Sunday, November 09, 2003

WHAT DID THE GOALPOST DO TO YOU?

OK... your team has just had it's biggest win since say the 1982 Orange Bowl, how do you celebrate? Slap five with the guy sitting to your left? No. Toss tortillas in the air like it's going out of style? No. That only happens in Lubbock.

In Clemson, S.C., you run on the field before the game is over, and proceed to tear down not one but both goalposts. Someone explain to me how breaking stuff and forcing your school to pay $50,000 to get two goalposts for next week's game installed is good.

What do you do with a goal post after you've paraded it around campus? Do you throw it in Hartwell Lake? Do you find an arc welder and cut it into little souvenir pieces? I don't understand the tradition behind it.

Maybe we should try it at paper one night.

I made deadline. Let's throw the computer mouse through the monitor. I won an SCPA award. I think I'll break the publisher's window. I wrote a funny headline. Let's kick a hole in the wall -- wait.. I did that one already.

Nevermind college kids... go about your business.

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