The 2014 college football playoff national champion Ohio State Buckeyes honored with a statue made out of butter and is on display at the Ohio State Fair No pun intended but the Ohio State Buckeyes and head coach Urban Meyer can’t have a butter honor to have on display at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus this week than a statue recognizing the inaugural college football player national champions made out of butter. The display was made available to the media on Tuesday. The Ohio State Fair opens up on Wednesday and runs until Sunday August 9. The display consists of a life size version of Meyer, a pair of Buckeyes football helmet, the team mascot Brutus Buckeye and the college football playoff national championship trophy. The statue is joined by the traditional; butter cow and calf that is a part of the fair. The statue will be on display inside the Dairy Building at the Ohio Expo Center. The statue is housed inside a glass refrigerated case for the entire 12 days of the fair. Sculptors spent over 500 hours to complete the statue. It took over two thousand pounds of butter sliced from 55-pound blocks that were layered onto frames of wood and steel. This is the second time the Ohio State Buckeyes were honored with a butter statue. In 1997, the butter statue consisted of then head coach John Cooper, a Buckeyes player, cheerleader and marching band member. Brutus Buckeye and members of the cheerleading squad were in attendance for the unveiling. …
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