r/CFB • u/Master_Jackfruit3591 Texas Longhorns • Georgetown Hoyas • Dec 07 '25

Casual Ohio St fans should be ashamed

Over 5,000 hate filled comments have showed up on Ohio St kicker Jayden Fielding’s social media since last night. Fanbase should be ashamed they’re harassing one of their own, it isn’t good for the player, team, or sport. No excuse for it, touch grass. Hope the fanbase can lift up this young man in time for their next game instead of tearing him down even more.

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u/prismatic_lights Ohio State • Pittsburgh Dec 07 '25

The fact that they've had to run ads this year telling gamblers not to send players death threats is...quite sad.

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u/Jc110105 Ohio Bobcats Dec 07 '25

The fact that they could easily be traced and aren’t it even sadder. Start making an example out of keyboard warriors making these threats.

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u/OldGreggg69 UConn Huskies Dec 07 '25

The Premier League does it all the time, even getting people from like Indonesia arrested for making racist social media comments

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u/Fucky0uthatswhy LSU Tigers • Tulane Green Wave Dec 07 '25

Racist comments are legal in the US. It’s still the first amendment. But they absolutely could go after them for threats

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u/Tasty_Gift5901 Northwestern Wildcats • Florida Gators Dec 07 '25

Wow that's great, good for them. I'd love to see that happen in the US. 

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u/The12Ball Florida Gators Dec 07 '25

Pshh, police actually do something? In 2025??

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u/SuperDoubleDecker Alabama Crimson Tide Dec 07 '25

They're powerless to help, but not to punish.

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u/goddamnitwhalen Oregon Ducks • Sickos Dec 07 '25

I mean, they pick fights with college athletes and harass brown people! Is that not enough for you? Are you not satisfied?

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u/prailock Ohio State • Marquette Dec 07 '25

Hey now! They also help disappear people to illegal prisons overseas

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u/geiginator67 Michigan Wolverines Dec 07 '25

Those aren’t police, just super racist citizens

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u/prailock Ohio State • Marquette Dec 07 '25

Who do you think is providing them escorts and cover? Cops are letting them stage in their areas and arresting protestors everywhere. If you don't think they're openly aligned and supporting them, you're blind.

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u/Datslegne Dec 07 '25

Cops going for clean Wehrmacht now.

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u/Jc110105 Ohio Bobcats Dec 07 '25

That are also scared to identify or show their faces because they know damn well what they are doing is wrong.

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u/Tricky_Big_8774 Virginia Tech Hokies Dec 07 '25

It's kinda funny that you would post this in a thread about a college sports player receiving death threats. They didn't start wearing masks til people started posting their pictures on social media.

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u/SnepbeckSweg Michigan • Cincinnati Dec 07 '25

What exactly do you think a cop is

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u/crushedpinkcookies Ohio State Buckeyes Dec 07 '25

Yeah fr. I save my death threats for actual tryants , not a fucking football player

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u/willclerkforfood Penn State • Land Grant Trophy Dec 07 '25

Sic Semper Kickers Tyrannis

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u/Colavs9601 Colorado Buffaloes • Ohio Bobcats Dec 07 '25

We meet under the bridge.

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u/TheGeekOffTheStreet Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 07 '25

Yeah, my team has a kicker issue. Watching the game you wince, then remind yourself that these are basically still kids for the most part. One of my kids is in college and that dork almost got on the wrong bus to come home. His friend missed a flight because the dumbass decided to stay up all night and party before his 6 am flight be sure he was afraid he wouldn’t wake from his alarm. They make mistakes.

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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt Wesleyan (CT) Cardinals Dec 07 '25

No, you can't do that. Tyrants don't deserve death threats. Only kids playing a game deserve death threats.

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u/ImJacksLackOfEmpathy Dec 07 '25

When I advocate for harsher punishments against death threats etc, some redditors inevitably give some all-or-nothing like “WhAt sHoUlD wE Do, cArPeT BoMb tHe MiDdLe eAsT” in response to things like the South Park guys getting death threats over the Muhammad episode because it was “thousands of threats, not just a few hundred.” Like bro, start with a few dozen extremely harsh sentences, then work your way up to a few hundred and watch how making an example outta them actually brings about change instead of throwing your hands up and saying, welp, I guess we let the terrorists win again!!

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u/dinanm3atl Florida State • Georgia Tech Dec 07 '25

They should. If it's on social media find the person. And handle business. It's unacceptable.

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u/IsLlamaBad Iowa Hawkeyes • Sickos Dec 07 '25

I can only think of two ways to remedy the situation: An overall cultural shift in sports fandom in the US and/or prosecuting those who send death threats. I unfortunately don't see the former happening anytime soon. That costs money and resources that don't yield monetary value. People would much rather see the book thrown at those people instead.

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u/Remote_Elevator_281 Oregon Ducks Dec 08 '25

This. They need to step up their game. Find these people.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

Well it turns out that actual death threats aren’t usually actually made, but players and the media like to exaggerate run of the mill shittalk. 

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u/IceBreak Michigan Wolverines Dec 07 '25

This is kind of true. Explicit death threats are different than insults which still go far too far.