When you're the defending champions, you're probably used to honors and tributes. The Ohio State Fair has a unique one for their home-state college football national champion Buckeyes -- a butter sculpture.
It took five sculptors, 500 hours of work and 2,000 pounts of butter, and the finished product included life-size likenesses of Urban Meyer and mascot Brutus Buckeye, as well as a huge College Football Playoff trophy and helmet. It will be on display July 29-Aug. 9 at the Ohio State Fair.
As much fun as the the sculptors had creating the butter art, the pun-loving writer of the press release from the American Dairy Association seemed to have just as much:
“The Ohio State Buckeyes carved out a spot in history after winning the first-ever College Football Playoffs in January, and now the team is getting even BUTTER. To celebrate the legen-dairy Buckeyes, sculptors created a life-sized replica of head coach Urban Meyer and mascot Brutus – made entirely out of butter.”
Check out more of the buzz around the butter, as Ohio State paid a visit for the unveiling:
This year's butter sculpture is dedicated to the @OhioState football team and @OSUCoachMeyer! #NationalChampions pic.twitter.com/2xoPVn1sQI
— Ohio State Fair (@OhioStateFair) July 28, 2015
Of course, @OSUCoachMeyer has life-sized butter sculpture at Ohio State Fair: http://t.co/JD44IhCIqM (Photo: @wsyx6) pic.twitter.com/HoceNsvKJz
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) July 28, 2015
A life-sized Urban Meyer butter sculpture? Perhaps his greatest honor yet. http://t.co/YrPHD1UyOi pic.twitter.com/KApwjSrBFR
— Eleven Warriors (@11W) July 29, 2015
