October 18, 2024
By Aimee Green, The Oregonian/OregonLive: A devoted Oregon Ducks football fan who said he camped in line overnight to get into ESPN’s “College GameDay” event on the University of Oregon campus two years ago filed a $9,999 lawsuit Wednesday against the cable sports channel, the university and a crowd management company after he said he was left “battered” and “sore” from getting caught in a frightening “stampede” into the event.
Jacob Derman’s lawsuit states that he started camping near the front of the line at 8 p.m. on Oct. 21, 2022, noticed the line growing “increasingly chaotic” by 2 a.m. as intoxicated fans arrived and tried to cut in line, and then found himself caught in an all-out “melee” as security guards opened the gate at 5 a.m. and he was shoved and pushed into people and barriers in a “dangerous mosh pit-esque pandemonium” for the next 10 to 15 minutes.
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