation is:
UNDERAGE KIDS + BEER + COUCH / DUMPSTER = FIRE
On the plus side, the high school girls are plentiful…
September 11th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
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ScubaSteve says:
Hell, I remember last year when Texas beat OSU. I walked out of my place, heard screams and smelled burning, and promptly went back inside, locking the door behind me.
God bless Ohio State football. I think I might just set a house on fire after the Penn State game, and one up the dumpster/couch arsonists.
September 11th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
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Ank says:
“Columbus, like many state capitols, is a very nice mellow place to be on days there isn’t a football game. ”
I liked c-bus as a town overall during my week there. Aside from the obnoxious tools asking “do you guys HONESTLY think you even have a chance?” followed by their mocking laughs, whom I could do without. But most people I encountered that week, not during gameday, were friendly folks.
But, C-bus is a place I will never go to catch a football game ever again despite the utter badassery that is the ’shoe.
Also, my v dub wasn’t torched this past weekend, so despite the loss I’d call the weekend a mild success!
September 11th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
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rtr says:
“You quantify cool.”
And anyone who says such a thing isn’t.
September 11th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
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jaybuzz says:
Orson,
When can we expect “WWGKD” (What Would George Kardimas Do?) bracelets at the EDSBS store?
“Find a need, then fill it..”
quoted from the legendary A.G. Gaston
http://www.negrophile.com/phile/articles/a_g_gastons_10_rules_for_success.html
Am I the only marketing genius around here?
September 11th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
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oc phil says:
At least George Karadimas isn’t a registered sex offender
http://www.ketv.com/news/9775428/detail.html?subid=22100461&qs=1;bp=t
September 11th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
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Brad says:
OSU fans “quietly bask in their own greatness”???
Hmmm.
Running police barricades, crapping in coolers, and whacking off in libraries. I guess I just don’t understand this basking thing.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
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NDTom says:
It’s threads like this that make me never want to leave the east coast.
September 12th, 2006 at 1:50 am
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Duke says:
Yeah, places like New Jersey are real bastions of civility. Puh-leeze.
September 12th, 2006 at 9:14 am
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AllWhoYonder says:
““You quantify cool.”
And anyone who says such a thing isn’t. ”
Hey rtr– If you are going to rip on me, at least have the decency to quote me correctly. That’s just, well, not cool.
September 12th, 2006 at 9:21 am
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Amanda says:
Go OSU and p.s George Karadimas is Hot so thats prob why all these low life guys are making fun of him for being a cheerleader its called jealousy. Yea sorry George does something with his life rather then sit on the computer and make fun of people he doesnt know.
September 13th, 2006 at 3:26 pm