How in the world do you come up with this having anything to do with 9-11??!! It's a fire! thousands a day......Too many people's goal in life is to complain. JS

"We're talking about a Sports story and I think it's going to be a long time (if ever) before a 9-11 joke/reference is going to be funny."

That may be true, but let's go back to the fact that THIS PICTURE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11. Other people made that connection, not the paper.

That's the world we live in these days. People will read into a photo, a story, or a comment, whatever they want, and there's nothing we can do about it.

The fact is, as an editor of a MAJOR University publication (OSU is 4th biggest by students this year I think), you have to assume people will take this image the wrong way.

Personally, I don't see why you would take an image that is of such a serious nature anyway. Why not take something way over the top like an Asteroid coming to hit Earth or some satirical picture on Global Warming.

I'm from Ohio, been to the campus and have many friends that go there and know of at least one that thought this was a stupid picture to use. Whether or not its from 9/11 is secondary, an image of firefighters battling a fire with an enormous dust/smoke cloud will cause that feeling for a majority of people who lived through that day.

Yeah I'm with Mez on this one. I don't buy the 9-11 stuff either, but you have to assume that someone's going to compare it to something tragic. I mean those any fire is pretty intense in it's own right.

It may stink that we have to think that way now, but such is life.

If they were going to make it something super controversial or "tasteless" they should have used a picture of the VA Tech shooting, not the attacks on the WTC.

I would laugh if I saw it. Now tell me how horible I am.

Yawn...

And people thought the Kelly Tilghman comment was wrong.

Q: What is the New York City Fire Department's favorite song?
A: "It's Raining Men"

Q: What's Al Qaida's favorite football team?
A: The New York Jets

Hey AA, wanted to let you know Jacobs Field, home of the Cleveland Indians, has been renamed "Progressive Field". Seriously. 20k people will wear that chief wahoo hat at a place called "Progressive Field".

I dont care either way about the hat and how PC it is, but this is really funny.

thats two funny PC stories out of the same state in under 6 hours.

The Progressive Field thing bothers me for one reason. We officially have lost our nickname for a stadium. It wasn't sexy, but saying you were going to watch a game at "The Jake" was at least something. What am I supposed to say, let's go watch a game at "The Prog"? Shoot me now.

I'm calling on all the AA readers to help out with this one. Cleveland fans need a nickname (preferably at least one good one to go with all the funny ones) for Progressive Field. Lord knows we'd screw it up on our own.

This story is old AA...the paper came out on Tuesday...and its now Friday. You bash OSU every chance you get, what is your problem anyway, get a life man.

OK, Buckeye fans, a few of you hammered me this week for my hatred toward your school. I said that you all think that college football means more than anything else. Apparently, your print media does too. Comparing a football loss with a burning building and thus having that misconstrued as a 9/11 joke...you stay classy. With this kind of display, I'm sure the country's opinion of you will change quickly.

I'm only guessing that the other photo that The Lantern was going to use was a black kid hanging from a tree with the "It Could Be Worse" tag.

i thought it was of 9-11 when i saw it.

maybe they should've said, "it could be worse" and shown a picture of the jim kelly-led buffalo bills.

"black kid hanging from a tree" nice gmoney you stay classy too! Too bad that did happen...guess where Johns Hopkins University! Right in AA's backyard.

I would also hardly call "The Lantern" Ohio's "print media," its a school newspaper....NOT a paper representing the State of Ohio.

So again "gmoney" stay classy yourself, ass.

People need to get a grip. This is THE LANTERN. As student newspapers go, it's worse than a snotty Kleenex . Whenever I pick up a copy, I play "find the typo"; most days it's IN A HEADLINE.

Classic Buckeye fans...trying to defend themselves by insulting others that point your poor taste. Maybe next decade people will take you seriously.

"Knock, Knock."

"Who's there?"

"9/11."

"9/11 who?"

"I thought you said you'd never forget."

That's as stupid as the Superdome photo story.

http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/catalog/video.html

I go to OSU, and honestly, The Lantern is a terrible paper with just ads and AP feeds. Not surprised to see this, it's a shame a great university like Ohio State gets publicity like this crap.

gmoney you ride that same high horse that AA sometimes rides. I don't go to school at OSU and never did, the actions/words/pictures of a few are not the opinion of most people, but go a head and run with it if it makes go "blogging."

Maybe there is more to AA hating Ohio, he brings it up every chance he gets. I think I recall him going to an OSU game this season...maybe someone in Ohio has left a sour taste in his mouth, or maybe something happened between he and his "awful gf" (think she went to OSU, but not sure) ever think of that money? Everyone can have ulterior motives for doing what they do, including AA.

That's just my 2 cents.

Whatever. I have no love for tOSU, but I like this headline and I love the explanation they ran. It's absolutely correct.

A hell of a lot of people in this world need to grow up.