Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Ballad of Saw Man: How to Tear Down (and Steal*) a Goalpost
Tue, 26 Nov 2024
It is a tradition unlike any other: A college-football upset. A sea of fans. A 45-foot yellow structure crashing down on the field and heading toward a river or frat house near you. But the tradition of destroying goalposts is under threat. PTFO correspondent and unhinged amateur thief Mickey Duzyj provides a how-to guide, after speaking with students, administrators, an executive at Big Goal Post and the one true expert who can help save a piece of football history: Saw Man. *Pablo Torre Finds Out does not (officially) condone storming football fields or stealing university property. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What is the significance of tearing down goalposts?
I am the master of tchotchkes. I think that's great. I agree. I think stuff, objects, physical objects in digital time. Yeah. Mickey, you're an artist. You get it. Big time. This is important. It's important to commemorate our history. in front of us in real life, tangibly.
You know, it's very in vogue to have a minimalist aesthetic. Right, Marie Kondo. Yeah, I'm totally against that. I am clutter core to the core. I like to collect objects. Yes. And having them around me or on me or in my pocket, it just, I don't know, it makes my life feel richer.
Yes, and I would say that the episode we're here to do together is effectively about this concept as embraced by college football.
Definitely.
It is about the tangible objects that people are striving, whenever possible, to risk so much, it turns out, to acquire and keep for themselves.
So for the uninitiated, tearing down goalposts is really the supreme celebration for a college football underdog when they pull off an upset victory at home.
Oh, they're inching closer.
The hometown fans storm the field. Their own field. Their own field.
Here we go. The place is about to explode. It's all Iowa.
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