OSU’s Gold Pants show up on TV show

COLUMBUS — The scope of Ohio State football has spread to the History Channel.

On Monday night’s episode of “Pawn Stars,” a popular reality show series about a Las Vegas pawn shop, two pairs of Gold Pants, the trinket given to Ohio State players for a victory over Michigan, were sold to the pawn shop for $1,000 each. Given what happened in December, the sale raised a few eyebrows.

Players selling that memorabilia as undergrads violates NCAA rules. Players selling that memorabilia after they’ve graduated, or after their eligibility is up, is fine. So there’s no way to know whether the pants matter or not.

The seller on the show, who was identified only by his first name, said he bought the pants from a private collector. They were marked with initials and with the year of the game. One was from 2008, the other from 2002.

“They’re super rare. I definitely want them,” Rick Harrison of “Pawn Stars” before buying the pants.