Oklahoma State’s college football victory over arch rival Oklahoma led to an eruption in the stadium, with thousands of fans rushing the field and tearing down field goalposts, leaving at least 13 people injured and two in critical condition, the Associated Press reported.
After Oklahoma State won 44-10 to win the Big 12 conference championship the enormous crowd took the field leading to some being trampled. Michael Authement, head of the command post for the emergency services unit, said it took police at least 45 minutes to clear the field of the university’s Boone Pickens Stadium, which holds about 60,000 people, the AP reported.
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The two people critically injured jumped or fell from a high retaining wall around the field, Authement said, and were transported by helicopters to Oklahoma City hospitals after the game in Stillwater, CNN reported. Others were less severely injured, although two suffered substantial injuries, seven were treated for minor injuries and two people refused treatment and transport, CNN reported.
Some people climbed the yellow goalposts, tearing them down on top of the thousands on the field during the celebration, the AP reported. Nine ambulances arrived to the scene to rush the injured people away. A spokesperson for one of the hospitals wouldn’t release details about the patients on Sunday, the AP reported.
"This was way worse than the earthquake," Authement said, referring to the magnitude-5.6 quake that hit central Oklahoma and the same stadium as fans were leaving a game Nov. 5, the AP reported.
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