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Let loose, Vandy students, like you never have in your lives.
This is your moment.
Hurl the damn goalpost in the river.
Dive in the river. Go for a swim. Or just float around. Chug a beer in the water. Skinny dip if you feel like it. For one night it’s legal – this night like no other, this night never to be quite like it no matter how long you live.
Go underwater and hang on to that sunken goalpost. Chew on it.
One day you’ll be telling your grandkids about the day your football team, expected to lose to Alabama by 50 points or more, actually won.
You’ll tell your grandkids it was one of the greatest upsets in sports history and you won’t be exaggerating. You’ll tell them Vanderbilt lost to Alabama about 100 straight times before this one day, yesterday, last night when Vandy stuck it to Bama.
Roll Commodores.
This really happened.
I know none of you have gone to bed yet since you rushed onto the field. After the goal post celebration, you all went downtown bar hopping and all the bars decided they were not closing down at all. You celebrated all night. You don’t believe your team won. You may never believe it.
I don’t believe it. Bama doesn’t believe it. Millions of sports fans don’t believe it.
None of you went to sleep. You went straight to breakfast somewhere which is where you are now, still partying, your clothes damp from the river swim, game-watching sweat, and bar dancing all night long.
All night long.
Now it’s morning. I’m here to tell you the unthinkable happened. Vanderbilt beat number one ranked Bama in football. For the previous 20 games against the Tide, the combined score has been Bama 10,000 and Vandy 17. As one-sided as a Sammy Sportface blog.
Expected this was not.
The entire United States of America is having to process this truth: Vanderbilt beat Alabama in football. It’s kind of like saying “A 6-year-old graduated from Harvard yesterday.”
Order pancakes and bacon and waffles and chocolate milkshakes and pour beer all over it as celebratory syrup. Order a dozen more kegs. Have them brought directly to the diner you’re in now. Keep this party going all day today, tonight, and tomorrow. Milk this party like no other forever.
Once-in-a-lifetime celebrations call for excesses.
There will be no classes this week for any Vanderbilt students. If there are, all students will be excused from attending.
Partying in Nashville will be mandatory day and night for at least the next three months.
Listen to the music. Dance all night long. Groove around. Yell “Roll Commodores” so loud people in Alabama hear you.
Your school beat Bama.
A miracle happened.
You’ll never forget this for the rest of your lives.
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