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Controversy erupting over t-shirt

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According to an article in USA Today no one's claiming responsibility for producing it but on the eve of the college football season a shirt that says, "I'd rather shower at Penn State than be a Wolverine"is igniting controversy.

The shirt mocks the Jerry Sandusky rape case while also taunting the University of Michigan.

Officials at Ohio State University say they don't have anything to do with the shirt and call it unacceptable and appalling.

Similar versions of the shirt have popped up in support of other college rivalries. And now an online petition has begun to have the shirts destroyed.

Molly Litfin makes this online plea, "As a parent, a human, and a graduate of the Ohio State University, I am beyond sickened that this shirt has been allowed to be produced. I know that it's not only OSU that has used this nightmare as some kind of sick joke, but since it's my alma mater & my hometown, I'm asking the officials at the NCAA, The Big Ten, and the Ohio State University to step up and be the first university to call for an immediate halt in production & destruction of these horrible, offensive shirts. "

No word on who created the original shirt.

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