Saturday, October 5, was a big day for Vanderbilt football fans. Vanderbilt upset Alabama as No. 1 in the division, and fans responded by carrying the goalpost three miles down Broadway to throw it in the Cumberland River. Footage of the incident shows a mob of Vanderbilt fans swarming the famed Nashville street, the yellow goalpost floating by on the sea of people.
Koe Wetzel got into the spirit as well at his Nashville show on Sunday, which was rescheduled from the weekend before due to the hurricane. Wetzel opened the show with footage of the mob projected on the big screen at Ascend Amphitheater, mere steps away from where the goalpost ended up in the river.
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He also included a quote from Nick Saban, former Alabama coach. He said Vanderbilt is “the only place you play in the SEC that’s not hard to play.” Saban added that teams who play Vanderbilt “have more fans there than they have.”
Wetzel began with the clip of Saban’s quote, then got his crowd going with a clip of the goalpost being carried to the river. In a fan-captured video from the show, it seems like the crowd was properly riled up for Koe Wetzel’s show. What a way to start it off.
Koe Wetzel Recalls Signing His Mugshot After a Night in Texas Jail
Koe Wetzel has his fair share of drunken stories, and he’s never shied away from sharing them. During an appearance on the God’s Country Podcast, he regaled the hosts with a story of crossing a four-lane highway in search of Whataburger in Texas.
“And I get all the way to Whataburger and I’m looking, I’m trying to cross the street… as soon as I did reds and blues turned on and I was like, ‘S–t,’” Wetzel said during his July appearance on the podcast. He spent the night in jail, but caught a lucky break—the owner of Banita Creek Hall, where he had performed that night, was also the bail bondsman.
“As I’m walking out, they had printed out my mugshot and I signed it for them and stuff. Yeah, it was cool,” Wetzel continued, then added, “My mom didn’t think it was really all that cool.”
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