DAILY AFFIRMATION: DAY 43

Property damage in the name of victory…sounds like a historical political takeover…I prefer sexual innuendo and bathroom humor, thankyou.

The goalposts of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tear gas.

I’d like to see everyone’s thoughts on which games this season look like potential goalpost-destroyers. I’m thinking November 10 in Columbia, SC is a definite possibility, given the competitiveness of the last two games vs. Ol’ Ball Coach, particularly last year’s heartbreaker. Maybe LSU at Bama as well?

Check this out and feel free to make fun of the first school’s sociology department.

http://www.bestschoolsforathletes.org/

Oh sure, they’re happy now, tearing down the goalposts,
but before long, they’ll just call the invading referees and line judges an occupying force and the TKEs will start suicide bombing the Pikes.
Before long, A&M’s Pikes will start sending over beer and reinforcements, the NCAA will send in a ref surge, and what a fucking quagmire that will be.

I agree with you on the Florida game in Columbia – no other threat to the goal post safety except possibly the Clemson game if end the season undefeated. And that threat is of the UFO abducting me after I win the lottery type of possibility.

I could see Nebraska’s fans tearing down the goalposts in Lincoln this year if they werent so goddamn polite. Also does anyone think the goal posts will ever come down in The Swamp? I mean theyve got like huge freaking Mike Vick style dogs ready to attack.

IO, maybe we need to haul down the posts in rock’s house, refresh the atmosphere a bit.

I believe it was Miss State that greased the posts a while ago. All that happened was the frat boys got crisco on their button downs and the posts eventually fell.

The schools with collapsing posts are un-American. So are schools who mace students who try. If I was an alumni of any of those places I would start a field goal post endowment so that goal post ripping could be carried on.

#3

the goal posts do not get torn down at bama sir. i’m sure i’ll get flamed for this, but it’s true.

Orson & EDSBS Fans:

If you only watch one tripped-out Baylor youtube video this pre-season, this is the one. I guarantee this shit is crazy/funny/transcendant.

http://bearmeat.blogspot.com/2007/07/roxymeat-chums-baylor-apocalypse.html

There is nothing lamer than pulling down goalposts after beating a conference opponent. Nothing more humiliating. See UF/Ole Miss 2002. Am I alone in this?

This takes me back to the stands of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium of Oxford, Missinhippy, 2002. As the Rebel band played slow Dixie, the goalposts came down. The crowd filled the field, taking home tufts of grass for souvenirs. Penis-sweat misted my eyes in appreciation of my Rebel family’s alma mater conquering my own Gators.

Fuck you Ron Zook.

1. - always rebellious , there is something lamer. We pulled the goalpasts down in Columbia when the Cocks broke a 21 game losing streak against New Mexico State (some team like that) under the Holtz era. Glad we won, but the damn goalposts?!?

That’s not true, #11. There is something far, far worse and more embarressing. Ask any Iowa fan about Kinnick North.

The section of goalpost I have from the 2000 Florida game reminds me of a better time to be a MSU fan. For fans of irony, State recently got collapsible goalposts. Also, I’m not aware of any recent greasing (or tear-down worthy wins, either).

Ah, OOC, I remember that. But you SC fans are so damn endearing, you deserved that one exception.

However, do you have friends that have pieces of turf in a jar from said goalpost-tearing extravaganza? Yeah, I do.

Wooderson, find Corey Mays and a couple of engineers, and we’ll have those things down in no time.

Collapsable goalposts can still be ripped down (or one of them can) if the game ends on a field goal, because you can get to the goalposts before they can collapse them.

My proudest moment as a student at a piss-ant D1AA school Western Carolina was our Chancellor telling us he had money in the budget for replacement goalposts if we beat App State (I hear they’re hot, hot, hot) AT App. You know you’re hardcore if you tear down the goalposts on your opponents home turf (not that we won, but anyway).

I understand that for the 2007 season, stadium security we be using the “HEX” and “LIGHTNING BOLT” methods for keeping fans off the goal posts.
What you will see is fans climbing on the posts and then just dropping to the ground.

1. - always rebellious – No, don’t have or know anyone with said turf in jar. My only claim to fame that night was merely touching a piece of one of the goalposts among the several pieces making their way through the bars of Five Points that night. Was that the year the SEC made the rule that students aren’t allowed on fields after sporting events with a fine of $10,000 per game? I know the Carolina student association gladly paid the fine for the school a couple times that year for charging the field.

It may be fun to tear down a goalpost in joy, but try it in anger. I once helped to tear down a goalpost after a conference loss, after we’d set the record for consecutive suckiness in 1981.

Of course, since we wanted to make a statement, we threw the goalpost out of the stadium, over the east stands, and then hauled the thing down to Lake Michigan, after a stopping by the president’s cocktail party. (He was slobbering drunk.) We weren’t sure if the post would float or sink, but got our answer when the Coast Guard had to spend the better part of the next week looking for it, to keep it from becoming a hazard to navigation. I still have one of the end-zone markers from that day.

One reason things started to improve after then was that, if the slide had continued through 1982, we might have torn the place apart bit by bit.

#14, that sounds familiar. Ball State fans did the same thing in 2000 when we beat freakin’ Eastern Michigan(3-8). It was the week after we had snapped our own 21-game losing streak on the road the week before. Apparently, a group of students showed up at the empty stadium on that day, but were turned away by campus police who promised them they’d be allowed to get the posts the following week after a home win.

Sadly, we had a student end up paralyzed when he fell underneath the goal posts that came down after our upset win over a ranked Toledo team in ’01, so now the practice is strictly verboten in Muncie. They still let students run on the field after a big win, but I think they bring out the pit bulls to keep kids away from the posts.

“The schools with collapsing posts are un-American. So are schools who mace students who try. " Hence the art of couch burning.

BTW, Does Texas Tech still have that scoreboard shaped like the school logo? I’ve always thought that was cool, even though it appears to be fairly low-tech as those things go…

Tech still has the double T scoreboards, but they are phasing it out in 4 or 5 years.

My favorite ‘memorabilia’ moment – helping my friend get a goal marker out of the stadium of the ’05 SC-ND game. It was made sweeter by the tears of their fans and band.

It’s no goalpost, but with the signatures from the team’s notables he ‘allegedly’ got, quite a prize.

My last goalpost game was in 2005 when UCF snapped their huge losing streak against my Thundering Herd in the Citrus Bowl.

It was really embarrassing at the time beacuse UCF was 0-11 the season before that (in the MAC!) but they actually went on to win C-USA East that year.

Gotta give em credit though, I think the fans got both the suckers.

AFAIK, when the Tech stadium expansion happens in a couple years, the scoreboard stays (there’s a Jumbotron at the other end of the field.)

Best part about that night was parading that bad boy around campus, then dumping it in the fountain at the main entrance. It was later sliced up and sold by the athletic department. (2nd best piece of sports memorabilia I own, next to the chunk of backboard shattered by Darvin Ham in the NCAA tournament.)

Of course, what happened two years later helped start the trend toward collapsible goalposts. Thanks RC Slocum, for running your mouth so much we HAD to tear ’em down.

“Get your cut of the athletic budget the hands on way…..and then take it and try to gore the opposing fans with it”

At least most wait till the game is over before grabbing pole cough*ugafans* coughcough