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A number of Penn State football fans were seen wearing Charlie Kirk’s “Freedom” t-shirts during the match on Saturday evening against Oregon.
Images and photos of the students of the shirts have become viral on social networks.
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Oregon, which was Kirk’s favorite university football team, went to win the match in a Thriller 30-24. The defensive back of Oregon, Dylan Thieman, attracted an interception of selling game in overtime, ensuring that the favorite team of Kirk won in front of thousands of supporters carrying his signature shirt.
Fans of Penn State applaud as the Oregon Ducks face the Penn Stateny Lions on September 27, 2025 at the Beaver Stadium in University Park in Pennsylvania. (Imagn)
Conservative influencer Benny Johnson organized an event that distributed 5,000 shirts to fans before Saturday’s match in the Beaver Stadium car park.
Johnson shared images earlier on Saturday that showed a line of people waiting for the shirts. The line rolled around several sections of the parking lot, with the applauding crowd while it boasted of length.
Finally, a “USA!” Song broke out.
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) announced its event to give 5,000 t-shirts to fans who attended the Oregon match against Penn State at the Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Penn State students and fans in the student section applaud and vague White Pom Pom throughout the White Out stadium during the Oregon Dunks game against Penn Statenly Lions. (Randy Litzinger / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Kirk wore the shirt now iconic on September 10 when he spoke during an event at the University of Utah Valley when a single shot was taken from the roof of a neighboring building, which killed the husband and the father of two 31 years old. The assassination devastated the nation, and Tpusa promised to continue the mission for which Kirk worked so passionately.
The Dodgers emergency launcher, Blake Treinen, pays tribute to Charlie Kirk on Mound with a personalized hat
“In the vein, and in honor of Charlie Kirk, we will fight cultural battles, and we will win them in an arena that Charlie loved a lot – university football,” Johnson announced on “Will Cain Country” Thursday.
“Turning Point USA, during the week’s match, Penn State against the Oregon Ducks, it will be a massive game. It was a game that Charlie Kirk was going to attend. Charlie Kirk loves Oregon, but he also has a lot of fans in Penn State and made huge events there,” said Johnson. “Turning point USA will distribute 5,000 Charlie Kirk Freedom shirts in this match.”
Johnson, who held a “Freedom” shirt identical to the one Kirk wore when he was killed, said it would be a White-out game, which is a tradition of Penn State where fans dress in all white.
Kirk has been frequently honored at major football events since his assassination earlier in September.
Oregon football coach Dan Lanning previously offered his condolences to Kirk’s wife Erika, and their two children after the 34-14 victory of his team against Northwestern earlier this month.
But in an prolonged response concerning the current culture of the United States, Lanning implored the Americans to watch its own locker rooms, saying: “People of this world can learn a lot of [it]. “”
“You enter this locker room, you have guys from different breeds, guys from different backgrounds, different religions and you have a team that loves each other. Tons of differences. From where they come from, what they treat and, finally, you have a team that love each other, and I think we are missing in our country,” said Lanning.
Fans of Penn Stateny Lions applaud during the first quarter against the Oregon Ducks at the Beaver Stadium. (Images James Lang / Imagn)
“I recently discovered that Charlie Kirk was a fan of Oregon, right? I did not know that. I was hurting myself for his wife, Erika, and their children. This kind of harm should never exist in our country, and that’s what it is – evil. I remember having to explain this to my family, right?
“But it is just as sad every day, it seems that we manage a kind of violence that happens in our country, whether it is Colorado schoolchildren or minnesota children in churches. I mean, life counts, and I think we have lost sight of it. But I want the world to learn a little of our locker room because we have a bunch of people.
