The American Dairy Association Mideast unveiled the 2015 Ohio State Fair butter sculpture display on July 28. This year’s theme celebrated Ohio State’s 42-20 win over Oregon during the first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship game, held on Jan. 12 in Arlington, Texas. Credit: Courtesy of the American Dairy Association Mideast After churning out a national championship win over Oregon in January, the efforts of the Ohio State football team have been immortalized in sweet creamy goodness at the Ohio State Fair. The fair unveiled its 2015 sculpted butter display, featuring life-size carvings of coach Urban Meyer and Brutus Buckeye, as well as larger-than-life dairy replicas of an OSU football helmet and the College Football Playoff national championship trophy, on Tuesday. The theme this year celebrated OSU’s 42-20 win over Oregon during the first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship, held on Jan. 12 in Arlington, Texas. The display was created from approximately 2,000 pounds of butter and took a team of four Ohio-based technical sculptors 400 hours to sculpt. Work on the butter was done in a 46-degree cooler, according to an American Dairy Association Mideast press release. The ADA Mideast is an organization that communicates information about dairy foods on behalf of dairy farmers in Ohio and West Virginia. Butter sculpting at the Ohio State Fair is a tradition stretching back to the early 1900s, said Jenny Hubble, vice president of communication for the ADA Mideast. Hubble said the fair’s original butter sculpture was a cow, which has been recreated and displayed in the Dairy Products Building at the Ohio Expo Center every year since. …
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