Vanderbilt rewrites college football history

When Vanderbilt University rewrote college football history early this month, soundly defeating the No.1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide watched by a 28,934-person capacity crowd at the First Bank campus football stadium, the post-game victory celebration spread to the end of Broadway to the banks of the Cumberland River where a small jubilant growing crowd left the winning game Goal Post. Amid the celebratory jubilation at the moment, little thought had apparently been given to getting the goal post out of the water, whether polluting the river would be an issue or whether people on the riverbanks were injured or property damaged. Few thought at the moment, who would pay the Nashville Fire Department the costs of fire and police for responding to the incident. Who was going to pay Martin’s Wrecker Service on Hermitage Avenue for the rugged work their crew performed, including the costs and labor provided for moving the goal post remains back to Vanderbilt’s campus from downtown on the riverbank. Nearly a thousand pounds of goal post parts had to be moved. The city and many who could speak directly to the issue—moving a multi-pieced structure sanctioned by the NCAA and SEC and like groups–which briefly made...