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Goal post tear down - 1998
Jul 13, 2018, 8:28 AM
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Anyone remember the year we tore the goal post down in 1998? I was one of the many that helped carry that thing down town and ultimately into the pond in front of the library. Even though the team finished 3-8, we were able to beat the cluckers. It was an awesome time. Anyone remember that?
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Didn't they carry Tommy West out of the stadium
Jul 13, 2018, 8:31 AM
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and up 123 and dropped him off somewhere in Greenville ?
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Re: Didn't they carry Tommy West out of the stadium
Jul 13, 2018, 8:41 AM
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Always thought that drop-off was Lake Hartwell.
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Re: Didn't they carry Tommy West out of the stadium
Jul 13, 2018, 9:32 AM
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This is where it was dropped
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Re: Didn't they carry Tommy West out of the stadium
Jul 13, 2018, 10:08 AM
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Was talking about the Tommy West drop-off
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Re: Didn't they carry Tommy West out of the stadium
Jul 13, 2018, 10:38 AM
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I looked at it as threw him out of the stadium. I was not sorry he went. Terrible hire. Appeasement attempt
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Re: Didn't they carry Tommy West out of the stadium
Jul 13, 2018, 8:05 PM
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Exactly. A feeble attempt to rectify an agregious mistake for no other reason than to try and recoup lost revenue. Bobby Robinson = Clemson Football program killer (at that time anyway). Thankfully, the Tigers have recovered nicely...
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Re: Goal post tear down - 1998
Jul 13, 2018, 8:39 AM
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Freshman year. We celebrated what we could. We lost sight of it downtown, and then the next day saw it had been dropped in the reflection pond. OT: The reflection pond was one of my favorite holes for midnight campus Frisbee golf.
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Re: Goal post tear down - 1998
Jul 13, 2018, 9:25 AM
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Yep I was one of the ones that helped carry it down town. Man was i hammered that night.
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I still have a piece of orange sod I cut from the end zone
Jul 13, 2018, 8:53 AM
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after that game.
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Re: Goal post tear down - 1998
Jul 13, 2018, 9:41 AM
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That was my freshman year. I remember it well. And yes, it definitely ended up in the reflection pond in front of the library.
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After it was dropped in the reflection pond some boys
Jul 13, 2018, 10:18 AM
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got it out and cut it up in pieces for souvenirs. I remember thinking the aluminum was a lot thinner at the end than I thought it would be.
Never got a piece for myself. Always regretted I didn't.
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Re: Goal post tear down - 1998
Jul 13, 2018, 1:34 PM
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At least one of the goalpost removals was while I was there in the 02-05 range. It also ended up in front of the library, cut with hacksaws into small pieces to be taken home as trophies. This was after the USC game as well.
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2002 100th game IIRC***
Jul 13, 2018, 5:21 PM
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So YOU GUYS are why we have those stupid fold down posts?
Jul 13, 2018, 4:14 PM
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Well, I guess it was good for the economy.
Some company made a few hundred thousand for building and installing them and Clemson hired a couple of dozen guys to stand around them with arms folded while the crowd ran onto the field every game for the next 20 years.
But, then Mike Williams broke his neck on the stupid things, so ...
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Re: So YOU GUYS are why we have those stupid fold down posts?
Jul 13, 2018, 5:14 PM
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Yeah I think we were the culprits.
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Re: Goal post tear down - 1998
Jul 13, 2018, 6:43 PM
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Part of it made it's way into Mauldin Hall where I was living at the time. My roommate was telling me about it the next day and saying how he couldn't figure out what it was. I don't know if that was because he was from Uzbekistan or because he was stoned.
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Very enjoyable. Both teams sucked and so fans of both teams
Jul 13, 2018, 9:47 PM
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were civil. The coots were actually tolerable. I think we all wanted West to succeed, but anybody would have had a difficult time succeeding in that time period. Our administration was not really committed to winning. In all honesty, they still weren’t committed when we hired Dabo, we just got real Dang lucky.
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