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“LEGENDS NEVER DIE.” It’s true. Brutus. Rufus. All of it.

This week, NBC4’s Jerod Smalley traveled to Pomeroy, Ohio, to interview Brandon Hanning, the man who plotted for over a year to take down Brutus before Ohio State and Ohio faced off in 2010.

“I had just seen the Oregon Duck videos where he was bullying other mascots,” Hanning said. “And I thought it would be awesome… for our mascot to beat up their mascot.