Why has someone not put this out there?

[Kylo]

I don't get tearing down our own goal post. I get fans rushing the field and all, but taking the goal post to the Tn River ...shows.....? To me it only highlights how broken our program has been for so long. The old Bum Phillips saying " act like you been here before" comes to mind

Those college kids haven't been there before, Mr Magoo ...

 

[TNnative]

Have a giant cigar trophy with dates and scores on it

Packed with stogies, cutters, and good quality matches. But only on game day. The school presently in possession gets to pack it, and the school trying to steal it pays for them. And while we are at it? Somebody dig up the beer barrel. It's time to get that rolling again.

 

[TNnative]

I don't get tearing down our own goal post. I get fans rushing the field and all, but taking the goal post to the Tn River ...shows.....? To me it only highlights how broken our program has been for so long. The old Bum Phillips saying " act like you been here before" comes to mind

I was there in 1979 when the first one was torn down after hosting and beating Notre Dame. Suffice it to say I have gotten it every effing time. Why don't you and Bum Phillips go take a flying leap?

The one part I do agree with? The dumping the goal posts in the river part. Instead, get a guy skilled with a metal saw, cut the things up, and give the pieces to a guy who makes plaques Attached them together and then present them to the players and coaches and staff. Auction off the rest. Putting them in the river will not provide better fishing.

 

[Jeff Clark]

I don't get tearing down our own goal post. I get fans rushing the field and all, but taking the goal post to the Tn River ...shows.....? To me it only highlights how broken our program has been for so long. The old Bum Phillips saying " act like you been here before" comes to mind

It really pisses some people off that fans are excited after beating a team they had lost 15 straight games to. Go take a hike you wet towel!

 

[Volunteer08]

Tennessee Vs Alabama: The Cigar Bowl.

I personally like the idea, but I'm sure tobacco has something to do with it. Same reason we don't play UK for the beer barrel anymore.

 

[TNnative]

I personally like the idea, but I'm sure tobacco has something to do with it. Same reason we don't play UK for the beer barrel anymore.

Taking away the barrel was such PC rubbish. Time to bring that thing back. And support a designated driver program. And if UK wants to? Fill the damn thing with Kool Aid.

Seriously, I get why UK was upset over one of their players causing the death of another of their players. But CM Newton is dead. And it was a bad call. If he wanted to be real effective, we could have also tried making beer AND cars illegal in Kentucky.

But there is nothing wrong with beer. And there is nothing wrong with cars. It is doing both at the same time that is wrong. Now? Damn near evey school is selling beer at the freakin games. If that is not a call to break out the barrel again? I don't know what is.

 

[overseasorange2]

It really pisses some people off that fans are excited after beating a team they had lost 15 straight games to. Go take a hike you wet towel!

 

[TNnative]

Yeah, someone trying to make those goal posts a statement about our program are going to miss the mark every time. It's just a thing fans do when they're exuberant. Or sometimes, pissed off. Or sometimes calculating. And it's been around almost as long as the sport itself.

This is a fun read, and covers most of the reasons fans might tear down a goal post or two--or six--after--or during--a game. Enjoy!

A history of tearing down the goal posts

I am not paying to read that. Copy and paste for us cheapskates.

 

[VFL-82-JP]

I am not paying to read that. Copy and paste for us cheapskates.

Weird. Not pay-to-read for me. I see it just fine with no paywall at all. And I'm not using a VPN or any kind of IP mask. Odd.

Oh wait. You didn't say please.

Anyway, it is too long an article to cut & paste in its entirety. I'll include just one snippet to show how it was kinda fun:

Goal posts have been torn down in the name of retaliation: After a high school team in New Jersey beat a rival in 1937, students claimed their cars were pelted with stones, rotten tomatoes and eggs, so they went to the rival’s field and tore down their goal posts.

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But in the long and colorful history of tearing down goal posts there has never been a run like that of the Rutgers’ faithful.

When Rutgers beat in-state rival Princeton in 1968, the first time in six years, a reporter noted “there was hardly a goal post left in one piece on the entire Princeton University campus. … Even the practice field posts fell.”

OK, fine. That was a big win in college football’s oldest rivalry.

The next year, after Rutgers scored a late touchdown to go up 29-0, the Scarlet Knights went for two. They weren’t trying to run up the score; they simply had no choice, seeing as their fans had rushed the field with three minutes left and tore down both goal posts. Again.
Then Rutgers fans just lost it.

In 1971, they took down the first goal post with four minutes left. Princeton fans booed. When they then tore down the second goal post, even Rutgers fans booed. After the game, Rutgers coach John Bateman was asked what would have happened had either team needed to kick. He said the teams would’ve moved to the practice field.

Except, he was told, Rutgers fans had ripped down those goal posts as well.

Princeton won in 1972, but when Rutgers reclaimed the rivalry in 1973, you guessed it: They stormed the field with two minutes left and tore down the goal posts.

Maybe you’re wondering where this is headed. Maybe you can’t imagine it getting any stranger. You would be wrong.

In 1974, the teams played a close, hard-fought game. With about three minutes left, Rutgers led 6-0, and as is custom, Scarlet Knight fans streamed onto the field in search of their prize. They located the goal posts, tore them down, and play carried on. Except with 22 seconds left, something strange happened.

Princeton scored a touchdown to tie the game at 6. All the Tigers had to do was kick an extra point — and they couldn’t. Princeton pleaded with the officials to delay the game and erect new goal posts, or allow the Tigers to kick on a practice field, or position two officials where the goal posts had been.

Princeton had to go for two instead (and failed). The game ended in the only tie in the rivalry’s long history.

“The thing that bothers me,” complained Princeton AD Royce Flippin afterward, “is that this is the fourth year in a row the Rutgers fans have done this.”

He was wrong. It was actually five times in a row. But Rutgers was not done yet.

The Scarlet Knights tore down the goal posts in 1979. In 1980, the two teams played for the final time. Rutgers thumped Princeton 44-13. Naturally, about 150 Rutgers students tore down one goal post with five minutes left. A couple minutes later, hundreds more brought down the other goal post, then fought amongst themselves for scraps of it.

So, yeah, no one had a run like Rutgers.

 

[StarRaider]

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

I was there in 1979 when the first one was torn down after hosting and beating Notre Dame. Suffice it to say I have gotten it every effing time. Why don't you and Bum Phillips go take a flying leap?

The one part I do agree with? The dumping the goal posts in the river part. Instead, get a guy skilled with a metal saw, cut the things up, and give the pieces to a guy who makes plaques Attached them together and then present them to the players and coaches and staff. Auction off the rest. Putting them in the river will not provide better fishing.

Selling pieces of the goalposts as souvenirs might encourage tearing them down again or that's probably the thinking of admins. I doubt that happens. If you know the school is just going to make money off the downed goalposts...... what the hell, if you're a group of charged up, somewhat drunk, and generally playful college students.

I'm not clutching pearls about storming the field and taking down the goalposts. If I were a student after that big game and a damn exciting win, I'd have been on the field, at least.

Given how college football is rapidly changing to some kind of semi-pro, TV money driven industry, it's good to see the students raise a little hell the old fashioned college way.

While I'm not a fan of creating saleable pieces from the goalposts, I really hope a piece finds its way to Chase McGrath because he deserves it.

 

[JCHateSteve]

I don't get tearing down our own goal post. I get fans rushing the field and all, but taking the goal post to the Tn River ...shows.....? To me it only highlights how broken our program has been for so long. The old Bum Phillips saying " act like you been here before" comes to mind

Here I think you've earned this.

 

[TNnative]

Selling pieces of the goalposts as souvenirs might encourage tearing them down again or that's probably the thinking of admins. I doubt that happens. If you know the school is just going to make money off the downed goalposts...... what the hell, if you're a group of charged up, somewhat drunk, and generally playful college students.

I'm not clutching pearls about storming the field and taking down the goalposts. If I were a student after that big game and a damn exciting win, I'd have been on the field, at least.

Given how college football is rapidly changing to some kind of semi-pro, TV money driven industry, it's good to see the students raise a little hell the old fashioned college way.

While I'm not a fan of creating saleable pieces from the goalposts, I really hope a piece finds its way to Chase McGrath because he deserves it.

The admins? Once the goalpost come down and leave to parts unknown? What are they gonna do about it? This is about the same as checkerboarding the stands the first time. A fan suggested it, and it was put out there. When they heard about it, they mumbled about like the impotent POS they always are. Fans and students working together makes things happen, and once something good happens? THEN, they get on board.

So now that the damn things are in the river, somebody would have to be hired to dredge them up.

That first goal post? It was in a room on K-7 of Hess for the rest of the year. Eventually, most every member of that team that beat Notre Dame came up and signed it. Don't know where now, but I'd bet one of those guys who were living there still has it somewhere.

 

[Unconditional Surrender]

I don't get tearing down our own goal post. I get fans rushing the field and all, but taking the goal post to the Tn River ...shows.....? To me it only highlights how broken our program has been for so long. The old Bum Phillips saying " act like you been here before" comes to mind

Hand over your phone.

 

[DeepSpringsVol]

OP you are reaching on this one. Sure the cigars are a tradition between the winners. But rebranding this rivalry should never happen. The only brand Alabama vs Tennessee is.....

"Third Saturday in October".

There was a time when you say that phrase every football fan in the south knew which teams are squaring off. I was so mad a couple times the SEC scheduled not on the Third Saturday and both fan bases were upset. The SEC got it back. Continue the celebration with cigars is one thing but the series has its title and thats all it needs.

 

[TNnative]

OP you are reaching on this one. Sure the cigars are a tradition between the winners. But rebranding this rivalry should never happen. The only brand Alabama vs Tennessee is.....

"Third Saturday in October".

There was a time when you say that phrase every football fan in the south knew which teams are squaring off. I was so mad a couple times the SEC scheduled not on the Third Saturday and both fan bases were upset. The SEC got it back. Continue the celebration with cigars is one thing but the series has its title and thats all it needs.

I get your sentiment. However, in one weeks time? The Cigar tradition has finally become ours as well. And I have a feeling that net year, some broadcaster will dub it that eventually. Especially if the Vols can repeat next year.

 

[DeepSpringsVol]

I get your sentiment. However, in one weeks time? The Cigar tradition has finally become ours as well. And I have a feeling that net year, some broadcaster will dub it that eventually. Especially if the Vols can repeat next year.

This did not just become ours. Teams that won in 80s and 90s our fans knew of it. Younger generations just finding out because we haven't been able to win in so long.

 

[Daniel_Lincolns_Foot]

Why do you tear down your own goal posts? It's the same reason Rick James gives the in Chapelle's Show about destroying Eddie Murphy's couch.

Because the university can afford to buy more.

Bring those bastards down and chuck em in the Tennessee River. As God intended.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

The admins? Once the goalpost come down and leave to parts unknown? What are they gonna do about it? This is about the same as checkerboarding the stands the first time. A fan suggested it, and it was put out there. When they heard about it, they mumbled about like the impotent POS they always are. Fans and students working together makes things happen, and once something good happens? THEN, they get on board.

So now that the damn things are in the river, somebody would have to be hired to dredge them up.

That first goal post? It was in a room on K-7 of Hess for the rest of the year. Eventually, most every member of that team that beat Notre Dame came up and signed it. Don't know where now, but I'd bet one of those guys who were living there still has it somewhere.

I'm talking about the admins signing off on recovering it for souvenirs or in the future keeping removed goalposts to chop up for souvenirs.

Boyd, in the video seen shortly after the win, seemed okay with the 100k fine for storming the field and he's likely not upset with the goalposts coming down.

Like I said, if McGrath, Hyatt, and Hooker ended up with a piece of that goalpost, it'd be a great and deserved memory for them.

 

[jackaro]

I don't get tearing down our own goal post. I get fans rushing the field and all, but taking the goal post to the Tn River ...shows.....? To me it only highlights how broken our program has been for so long. The old Bum Phillips saying " act like you been here before" comes to mind

It was needed because of how broken our program was for so long. What happened in the Ole Miss game last year illustrates the frustration that has been building in the fan base over the past 15 years. The fans needed a release and they needed it in a bad way. Storming the field, taking down the goal posts, parading them down the strip and throwing them in the river provided this release.

 

[Rickyvol77]

I was there in 1979 when the first one was torn down after hosting and beating Notre Dame. Suffice it to say I have gotten it every effing time. Why don't you and Bum Phillips go take a flying leap?

The one part I do agree with? The dumping the goal posts in the river part. Instead, get a guy skilled with a metal saw, cut the things up, and give the pieces to a guy who makes plaques Attached them together and then present them to the players and coaches and staff. Auction off the rest. Putting them in the river will not provide better fishing.

The first time goalposts were torn down in Neyland was 1958

 

[LadyVolette]

Regarding the goal posts and rushing the field - we should never act like we have been there even when we fully get back there! We should always be excited enough to celebrate a win over a good team. When you get to the point where "wins are expected" and you treat them "just as another win" you have nowhere to go but down.

Well, according to Bama, when they win ‘it’s just another Saturday’ lol…no, we don’t want to be like that.. too pompous and entitled to get excited about things

 

[CedarHillVol]

Put the goal posts on a giant spring. That'd be fun. (coyote mental image pending)

I literally laughed out loud. Wish i had thought of that!!

 

[thefrogjumper]

Tennessee Vs Alabama: The Cigar Bowl.

The Humidor

 

[CINCYVOL]

Bama got Lewinskyd