The one memory which stands out the most from my time at LSU comes from my Sophomore year, in the aftermath of the LSU-Tennessee game on Sept. 30, 2000. By the end of the game, it seemed pretty apparent that we were going to pull off an upset of #11 Tennessee, and that everyone was going to rush the field and the goal posts would come down. Naturally I had to be a part of this. Once the game was over, and the goal post in front of the student section was down, the crowd started to pick them up to carry them around the field. I started to help, but before I knew it, they were getting too high for me to reach. Not about to be left out of the action, I grabbed on, and found myself hanging from the goal post with my legs still in the crowd and my torso above it. Being the stubborn fool that I am, and because people were pulling on me, I picked up my feet and wrapped them around the post, which left me hanging upside down above the crowd. At some point I realized this probably wouldn’t end well, so I began to work my way on top. When I finally sat up and was able to get my balance, I was looking out over a football field covered in people, with the goal post still being passed around above the crowd. I stayed up there waving and yelling and making a general fool of myself for the scoreboard TV’s until the goal post was finally put down. I stepped off, and walked out of Tiger Stadium. There was nothing left for me to do. The best part was that my friends didn’t recognize me up there at the time, and didn’t completely believe me until they saw my picture in the Reveille that Monday.
–Wayne Walker, ‘02