A goal post on Dickson Street: Remembering the 1999 Tennessee game

FAYETTEVILLE, Ar. (KNWA/KFTA) – November 13th, 1999 is a day that many Razorback fans will not forget.

“About the 20 yard line, T-Martin overthrew his receiver in the endzone on fourth down and this place absolutely exploded,” Razorback fan Rickey Glover said.

There are some that got to be a part of history that day when Arkansas defeated defending national champions and 3rd ranked Tennessee 28-24 in Razorback Stadium.

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When the Hogs won the game, thousands of fans rushed the field and took down the goalposts.

“I was at the top of the student section, so by the time I got to the field, the first one had come down and so we started sprinting to the other endzone at that point it was the south endzone,” Rhett Pierce, a Razorback fan who was there at the game said.

“I mean they started with one and there was not enough goalpost for everybody to hang on to so I think they started with the other. Half your brain is saying oh this will cost us a lot of money and the other half of your brain is saying oh we’ll never do this again,” Razorback fan Janet Gregory said.

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“When it fell the mass of people picked it up and it was sitting like this and I was caught right here in the elbow of it and like it or not, I had to travel with it,” Glover said.

The goal post traveled all the way to Dickson Street where it was eventually propped up against Ozark Brewing Co.

A mass amount of Hog fans gathered around it to sign the piece of history.

“Everybody was around signing it, there was a lot of big black sharpie markers being handed around and I just happened to have one, I got lifted up and hung onto the crossbar of the goalpost and signed my name and got safely back down to the ground and handed my marker off, walked away being thankful it would be painted over so I wouldn’t be charged with vandalism,” Gregory said.

It’s a perfect reminder of one thing.

“Anything can happen on the field, you can beat anyone, at any time, on any day. We needed that, we needed that excitement, Fayetteville needed it,” Gregory said.