Luke Rickers

It was just a show, for lack of a better word.

I'm a huge sports fan. Go to all the games, go to all the basketball games, all the football.

If there was ever a Vandy win and you weren't there, you messed up big time. Because that's not a thing that happened that often. So any win that we could get, you had to be there.

I had zero expectation going into that game, and I was just thinking, as long as we didn't get blown out like that last time we did, like 52-0, that would have been a win in my book.

Oh, there was no plan. There was this, like, opposing team cooler right under the wall. I was like, because I think it was a pretty decent drop. It was like eight feet, ten feet. I ripped off my shirt at some point. I don't know if that was before or after I went over the wall. Fans kept accumulating, that mass in the middle just kept getting bigger and bigger.

I look over and the goalpost is just like shaking. I was like, if that thing's coming down, like I have to play a role in it. I have to get my hands on that thing. I managed to get my way like to the base of the goalpost. And there's so many students trying to grab onto that thing and bring it down. It was so hard to just even get a hand on it. And eventually I do. Some kid, I don't even know.

He like grabs like my legs and like lifts me up onto it. I don't know who pulled me or what happened, but I just ate it. Like I fell off the post, like into this kid. It was just a show for lack of a better word.

I knew that when we got on the street that that thing was ending up in the river. It's just kind of this unspoken mass movement in that general direction, and I was like, okay, that's what we're doing. I'm going to keep carrying it, see where we end up. But we end up at the river, and it just was the perfect landing place for it.

I don't know where else we could have put it down there, like in the middle of Broadway. Is that considered littering?

And I was like, all right, that might be it. Might be wraps, might be time to find another activity or somewhere else to take the rest of our night.

It was just a show, for lack of a better word.

I'm a huge sports fan. Go to all the games, go to all the basketball games, all the football.

If there was ever a Vandy win and you weren't there, you messed up big time. Because that's not a thing that happened that often. So any win that we could get, you had to be there.

I had zero expectation going into that game, and I was just thinking, as long as we didn't get blown out like that last time we did, like 52-0, that would have been a win in my book.

Oh, there was no plan. There was this like opposing team cooler right under the wall. I was like, cause I think it was a pretty decent drop. It was like eight feet, 10 feet. I ripped off my shirt at some point. I don't know if that was before or after I went over the wall. Fans kept accumulating, that mass in the middle just kept getting bigger and bigger.

I look over and the goalpost is just like shaking. I was like, if that thing's coming down, like I have to play a role in it. I have to get my hands on that thing. I managed to get my way like to the base of the goalpost. And there's so many students trying to grab onto that thing and bring it down. It was so hard to just even get a hand on it. And eventually I do.

Some kid I don't even know, he like grabs like my legs and like lifts me up onto it. I don't know who pulled me or what happened, but I just ate it. Like I fell off the post, like into this kid. It was just a show for lack of a better word.

I knew that when we got on the street that that thing was ending up in the river. It's just kind of this unspoken mass movement in that general direction. And I was like, okay, that's what we're doing. I'm going to keep carrying it, see where we end up. But we end up at the river, and it just was the perfect landing place for it.

I don't know where else we could have put it down there, like in the middle of Broadway. Is that considered littering?

And I was like, all right, that might be... Might be wraps, might be time to find another activity or somewhere else to take the rest of our night.