{"id":1697882,"date":"2022-10-17T08:06:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1697882"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:33:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:33:49","slug":"video-tennessee-fans-remove-goalposts-toss-them-in-river-following-victory-over-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-tennessee-fans-remove-goalposts-toss-them-in-river-following-victory-over-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Tennessee Fans Remove Goalposts, Toss Them in River Following Victory Over Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideo-tennessee-fans-remove-goalposts-toss-them-in-river-following-victory-over-alabama%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1697882&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Tennessee Volunteer fans were overcome with joy after their team upset #3 ranked Alabama in one of the most exciting college football games you\u2019ll ever see. So, naturally, they celebrated by doing the only thing that made sense after beating Alabama for the first time in over a decade: They stole the goalposts and threw them in a river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Fans stormed the field after Tennessee kicker Chase McGrath split the uprights by booting a game-winning 40-yard field goal as time expired. The kick gave the Volunteers a 52-49 victory over the Crimson Tide.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ROCKY TOP FOR THE WIN \u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2b1c\ufe0f\u2b1c\ufe0f<br \/>\u2b1c\ufe0f\u2b1c\ufe0f\u2b1c\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FAqAWYiXkk\">pic.twitter.com\/FAqAWYiXkk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Southeastern Conference (@SEC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEC\/status\/1581429465791352832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">However, the uprights would not stay upright much longer as the 100,000-plus fans packing Neyland Stadium stormed the field and took down the goalposts.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For the first time since 1998, the goalposts have been torn down inside Neyland Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, this was the one through which Chase McGrath made the winning kick.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee 52, Alabama 49<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vols?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Vols<\/a> have taken down Nick Saban. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LbQTHYMUCn\">pic.twitter.com\/LbQTHYMUCn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Nichols (@jnichols_2121) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnichols_2121\/status\/1581434629885943808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though they didn\u2019t just take them down, they took them down and left the stadium with them.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XYe12Ql6oJ\">pic.twitter.com\/XYe12Ql6oJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 no context college football (@nocontextcfb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nocontextcfb\/status\/1581435136347820032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The goalposts have exited Neyland <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aBzqlMu8XZ\">pic.twitter.com\/aBzqlMu8XZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Pate (@LateKickJosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LateKickJosh\/status\/1581435323376017409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From there, it was to the streets!<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WE\u2019RE HAVING A GREAT TIME! GB\ud83c\udf4a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rkoXQmRJnZ\">pic.twitter.com\/rkoXQmRJnZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennessee Goalpost (@VolsGoalposts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VolsGoalposts\/status\/1581451432737185794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The good times continued until the goalposts reached the Tennessee River, where the joyous crowd deposited them. Hopefully, never to be salvaged or seen again.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Tennessee goalposts will now forever be in the river <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0FkoalXjvH\">pic.twitter.com\/0FkoalXjvH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CFBTalkDaily (@CFBTalkDaily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CFBTalkDaily\/status\/1581466824348037120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story, kids: If your football team wins the biggest game of the last 20 years and your goalposts <em>don\u2019t<\/em> end up at the bottom of the nearest river or tributary, you are doing it wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Volunteer fans were overcome with joy after their team upset #3 ranked Alabama in one of the most exciting college football games you\u2019ll ever see. So, naturally, they celebrated by doing the only thing that made sense after beating Alabama for the first time in over a decade: They stole the goalposts and threw &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1697884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1697884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}