FB Final: App St 30, Coastal 27

[CajunVic]

Yes sir. What top 20 team will come play us in Lafayette?

Maybe the same one that went to play App last night

[Turbine]

We have never beaten a top 20 team at Cajun Field. A&M was #25.

I'll go one better.

Louisiana has WON at The Swamp as a Top-20 team.

[CajunVic]

I'll go one better.

Louisiana has WON at The Swamp as a Top-20 team.

Sounds like the makings of a two poster to me . . .

[Bandwagon King]

Maybe the same one that went to play App last night

Unfortunately they won't be top 20 any more. Besides, why take down the goal posts unless you're celebrating your first ever outright conference championship?

[CajunVic]

Unfortunately they won't be top 20 any more. Besides, why take down the goal posts unless you're celebrating your first ever outright conference championship?

Who is limiting the concept to just this year . . .

[AppAlum1]

It's a tradition at App tho open the field after huge wins AND the final home game of the year....

?? I have been going to App games since the late 1980s. I don't think that is exactly right. I don't recall fans rushing the field, except for a few times, over the years. Up until about 2010, fans would remove the goalposts & parade them down main st. & around campus for a few hours. Probably the most memorable was when App beat #1 Marshall with Randy Moss in the 1990s in Boone. The goal posts came down, and then we went to dinner at a restaurant on the main street downtown at a table a the window. About the time our drinks arrived, we looked out the window, & there came the goalposts down the center of the street.

In the FCS world, when my boys were small, after the games, the players would come back out from the locker room onto the field & throw the ball & play catch with the kids. NOTHING beats that for ten yr olds! Once, after a game, the App QB let me take a photo with my 2 yr. old on his shoulder. That photo remained on my son's dresser through high school.

But, anyway, my point is that to say rushing the field is an App tradition is not exactly right. NOTHING in my experience was similar to the events this past Wednesday. That was special!

[fanof71]

?? I have been going to App games since the late 1980s. I don't think that is exactly right. I don't recall fans rushing the field, except for a few times, over the years. Up until about 2010, fans would remove the goalposts & parade them down main st. & around campus for a few hours. Probably the most memorable was when App beat #1 Marshall with Randy Moss in the 1990s in Boone. The goal posts came down, and then we went to dinner at a restaurant on the main street downtown at a table a the window. About the time our drinks arrived, we looked out the window, & there came the goalposts down the center of the street.

In the FCS world, when my boys were small, after the games, the players would come back out from the locker room onto the field & throw the ball & play catch with the kids. NOTHING beats that for ten yr olds! Once, after a game, the App QB let me take a photo with my 2 yr. old on his shoulder. That photo remained on my son's dresser through high school.

But, anyway, my point is that to say rushing the field is an App tradition is not exactly right. NOTHING in my experience was similar to the events this past Wednesday. That was special!

Like I said, huge wins and final home games...have been on the field several times after SBC championship and another end of season game.