Oregon State’s Reser Stadium is undergoing major construction this offseason as the school builds the new Valley Football Center at one end of the stadium. It’s the offseason, so it’s generally not a problem, but today is Oregon State’s spring game, and the construction project required tearing up one of the football field’s end zones.
Oregon State found out why you shouldn’t play a football game on a field with an active construction site
Nobody got hurt. But close!
As a workaround, OSU decided that the offense would only go towards the working end zone for today’s scrimmage, but cornerback Dwayne Williams got an interception and returned it for a touchdown -- running straight towards an active construction site:
Don't tell @OSUBeaversFB's Dwayne Williams that it's just the Spring Game, he is LIT after his pick six!! https://t.co/u9WoE4tKPb
— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) April 16, 2016
The end zone for the purposes of the game actually started at the 10-yard line, but in the moment Williams probably thought he'd just run until he got to the painted field. Luckily, he didn't get hurt.
Watch out for that construction zone, bro! #SpringFootballProblems pic.twitter.com/R0cvShEa8m
— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) April 16, 2016
The Oregon State football staff did actually account for a pick-6 happening -- the game's revised rules actually stated that a defensive touchdown would be worth 12 points. Basically, if you hold a game where only one end zone is legal, teams will find a way to score in the other end zone. When Northwestern and Illinois played a game in slightly-too-small Wrigley Field, the game was played in one direction, but Northwestern's Brian Peters pick-sixed a touchdown into the forbidden end zone.
This end zone is certainly having the most interesting offseason of any end zone in college football this spring -- back in January, the construction crew digging up the field found 10,000-year-old mammoth bones there.
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