I've been there. I've been to a game that my school wasn't supposed to win (hell, they weren't even supposed to make it close), but somehow, in triple-overtime, they pulled it off. So of course, we all charged the field. But while we loved to celebrate down where all the action happened, we kept it safe and no one got hurt.
This past weekend, a student at University of Minnesota-Morris ran onto the field to celebrate, the way we all would have if our school just pulled off a double-overtime homecoming win. The problem is: He left it all out on the field. In the crowd's excitement, they brought down the goalposts, unfortunately right on top of Richard Thomas Rose, 20, ending his life.
You see, the posts come down all the time, and I've always held my breath when they fall. Those huge, yellow chunks of metal flying down to the field is one of the scariest moments in sports, and I can guarantee that the University of Minnesota-Morris will never let it happen again. But no other school in the nation should either.
