So the win was such a success I thought it would be appropriate to give the celebration its own blog post. Again, No 19 Georgia Tech defeated No 4 Virginia Tech, winning it's first home game against a top five team in 47 long years.
Swarms of students and alumni rushed the field to get their piece of the action.
Soon after the crowd rushed the field and the players left, the student body began climbing on the North goal post. Students started screaming "tear it down!" in unison and the goal post began to quiver.
Security tried to keep people off of the post, tearing their pants to shreds in the process.
Finally, the post snapped with what could only be described as the crackling that occurs when a giant oak comes crashing down.
The post was rode southward until it was turned around and headed for the President's house.
To get the goal out of the stadium, one arm was put up in the stands of adoring alumni as they helped tear the arm off to get the post through the tunnel and into the streets of Atlanta.
Something is missing here. Can you guess what it is?
In front of Bud Peterson's house power was supplied by the president himself to cut the post into pieces for the fans.
I want to take the chance to thank Blake Israel, who made the rest of the photos possible by lending me his flash since the batteries in his camera died. It made all the difference Blake.
Channel 2 News was there keeping the hype of the night up.
The last piece leaving Bud's house to Chi Psi where they were gracious enough to let us use their tools to help disassemble the goalpost to get our piece.
My piece. Cut straight from the center of the Georgia Tech Virginia Tech game, October 17th, 2009.
Including Josh Nesbitt. Jaybo Shaw had to come in for a few minutes while Nesbitt regrouped from a mean hit.
