It sank. Of course it did.
It was a several-hundred-pound goalpost heaved into the Cumberland River, but any of the students who marched down Broadway could be forgiven for thinking it might float. That’s because a few described something like magic in the air that night.
The goalpost, however, wasn’t as buoyant as the raucous Vanderbilt crowd, which stormed the field at FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, Tenn., last Saturday after a college football upset for the ages. The unranked Commodores closed out a 40-35 win over then-No. 1 Alabama to mark Vandy’s first-ever victory over an Associated Press top-five team. Bedlam, understandably, ensued.
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“It was basically chaos,” said Dean Parentis, a senior
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