Like it or not, the rep on C-Bus is out there, and it cannot be blithely erased or set aside with stories of equal-opportunity drunk arrests. And though Never Is Heard A Discouraging Word in the Columbus Dispatch, the word is out that, when tOSU wins big football games, stuff catches on fire.

And when opposition fans come into C-Bus for a big game, they are advised not to wear the colors of their university, nor to drive cars bearing licence tags of their state of origin – for their own protection, dontcha know…

If you folks are content with that, then fine. If not, then make some positive changes.

In the meantime, don’t piss and bitch and moan when you get called on it.

In case you missed the point: nobody can take the high ground on this. People trying to perpetuate the myth of C-bus being a haven of criminal “amnesty” are just as guilty as the idiots who do the occasional stupid things, as they encourage the behavior.

It’s hyperbole and fearmongering, for the purpose of encouraging fan loyalty. And that’s disgusting.

That’s why the UM prez sent the infamous e-mail out early last week. Not for any good reason, mind you, but rather to fire up the masses to support the team. It encourages an “us vs. them” mentality. Just like your comment above. More exaggeration than truth. No substance.

It’s clear you’re just trolling to take a shot at C-bus, but you should realize that many, many fans were arrested by the CPD on Saturday, INCLUDING tons of Michigan fans. No favoritism was shown when it came to disorderly conduct. The jerks wearing maize & blue were thrown in the same drunk tanks as the jerks wearing scarlet and gray.

Anyone who participates in the abusive behavior is in the wrong. Anyone who exaggerates the situation for rhetorical purposes is in the wrong as well.

And it will take time for you folks to UN-earn it as well.

Griping about mistreatment in A2 or Madison on a previous occasion is no excuse for the C-Bus ‘activities’, save to demonstrate that there are some individuals who believe that they can excuse bad behavior by pointing out another person’s unrelated bad behavior.

My suggestion to Bucks fans: If you don’t like being painted with The Broad Brush, then you, and others, should take positive steps toward correcting the actions of the goons, and demand that public conduct in the city on game day and before be as civil as would be on any other normal day.

Last I checked, public drunkenness was still a crime in Ohio. So is arson. So is assault. Unfortunately, it appears that amnesty is declared in Franklin County for all three of those crimes when the Bucks are in the ‘Shoe.

Until the people at tOSU and the City of Columbus come correct with this problem, you will continue to be painted with that Broad Brush you so dislike, courtesy of those ‘bad apples.’

See, here’s proof…..

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0611/campus.superfans.week12/content.8.html

And then to declare that Buckeye fans aren’t real fans because they care more about saying eff Michigan than Go Bucks. Please! See point #1 about this being supposedly the biggest rivalry in American sports.

I say all this as a Badger fan who grew up in Columbus. Trust me, every year people write letters to newspaper editors and the chancellor and complain about the opprobrious treatment meted out to them by Badger fans. This despite Madison having one of the best gameday atmospheres anywhere on earth. Well, you know who never writes these kinds of letters? Fans of teams that go into Camp Randall and win.