13 Hurt When Fans Storm Field, Rip Down Goalposts After Oklahoma St. Victory
- Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:33am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Fans tear down a goal post, injuring some participants, after Oklahoma State defeated Oklahoma 44-10 in an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (AP Photo)
STILLWATER, Okla. (The Blaze/AP) — Thousands of fans stormed the field and tore down goalposts after Oklahoma State’s 44-10 victory over archrival Oklahoma, leaving at least 13 people injured, including two in critical condition, medical authorities said early Sunday.
Michael Authement, who heads the command post at emergency medical provider LifeNet EMS, told The Associated Press that a throng so big took to the field as the game ended that some fans were trampled and one person fell at least 15 feet onto concrete during a wild celebration by Oklahoma State fans.
No. 3 Oklahoma State routed the Sooners on Saturday night to win the Big 12 championship and make its case to play for the BCS national title. The Cowboys (11-1, 8-1 Big 12) snapped an eight-game losing streak in the rivalry and won their first outright conference title since 1948 in the three-team Missouri Valley.
“They won the game and stormed the field and ripped down the goalposts and some were jumping off the stands and hit the field and others got trampled. It was a nasty deal,” Authement said.
He said the crowd was so big it took police at least 45 minutes to clear fans from the field at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater. “There were thousands of people. Thousands of people stormed the field. You couldn’t move there were so many people,” he added.
AP photographs showed fans climbing atop the yellow goalposts and tearing them apart amid a crush of people on the field. Scores of hands stretched out to pull down the goalposts during the celebration.
A fan hangs from a goal post after it was torn down in celebration of Oklahoma State's 44-10 win over Oklahoma in an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (AP Photo)
Authement said nine ambulances, including six from LifeNet, rushed 11 of the injured away and the two in critical condition were flown to Oklahoma City hospitals. He said he knew of leg fractures but didn’t have any details on the extent of the injuries, though two of the 13 had minor injuries and were treated at the scene and released.
Lesser injuries included broken ankles, ankle sprains and back sprains, said Shyla Eggers, public relations director for Stillwater Medical Center, adding eight injured came to her hospital. She told AP that her hospital received six of the injured in ambulances, two in private vehicles and at least two of the patients have been admitted and would undergo surgery on broken ankles.
“Our staff that was on hand took care of it. They were just very busy,” Eggers said. “Game day is always busy.”
She had no immediate details on the more serious injuries, saying two people were flown from the scene to hospitals in other cities in Oklahoma.
An Oklahoma State University police central dispatcher said she had no immediate details to release when contacted by AP and the public information officer did not immediately return messages seeking comment. Stillwater police and the Oklahoma highway patrol also had no immediate comment.
Authement said the fans began storming the field with about 20 seconds left in the game. He said he had reports of people falling and being trampled in the surge. “It lasted 45 minutes, I’m sure before they got the field cleared,” he said.
Oklahoma State fans carry a goal post they tore down following the Cowboy's 44-10 win of rival Oklahoma in an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (AP Photo)
He said he was handling game night duty when a magnitude-5.6 earthquake rocked central Oklahoma and the same stadium as fans departed minutes after Oklahoma State had beaten Kansas State. The Nov. 5 temblor, which could be felt as far away as Wisconsin, was the strongest in the state’s history when it rattled players in the locker room and set the stadium press box rippling as the last of some 58,000 fans cleared out.
“This was way worse than the earthquake,” Authement said.
Emergency medical personnel tend to injured fans under Boone Pickens Stadium following Oklahoma State's 44-10 win over rival Oklahoma in an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Comments (64)
NeoFan
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:37pmOne more reason you are losing your country. Sports fans.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 5:45pmMob mentality! Come on people, havent you learned anything yet?? Avoid mobs and the mob mentality
Report Post »US_SOLDIER
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:11pmAlthough im an athiest I do like the quote in the bible that says something along the lines of “when I was a child I behaved as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things” That pretty much sums up my life. As a teenager I did a little drugs, drank alcohol and even attended a college football game once. But now as an adult I have adult things to worry about. The primitive and childish mindset of these sports fans almost bewilders me. All they talk about is sports and who is going to win this weekend. Meanwhile, back in the real world the global financial situation is melting down and US_SOLDIER’S got bills to pay and a future to provide for my family. I’ll never understand how you can wrap your whole life around and live vicariously through someone else, smh. This reminds me of the 100 day games played in the colloseum in Rome to appease the people and distract them from the reality of the true state of the Roman economy and scandals taking place
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:06am“There were thousands of people….You couldn’t move there were so many people.”
Sounds like the perfect place to put yourself, right? If you are stupid enough to put yourself in that situation you get what you get. OWS, same thing.
Report Post »winzdub
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:17pmGo Pokes! Big 12 Champs baby!!
Report Post »opnsrcsurvival
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:02pmCollege and Pro sports are part of the reason our countery is where it is, on the downslide! Try and get those same people to storm a field to save their free speech or 2nd amendment rights! But football, well thats important,
Are you planning on dealing with these folks in the grocery or government handout lines, when this economy finally finishes sputtering and goes into a flat spin?
http://www.opensourcesurvival.com we can help you, help yourself!
OSS
Report Post »artman
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:59amThe most worrisome is that these people vote. Which shows you why there is always hope for Democrats.
Report Post »eric2waters
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:27amHave it sitting on the fireplace mantle in between my Heisman and my Lombardi right now. Stop by for a beer & I’ll show them to you.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:10amIt’s a tradition…OSU hardly wins against OU…seen it happen a few times over the past 30 some odd years.
Report Post »Grace1798
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:01amLast football game I attended what in high school, back in 1965.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:54amA mob is a mob, it does not matter. I bet if you polled the majority of these dummy’s, they do not go to church, do not believe in God or Jesus, and lean to the Liberal side in thinking. It does not matter they are in a fly-over state, there are stupid people in all cities and in all states. You must remember young adults brains are still developing; they can’t evaluate the consequences of their actions yet.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:13amAnd I be you would lose…talking about the bible belt, not Seattle. Come to the darkest state in the nation, come to WA state and live here for about 19 years. And yes I lived in OK for 28 years. I am ancient.
Report Post »Is it Friday?
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:46amWhy are so many of you acting like this is new? I have seen this kind of thing happen many times in years past. It is a celebration. Plain and simple.
Report Post »Faith_Grace
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:31amJust to get your FACTS straight in the article…OSU is #3 NOT #13……….And yes the fans did get a bit excited…..they haven’t beat OU in quite a few years…And beat them they did…kinda put a whoopin on them….. I am sorry for the people that got hurt, I hope they recover quickly!
Report Post »CONGRATS TO THE COWBOYS, I HOPE THEY FIND THEIR WAY INTO THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Is it Friday?
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:43amI noticed the mistake too. I read this exact same article on Fox News. Looks like a copy and paste.
Report Post »OSU ranked #3.
trueblueday
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:22amTough to learn the hard way. No fun having a bone fracture now, is it?
Report Post »rickbob
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:20amGene pool needs culling. . .
Report Post »llotus
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 5:02pmRICKBOB……….Amen. Lotus.
Report Post »shagstar
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:05amis this the next breed of occupier’s in training?
Report Post »LuckFiberals
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:59amEven with a degree you can’t fix stupid.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:58amOh yeah, get excited over a meaningless sports contest and damn near riot and injure people in the process! Priorities?
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:51amOh yes! Just what I want to do … rush down out of the stands to mull around in the middle of the field. Or, hey … let’s take a big, yellow suvenier. Ooops, that gola post won’t fit in my Yugo. Dang, I should have just headed to Eskimo Joe’s (that’s a Stillwater watering hole for those unwashed of you out there) after the game like the sane fans would.
Report Post »Alvis Prezley
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:29pmWin or loose… Kids have to destroy property of other people….I wouldn’t want these jerks working for me.
Report Post »jas0707
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:49amOh Well.
Report Post »Fulksie
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:48amI guess OSU fans have never heard the expression, “act like you’ve been there before”?
Report Post »redsred
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:43amperfect example of how todays “millenials” (how stupid is that?) mimic all the brain dead soccer fans in Europe and South America.
let ‘em go. maybe they will reduce the gene pool.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:42amSports Fans are NO LONGER allowed to be upset when stereotyped as dumb. The fact that so many are this passionate for a meaningless game makes the general apathy towards religion and politics that much more distasteful.
Report Post »Giveitrevolution
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:20amhttp://www.infowars.com/
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:17amIdiots.
Report Post »TheCenturion
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:13amWhat is wrong with our college age kids these days? Did someone forget to teach them critical thinking?
Perhaps Iowa State should play in the BCS championship game, after all, they handed the OK State their only loss.
Report Post »Sicialian Eyeball
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:06amKnuckleheads. Musta thought they were at a soccer game.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:23amI am an Okie and a huge OSU fan,i was so proud of the cowboys,but when they started flooding the field i said ok you kids sombody is gonna get hurt,ohhhhhhh to be young and dumb again,lol
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:59amThere was another college game yesterday. I think Bulldogs lost.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:21pmBSU gave the Bulldogs thier first lose LSU gave them another one last night.
Report Post »NOT A LSU FAN
On The Bayou
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 7:17amI`m sorry Flipper.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:40amSounds like calm ,solid, mid western, flyover, Americans. Not like those crazy Calinuts or my socialist northeasterners.
Report Post »rednana
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:55amFootball is a whole different animal in Oklahoma and Texas. I‘ve lived in OK all my life and I’d take this chaos over OWS any day. Come to think of it, we only have a VERY small handful of OWS people and the officials of OKC are letting them know their place on the food chain.
Boomer Sooner!
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