Police Helicopter Video of Vanderbilt Fans Throwing Goal Posts in River is Amazing

Police footage of Vanderbilt’s goalpost celebration just hits different.
Police footage of Vanderbilt’s goalpost celebration just hits different. / MNPD

Vanderbilt upset Alabama last Saturday night, 40-35, beating the Crimson Tide for the just the second time in the last half-century. Students were understandably very excited after the unranked Commodores beat the #1 team in the nation for the first time in the school's history.

To celebrate, fans rushed the field and tore down the goalposts. Any mystique or aura Alabama may have had disappeared into the Nashville night with the goalposts which fans carried down the street and threw in the Cumberland River.

This deliberate exercise was captured on video by multiple parties, including the Metro Nashville Police Department. Today video from their eye in the sky was released which included some sweet night vision footage of fans scaling barricades to get down to the river where they disposed of the unwieldy football apparatus.

It looks like something out of a movie.

There's nothing quite like college football. Except maybe a zombie apocalypse.


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Stephen Douglas is a Senior Writer on the Breaking & Trending News Team at Sports Illustrated. He has been in journalism and media since 2008, and now casts a wide net with coverage across all sports. Stephen spent more than a decade with The Big Lead and has previously written for Uproxx and The Sporting News. He has three children, two degrees and one now unverified Twitter account.